It's so harrowing to use an outhouse in the stark light of a headlamp

Speaking of amphipods. Here's three real stunners from last night. Podocerus cristatus, Thorlaksonius subcarinatus, and Cryptodius kelleri. #Invertebrates

I don't even want to talk about how much I love amphipods. All crustaceans are good but amphipods are so unreasonably cosmopolitan. Every part of them can be important for taxonomy and they have a ton of parts. Except pleopods. The pleopods are all the same structure.

Pray that these biscuits turn out

Fabaeformiscandona ostracod (no eyes)

I promise I'm InverteFest-ing guys I'm just so so very tired and there's no good tides for it this year

This is still one of my favorite moments from Okeanos Explorer. I recall watch leads wondering why they were seeing so many ophiuroid bits scattered about & then they came upon this lovely culprit! #OkeanosExplorer #MarineLife youtu.be/kPxoEk-aPY0?...

🦀 eating

Periphylla on descent. Target depth for the dive today is 2550m. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 887 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

Merry #Crustmas to all who celebrate! Hoping you are firmly attached to people you love, are able to scoop up large amounts of food, and can hide in an impervious shell when the social situation requires it ❤️

May we all follow her example

it’s her day.

My favorite book this year was Waterways of Bangkok, an ethnography that reveals how water connects and divides, is both constant and impermanent in both the landscape and imagination of mid-2010s Bangkok Good dash of Bangkok history, geography, and culture in the words of the city's own people

There’s not a good Pitbull Christmas post so this will have to do

On the 12th day of #Crustmas the Oregon Coast gave to me... 12 Gooseneck barnacles 11 Dungeness crabs 10 Acorn barnacles 9 Pink shrimp 8 Purple shore crabs 7 Pygmy rock crabs 6 Buckshot barnacles 5 Razor clams 4 Isopods 3 green crabs 2 Sand fleas And a kelp crab looking at me #crustmas 🦀🦑

My father had all the home movies digitized and gave us USBs of them for Christmas

Kelp fallen from the surface, snails, ophiuroid. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 886 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

Rossia! Disappointed they didn't zoom. They prob thought it was another one of the many octos they've been seeing. 😭 @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 886 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

Bathydoris. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 886 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

Has anyone ever had the battery on their iPhone replaced? I would rather spend money on a refurbished thinkpad than a refurbished older iPhone but my current battery (iPhone 13 don't remember if I got it new) is at 73 percentage capacity

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

🎄 in the deep sea

Fantastic zooms on these undescribed Lyrocteis on a predatory tunicate. @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social some squishy friends for ya. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

My black coral taxonomist fried said this one looks like Schizopathes affinis. Thanks Jeremy! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

FAIRWAY SHELBOURNE PLAZA

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Find the shrimp #Crustmas

Around these parts amphipods in the family Pleustidae can be found readily by dock foulers and tide poolers who care to look. Some are as big as your thumb nail (like a mature female Thorlaksonius) while others like this Micropleustes require magnification to appreciate. #Crustmas

Where the hell are the tiny mandarin oranges. I physically need them

There's water damage to the part of the library that holds all the history books and I'm stressed

This is the only time I've been genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of the McElroy brothers as the naming of the new year looms.

This bank branch turned on their heat with no regard for the fact that today is supposed to be 15 C outside and now I have to look legit with beads of sweat on my brow like a comically guilty person

Find the shrimp #Crustmas

Abstract shots of Tosia magnifica-a goniasterid sea star from temperate Australia, showing off those smooth convex plates on its body surface! #echinoday #seastarSaturday #starfishSaturday

By this point we have lots of regulars who participated in most, if not all of the previous art books. But I also like seeing new names because they keep things fresh. If you know other artists working with invertebrate subjects, please encourage them to submit something!

As promised here's a crangon shrimp burying itself in the sand #Crustmas

An (ecto)parasitic #Crustmas. This is Dolops (above), which swims around and attaches to fishes (below), but unlike its relative Argulus, which has suckers, it has hooks to hold on. Also, is bizarrely cute! 🧪🦑

Introducing the Cool S, For Her™

Also I'm too busy this week to be sad about the anniversary of losing Honeydew so I'm attempting to suppress let's see how that goes

I got a good video last night of a crangon shrimp burying itself in sand so crustmas is going to be good

The graceful decorator crab #Crustmas

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Omg #Crustmas

Night divers gliding past during this week's calm before the storm

bivalves! 🦪

I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...

Do you think my phone will be smart enough not to give me "on this day" featured photos for the anniversary of my soul pet dying