Jinxland is back with a new song release, just in time for Friday revelry. Find Whiskey Demon on Bandcamp or your favorite music platform! jinxland.bandcamp.com

This is a fun redraw of a piece I made back in 2008. I didn't think about how much fun it is to retool panel layout!

A nice watercolor and colored pencil giant african snail (Achatina) with a feather-tailed centipede (Alipes). Building up color this way takes a lot of patience that is not always in reach for me! Do you like playing with gutters in sketchbooks? I love a full page spread but it's hard!

I am forever amazed by colors in the natural world. Gecarcinus quadratus (the Halloween crab, among many many other common names) is absolutely stunning. What's your favorite crab?

Caprellidae (skeleton shrimp) are some of my favorite organisms to watch!

Many thanks to our intrepid keynote speaker, Barrett Klein @pupating.bsky.social! We had a delightful time learning about his journey into cultural entomology and #SciArt...and a little dance along the way! There was even a little collaboration cameo with GNSI member Tierney Brosius.

A fun request that let me flex a little local fauna! Formica exsectoides was the field ant of choice for this project. Neohelix albolabris (Eastern whitelip) is probably the largest land snail we have up here in New England. A queen in battle needs her battle armor!

Summer solstice hit last month, so I have my second snake piece for 2025. This time featuring Erpeton tentaculatum, the tentacled snake. I couldn't quite make out their facial details, but friends over in Herpetology let me come check out a couple specimens in the collection!

Stunning urchin tests by Anders Hallan via National Geographic www.facebook.com/natgeo/posts...

A new pink monster piece, to be friends with a blue monster i drew years ago. I can't decide if green or red will be the next color. What do you think? This is one of the pieces I'm bringing to Somerville Open Studios this weekend. I'll be at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave from 12-6pm Sat and Sun!

They canceled the National Nature Assessment. We kept going. The science didn’t stop. Neither did our hope, or our resolve. The work is still happening—independent, evolving, and grounded in purpose. Because weareunitedbynature.org 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

#wormwednesday! A #newspecies of an unusual polychaete genus Ctenophoricola (#Phyllodocida, Phyllodocidae, Alciopini) from the Indian Ocean how interesting! www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

My new band is playing a show April 12, come party with us!

Today's additions to the science library: "What's a mollusk anyway?" mini-zine and "Mutual Aid & ism" Both by @eveninghawk.bsky.social! Thank you for sending these! They are fantastic! Do you have extra printed zines you'd like to add to the library? DM me!

Putting together all the perfect components to bring some music into being. We need a little joy, sharing, and weirdness right now. 🔮💫🌙🧙‍♀️🏳️‍🌈 #ComingSoom #music #musicsky

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social @squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A few days ago I posted a photo of the diatom Auliscus sculptus. I found this little frustule of the same species in my sample this week, and I thought it was a good opportunity to show you its beautiful adornment. 🦑 #plankton

Squeeee! 🥹 A Ctenophore (comb jelly) larva from this week’s sample. I love it! 🦑

Really happy that the @marineevoeco.com lab played a very small part in this really cool paper published with the @roneilllab.bsky.social, @vuruputoor.bsky.social, @noahreid.bsky.social, @jillwegrzyn.bsky.social and others! Big thanks to Gabe Barrett for connecting UConn and URI research teams

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

Putative Batesian mimicry of gelatinous zooplankton by larvae of marine fishes: a closer look based on in-situ images by blackwater photographers Johnson et al. 2025 Larval fishes appear to mimic invertebrates as seen by deep ocean divers after sunset oceansciencefoundation.org/josf42d.html...

I've fallen down the pit of politics lately so here's my start to claw back....I'll try and balance that with science. This is Austropallene cornigera, sea spider he's a dad. MOST pycnos reproduce like seahorses....females pass eggs to males to brood until they crawl off dad! #Antarctica 🦑🧪🌎🇦🇶🐧

A nice lavender squat lobster from Pioneer Seamount in the North Pacific #Okeanos 2015

This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting. #FossilFriday #sciart

Japanese exhibition of "ULTRA DEEP-SEA" animals! Here are some sea pigs from 7300 m! www.chiba-muse.or.jp/UMIHAKU/exhi...

Yes, this is the lab that hosts “drag and tag,” shark tagging research with drag queens that raises money for Florida LGBTQ youth. We could sure use your support, and you get an amazing adventure out of it! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

Encountering a warty leaf beetle is always a minor holiday 🖤

I don't always have access to a specimen when I need to illustrate something, so I was pretty happy to find an excellent specimen of a Western diamondback at the UMich Museum of Zoology's herpetology collection in 2006. This gouache painting shows the rattle, sectioned. #sciart #snake #Crotalus

Just finished drawing an Ostracod Aka seed shrimp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracod #art #natureart #science #interesting #discover #bluesky #painting #animal

Male orchid bee (Euglossa sp.) collecting fragrant compounds from a moss patch in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is one of my favorite subjects to photograph, and I keep going back to it even though I probably have hundreds of photos by now. I mean, look how awesome these bees are!

How about some blue spiders? Here is a Brazilian jewel tarantula (Typhochlaena seladonia). This species is now iconic so if you are not familiar with it... you're welcome. A very small tarantula that lives in a makeshift tent on tree bark in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. #BlueBugs #BlueMonday

Everyone saying “just rebuild on another platform” — take it from me, whose biggest audience belonged to another entity: sit down. 😅 I had tremendous success on YouTube and the -day- I lost access was a complete reset and I never recovered. Today, I struggle to get funding for a single video.

Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.

Some parasitic isopods go through an awkward developmental phase where the back half of its body reaches maturity while the front half of its body is still a juvenile. Puberty for cymothoid isopods is kinda wild. #Invertebrate 🧪 journal.kagoshima-nature.org/046-093/

Brown Hydra trying to catch a Cyclops. Definitely need to film both of these some more this year and make a video on these amazing creatures #UKWildlife #PondLife #inverts #BugSky

The Veiled Chiton is the Venus flytrap of the kelp forest. This is a predatory chiton who waits for prey to wander under its extensive mantle before pinning them down to be eaten.