I made a new "finding thousands in cephalopod facts" comic to celebrate reaching 1K followers on instagram! 🧪🦑🐡 Please note these are all informed estimates/approximations. 😁References in thread

@biographic.bsky.social publishes so much of my favorite nature writing, from the epic story behind sea star wasting disease by @craigwelch.bsky.social to creepy, beautiful bites like "Mom on the Menu" by @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social I'm grateful that I'm able to donate!

btw the origin story of this art was brainstorming with my spouse how to include cephalopods me: Holding a teacup that contains a tiny octopus? spouse: Angel and devil cephalopods on your shoulders? me: Octopus arms instead of lips? spouse: NO. Absolutely not. Do not draw that one. me: 🥹👉👈

this is like 80% of my gardening strategy tbh. another 10% is "plant natives" and the final 10% is "let my kids do any necessary pruning to give them an acceptable outlet for violence"

Thanks to @franzanth.bsky.social for suggesting "cursed" when I was stuck on how to color the circumoral appendages! 😄 Planning to use this as a new author avatar (yes I cut my hair short)

Can you identify this animal? 🔍️👀 Did you get a kick out of shouting “acorn worm” at your phone? If so, you might enjoy playing @fathomverse.bsky.social. This month, you can find acorn worms by playing FathomVerse and earn a special badge! Learn more about acorn worms: www.mbari.org/animal/acorn...

Ok I'm trying to decide on a color for the arms. A nice subtle brownish or reddish hue? Something striking like blue or purple?

please I can't handle the two balloon dogs my son made for me

Happy Cephalopod Week! My latest OctoPost (all the news that's fit to ink!) dives into a new technique for finding very very old squid, with a shoutout to @scifri.bsky.social and . . . plant-based hyper-realistic fake octopus? Check it out! 🐙🦑🧪 buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

This #CephalopodWeek, dive in and join our Sea of Support! You can pick your favorite cephalopod, add your name, and help fuel cool projects like this one.

Did you know octopuses don’t have tentacles? They have arms with suckers that can “taste” harmful microbes on the surfaces they touch.

Yo, writers! Come write some bug stuff!

Attendees of @scbwisf.bsky.social Illustrator's Day were given a Secret Misison to draw thank-you notes for the three organizers and coordinators, inspired by things those people like. I coudn't resist taking photos of mine before handing them in. Sending so much gratitude to these wonderful people!

I am SO excited for this luminous literature!

One of my favorites!

I got to paint with soy sauce at @scbwisf.bsky.social Illustrator's Day! It was a fantastic activity led by Laura G. Lee, creator of the gorgeous picture book Soy Sauce! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laura...

Cover illustration for the book Nursery Earth. This was a fun one :) Book Author @dannastaaf.bsky.social Published by The Experiment Books #art #digitalart #booksky #illustration

I'm squeezing a new panel of octopus pee worms into #InverteFest! (I'd hoped to finish two more panels after this one, but August wrecked me, so they'll have to wait for the next round) 🐙🦑🧪

I just applied! I'm so excited! #InverteFest

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Hiiii friends! I'm drawing a sequel to this, in honor of reaching 1K followers on IG--any suggestions for more of the number one thousand in cephalopod facts? I'm currently researching whether there's a cephalopod with 1000 photophores, but weirdly nobody seems to have sat down and counted . . . 🦑

Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents Could Be the Future of Ambient Lighting gizmodo.com/glow-in-the-...

Activities for this season of #InverteFest: Community science www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv... Art book submission form docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk... Writer/artist collab anthology bsky.app/profile/saim...

