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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hopping back on the #MolluscMonday train today with a Diamond squid (Thysanoteuthis rhombus). This species is likely monogamous, a super rare trait in squids. Reference image credit: Magnus Lundgren #MolluskMonday #SquidArt #InvertArt

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is also for a Made in Your Community card, this time for Angela's sea stars! The scans you see under my art are scans she took of her animals, an amazing view to see and draw from. In collaboration with @dreamsofascientist and @angelajordanee #marinebiology #sciart #science #art #starfish

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Smelt time! This piece is for the Made In Your Community project — a collaboration with @dreamsofascientist. It was created to share Z Zenobia's science (@somethingspiffy) about smelt on cards she distributed in Arcata, CA. Found one? Let us know! #smelt #ocean #science #art #marinebiology

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I made this art for Haley, a deep-sea biologist—celebrating diel vertical migration! If you're in Santa Barbara, see if you can find one our cards highlighting her and her science! @dreamsofascientist #SciArt #DeepSea #DielVerticalMigration #MarineBiology #SantaBarbara #MadeInYourCommunity

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Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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...

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Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

a ribbon eel with its mouth wide open like OMG, illustrated

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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

Digital painting of a baby king crab using saturated colors - lots of oranges. Crab looks...nervous?

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Erin Spencer, PhD @etspencer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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 🦑🌊🧪

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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

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Victoria Pfeiffer @victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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:...

A watercolor painting of 3 vibrant fish with prominent scales and bright colors.

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · 13/06/2025

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

#darkart artshare promo image. Charcoal drawing of an eerie landscape. A bright light is hovering over a mountain forest, lights moving down alongside the trees as if in procession.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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.

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Laura Galli @lauragalliart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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 ⬇️

Digitally painted photo study of a poison dart frog on a leaf.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

this is me if you even care

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

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Zillah @zillahsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 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

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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!

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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.

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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/

What is #InverteFest?
It’s a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, and December over the last 7 days of the month.

Going out?
1. Find invertebrates
2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest
3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event

BONUS: Join our iNaturalist project to contribute to community science

NOT Going out?
• Post your squid painting
• Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife
• Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins
• Write wikipedia pages

QUESTIONS?
ask franzanth / maureenbug / kellybrenner on iNaturalist / twitter / tumblr / instagram / bluesky

MORE INFO AND IDEAS ON: invertefest.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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.

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Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

#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 🎨🖌️

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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

Digital drawing of the octopus riding on a shark, using neon colors. Looks weirdly like a very inaccurate heatmap.

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Valentino Lasso🌿 @valentinolasso.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

More Cephalopods, because I love them. 🐙✨🌿

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WoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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 cover of the naturalist at home: projects for discovering the hidden world around us featuring a light greenish cover with a central illustration of a curiosity cabinet containing skulls, lichens and other nature objects

the cover of nature obscura: a city's hidden natural world featuring a graphite illustration of a variety of nature including a crow, lady beetle, slime molds and so on

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

Neon digital oil painting of a Wunderpus octopus

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Eric Heupel @ericheupel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

Tiny squid larva spotted all over a translucent body with pink tint to right (mantle) side two tiny eyes on opposite side and short stubby tentacles poking out to left. Size is 1mm inside a transparent egg case.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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

Sketch of a Caribbean reef squid using markers

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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)

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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

Digital oil painting of a flamboyant cuttlefish with a bright pink background

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✸ 𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖞𝖉 ✸ @jasminefloyd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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tex @frogettable.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

blue poison dart frog illustrated on heavypaint, against a yellow-green background
#SciArt #frog #digitalart #frogart #art

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