10/10 take. No notes.

Calling this one finished! Thank you to everyone who donated to @porpoiseorg.bsky.social to help us make this! If you're learning about the #Vaquita for the first time, head over to this link and learn more about this critically endangered porpoise! savethevaquitas.carrd.co

Hayley williams dropping her tour dates on her website has an oopsie, im going to go feral. Im ready to fight

Trying to bring everyone together into one place so I feel like my community is more connected 🥺 so now I have a discord server just for followers of my art and content, and for any academic advice yall need discord.gg/PKFbXxaFCU

Congratulations! 🎉🏆 @madeline-eppley.bsky.social Dr. Roberta Rosa Valtorta @anaikowl.bsky.social Dr. Fawad Ahmed Najam Dr. Patrick Manser Dr. Allie Sinclair Dr. Tetine Sentell Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González @cecibaldoni.bsky.social @invertebabe.bsky.social Hira Javed Dr. Ana Rebeka Kamšek

I am experiencing so much joy photographing absolutely massive spiders in japan and the mamdani won 🥹

Before and after 😝 I love photo editing

Got in a staring contest today. Me & @invertebabe.bsky.social vs the cuttlefish. We went snorkeling at Sesoko beach in Okinawa and saw 12(!!!!) cuttlefish. Absolutely amazing.

Today in cute Japanese taxi seats, Hidemitsu-san is bringing the heat with these seats.

Happy too-many-bones day everyone!!

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

more people need to realize that honesty and jank, in this economy, are charming. lots of science youtubers reach millions of people with low effort stick figures/doodles.

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Tylenol doesn’t cause autism. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Starvation and malnutrition are far bigger threats to the health of children than any of the distractions Trump and RFK Jr want to point you towards. You want to protect kids? Demand they fund SNAP. Don’t let people starve.

Watching Jeff go from person who thinks squid are cool to being actively involved in research & crucial to the work without ever being in a lab or “professionally” trained is so fucking cool. It gives me hope for the field. Seeing talent and incorporating that talent instead of gatekeeping? YES.

Screaming inside with joy seeing @jeffday.bsky.social on the slide at the cephalopod international advisory council meeting this morning. “He is massively accelerating our ability to monitor cephalopods in the deep sea”- Kat Bolstad Jeff started his work on cephalopods here on social media 😭

Just two ceph scientists, accidentally matching on the 3rd day of CIAC @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

@jeffday.bsky.social on a CIAC talk!!!!! Im beaming with pride

Austin @brachioteuthis.bsky.social is talking about brachioteuthids (a type of deep sea 🦑 ). He’s trying to figure out how we can more easily tell the difference between species. He taught us about some …unique! suction cup morphology. Just on the males, on the hectocotylus, they have a…um. EPS.

Ever fill out a survey at 3am, forget you did that, and all of a sudden you’re being interviewed by PBS? Me too! This was cool even tho I’m now documented crying on TV. Not as cool. It is what it is. Glad chronic pain is getting time in the spotlight. Watch it here: youtu.be/SYWWMtwtOhA?...

Finally at #CIAC2025! In a workshop all about how we figure out which squid populations are different species, esp. in challenging situations like the deep sea or when species are moving around with climate change. I am also answering the important question, how would a squid shake its ass???

Thanks @octonation.bsky.social for drawing with me! That was a blast. I loved diving into coloring octopuses at the end, that’s a whole area of exploration in itself!

Come draw an octopus with me! Link to join the livestream:

#invertober 22, sea angel #invertober2025

Day 19: Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

If I knew how to make spells, I’d curse my partner’s friend that spoiled Death Note for him. May you suffer from mysterious itchy bug bites for eternity.

The Worm represents flexibility, adaptability, surprise, determination. Reversed: hunger, greed, traps, unchecked growth. (A sand striker can grow almost 10ft. The spacecraft entering its jaws represents its broad diet and large appetite.) #inktober #invertober2025 #SpacetoberChallenge #OC_tober

looking up refs and NOT ANOTHER SEA WOIM I BARELY SURVIVED THE LAST ONE time for a 5+ h doodle I guess... #Invertober2025 bsky.app/profile/petr...

Other ways to support our work: 1) tell educators in your life that they can get a match with a scientist at skypeascientist.com! 2) buy an advent calendar for yourself or ship one to a friend!3) tell people about our merch shop! Squidfacts.net

Good news: a grant I submitted got selected for an interview out of ~150 apps. Only 2 others got interviews! Bad news: @skypeascientist.bsky.social was not selected in the end 😞 I will keep trying. In the meantime, consider supporting our work with $5-10/month? givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

My next conference I’m presenting RIGHT AFTER like THE person in my niche field and oh boy am I now incredibly stupid nervous

The biggest ick seeing people continually pit women against each other. Ie hayley williams and taylor swift, who are literally friends

When doing a poster with multiple species, do you think making each species size in relation to each other is important? Or can i do whatever i want

Telescope octopus (genus Amphitretus) are gelatinous, transparent and almost colourless octopuses with unique tubular eyes. It is thought that these eyes help give them excellent peripheral vision. They are also quite small, with a mantle length of 9 cm. #OCTOtober 🐙🎥Schmidt Ocean

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!! Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute. Doodle a squid and then show it to me. The world is cruel but squid are good.

Very upset i didnt find an undead coworker made out of pipette tips like the grandma made out of roses in A House With Good Bones. Extremely disappointing work day.

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I just read a book that featured vultures who would watch over a house because of ghost/demon activity. And currently sitting outside of my job for lunch and theres like an ungodly amount of vultures circling and perching on my work building. I think I work at the bad place.

I cannot over state how ill prepared i am for Japan in two weeks

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts! Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking! Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November. SquidFacts.net

Needed good health insurance so gave up freelancing for an industry job. Now I have a 12 hour work day due to commuting and can barely find time to do anything else. Fuck adulting.

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! My newsletter today has a guide for teaching tricks to your pet octopus 🐙🦑 or maybe it's research about octopus arm flexibility in the wild, read it and find out! buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

YES @invertebabe.bsky.social HAS AN AMAZING ARTICLE ABOUT RNA EDITING!!! octonation.com/octopus-can-...

The curse of baby bangs is never being able to leave the baby bangs alone. Why am I so scissor happy and when will I ever learn?

🦑 Mollusques meÌditeraneÌens [!] GeÌ ACnes: Impr, des sourds-muets, 1851. [Source]

All I had was 3 drinks at my cousins wedding, and danced all night long, and my stomach has reeked havoc on me for TWO days now. Im only 26!! I should not suffer like this yet!!

MY QUEEN

To support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, @ehrenenglish.bsky.social & I collaborated to create the Eel Facts Advent Calendar!! Every day, scratch off a box to reveal facts about eels. Art by a real artist, facts by a real scientist 😎 Order by Thurs to get yours b4 I leave for 3 weeks! Eelfacts.net

I’m googly eyed for the googly-eyed squid (Teuthowenia pellucida) 😍🧵🧪