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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This squid — transparent & beautiful — was spotted during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition, half a mile beneath the surface. It’s been 37 days & 14 hours since our last squid post. We had an inkling that it was time for some Cranchiidae, the family that comprises abt 60 species of glass squid.

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Iron Camel @ironcamel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I love all my cats, but this one is... A little special. She came from a family I used to work with when the dad forgot to spay the outdoor cat. She's the smallest of the three, and the youngest (the other two are twins), and finally coming around to prolonged cuddles. Happy Birthday Nobi Rose 🩵

A snowshoe cat on a window perch, looking at the camera on her second birthday

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I'm so used to photos where octopuses are blending in perfectly that I sometimes forget cuttlefish can do it too. 🦑📷ttsquid (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

A coral reef with an Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion apama) in the centre blending in perfectly. The water is a bit murky and the diver is using a light, but the light isn't on the cuttlefish so it doesn't help show it. The cuttlefish has a dark grey colour with a wavy light grey strip in the middle of its mantle going along its width. It has a dark spot on the back half of the mantle. The cuttlefish has its papillae raised. There is a sandy gravelly patch in the top left corner in the background of the photo.

A coral reef with an Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion apama) in the centre blending in perfectly. The water is a bit murky, but the diver's light is illuminating the cuttlefish letting you spot it. The cuttlefish has a dark grey colour with a wavy light grey strip in the middle of its mantle going along its width. It has a dark spot on the back half of the mantle. The cuttlefish has its papillae raised. There is a sandy gravelly patch in the top left corner in the background of the photo.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

One golden oyster looks like an erect penis where it rises from the center of a larger cluster of less phallic but still fairly phallic mushrooms. They grow on a log in a bright green spring forest. All photos by me

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Green BOOnes DOOMmy 🎞☠⚓ @greenbonesdommy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Blipbug Comic Strips #115 Our Friend Pidgey IV #blipbugstrips

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This was supposed to say "S-tier animal names" but it still works.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We told our life-size giant squid friend that the museum's whale is a nice, safe, baleen whale, so I think they are just about ready to join the exhibit Sneak preview for Marvelous Mollusks, scheduled to open at the Museum of the Earth on 5/30.

a workshop with a life sized, realistic giant squid art piece.

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

EARTHBOUND HAL LABORATORY/APE 1994 SNES

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Josie J @vtomo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Gordon, quit fooling around and put your clothes back on!"

A character model of a scientist from the game Half-Life

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Before my trip to Anilao earlier this year, seeing an argonaut was pretty high on my bucket list. And on my second blackwater dive... voila! This is a female (the males are tiny). Argonauta sp., maybe A. hians but I really have no idea. 🦑 #Invertebrates #Blackwater

An argonaut viewed from the front. The mouth and one eye are clearly visible, as is the siphon at the bottom of the picture. The tentacles are pulled back so their tips are behind the body. The edge of the shell can be seen but is largely hidden.

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #DiveSky

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A white door stands before you with a sign on it “welcome back to Earth” Another sign hangs near a lever “do not pull, kills all humans” You pull it “I saw that” says a voice “Oh. Does that mean I can’t go back?” You ask “Nah” it says “that’s just there so we know who to send back as cats”

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A large flush of brown and white pheasant back mushrooms growing shelves encircle the base of a dead American elm tree where in grows in the forest lowlands among green cleavers. All photos by me

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metch @itmetch.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

looking back it really is funny that all three of these images coincidentally existed independent of one another

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Spring blooms are here in the Salish Sea along with some unexpected visitors. Last week I found found: A Phronima A baby Gonatus onyx* Hormiphora californensis Tons of Beroe comb jellies Several Solmundaegina nematophora + lots of other jellies, ctenos, baby fish, and other critters 🦑🐙🌿

Closeup of a Phronima in an empty salp barrel looking at the camera. It has lots of transparent limbs with a variety of claws and spikes

Little baby squid paralarva with small fins and big orange chromatophores

Hormiphora californensis cydippid comb jelly

Container full of Beroe comb jellies and one Dryodora

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Good afternoon. Please have a nice bug. #BugADay #Invertebrates #BugSky

a very red and handsome ladybug stands on a leaf

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A tiny 1cm #DiamondSquid flashes some intense colors before bolting down towards the abyss. Shot several miles offshore from Palm Beach, at night #thysanoteuthis #thysanoteuthisrhombus #🦑 #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater

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Iron Camel @ironcamel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When Nathan Fielder pops up on your shoulder and insists you say something of great concern, then zoidberg yourself out of the room. Yeah, sounds right.

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Never talk to the police! Cops act friendly to get you comfortable and talking - not to help you, but in hopes you'll incriminate yourself. No good! The less you say, the harder it is for them to win in court. Stopped by 12? Invoke the 5th - and lawyer up - fast!

