With the rising cost of silver, I’m transitioning most of my stainless pendants to stainless steel chains. It gave me an excuse to spend a nice afternoon re-photographing them.

We're starting to work on an art installation along the pacific northwest coast so I spent some time digging into my tidepool / PNW photos for natural pattern inspiration

I have added a new batch of one of a kind necklaces and earrings to our shop. Folium pieces are inspired by leaves and each has a unique shape and vein structure. They are available in stainless steel and gold-plated stainless.

We need to add a way to suspend sculptures from the ceiling of the studio. The span is about 16.5 ft. The options we’ve come up with: 1) run a cable from a stud to the steel column 2) add a cable hang directly down from the roof joist (not sure if it’s OK to drill a hole in the joist)

Sometimes we find random puzzle pieces and don’t know what puzzle they go to. So we stick them in a little baggie with the date on it. Someone finally wrote us asking for a missing piece and it’s actually one that we have in the bin!

We got our new fiber lasercutter up and running finally! here it is making its first test cuts in stainless steel

For our latest Patreon reward, we turned photos of real snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov into puzzles. He had so many great photos we used a different snowflake for each puzzle. If you want one join our Patreon: patreon.com/nervoussystem

We've just made our largest custom jigsaw puzzle yet with ~4000 wood pieces! This is going to be insanely difficult to assemble

It's been years since we had a functioning FDM printer. We primarily 3Dprint on a formlabs or send things out for SLS nylon printing. I'm considering getting a bambu P2S combo. It seems FDM printing has dramatically improved in the past 10 years. Anyone have opinions on which machine I should buy?

Just got this piece made by @nervousjessica.bsky.social and @nervousjesse.bsky.social and it's delightful, as their work always is.

Final call for Christmas orders. If you order today select UPS 2nd day or next day service. I will ship it Monday morning n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/

We drove into Brooklyn in a snowstorm yesterday to do a pop up at one of our favorites shops, the Art of Play. What a pleasure to be in a carefully curated shop full of weird wonders and games. Definitely recommend a visit if you are in NYC but they do have a website too www.artofplay.com

My 4 year old’s new obsession is playing with hat tiles

There’s still time to order Nervous System jewelry (and puzzles!) for holiday delivery. My daily necklace is the Reaction Möbius Necklace in 3D-printed stainless steel. It's virtually indestructible and doesn't tarnish n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

Brooklyn friends: Nervous System is popping up this weekend at the Art of Play shop with 4 other NY makers from 11-7pm on Sunday. Come say hi and shop mathematical puzzles, sculptures and jewelry www.instagram.com/p/DR0a8Oljyr...

Happy small biz Saturday! Consider gifting one of our mind bending wooden puzzles or intricate jewelry pieces n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop. Here's a thread of gift ideas

It’s time for our one sale of the year! Take 20% off with code holiday20 (ends 12/2/2025). The sale includes all of our puzzles and most of our jewelry n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop

This season, say it with radiolarians. ❤️🎁🎄

I personally dislike doing merch myself so thank you to @nervousjessica.bsky.social for doing all the hard work for me! You won't find these anywhere else. #Art #SciArt

Two new puzzles featuring art by @franzanth.bsky.social blog: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9940 shop: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...

Radiolaria are microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree. blog post: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9861

I have one of these and I love it n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...

For the holidays, we are offering a set of Radiolaria sculptures for sale. This video shows some of the process of creating them youtu.be/Pti1uavUIG4

Crafting Radiolaria Sculptures – from microscopic life to art n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9861

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

Meet the Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexagon frame but there’s a twist, pieces of the same color can’t touch. n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

We just added a puzzle frame option to our website for folks who want to preserve and showcase their puzzles n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

Tonight starting around 8:30pm EST we'll be streaming our new Flummoxagon puzzle! join us on Twitch as explore strategies for solving these puzzles www.twitch.tv/nervouspuzzles

I realized we hadn't updated our headshots in over a decade. It felt fitting to take new photos inside our own work (also featuring @nervousjesse.bsky.social @nervo.us)

We are open for commissions! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/scu...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Thoroughly enjoyed @msage.bsky.social’s slime mold inspired live visuals last night for Robert Rich’s Ambient Church performance

Only three Radiozoa orb pendants left n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

I have been play testing our new puzzle which is _NOT_ a jigsaw puzzle. It’s been super fun. How long do you think should an easy puzzle take? What should each one of these sets of tiles be called? Internally we’ve been calling them scenarios but also considered “board” or just “puzzle”

A custom Spectre Tile Gradient jigsaw puzzle. This is a tray puzzle with more than 250 wooden pieces. Should we add this to our product catalog?

I’m flying out of Albany today so I go to visit my sculpture which is on display in the airport

My current everyday wear necklace is the Reaction Möbius Pendant 3d-printed in stainless steel. It’s indestructible, doesn’t tarnish, tactile and infinite! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

Word of the day: boletinoid Mushrooms having a structure intermediate between gills and pores. As seen in this ash-tree bolete. (I love these) #fungifriends

Our Hyphae lamps are inspired by mycelial networks. Each lamp is unique. We grow them using an algorithm based on how veins form in leaves. We have a few in stock now: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/generat... #sciart

Orange mycena mushrooms growing inside a log #fungifriends 🍄

I was recently in Seattle and I got to go tide pooling with @jensseattle.bsky.social who I have been following online forever!

We made 5 extra Hyphae Tea Lamps. They are available in my shop n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

wow it turned out so cool!

A pair of yellow gold rings for a special order

Reminder: open studio tomorrow from 10 to 4 PM at our workshop in Palenville. Look for the nervous system sign at the top of our driveway n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9816

Visit Nervous System this weekend for our first ever open studio! 8/16 10am-4pm in Palenville, NY (near Catskill) n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9816

I'm finally going through my horseshoe crab photos. Check out their cool compound eye!

All packed up and ready to go!

Today we’re building a crate for the giant Hyphae lantern and trying to estimate its weight

The Hyphae Lantern is done! Next step is crating it for shipment