Meet Ken's cuttlefish, his job is just beach. 🧵 🐡🐙🦑🧪

We had one of my favorite crabs in the invertebrate teaching lab today! This is Dromidia sp. a carrier crab. Their last pair of legs is modified to carry sponges and other animals as a defensive mechanism. This one is carrying a colonial tunicate. #invertebrates 🦑🦀

We love jumping spiders because they are smol, cute, active, friendly and always looking around curiously with their huge eyes. But do you know they’re also masters of mimicry? Check out the bugs they pretend to be (and some of those are really good)!💚💚

New research shows for the first time that #ClimateChange could fundamentally alter the benthic–pelagic exchange – the flow of #carbon and nutrients between the seafloor and open ocean waters vital for food webs, marine life and carbon cycling 👇 pml.ac.uk/news/how-cli...

Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks, according to a study in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4pjR34k 🌊 🧪

For #TaxonomyTuesday check out these gorgeous sea slugs! Image from: A deceptive variety: integrative systematics and phylogeography suggest 𝘼𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙖 and 𝘼𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞 represent a single species (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) by Ekimova et al. (2025). Read more: buff.ly/pAIkLxD #Slugs #NHM

What a fabulous #shoresearchweek with #CornwallWildlifeTrust & their #marineconservation team. Whilst exploring the lower shore I found the #nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana - a first UK record! 🦑 @mblscience.bsky.social

👋 Hey friends! I'm back & super excited to share new art with you all 🎨 🥳 🎉 in love with these colors!! ⭐ Bsky Early Access: sculptedreef.com/collections/... 🪸 Corals are made w glass beads 🐙 clay + paint #ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #BSNM #CoralReef #MarineLife #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡

Introducing the Unseen Oceans Collective! Formed in 2026 this collective is bringing deep-ocean fine art and science events to international venues in 2025 and 2026. #sciart #scienceartists #unseenoceancollective #deep-sea #womeninscience #deepocean

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The Great Old Ones - this is something already existed in my mind when illustrating the previous cephalopods piece; and so glad I’ve completed it so now I can display them side by side💙 Never stop missing prehistoric cephalopods! Thinking about making this one a silver foiled print as well!

I don't trust them, they are a squid in the grass... With a mantle length of 22 mm, Grass Squids (Pickfordiateuthis pulchella) are one of the tiniest species of squid. They aren't quite as small as pygmy squids which belong to a different order. #SQUIDtember

Here it is, the complete month of #AugArthroAwe drawings! #InverteFest #TradArt

We have an exciting #InverteFest announcement! We're going to create an #InverteFest artist/writer collaboration anthology! Artists and writers will be paired together to create collaborated pieces which we'll collect into an anthology. All are welcome. Apply here: forms.gle/6zHzs7P8kzGF...

Some biologists have some really sick websites, and I want to see them! Let's show off some cool websites, whether it's shameless self-promotion or another one you think is cool. I'll go first: @invertebabe.bsky.social blends her research + illustration in a really cool way. www.megmindlin.com

BIG PROFESSIONAL NEWS! My text that read “it would be an honor to work with you” was autocorrected to “it wouid be a horror to work with you”

@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 814 in live! #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife www.youtube.com/live/14O-6nA...

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So many podocopida ostracods (aka seed shrimp) in my last sample. Some were HUGE! And some were weeny! And they were all 100% adorable! 🦑 #plankton

Want a fun, free outdoor activity that everyone can enjoy? Bring your love for the sea to the July BioBlitz Battle in Falmouth and Plymouth, 12th July at 12.30pm! Discover & identify local marine species. Book your space! Plymouth ➡️ buff.ly/UeduF6G Falmouth ➡️ buff.ly/UeduF6G #BigRockpoolChallenge

No.38 "Thornton Hall" 🐙 Blue Ringed Octopus 💙 #ArtYear #Sculpture #TeaTime 🦑🐡

We’re hiring #Plankton Analysts! 🌊💼 🔬 Analyse marine samples from across the globe 🌍 Contribute to vital research on climate, biodiversity & more 🧠 Full training provided – ideal for early-career scientists or #taxonomy enthusiasts 📍 Plymouth, Devon, UK 🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/plankton...