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I found an armful of nice mushrooms

Luke balances four large and healthy pheasant back mushrooms on his arm and in his hand above a backdrop of maple saplings growing on the forest floor. All photos by me

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Ari Ganahl 🦑🔞 @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I can finally share the illustration I did for this year's Polar Lights zine! Here's the boreo-atlantic armhook squid 🦑🖌️ polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-3

Red squid on dark blue background with lighter blue details, including a full moon viewed from deeper and deeper in the ocean, a map of the north pole, a squid eye, and close up of the arms and suckers

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Most squid species don't look after their eggs after they have been laid. But Bathyteuthis squids and black-eyed squids (Gonatus onyx) are an exception, as they will float through the sea brooding them. 🦑📷MBARI

A Bathyteuthis berryi mother floating in the ocean carrying an egg mass. The squid is deep red with beady black eyes. The egg mass is clear with light bulb or upside down tear drop shaped white eggs in the clear structure. The egg mass splits part way down, so it looks like a person's legs with one leg lifting the calf up.

A female Black-eyed squid (Gonatus onyx) brooding eggs The squid is a light pink with a a more red could by the tip of its mantle. It has round eyes with a black pupil and blue iris. It is oriented vertically. Below it is a large mass of grey eggs that it is carrying in its arms. The eggs look like a bunch of ball bearings in in a bag. The egg mass is larger than the squid.

A female Bathyteuthis carrying an egg mass. The squid is red with big black eyes and is facing the right. It has a big of white on the back of its head. The egg mass is clear with light bulb or upside down tear drop shaped white eggs in the clear structure. The egg mass is going down and to the left.

A female Black-eyed squid (Gonatus onyx) swims slowly through the water, carrying its sack of eggs. The squid has an orange head and arms, black eyes surrounded by grey skin, pale pink mantle with a dark pink at the tip of the mantle, and orange fins. In its arms it is carrying a sack of grey eggs. The eggs are spherical but they are all stuck together in a long shape. The egg mass is longer than the squid.

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today’s #MBARIFromTheVault video features Humboldt squid! These squid are formidable predators, often gathering in large groups for a feeding frenzy when food is plentiful. MBARI research suggests that they communicate with each other as they hunt by changing the pigment of their skin.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Why can’t we be friends?

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

me: man, I could really use a salty snack with an interesting texture the delectable ruffle chip: 🦑📷Steven Kovacs

A blackwater photo of Chtenopteryx squid. It has translucent skin, but it is covered in brilliant orange chromatophores, which completely cover the mantle, most of the head, the upper arms and lower fins. Its arms and tentacles are neatly spread out. Its fins have fin ribs at regular intervals, making it look like a comb or a ruffle chip.

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Iron Camel @ironcamel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I feel connected to her on a spiritual level

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Who else is excited for Moth Girl Summer? (Until then, meet the joker moth, scientific name Feralia jocosa.) 📷 michael_butler on iNaturalist 📍 Canada 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

A fuzzy moth with green, black, and white patches rests on a white background.

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DONYA 👹 @antiquedeuce.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

the sacred fruit

An illustration of pomegranates. There is a whole pomegranate and a half, showing the seeds. There is also a frame filled with tiles with flower ornaments

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Here is a nice mushroom

A glowing orange black morel growing from gray leaves on the forest floor. Sunlight illuminates it cap and the gray ridges separate pits like a web of stained glass. All photos by me

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Iron Camel @ironcamel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Post a robot that's not from Star Wars or Transformers.

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Nice close zoom on the mouth and eye of a Mastigoteuthis from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 639 #SEPacificSeamounts #MarineLife

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

adding alt text because we don’t need to leave those with visual disabilities behind!

a screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics showing a person holding a trans flag and asking “will you stand with us because they might come for you next?” and the black mage Ramza replying “No, I’ll stand with you because they’re coming for you now."

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Strawberry Station 🍓✨ @strawberrystation.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

JK Rowling walks into a female bathroom here in the UK and these guys are just stood there chugging beers like she actively campaigned for

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Here is a nice mushroom

A single common morel mushroom rises up from fallen leaves alongside tiny green spring shoots. All photos by me

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As promised here's the cover on its own. How many animals can you identify in this image? I'll post the answer... when I remember to do it. #Art #SciArt

An assortment of illustrated invertebrates, as colorful as if a paint shop spilled their entire stock on the floor. Some of the animals are tube shaped, others are frond shaped, frilly, shelly, a few leggy or tentacly. The edges of the image is balanced by geometric shapes, just as colorful. The animals names and more detailed shape descriptions will follow at a later date.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 07/05/2025

ES -¡Que no te engañe su brillo cautivante! Los ángeles de mar son feroces depredadores poderosos. ¡Ven a ver estos moluscos maravillosos en nuestra exhibición En lo Profundo antes de que se vayan volando!

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