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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

since it's been awhile since I was active, I don't think I posted my first enteromorpha-eating sapsucker found during a sea slug bioblitz for @calacademy.bsky.social back in may 🌿🌊🦑🐙🌎

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

for weeks, I've been watching the western gull chicks around town growing up on roof tops, dilapidated boats, & breakwater walls but it's fledging time & soon there will be no more cute chick calls to greet me in the morning 🌿🌊🪶

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

sorry I haven't been super active on this account in awhile, it's been a rough & busy 2026 for me but my friend Nick Ta of @reefrenders.bsky.social asked me to paint his 3D printed sunflower star & california sea hare models for an exhibit he designed & the models recently came home with me ❤️ 🌿🌊🐙🦑

my 3D printed and painted California sea hare model hanging on a picture frame with an image of a scuba diver taking a picture of a real California sea hare in the wild with a descriptive label on the frame

my model on it's frame surrounded by artwork and posters of sea slugs including one of California sea hare and their role as model organisms in neuroscience

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

it was wild moving to california & learning that many of the monarch butterflies migrate east to west, not north to south like they do east of the sierra nevadas this is a cluster of overwintering monarchs on a eucalyptus in pacific grove's monarch sanctuary (sorry it's backlit, early morning) 🌿🐛🦋

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I will never tidepool at night without a uv light again 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

a fluorescing mossy chiton on a rock surrounded by aggregating anemones

a fluorescing northern kelp crab in seagrass

a mossy chiton fluorescing among some.red seaweed

a starburst anemone fluorescing in a tidepool

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

love a good wandering meatloaf & little tidepool sculpins 🌊🌿🐟🐙🦑

white-speckled dorid crawling over a rock in a tidepool

a flame-lined chiton exposed to the air above a tidepool

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I love how abalone shells can become mini reefs 🌊🌿🐙🦑

a white-speckled dorid on red seaweed in a tidepool

a black abalone shell covered in barnacles, colonial tunicates, bryozoan, and others encrusting the shell

a less coated black abalone shell with bryozoans, colonial tunicates, and other tiny organisms encrusting the shell

a mutated orange bat star with six rays instead of five in a tidepool

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

so many good finds while there was still daylight 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

a tiny white-striped hermit crab in a wentletrap shell

a large red orche star partially exposed to the air in a tidepool

a red cryptic kelp crab holding onto a clump of red and brown seaweeds

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

one more night in the tidepools tonight & I had a blast seeing who fluoresces! just about every crustacean I found fluoresced including eelgrass isopods (couldn't get a good pic unfortunately) 🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑

a small owl limpet fluorescing bright red and orange on a tidepool rock

a starburst anemone fluorescing bright green with pink and purple in a tidepool

a flame-lined chiton fluorescing in a tidepool

a striped shore crab fluorescing bright blue in a tidepool

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

a little more tidepooling to find my favorite squishies 🌊🌿🐙🦑

a hilton's aeolid crawling on a rock in a tidepool

a yellow-lined cadlina nudibranch on the sandy bottom of a tidepool

an orange white-speckled sea goddess nudibranch crawling over a mussel in some sea grass

a sea lemon dorid exposed to the air on some red seaweed

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

why are brittle stars such adorable echinoderms? I feel like this is a betrayal of my lab to admit but they are my favorites to find in tidepools 🌊🌿🐙🦑

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

slutty bat star 🌊🌿🐙🦑

a mottled yellow and pink bat star with its arms spread wide on top of a bed of kelp

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I love finding a good wandering meatloaf 🌊🌿🐙🦑

a gumboot chiton crawling over a rock in a tidepool

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

10/10 would recommend bringing a dark UV light nighttime tidepooling 🌿🐙🦑🦀

a fluorescing porcelain crab in a tidepool

a fluorescing flame-lined chiton in a tidepool

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

nighttime king tidepooling!

a cockerell's dorid and hilton's aeolid sea slugs in a glass bowl

a hilton's aeolid and a shag-rug nudibranch in a glass bowl

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

found some sexy yellow-spotted millipedes amongst the redwoods 🌿

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

it's been a minute but the spring was bustling with great tidepooling! I found my first Olive's & Hilton's aeolid nudibranchs 🌊🌿🐙🦑🌎

a pair of Hopkins' rose nudibranchs in a clear observation dish

a Hilton's aeolid nudibranch in a clear observation dish near a bright orange red sponge-eating dorid

a large white-speckled dorid next to a red sponge-eating dorid in a clear observation dish

a small Olive's aeolid nudibranch in a clear observation dish

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Dispel Dice @dispeldice.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🪸 Send me Nudis 🪸 Nudibranch dice! Inspired by sea slugs and my most recent diving trip! #dice #dnd #ttrpg

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I hate all this. I just wanna play games, watch anime and look for invertebrates. Here, have a rainbow dendronotus nudibranch.

a photo of a sea slug facing the camera, the body is translucent and it has big pokey yet squishy spines all over its body which are tipped in orange and white

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sosboss.bsky.social @sosboss.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is a nudibranch, or sea slug. I love finding them when I’m scuba diving and taking pictures of them as well. Always fun subjects for macro photography. If it’s Monday…it’s Macro Monday.

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Simply Mi @simply-mi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Some #nudibranch from 04/05! The new to me ones were the Stubby Dendronotid (first one) and the Hammerhead Doto, which I haven’t included here because this little dude is the size of a grain of rice and my camera just isn’t that good. Other three are Hopkins Rose, San Diego Dorid, and Opalescent.

