Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

#Nudivember IX

Another unnecessary blow to public safety for the whole pacific www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

Lovely video closeup of Toxopneustes! A sea urchin with potent venomous pedicellariae! youtube.com/shorts/PTEFZ...

Goniobranchus aureopurpureus, Anilao #Nudivember #MarineLife 🌿

I thought today's #Nudivember would be more fun, but I spent so much time on it I don't even want to look at it anymore.

#Nudivember Day 7: the starry night nudibranch! I had to use my Van Gogh paper for the background of the collage

Today in marine invertebrates Late, as usual youtu.be/-zQWIZ60koQ?...

Day 8 of #nudivember is Cerberilla ambonensis. A treat for me, another Cerberilla species with stripy cerata.

#Nudivember #8 Cerberilla amboinensis

Day 8 of #Nudivember is Cerberilla ambonensis, a species that lives around Indonesia. Info: www.seaslugforum.net/find/cerbambo Photos: inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/872480-...

#Nudivember #7 Hypselodoris obscura ! ✨🌠 I’m not an artist ! But I tried !😅

The eye of the teeny tiny ciliate storm. A rare look down the opening of a tintinnina lorica. #marineplankton 🦑

You know what this timeline needs tonight? A weird-ass invertebrate sea creature! Here's an undescribed (at time of photo, not sure about now) endemic Hawaiian Spiky sea cucumber, Stichopus sp. Actually an Earth life form. 📷🦑🐙 #invertebrates

Today's #Nudivember species is Hypselodoris obscura and is found around Australia. Info: www.seaslugforum.net/showall/hyps... Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129108-...

Often mistaken for a type of jellyfish, the beautiful-but-poisonous Portuguese man-of-war is actually a siphonophore! These "colonial organisms" are made up of genetically identical, highly specialized parts called zooids that work together for the good of the whole—and can pack a powerful punch!

Hoping to get a few #Nudivember drawings done this month! November 7th's nudibranch is Hypselodoris obscura. (A bluedibranch 💙) lineart drawn with brush pen, colours added digitally. #marinelife

For #FossilFriday, please enjoy some very, VERY old evidence of parasitism, preserved in fossilized shells of brachiopods that lived ~500 million years ago in what's now southern China. These kleptoparasites—food stealers—built mineralized tubes on filter-feeding hosts & slurped up their food 🧪

#tunicateTuesday!

🌊 Phylum Friday - Urochordata 🌊 Tunicates come in colonial (many individuals living in a colony) & solitary forms and are filter feeders, pumping water through their two siphons to collect food. Fascinatingly, tunicates are closely related to vertebrates because they have a nerve cord as larvae.

TIL about brackish water jellyfish like this Bay Nettle in the Chesapeake Bay. Cute little things. www.vims.edu/bayinfo/jell...

Deep-sea housing complex of sponges varieties, offering crustaceans refuge and a place to snack. "There Grows the Neighborhood" — 16x20” Check out the growing collection of deep-sea fine art by our team @unseenocean.bsky.social! #sciart #scienceillustration #deep-sea #unseenoceancollective

#MarineLife #Nudivember #NUSFW (Not Un Safe For Work) I just love posting nudis...

This is not technically part of #Nudivember but I WILL be making more of these and adding them to my store during November. Tell me what species you'd like to see me add to the collection!

day 6 of #Nudivember with posting number 5 from me because I missed the memo which said November had begun. 🫣 #MarineLife Apparently I am not following the example of other posters for this month as I am posting my pictures and not all of "The List". And no, I'm not repentant

Day 5 of #Nudivember Tambja Affinis ... so I really messed up on those gills... #nudibranch #seaslug

#Nudivember #6 Diaphorodoris mitsuii 🌻🌻🌻 something différent !😅

Today's #nudivember is Diaphodoris mitsuii, a friend-shaped pancake (or pancake-shaped friend).

Day 6 of #Nudivember was way too colorful for my taste. Who chose these species? Oh, wait. #TradArt

Our #Nudivember species today is Diaphorodoris mitsuii and comes in different color variations from white to yellow. They're found in the western Pacific from Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Info: www.seaslugforum.net/find/diapmits Photos: en.seaslug.world/photos?order...

Day 2 of #Nudivember - Cerberilla tanna 🐌🐠🐡

#Nudivember day 5: Tambja affinis, the Nerf N-Strike Elite of the sea slug world #nudibranch #stripey #seaslug #art

Another day, another nudibranch for #Nudivember. #TradArt

#Nudivember day 6: Diaphodoris mitsuii, the forbidden yuzu #nudibranch #seaslug #citrus #art

Another bizarre cladorhizid aka carnivorous sponge! Chondrocladia, I think. 1895 m #Okeanos from the south wall of the Virgin Islands in the tropical Atlantic #spongeThursday

A rather short but still fantastic carnivorous sponge, called Chondrocladia with opportunistic brittle star hanging out below-waiting for scraps! #okeanos 528 m off SE Miami, North Atlantic

Polychaete on chondrocladia sponge. 4800-4700m @nautiluslive.org dive L1009 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

My Screensaver at the moment. Looks like I cut off the timestamp, but I believe it's from a @schmidtocean.bsky.social expedition in Jan 2024. Solitary hydroid with a lovely polychaete associate. #MarineLife

Some recovery.. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

#Nudivember Day 5 (Gelato crayon, acrylic gouache and pen on pastel paper)

A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶 This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.

Day 4 of #Nudivember Glossodoris electra beautiful ghosts of the ocean ref by Luc Bourdil #nudibranch #seaslug

Yesterday was a late finish at work, so here's #nudivember 4 and 5 together: Glossodoris electra and Tambja affinis. I hope they have a nice time hanging out.

Our #Nudivember species today is Tambja affinis, a nudibranch found in the western Indian Ocean. Info: www.seaslugforum.net/showall/tamb... Photos: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

That might be his biggest commonality with Obama, who also was a regular guy, but a President being black drove the right insane. Difference now might be that the right is starting from a place that is way more openly insane