We’re combining science and art into double-sided cards featuring local scientists and leaving them at local coffee shops and breweries. Want to be featured or nominate a scientist? Fill out this interest survey by Sept 28th: forms.gle/CsTDjisunDMo...

For #cephalopodweek we are jumping into scientific paths, featuring @cephalopodanetwork.bsky.social and @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social Remember it’s never too late to discover something new! #dreamsofascientist #scientificjourney #sciencecommunication #sciencestory #marinescience #octopus #squid

We have a new project: Made in Your Community! With support from @skypeascientist.bsky.social , we’re creating beautiful double-sided cards that feature local scientists and their work — all placed in local cafes, breweries, and community spaces. #SciComm #RepresentationMatters #ArtandScience

We're looking for scientists to feature on our next cards! If you're interested, please go to the website and fill out the form

Happy #SharkWeek2025! Kicking off the week with a hammerhead <3 #SharkWeek #hammerhead

The 2025 advent calendar will drop tomorrow at 10am!!! The artist? @ehrenenglish.bsky.social The animal? EELS. Here's the sneakiest of sneak peeks 👀

Happy (or at least paused despair?) #MolluscMonday! This species shows some extreme sexual dimorphism. Not only is the gorgeous webbing (blanket) only found in females, but the males are teeny tiny. Inspired by pcaiger's Robson's blanket octopus observation on inaturalist. #MolluskMonday #sciart

I look more and more like this crab every day. Repost of a painting I did of the little baby king crab NOAA found back in January

Absolutely stunning video of a Antarctic gonate squid captured during an expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (Too). It's never been seen alive before! Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s... Video: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, courtesy of National Geographic 🦑🌊🧪

Happy summer solstice! Since we're celebrating the sun, it seems like a good time for an ocean sunfish! Like us, they like to bask in the sun after a cold dive to warm up ☀️ 🐟 #fishyfriday #drawntosummer25 #oceanart #solstice

Here is the feed for #FishyFriday ! Use the tag to get a flood of fish/ #aquatic themed creatures in the feed every Friday. No rules or prompts, just #art and #photography you’d like to share. Thanks for joining in today and sharing your lovely #fish 🥰 bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm on PST so this still counts for #MolluscMonday, right? (right?!?) Meet the smooth giant clam (Tridacna derasa) 🐚✨ It's name is a bit misleading as it still has plenty of texture, just not quite as much as its cousin, the giant clam (T. gigas). #MolluskMonday #oceanart #artyear

Happy Friday the 13th! It's not Halloween but it is spooky so here's a painted wooly bat 🦇 ❤️ Reminder to not buy taxidermied ones online - they aren't bred in captivity so all those specimens are wild-caught. Removing that many from the population isn't sustainable. #art #bat #artoftheday #nature

Today is Friday the 13th, the perfect day for a ✨🔮 DARK ART SHARE 🔮✨ 🕷️ Share your #darkart 🖤 Like and repost! 🐀 Tag friends, if you like! 🖤 Add alt text, if possible! 🕸️ Label NSFW! 🖤 Support each other with a comment, repost or like! ❌ Human-made only, no A👁️ or NF🍵s #artshare #art #friday13

Reminder: sci-comm and outreach costs money, and it’s being defunded across all STEM fields. It’s not just something scientists “do” (or fail to do, or need to do more). I mean, most of us do “do” it on our own time too, but that will never be enough.

Another frog! 🐸 this is another super fun study painted for the mentorship with @leeshahannigan.bsky.social. Thank you as always, for being the kindest and most patient mentor! 💙 Fell in love with this little friend and its cute colours! Reference in thread ⬇️

this is me if you even care

Got a favorite frog? Bc I can't decide. #FrogArt #NeonAnimals #ArtYear

Happy #MolluscMonday! Today it's Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. Seen any near you recently? #MolluscMonday #SciArt #ArtYear #NearbyNature2025

Don’t forget you can just go draw a bug whenever you want.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Our chromosome-scale genome assembly of Nanomia septata, a siphonophore - doi.org/10.1101/2025... . Much larger than many other cnidarian genomes, fewer chromosomes, and highly rearranged. No smoking gun for how they achieve complex colony-level organization. Great work Namrata Ahuja and friends!

But until then, you have two assignments: 1. Keep being a scientist. 2. Be the biggest, most creative, most persistent pain in the ass Trump and his clown posse have ever experienced.

