Can someone please badly photoshop a Taylor Swift album with a whale shark that says “the life of a megamama supreme?” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do clams know what way is up? Mollusks have an organ called a statocyst. Inside is a little stone called a statolith. The stone rolls around in the bag of sensory cells, telling the clam what way is down! (286)

it is so crazy how in grad school a museum curator will give a talk at the weekly seminar and you can go talk to them for free. life is awesome

Day 2: Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁 #SciArt #invertebrates

If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward: "The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state." phys.org/news/2025-10...

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

Freak stickers! These will be available on Friday! I really like how they came out 🦕💕 #art #paleoart

Last year it was the first time I fully followed #invertober, and I really wanted to join—though, I was writing up my PhD thesis💀you know... Day 2 of #invertober2025 #SciArt with this cutie guy: the red-banded leafhopper 🥹 #bugsky

If this went down as described, it sure sounds like a genuine emergency for every museum in DC. "Let us take whatever we want from your collection or you're fired."

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Day 1: Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) [ #invertober #invertober2025 ]

I was on a vc with some other artists and we had the thought "what if we tried to doodle sexy watto" and all it took was 4 artists posting to bluesky seemingly independently of one another for dozens of people to join in and for it to become trending. I think artists have more pull than they realize

Great exhibition, closing soon ! A lot of effort was put into this project ! Here are some pictures from my visit some time ago :

American football ‘huddles’ started because players at Gallaudet, a University for the deaf, wanted to communicate in sign language without the other team seeing.

reminder that referenceangle.com exists.

told you all bivalves are relatable

Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South? We are now funding memberships! Apply from October 1st to December 15th. More info: www.entopoc.org/apply.html Apply: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Some of us are ready

Kicktober #1: Yuen Biao

September 30 // October 1

in 1869 the first known car accident death was mary ward, this irish lady who made bug art

🐌Chonker slug friend 🐌 Based on a lovely slug friend visiting our house last week. 4x4" on paper coaster Acryla gouache and airbrush $100 (includes US Shipping) DM to claim (Venmo/PayPal accepted)

Me: Wow, the government shut down. That’s stressful. Do you want to have a cup of tea when we get home? Husband: You want to drink tea right now?? Tea?! The very thing that got America into this mess?

Sure, only Paolo can make Mia a princess but a vet student, a low budget, a cow doctor and I can make a tired cow stomach model into something pretty spiffy. New lesser and greater omentum (superficial and deep leaf!), new labels and a deep clean and it's ready for lab Friday!

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)? If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause? I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks! context:

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪

hello fellow ecologists has anyone successfully applied to the grfp (in its current format) and would be willing to send me their application materials for my own reference? many thanks!! 🧪

Since it's hardly found as #pigment in nature, the colour #blue is believed to be a rather modern addition to our painting kits. Until now: Turns out that apparently already #Paleolithic artists used blue pigment. 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science

Junebug larvae use their back hair to move. #tmi #beetles #coleoptera #entomology #melolonthinae #scarabaeidae

WOAH just seeing this #SciArt summit- looks amazing! cc #SciComm

BREAKING @knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended. 1/2

Day 30 - Dream. The final day of #sciartseptember. My long-term dream has always been to create a series of illustrated guides that would help identify the various jellies and jellyfish of the would. Creating illustrations like the ones below to accurately ID species.

In 2023, we distributed a bunch of bar coasters with facts about jersey shore animals on them to dive bars in the neighborhood. This project was SO fun. I wanna try something similar this year, but with pint glasses. I want to give cool/punk branding to environmental action.

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This will appeal to like 4 of my friends out there. But this is a live Nosodendron (beetle) larva. Nosodendron means 'sick tree', and true to its name these were found in a black, moldy wet area around an injured beech root. Enjoy!

And he did an endangered local toad a huge solid www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

We've created a Starter Pack of people who will be exhibiting or presenting at #LBX2025 (less than a month away!!) If you're not on the list, let us know and we'll add you! ❤️ go.bsky.app/9mhBiJ9

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

The star of the show this #MicroscopyMonday is Noctiluca scintillans — a giant among plankton! At up to 2 mm across, visible to the naked eye. Around UK and European coasts, it sometimes forms blooms that appear pinkish-red or orange, creating the phenomenon known as “red tides.”

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

Today’s winning data label goes to this flea I’ve no idea who collected it but I’d love to met them, sounds like they are my sort of person 🤓 #collections @nhm-london.bsky.social #fleas #databasing

mira in a masc public outfit because it tickled my brain #kpopdemonhunters #kpdh