QRP with your mushroom art 🍄 #mushroom

I've been slacking on the sea slug skeets. Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts

I've been slacking on the sea slug skeets. Enjoy a recent nudibranch from a Sydney tidepool. Jorunna pantherina (I think). From a distance, these tiny 1cm nudis look pale, plain, grey. Up close, they are full of stars! 🐙🦑🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts

IT'S FINISHED! The Art of #InverteFest April 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 86 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1JvEx...

Melibe colemani Gosliner & Pola, 2012 👻 Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭 #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife

I am looking for a postdoc position! I have experience in host-parasite interactions, animal behavior, sexual selection, science outreach, and science education. Plus, I'm a photographer and illustrator which could come in handy! Please reach out if you have any positions open or know someone.

Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen? @kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️

it’s just a baby! No really, mantle length of 30mm and a weight of 30 grams? Thats a smol fella 🐙🐡🦑🧪

Mentally I'm here:

More pieces to be added to my shop at 1pm BST (GMT+1) on Saturday 3rd of May. lisaseaurchin.co.uk #MarineLife #nudibranch #ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

Great low tides this week — get out to the #tidepools if you can! Got up early yesterday to find these #nudibranch gems.

It's officially #InverteFest in the west! We want to see your bugs! Get outside for an invertebrate scavenger hunt. Introduce us to the spider in your basement. Paint a polychaete worm. Write a song about a giant isopod. Whatever you do, we want you to share it with us using #InverteFest

I’d like to share my favourite family of slugs with you. They’re cute. They’re odd. They deserve more attention. They also have an almost unpronounceable name: Athoracophoridae. (1/5) #snails Pics: © Katja © juliaghunn CC BY-NC © Jean Roger CC BY-NC-ND © Dominik Maximilián Ramík CC BY-4.0

Fun surprise in my Invertebrate Zoology lab! Today we were covering crustaceans so I was showing my students a hermit crab that wears anemones on its shell. Then I noticed that there was a nudibranch (Spurilla braziliana) eating one of the anemones! #sluglife #invertebrate 🦑

What's up #InverteFest, I've been embroidering a mollusc alphabet on and off since 2018, and I haven't shared them on bsky yet, so here we go - A is for Argonauta, Aporrhais, Aplysia and Architeuthis!

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Sea slug of support for anyone who needs. A nudi in fairytale forest. #Marinelife #inverts 🦑🐙🧪

Take me back into the arms I love

Sea slug of support for anyone who needs. A nudi in fairytale forest. #Marinelife #inverts 🦑🐙🧪

Which cephalopod are you sitting next to? 🦑🐙🐡🧪

In case their bright colors don't deter predators, this sea slug — Janolus flavoanulatus — can roll into a ball & secrete acids from their cerata (the pointy things serving as their gills). 📷 johan98800 on iNaturalist 📍 New Caledonia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Throwback, while I make new art, and grapple with reality. #ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project) Day 46: Peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) #sciart #medart #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #mantisshrimp #Stomatopoda #oceanart

We spent some quality time with a color changing squid today #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #colorchanging #chromatophores #cephalopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

Carnivorous chitons set a trap. They raise the girdle at the front and look create a comfy, secure little niche. And by comfy secure little niche, I mean a death trap. A refuge with no escape… So that’s the deal with chitons (11/11) Pics: © imcote © Stefanie © Jeff Goddard © pobrown CC BY-NC

This thread asks the question on everyone’s mind: What’s the deal with chitons? First, some of them are really lovely. (1/11) Pics: © Wendy Feltham © anjadocke © Anne Hoggett © Matt Tank CC BY-NC #addOcean

Awesome scale worms in the center of this solitary hydroid! EX2503 dive 1 #OkeanosExplorer #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife

Droopy and Fern, marker and colored pencil. (Fern is the snail. Life is full of mysteries.) Based on an iNaturalist reference photo by Franklin Howley-Dumit Serulle, brought to my attention by @snailseyeview.bsky.social #art #invertebrates #snail #illustration #sciart

For a brief break from the world, please enjoy a tale of two slugs. #MarineLife #inverts 🧪🦑🐙 Nudibranch Jorunna pantherina (I think!) and not-nudibranch Elysia coodgeensis in a tidepool, about 1cm and 5mm long respectively. And with a few bonus microscopic epifauna video-bombing.