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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf adheres to societal expectations. The other wolf wants to go in the kelp hole fully clothed

A shallow area in the ocean, there is a lot of vibrant green kelp with an open area in the middle

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was taking this video of a polychaete worm that had crawled out of a sediment tube in this mussel shell and you can actually see me do a double take as I realize a SECOND, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORM EMERGES FROM THE SAME TUBE

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The front desk person at this inn I'm staying at smiled tolerantly at me and commented on my "enjoying the local wine" because she heard me trip and crash into the wall by the door. But she doesnt know that I had juice at dinner and just got really excited by how big this slug on the front steps was

A wooden walkway to a bright yellow house, there is a pretty big leopard slug on the wood

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come visit this 𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅! Step off of the boardwalk and into a beautiful 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙙. Lean in very, very close to smell the flowers! Maybe even go inside them! Enjoy sinking your toes into dirt that is definitely not a peat bog that will swallow you whole! Get out there!!

A deceptive open space with trees in the background. It looks like a field unless you notice the pitcher plant flowers scattered among the grass. It is in fact a peat bog with carnivorous plants growing all over it.

A close up on pitcher plants, you can see the pitchers and their red veins.

A close up on a sundew plant, with spikes and sticky dew to catch prey. It is bright red with green underneath.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Went to go look at a lighthouse today and then there were CARIBOU EVERYWHERE

A view out over a grassy field with the ocean beyond and a lighthouse on the right. There are four caribou eating in the field.

A view down the hill, there are even more caribou eating, one of them looks to be a baby and one of them is a very large bull with impressive antlers.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Homology

Digital drawing. A burst of hands/forelimbs of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates emerges from the fin of a mostly unseen fishapod in the bottom left corner. The forelimbs gradually point more towards the upper left corner as you move up through the bunch.

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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug

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Tyver Foucault @thedoorthedoor.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Spoons are a species of bowl. Knives are a species of plate. Forks are descended from a now-extinct dish that would be completely incomprehensible to the modern diner

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ohhh it's #InverteFest and that means I get to talk about how I finished a 45km backcountry hike last month and then dragged my friends to the nearby insectarium after and the interpreter let me HOLD an AMBLYPYGID while I was A PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTED MESS! (don't look, spider fearers)

An extremely disheveled woman is holding a whip spider above its tank at an insectarium. A whip spider is best described as God's most horrible nightmare, like a huge combination between a spider and a scorpion with two very long antennae-like legs and big pincers, but they are harmless and beautiful and it is sitting very calmly while the woman is clearly talking excitedly with her other hand

The same disheveled woman holding the whip spider closer to her face and looking happy about it

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On the weekend I checked off the highest bucket list item I've wanted to do since I moved to Newfoundland: diving off the old whaling wharf to see the whale bones!!! (Alt: a view circling a whale skull on the sea floor with anemones, kelp, and urchins on it.)

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just another day in Canada, where we dive down to the bottom of the ocean and find part of a moose skeleton

A photo of big rocks on the sea floor, someone has laid out a very large limb bone and lower jaw of a moose. They have some urchins and coralline algae on them

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Oh my god look at this THING. IT'S THE CUTEST

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I know everyone else has been in summer for like two months already but spring has finally started here in Newfoundland and wow. Wow I forgot there were seasons other than winter

A view over the railing of a boardwalk out on a trail around a pond. There are flowers just starting to bloom and the leaves are just coming out.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I didn't know what Lorenzen Mushrooms were before but now I'm obsessed with them

A glass case of pottery mushrooms, they are very beautifully coloured

A view down on a shelf of the pottery mushrooms, they are a bunch of different shapes and colours.

Another view of more pottery mushrooms, all shapes and colours.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I finally visited Joggins, Nova Scotia, and met the man*, the myth, the legend: Arthropleura trackways!!! *giant Carboniferous millipede

A stone slab in a museum, it has shallow indents in two tracks that show the fossilized trail of Arthropleura, the giant Carboniferous millipede

A view from above of one of the Arthropleura trackways, it looks like two parallel trails of shallow scratches.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Yellow warbler decides to see what's up with this stairs thing humans seem to do so much and immediately realizes "actually, fuck this"

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Dev Doodle, Plant Lady 🌱 @devdoodle.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The craziest part of being alive is that The Magic School Bus could be in you right now

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Everyone should back this kickstarter because I already own the dinosaur one and I am going to own the anomalocaris one but I also want to own the black hole one that unlocks at $10k!!!!!!!!!!

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Did you know? Some skyscrapers evolved a mottled appearance to blend in better with overcast skies and low-lying clouds, but as sessile organisms this actually makes them more vulnerable to predators on clear sunny days!

A photo of two skyscrapers in a city, they have artsy alternating white and black sections of balcony rails, giving them the appearance of big mottled white patches over the surface.

