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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Umbrella crab! Cryptolithodes sitchensis.

A small flat, smooth, red, crab testing on a hand its eyes are visible but no legs.

The underside of the same crab, all legs and now you can see that the shell, which is white on this side, extends well beyond the legs.

The same crab in a tidepool, no real features are visible and it looks more orange underwater.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think it’s kind of hack at this point to harp on about Harry Potter’s weak worldbuilding and pervasive lack of introspection but someone could make a good video essay comparing how house elves are treated by the story compared to The Ood.

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Doctor Who Ood Dancing

ALT: Doctor Who Ood Dancing

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UFO Sighting Bot @ufoskies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Formation above nyc during pride fest.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spherics?!? Someone tell Mondaugen!

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is absolutely some @valdevia.art business that's escaped containment

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Picturing two greys with a quadrat and a pooter

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This was a good use of my holiday

An eclipse. Like, a proper one, over a Spanish lake. God damn.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Since May I presented in two conferences (with @thefsbi.bsky.social last week), sailed on two research cruises, and (somewhere among all this) passed my PhD confirmation. Looking forwards to some holiday this week, but I'm very excited and intellectually stimulated by how well the project is going!

Me presenting at the MidSEC conference in Sweden - I've blocked out some graphs to hide my beautiful beautiful data.

Me in the hangar of the RRS James Cook, wearing wet-weather gear and a hardhat and making a hang ten gesture.

Me wearing oilskins, a hardhat, and an inflatable life jacket, rushing across the deck of the RV Tom Crean with an anglerfish in my hands.

Me presenting at the FSBI conference in Southampton. My title slide says "metabolic diversity of deep pelagic teleosts".

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two things: first, a reminder that people have been capable of impressive realist art for centuries and we should recognise stylisation for what it is Second, do you think it’s easier to draw/sculpt accurate fish because they stay the same shape when dead more than mammals and birds do?

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ah yeah cool man best way to endear me to your new service is to have a popup that I cannot close occupy the lower 25% of the screen

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Out on the RV Tom Crean and had a bit of a landmark day. Technically not my first angler, but this extraordinary, beautiful animal made me genuinely emotional. It’s an absolute privilege to get to meet these animals that I’ve adored for so long! (She’s a triplewart seadevil, Cryptopsaras couesii)

A female anglerfish Cryptopsaras couesii photographed in a plastic tray. She is kind of diamond shaped with a huge head and an upturned mouth. Her lure is long and extends out from her brow, tipped with a small black bulb. Her eyes are so small as to be near invisible. Her skin is satin textured and jet black.

Me holding the same fish in my hands. I’m wearing yellow oilskins, a self-inflating life jacket, and a red hard hat, alongside a pleased-as-punch expression.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Chud fish that’s a bad loser to boot

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Not to be all “guy reading V.” about this but Picasso the dog-stealing English tutor methhead is a Pynchon character

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Something cool I realised about this video is that the belly is so distended you can see bits of the fish’s internal anatomy. Those finger like bits are the pyloric caeca, part of the gut used to absorb peptides, and I think the triangular bit might be liver?

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Who could possibly say why I’m posting this ugly, busted, cringe fish… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ohhh look at that. Horrible, I love it!

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I know I'm supposed to be fairly non-partisan as a biologist, but vent mining is just such a ludicrous idea (even compared to nodule & crust mining) - glad to see IUCN addressing it.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

um, so everyone cheering on egypt in the world cup realizes how the pyramids were built right? but i guess that's a conversation you're not ready to have

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Godspeed You! Black Emperor voice:

A screenshot of a reel showing delicious looking pork served by a street vendor, with the nonsensical translated caption "The chopsticks I encounter in the vegetable market are burned white, and the entrance is gone!"

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Crazy how all crosscountry trains smell like that

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ooh, love this one. Positively Gigeresque!

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

MBARI researchers share expertise in midwater research and technology at the inaugural conference for the Midwater Science and Engineering Community, a new initiative to advance collaboration, data sharing, and policy impact for Earth's largest habitat. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

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MBARI researchers participate in new conference dedicated to midwater science and technology • MBARI

Last week, MBARI researchers participated in the inaugural conference for the Midwater Science and Engineering Community, a new initiative to advance collaboration, data sharing, and policy impact for...

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I never asked for any of this

A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🌊 M.E. Blochii ... Systema ichthyologiae iconibus CX illustratum v.2 Berolini: Sumtibus auctoris impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, 1801. [Source]

Illustration of an eel-like fish labeled "Acantonothus Nasus," from an 1801 ichthyology book. The fish has a long, curved body with distinct dark bands across its textured, scale-covered skin. It features a pronounced, rounded head with a large eye and slightly open mouth showing small teeth. The pectoral and pelvic fins are detailed with fine lines. The tail is slender and tapers with visible fin rays extending along the underside. The image includes the artist's signature "J.F. Hennig" in the bottom left and the plate number "77" in the top right corner. The background is plain and beige.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really excited to be talking this morning at the inaugural MidSEC conference in Backaskog, Sweden 🐟

The front slide of a presentation entitled "Metabolic diversity of deep pelagic teleosts revealed through otolith-based isotope proxy". The right side of the slide is taken up by a film image showing a diversity of deep pelagic fish on a white plastic surface.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Close enough welcome back Bathysphaera intacta

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Just received the best bit of career-related news I've had since being accepted for the PhD :^]

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Basking sharks are mesopelagic fish. Tunas are mesopelagic fish. Screw it, carp are mesopelagic fish. You, the person reading this? You too are a mesopelagic fish.

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hastings museum had an LGBT history exhibit and there was a bit on a trans guy and a cis woman who married in 1954 that I found moving

UNCLE VIC & AUNTIE JOAN

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Victor Kenneth Jones and Joan Jones (née Lee) met in 1950 at a telephone exchange in Catford, where they both worked. Vic was 22 and Joan 17. They married on 25 September 1954 at St Luke's Church, Downham, with family, and friends in attendance. Joan's family supported their relationship and respected Vic's identity as a trans man. After a honeymoon in Hastings, the couple settled there.

In 1954, they were publicly outed and fined £25 each (around £900 today) for what authorities ruled an 'illegal marriage' because Vic was trans. They also became the subject of national newspaper coverage. Despite this, they lived together in Hastings until Vic's death in 1991. Joan remained in their home until 2023, when she passed away at 90.

The photos and objects on display were shared by Joel, Joan's nephew. After Vic's death, Joan gave him Vic's archive, asking him to do as he wished. Joel brought Vic's wedding ring to the Collective's 'Queer Lives. Queer Queer Objects' gathering in March 2025.

I was moved by the lasting love Vic and Joan shared and the quietly defiant way they built a life together on their own terms. ers a rare glimpse into the life a trans ma part Hastings in the mid-20th century.

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

God how good is the back half of Impossible Soul by Sufjan Stevens

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ah yeah man for sure I'm asking this every day

A screenshot of a "people also ask" on google that has a kinda unreadable AI thing about what the correct plural of fish is

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Is there ever going to not be drilling going on outside my office or am I going to go Mentally Insane

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Diversity: It's in our nature. Happy Pride 2026 from NHM Library and Archives! (All images taken from artwork in our collections.) #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2026

A rainbow Pride flag. All colours are drawn from natural history artworks.

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