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Nature Is Fucking Lit @cudanammy.com · 18/04/2025

A Hooded Nudibranch swims through the Salish Sea - Read more interesting things here: bit.ly/489Ls8D #nature #animals #natureisfuckinglit #awesome #amazing #trends #trend #short

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Take me back into the arms I love

nudibranch illustration. a sleek blue slug with limbs resembling feathery wings, black and white stripes throughout the body. corner text says Glaucus atlanticus, @franzanth.

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

absolutely disgusting to hear autistic people brushed with such broad strokes & he can keep autistics with high support needs out of his mouth

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

silly bee, that's not a real sunflower, it's my sunflower star model 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

a honey bee crawling on my painted model of a sunflower sea star

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I caught a pair of velella to show guests on our boat what they look like before they wash up & dry up on the beach, but I think the crew was even more obsessed because they even named them I released the velella back into the ocean at the end of the trip 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

top view of a pair of Velella velella in a clear bowl with sea water

a side view of the Velella velella in a clear bowl with sea water

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

while I love the invertebrates I find in the wild, this is my invertebrate at home having one of his no bones days (which is every day for this 17 y/o senior) 🐱🐈

my orange tabby cat lay between my partner and I's legs with his body pointed in one direction, but one leg and his head bent in the opposite direction

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

while I love the invertebrates I find in the wild, this is my invertebrate at home having one of his no bones days (which is every day for this 17 y/o senior) 🐱🐈

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🌌 GalaxyGallimaufry @galaxygallimaufry.pckt.cafe · 29/03/2025

✨💜 galaxsea slug 💜✨ We have some lore on the stream about sea slugs - they are actually alien creatures and some of them relocated to the ocean long ago. The ones still in space are galaxy slugs and live on asteroids lol #digitalart #seaslug #galaxyart #art #constellations #pinkleap

A fictional sea slug that looks like it's a glowing blue and purple galaxy with lots of stars and some constellations (with lines connecting the stars together). The background is of space, with some stars and dark purple and blue nebulas.

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Miniscule Deviations @minideviations.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Sea hares for day 17 of daily sketching :) #art #sketch #nature #doodle

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The Wildlife Trust SW Wales Swansea Group @wtswwswanseagroup.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A perfect day and a great turn-out of 40+ people for the Mumbles Seashore Safari yesterday led by Matt Green and Winter Dotto of Marine Matters. Huge thanks to them! Fab finds including a glamorous Nudibranch, baked bean sea squirts and native oysters! #Nudibranchs #Sponges #MarineLife #WTSWW

A galaxy of starfish at the base of encrusting sponges on a Mumbles Pier pillar.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 28/03/2025

Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧 Settle with spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...

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2 Hours of Nudibranchs to Relax/Study To! | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio

YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Maryjanna Zosia 🦊⛰️ they/iad & she/i @invertebae.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

just a queenfisher doing queenfisher shit in Morro Bay 🪶📷

a female belted kingfisher standing on a dock piling, projectile pooping into the air

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Here, take an octopus knitting my feelings for your Friday morning. Happy almost weekend 🐙🐡🦑

An illustration of a ruby octopus holding up their knitting project that is says “Im trying my best” while they hold a ball of yarn and a water bottle in the other two hands. The background is yellow with a pale white gradient behind the knitting project. The text at the top reads “please be patient” so the full message is “please be patient im trying my best”

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Scuba_for_1 @scuba-for-1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A colorful Dirona (Dirona picta) on the sand next to a California Sea Hare (Aplysia californica) #oceanlove #scuba #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #marinelife #nudibranch #seaslugs #invertebrates

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A three-lined aeolid nudibranch (Orienthella trilineata) found last month during dockfouling in Morro Bay, CA. Perhaps 15 mm long! 🦀🦑📸OlympusTG6

A small sea slug that is clearish white with a median white stripe that forms a Y shape where it extends onto the oral tentacles - these tentacles, and the rhinophores have orange tips. The cerata on the back of the slug are colored like the body but have brilliant orange red tips.

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#Nudibranch superpowers! I'm updating the blog on my website with tidepool meanderings, starting with nudibranchs. Here is my Monterey #tidepool favorite, Hopkin's Rose. It uptakes its color from its prey, Rosy Bryozoan. drewharvell.com/2025/03/22/f... #marinelife #invertebrates #nudivember

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/03/2025

just did my first two scuba dives since 2017 and saw a cuttlefish and a ghost nudibranch (among many other things) here in northern Sulawesi - anyway I need to get back into this, it’s nice to just be concerned with colorful slugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLiB...

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Seven Secrets of Ghost Nudibranch Melibe Colemani | Magic Marine LIfe of Anilao Philippines in 4K

YouTube video by Diver's Lens

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Teresa Anderson @1teresaanderson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The @theguardian.com Invertebrate of the Year competition has nominated the mighty little tardigrade, AND my other favourite creature the nudibranch. Which gives me a reason to repost this incredible blog comparing nudibranches to David Bowie’s best outfits. www.tumblr.com/bowiebranchia

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Nudibranch Nerd @nudibranchnerd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

the absolute gayest chiton, ancient greek fashion had nothing on these mollusks iykyk 🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎

a flame lined chiton, Tonicella lokii, in an aquarium exhibit

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