Frankly offended at the preponderance of arthropods in the replies. Consider the cnidarians (fire coral! box jelly!), the echinoderms (crown of thorns! flower urchin!), the MOLLUSCS (cone snail, giant clam, vampire squid!!)!!!! #invertefest

It's time for #InverteFest, BRING OUT YOUR BUGS! Go find bugs, draw bugs, have a seance with bugs but most importantly share bugs (all inverts). We'll have a special announcement soon as well. Plus, we've got this poster in multiple languages on our website! www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

🧪 Hello everyone! Please join me and others from @theopennotebook.bsky.social team TOMORROW, Aug. 26 at 2 pm ET for a Town Hall event on Zoom, where we’ll kick off our 15th-birthday celebration! BRING YOUR OWN CAKE! 🎂 This event will be recorded. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

if you've ever wanted to know EXACTLY what makes a squid a squid, I made this helpful diagram last #Squidtember

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Thanks to whomever just purchased my squid size comp t-shirt, I remembered that it exists! What better time to enhance your squid-drobe than when 🦑Squidtember🦑 is just around the corner? www.zazzle.com/squid_sizes_...

TIL that one of my favorite scenes in LOTR is a fixit fic for the Birnam Wood scene in Macbeth and I could not be more delighted

I'm reading THE CHAOS MACHINE rec'd by @beebrookshire.bsky.social and "Social media probably can’t be fixed" by @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social rec'd by @theopennotebook.bsky.social arstechnica.com/science/2025... Excellent, important, scary. Gonna take a break to sit in the sun and draw squid pee worms

"If your mother is going through some stuff, do not teach her how to do magic. It will not help." 😂 One of my favorite authors is doing her book launch at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social right now and you can tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBlz...

What incredible company, thank you!! I'm already a huge Entangled Life fan, now I'm excited to read the others on this list 👀

A friend spotted The Lady and the Octopus in her daughter's middle school library! Thrilled to see Jeanne Villepreux-Power in such fine company. 🤩📚🐙👩‍🔬

Everyone sign up for my new computer science class, entitled "No. Stop. Don't."

My latest newsletter covers the comic-con panel I did with @octopolis.bsky.social and @xjosuecruz.bsky.social, deep-sea research by @kakanikatija.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social, and an explainer of the mysterious software life cycle buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

This August, we're aiming for the ambitious number of 100 artists in the art book. Submit now while the form is still open! docs.google.com/forms/d/1KaR...

We had an inkredible time showing #sdcc how to draw an octopus! This is a highlight reel, follow me, @dannastaaf.bsky.social and @xjosuecruz.bsky.social for more as we comb through the footage

🚨🐌GIANT MEDIEVAL SNAIL FICTION🐌🚨by the inestimably skilled @maryrobinettekowal.com Thrilling, touching, gorgeous! (However, as an avowed molluscophile, I may need to write a snail-sympathetic story of my own)

A marine biologist and an octopus walk into a prison. Incarcerated students discuss intelligence, captivity, and connection. This is a FANTASTIC story. (h/t @tonmo.com where I found the link) thunderword.highline.edu/2025/07/17/t...

follow for more crab tutorials

I read "octopus crawl by creating a modified foot that persists throughout the behavior" and couldn't rest until I dragged the octopus for it 🐙🦑🐡

Here's a sticker design I've had on my list for a LONG time. Whenever I see ospreys flying with their prey I get "A Whole New World" stuck in my head and it cracks me up every single time. Now you can get my dumb idea in sticker form! www.thornwolf.com/shop/p/ospre... #BSNM #Birdsky #SciArt

There is no tech either good or bad but humans make it so, and this strategy for describing species nonlethally is, imo, tech use at its best 🤩🧪

Excited to share that our manuscript "In situ lightfield imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control" has been published in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you love 🧪🌎🦑🌊, keep reading this thread! 1/n

My fingers are ITCHING to write a story about this (and if anyone else does/has done, I would love to read it)

I tell people this all the time! PhDs are matters of persistence (and getting there often a matter of privilege), not intelligence. We just know a lot about a very very very tiny slice of the world.

This is tonight! Los Angeles! Come say hi!

I just got done updating the events page on my website with all my updated tour info! www.charliejaneanders.com/events There are links to RSVP for my events in: San Francisco (8/19) Portland (8/20) Chicago (8/21) Los Angeles (8/22) Seattle (8/25) Please do RSVP! It helps the bookstore prepare. <3

Parental care is everywhere, once you start to look for it! (Not just in trucks 😉)