A closer view of the sides of the skyscrapers, showing the white splotches.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Last night at a party a biology friend was explaining to others who had joined us at the snacks table that carcinization is a thing, "but you know what has happened way more than crabs?" and I lost control of myself and accidentally chorused "WORMS!" along with her

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I am always having so much fun with scale drawings. These images are usually depicted quite small on a page in books, there just to show the size of the animal. I love adding some extra details and funny situations to these. :) Here is a series I have just made for an upcoming book. #SciArt

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I got a new L-shaped desk specifically so that my cat can sleep next to me while I work. I love it, she loves it, it's great. Except I forgot to account for the fact that the L is on the opposite side of the desk from her cat tree, and my keyboard is now perpetually in the line of fire

A screenshot of R code, where a bunch of random letters and numbers and symbols have been added to a line.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's important that you always shoot your shot, because you'll never know unless you try. Like my friend in our "bimonthly crafternoons" group chat just asked if anybody wants to go stand in a river and count glass eels next month and her problem now is actually that too many of us want to go

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I missed most of this #Invertefest for various reasons that include 20cm of snow on Friday, but I DID have people over with the Schmidt Ocean divestreams on for ~soothing background ambiance~ i.e. I made everyone sit down and shut up to watch when this seven-arm octopus eating a jellyfish appeared

A view of a remotely operated vehicle livestream deep in the ocean, a pale octopus is visible in the distance, with two of the arms much longer than the others.

A closer view of the octopus from the back, it is clearly holding something with red tentacles, probably a jellyfish, inside at its mouth.

Another view of the octopus as it flattens and spreads its arms out. You can see the jellyfish inside a little better.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Another moth eclosed, so we took graduation pictures

Freshly emerged polyphemus moth with a teeny tiny mortarboard being lowered onto his fuzzy head/thorax

Anterolateral view of large moth in tiny hat, with his filthy college apartment visible in the background

Freshly graduated moth prepares to enter the job market, looking for a position in Eaten by Bird

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I recommend floor-level lighting if only to make your cat look like she's about to tell you a scary story

A cat at the top of a staircase, she is lit from below by a yellow light

A close up on the cat, showing lighting like she is holding a flashlight below her face

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A jellyfish cafe. One wall is a large tank for sea nettles, another has moon jellies, the third wall is a bunch of small kreisels for weirdo species. The tables are rounded aquaria full of upside down jellies. It will cost me ten million dollars in startup costs and half a million monthly to run it

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

What a steal, home depot is offering philodendron verrucosums that come with free spiders

A philodendron in a white pot on a table, the leaves are dark velvety green with much lighter green along the veins.

A very close zoom on the edge of one of the leaves, there is a tiny brown spider making a web

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Do you ever look out at a beautiful day with the sun shining and the ocean releasing an ominous fog and think to yourself ah, there's definitely going to be a kaiju emerging from there any minute now

A view out into a harbour, showing a peninsula of steep land with colourful houses nestled into it. The water has a low layer of dense fog partially obscuring boats and houses.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

anybody who starts a conversation with me for the next month now that I've gone to one (1) public talk about hybrid colonies of fungi and algae/cyanobacteria better be ready for

A screenshot of inaturalist, it shows a species of lichen called Surprise Lichen, which looks like blobs of dark goop on a rough surface.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Haha april fools! I thought it was spring!! I'm the fool!!!!!!

A snowy backyard, with snow still falling

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I went to a houseplant cuttings swap yesterday and I think I blacked out

A small table with way too many little plants in water or soil.

Two variegated alocasia frydek, one is half white and half green, the other one is splotched with white.

Two little cups with soil, one has tiny cacti in it and the other has a tiny butterwort.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Pour one out for my enormous philodendron that decided to snap off at the root under its own weight

A counter with a huge pile of large, tropical-looking leaves that are green with red stalks and red veins. Chunks of stem are cut up and put into a takeout container full of dirt and moss.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Last summer I had to throw out my spider plant (gift from my thesis supervisor) because of thrips and a friend asked if I would buy another one. I said no, because no one has ever bought a spider plant. Eight months later I now have two pots containing five gifted spider plants I did not ask for

A photo of a small pot with two little green spider plant babies, labeled 1 and 2. A third plant in the pot is labeled ?

A hanging pot with striped spider plants in it, labeled 3, 4, and 5.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/03/2026

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

There's this house I have coveted for years that has the most incredible little glade of flowers that change throughout the seasons, and I have just learned that it was the home of a botanist, Dr. Penny Allerdice, and after she died last year it has now been sold to condo developers. I am SO SAD

A house partially hidden by trees, in front is a luxurious green field with colourful wildflowers.

Another field of the field in another season, with different flowers, all light blues and yellow.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thinking about jellyfish tanks again because someone was shocked when I mentioned that they're never as big as you think they are, like this 12ft deep, 15ft long jellyfish "wall" is actually only 1.5 feet wide

A woman in a wetsuit is sitting on the edge of a large aquarium tank, it is being refilled with water and is actually quite narrow in width despite how long and deep it looks.

A view of the front of a jellyfish wall tank, it is lit up in rainbow colours and a woman stands in front of it looking up. She only reaches about halfway up the wall.

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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I love how aggressively the zooids are like actually NO THANK YOU

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

An ex-colleague/friend with kids has just forwarded this to the rest of us and I'm going to need it retracted immediately because this is going to be stuck in my head for MONTHS youtu.be/bXhtViWYlXs?...

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Animal Classification: The Invertebrates Song

YouTube video by Hopscotch

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