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Adi 🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's @invertebabe.bsky.social's Girls Night T-shirt come to life!!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally saw a Paxton yard sign. Good to know where the bad part of town is

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/09/2026

Trump: I've done a shitty job as president

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Alright, let’s all get on the same page about Vought/NIH/Trump. THEY👏WILL👏STOP👏AT👏NOTHING👏 The goal is to destroy the STEM ecosystem, universities, and democracy as we have known it. PERIOD. The only way to win is to impeach them all…which means we need Congress. HERE’S HOW WE WIN 🧵

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reposting this would be very helpful. We're having a tough month at Skype a Scientist between much of my energy being devoted to Academy of Natural Sciences stuff. I need help!!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okay who’s in NYC for climate week this week ? 🥺

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I WANT MORE SPIDERS thank you for this!!!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I still was mesmerized by those special effects tho dont get me wrong. Absolute gold tier monsters. Felt like I was actually playing Resident Evil. AND I was terrified driving home from the theater. Immediately need to see it again

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The pandemic affected me in a way I never would’ve expected A top notch horror movie comes out and I get sad from it because the entire plot line is the lab leak conspiracy Like damn, Raccoon City is really what people tried to convince us would happen with mRNA vaccines 😭

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Head and neck cancer is what my father had! We (SUFS) covered Gleevec previously, and shockingly that was the experimental drug that gave him a fighting chance! So happy to hear immunotherapies are helping head and neck cancers as well!! Learning so much helping put Jeremy’s writing together 🥹

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

VP of tadpole shrimping. *trundles along*

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They are the best bugs to watch. Ideally on a little wooden bridge

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gross but fascinating is my type of animal

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What a freak. I love them already

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love a water skeeter. Excellent choice.

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Im officially obsessed with these dudes. Absolute freak

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone said zebra nerite snails and I was sold so fast

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has quickly become a shrimp fest and listen I GET IT! Really! I fear I cannot make this entirely shrimp. I would be more crazy than I already am. Please, get some worms and bugs in here. Open to freshwater vertebrates…but only if they’re REALLY cool

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very good shrimp. Very good pick

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am now extremely aware of so many shrimps that are absolutely fantastic

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This project is quickly turning into a shrimp fest like wdym TADPOLE SHRIMP EXIST?!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Im getting some gooooood options

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mini-anomalocaris is exactly what i thought!!!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crayfish are def top of my list. Gotta look up fairy shrimp now brb

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do they perhaps dilly dally in some freshwater?

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What is everyone’s favorite freshwater invertebrate? They’ll be used for a very important project 👀

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yeah the strike and color change is just wrong

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/09/2026

Public education is under attack in America. The SUFS America’s Compact for Higher Education is our united response to the Trump administration’s effort to bend the will of America’s higher ed leadership to his authoritarian control. Visit the link to sign your name & share: tr.ee/N87yi5

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For sure. 1. The way it changes color but more importantly 2. The butt. They use papillae to walk on, not tentacles or arms on their butt.

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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I used to meet these oddball aliens snorkelling in Saanich Inlet (I snorkelled, they lived there). The whole thread is great (video at the end of little oddballs hunting!); I love how well their peculiarities are explained in this graphic series, really excellent #scicomm from Meg Mindlin! #inverts

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I say this because previously I saw phd cohorts as big as 20-30 students. These last few years they’ve been reduced to 3-5, or 0. Damn good scientists used to be included with the best & most accomplished. Not so much anymore. If I had just been born a few years earlier… I’d be in no problem

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@standupforscience.net has made the helpless feeling feel more hopeful. So has getting involved in my local community in general!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Okay I’m done being bold and vulnerable. I think I deserve it as a little treat every once in awhile, considering the conditions we’re living in

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wanna see why I’m a damn good scientist? Watch my master’s thesis defense, where I propose a novel pathway for how octopuses are elevating environmental stress by targeting zinc finger proteins using A-to-I RNA editing www.youtube.com/live/HZoOQBU...

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Meg Mindlin's Thesis Defense: Tickled Zinc: A-to-I RNA editng in Octopus and ocean acidifcation

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Like this post! Featuring the type of research I wish I could be doing bsky.app/profile/inve...

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Anyways! Follow along to learn cool things about the molecular biology of invertebrates using my art 😵‍💫🤪 if I’m not teaching undergrads, I’m teaching all of you, whether you like it or not

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m making the best of the situation, truly. But watching my peers & myself loose our careers because universities no longer have the funding for a couple of PhD students, sometimes none at all… Man it’s heartbreaking. So much important research is done by PhD students that is now lost

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