Loved seeing all this amazing art!!! You should definitely check it out (and you'll see a nudibranch made by me)

It's spring in the northern hemisphere, the flowers are blooming, the sun is peeking out and the bugs are starting to emerge. You know what that means, don't you? It's almost time for #InverteFest!!! Share your #invertebrates with us April 24-30. www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

Alligators are so much cuter than crocodiles. Like mostly being an American is bad right now, but you gotta admit, we got the cuter crocodilian. So. We have that going for us.

#illustrators I'm currently looking for an artist whose work is more painterly/ atmospheric/ bordering on abstract for a YA project. Please reply to this thread with a few samples of your work with a link to your portfolio if you think you might fit this criteria 🎨🖌️

I accidentally made this octopus riding a shark into a wildly inaccurate heatmap but this was super cool to see! Happy #MolluscMonday 🐙🦈

Lookin' out for the world! #molluscmonday strombid eyes flic.kr/p/7Fas69

More Cephalopods, because I love them. 🐙✨🌿

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024! Do you have a favorite? marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Happy St. Patrick's Day and #MolluskMonday! #molluscmonday

Another way to #StandUpforScience is to buy and read science books. And give/recommend them to others to read. Have a science book you've written? Drop a link below! I've written two books on natural history. Here are mine, which you can buy directly from me. www.metrofieldguide.com/shop/

The Wunderpus 🐙 (Wunderpus photogenicus) is a master of disguise - It hides in its burrow with six arms while waving the other two like venomous sea snakes 🐍 🎨 Prints available in my shop, link in bio #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #WildlifeIllustration #DigitalArt #ArtYear

Piglet squid - Halicocrachia sp. Larva in egg case This was one of several hundreds pulled up with a mat of Common gulf weed (Sargassum natans) sw of Bermuda. They were in strings of ~50 per string. Shot w/ a 5:1 macro lens. Actual size of ea. individual egg casing ~1mm diameter🧪🐙🦑🐡 #molluscmonday

Is it a spaceship? No, it's a Squid, feeding at night under the Palace Pier in Brighton, as photographed by Paul Parsons, who says: "Night dives are like being in space - the water column is full of creatures." A reminder of beauty in the dark this winter solstice

#molluscmonday!

I'm feeling inspired as both a scientist and an artist ❤️

The Mondays just seem to keep on coming, ready or not. This week was a busy one but #MolluskMonday has arrived! Here's a quick sketch of a Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). If you're lucky enough to see these in the wild, they'll likely be in a small shoal. #artyear #molluscmonday

I HATE titles like these. I think you mean deep-sea fish of my DREAMS, right @nytimes.com?!! 🦑 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/s...

If you woke up grumpy this Monday morning because of... uh, everything... remember that somewhere in the Pacific, among the branches of a dying coral, there lives a goby who is grumpier than you. Yet, he does not falter. He sits, stoically. Resisting. Scheming. The Rasp Coralgoby (Gobiodon brochus)

A bioluminescent octopus (one of the very few) for this #MolluscMonday! Stauroteuthis syrtensis, the glowing sucker octopus, has modified sucker cells that produce light. #sciart #artyear #molluskmonday #bioluminescence

Happy #molluscmonday! May I present a showstopping cephalopod, the flaboyant cuttlefish. Instead of swimming away when threatened, this species makes undulating bands of color. These shocking hues act as an alarm when predators come around. #molluskmonday #artyear #nature #sciart #februarty

Really hope I can make time for personal art again soon ☹️ Here’s a fave from back in 2022 that I’ve just been tweaking. I love drawing fish 🐟 #fishyfeb

day 7 of #frogfebruary blue poison dart frog, they’re just so pretty and detailed, but I kept it a little simpler today

look at that CRAB❤️

TIL flapjack octopuses don't have ink sacs or radulas. They eat little worms and inverts thru find after stirring up sediment. Opisthoteuthis sp. Requested by @invertebabe.bsky.social #molluscmonday #molluskmonday #sciart #deepsea

Starting off @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's #NearbyNature2025 with the Garibaldi, California's state marine fish! I've seen these guys around the #channelislands and just learned the males create circular nests and fiercely guard their eggs. #fishyfriday

Twisty pointy shells? I can do that! One of my specialities is studying the mathematics of coiling and spiralling in molluscs! Here are three of my favourites - these are all snaps from my phone so apologies that sometimes the quality isn't the best!