Looking out cautiously at the week, ready to scuttle back in my hole if needed. Take good care of yourselves, excellent Bluesky people (Ghost Crab) #invertebrates 🦀 🦑 🌿

A few of my new plants that I didn't start from seeds: 🌱 Jalapeño already with buds, Genovese and Thai basil, thyme, lemongrass, and rosemary. Not everything is yet shown, though it is all planted Meanwhile do you think I grew enough lettuce?

There's such a wonderful tradition of Paleozoic marine dioramas in museums around the world. Here's a set that doesn't exist any more, displayed at the Field Museum from 1951 to 1990.

Ok, this is cool... Treemble: A graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images🧪 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Treemble is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows and is freely available, with documentation, at treemble.org.

A few of my new plants that I didn't start from seeds: 🌱 Jalapeño already with buds, Genovese and Thai basil, thyme, lemongrass, and rosemary. Not everything is yet shown, though it is all planted Meanwhile do you think I grew enough lettuce?

The SciArt Feed 🐡 is just 5 Likes away from 4,500! Many people like the pinned post instead of the Feed itself. (I wish Pinning auto-Liked cc @bsky.app) Here's how: 1. Open the SciArt Feed: bsky.app/profile/flyi... 2. Tap the 3 dots at the top (pictured), next to the 📌 3. Tap the heart 🧡

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Some excellent tidal marsh inhabitants. They gather by the hundreds to filter the mud for food as the tide recedes (Fiddler Crabs) #invertebrates 🦀 🌿

I've been very quiet here lately, busy juggling teaching and the final touches on my book. It's almost there now! Early endorsements and reviews are coming in (including from some of my environmental science heroes!). Today's glowing review by the illustrious Publishers Weekly was just lovely! 🧪

A black Frogfish - Antennariidae #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #singaporedivers #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #Antennariidae

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

Baby crab heartbeat! This little zoea larva has a little heart, making sure everything it needs gets to where it needs to be. #marineplankton 🦑

3D Behind the scenes #SciArt #paleoart #3dAnimation #coral #reef #horncoral

Good morning to everyone stumbling through 2026

Look you guys they're fiddler crabs 🦀 🎻 😂 It's by Sarah Ryan @ SarahDrawsThings - I got my cute little print at Art Star in Philly today, you can get your own here: sarahdrawsthings.com/fiddler-crabs/ @jopabinia.bsky.social #CrabTime 👀

New masking tapes are here! ✨ Crabs and sea slugs… perfect for anyone who loves marine life 🦀🫧 They’ll be available at upcoming events, and online sales will start soon as well ◦° My online shop has recently been updated, and it looks like international shipping is now available too!!

I discovered a Long-legged Spider Crab on a night dive. It decorated itself with nearby seaweed, creating camouflage and mimicking its environment. Luckily, I had my macro lens.🍀 #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Nice 🦀 @jopabinia.bsky.social ! Plus a bunch if anemones on this chimney. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 926 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Lolsob bok choy started bolting already before it's even been harvested. It might be because of too COLD a temperature that the 2 bigger plants endured earlier? But now I have to figure out what to do with the 8 or so small ones 🌱😬

This is very preliminary, but this is an overview of every species in the Open Tree of Life, colour coded by whether their position in the tree is based on taxonomy only (dark colour) or includes phylogenetic information (blue). Phylogenetic coverage is sparse, mostly plants and vertebrates.

Some species may disappear before we even know they exist. Researchers described a new genus and species of millipede from a tiny rainforest fragment in Madagascar, an ecosystem smaller than many city parks, yet home to unique endemic life. #LIBresearch © Golles et al., CC BY 4.0 1/3

Lolsob bok choy started bolting already before it's even been harvested. It might be because of too COLD a temperature that the 2 bigger plants endured earlier? But now I have to figure out what to do with the 8 or so small ones 🌱😬

クモガニの同定ちょっと苦手🦀 ちいさいとなるとなおさら

🚨 New paper alert! Delighted to have been involved in this @nature.com study using trait-based ecosystem modelling to examine plankton extinction patterns in the first *100 years* after the Chicxulub impact event at the #Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. ☄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I don't think I've seen a crab at almost 3900m before. Thought squattie at 1st but that sure looks crabby to me. @jopabinia.bsky.social Also a benthic siphonophore behind it. Wish they had zoomed on that 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 926 #Doldrums #MarineLife

I'm not from Quebec, but my parents are. Unfortunately, poutine as a genre disgusts me

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

I hate it, thanks www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...

Goblin sharks are so beautiful. I’m so glad we can now see video and images of them in their home waters and not just specimens on a dock played for horror.

NEW PREPRINT: You may recall Joshua trees started flowering fully four months early this year. Was that due to climate change? Well, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I called in Chris Callahan to formally test that hypothesis, and the answer is... it probably wasn't! doi.org/10.64898/202...

if you want to share that blue octopus pic/footage, find a reputable source like SciAm. not some random content theft/engagement farming account with dodgy caption and no accountability.

It's my Birthday and so you should take the day to read my stories on patreon. You can also support me by buying my art and photography 🎉 1. lucidillusions.darkroom.com 2. www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci... 3. ko-fi.com/lucidillusio... Or commission me to write a story. ko-fi.com/lucidillusio... 📚💙

#WormWednesday 🦑

R.I.P. Clover ! 😭😭😭

~treasures of the dirt~

BRING BACK HEADPHONE JACKS ON MOBILE PHONES, YOU COWARDS

This may not be universal outside academic library sources, but it sucks that it takes like 8 clicks just to download a pdf??? (some opening new tabs, some with a tiny motorcycles captcha, some requiring extra 2fa which keeps changing formats)? Wasn't it 1-2 clicks pretty recently?

Oh, this looks quite convenient, especially the filtering and mimicking empirical matrices.

Funding science education projects, while paying local artists for their work, while making you all look cool as hell in marine biology shirts, is shrimply the best way to make good stuff happen. At least I think so. Speaking of which... Have you seen our latest shirt?? SquidFacts.net

Happy Trilobite Tuesday! This diminutive Eoharpes was uncovered from the Czech Republic’s Sarka Formation. Its bright colors are mostly due to the presence of specific minerals, which can replace the animal’s calcite shell over the course of millions of years.

Incredible new snail discovered that eats the tubes of deep sea worms (!!)

でかいピンノが出てきた🦀 アサリはよくあるけどヒオウギは初めて

Holy shit look at that egg mass! At least I think thise are eggs. Or pyrosome? 🦀 having a buffet with whatever it is! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Oh my word it is so tiny! 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Does this crab (chaceon?) have eggs or a parasitic barnacle? This crab has been through some things. 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

I have seen bugs of the subfamily Ectrichodiinae (of the assassin bug family Reduviidae) referred to as "Millipede Assassin Bugs" but I have not seen them in action, so I found this @inaturalist.bsky.social observation by Avinash Perera in Sri Lanka interesting: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Yep, it's upside down, and we now know much more about its head and feeding. But I don't mind because this is ART and it looks awesome as hell