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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

IT IS TIME! To kick off our spring #InverteFest, I'm very proud to present our first ever #InverteFest Anthology. This was a collaboration between artists and writers and inside you'll find 17 absolutely wonderful submissions. Please enjoy! Download here: saimihanma.com/wp-content/u...

the cover of InverteFest Anthology in shades of deep blue, light blue and purplish of swirls, circles and white speckles like stars

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For a brief break from the world, please enjoy a tale of two slugs. #MarineLife #inverts 🧪🦑🐙 Nudibranch Jorunna pantherina (I think!) and not-nudibranch Elysia coodgeensis in a tidepool, about 1cm and 5mm long respectively. And with a few bonus microscopic epifauna video-bombing.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

I got paid, so I've just donated another $50 to @chelseaherps.bsky.social. She deserves to finish her Masters, she's worked SO HARD and she's SO CLOSE. Just over $1k to go 🧪 feed!! gofund.me/e48b7927

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I am, defo. Oh I've got a #MondayMollusc too. Here's a lovely sea hare from the weekend. Look at that face! #MarineLife #invertebrates 🦑🐙🧪

Up close with an Aspylia sea hare on a rocky reef. This lovely sea slug is front and side on, bunny ears tall and raised, emerging over the edge of algal turf covered rock. It is superbly camouflaged with mottled pale greeny brown and is lit up by the sunlight shining down into the shallow water

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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 29/01/2024

Howdy all! Chelsea only needs 2, 193$ to pay down her tuition! She needs to make this payment ASAP to be able to graduate with her MSc this semester! Please donate, share, and RT! #MutualAid #gofundme gofund.me/5ccde1af

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Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organised by Tayler SantaMaria

Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Get ready for #ValenCtenes #InvertValentines! Encouraging folks to add their marine invertebrate themed Valentine's to this feed using either #. Scribbles and puns encouraged. Artists selling cards also welcome to promo. bsky.app/profile/did:... cc: 🐡🧪🦑🐙 Here's a few of mine from past years:

Pink Valentine with little heart Mnemiopsis leidyi and one photograph of the pink lobate ctenophore. It says I've been independently developing the nerve to ask you to be my Valentine with a To and From field.

You're my jam, Valentine surrounded by pink heart ctenophore doodles and a jar of jam labelled with one.

You're my jam, Valentine written in purple over a Pleurobrachia bachei ctenophore.

Stick with me, Valentine and we'll have a colloblast to: from:
A ctenophore with pink tentacles swoops across the Valentine.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Many people are going to feel the need to defend trans care for adults using the libraries of published evidence supporting its safety and efficacy--which is fine, but the actual standard to uphold is "it's my body and I fucking said so"

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

It’s amazing how evergreen this is. The pattern is followed like clockwork.

Title: The “problem” of women of colour in the workplace, from www.coco-net.org

The image shows a series of steps where a woman of colour enters of workplace, leadership initially welcomes her, and then tokenizes her. The woman of color points out the issues, and tried to work within existing structures and policies. The response is repetitive injury and microaggressions, denial of racism, and an organizational response of ignoring and blaming. The responsibility of fixing the problem is placed on the woman of colour, POC are pitted against each other, targeted, and attacked. The women of color experienced retaliation as the problem is blamed on her, and the organization labels the conflict as a “communication problem” and claims age is unqualified or not a good fit. The woman of colour then exits the organization.

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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 23/01/2024

Please continue to boost! We have already raised 2K and only need to raise 3K more to get Chelsea to her goal! #MutualAid

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

I post a lot of nudis and crabs, but my favourites will always be cephalopods. Was lucky enough to hang out with this little lump of wonderfulness at the weekend, a small and perfect reaper cuttle 🥲 #MarineLife #invertebrates 🐙🦑🧪

A small cuttlefish against a dark backdrop of rocky reef. The cuttle is side on, hovering in shallow water. Small, cute, and perfect. Mottled light brown pattern. Beneath its eye (and trademark W-shaped pupil) is a colourful line of yellow and orange, a feature that helps ID this as a reaper cuttle.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

I bought this tomato as a seedling 🌱 in October and now it's a monster 😅 it still hasn't produced any ripe tomatoes, it just keeps growing!!! Any hints on how to convince it to stop taking over the garden and give me some tasty snacks?

A built in concrete planter in a small apartment yard. 3/4 of the planter is a massive tomato plant that is just poking over the top of a wall that's well over 2m (~6.5) feet tall. The tomato is being supported by a series of homemade bamboo scaffolds and looks a bit like it could have elves living in it. There are some pretty multicoloured flowers being completely overshadowed by the massive monster tomato tree.

The same tomato with me, a chubby blonde woman, standing under it. I'm reaching over my head and holding a branch. I look extremely pleased with myself for growing this ridiculous thing.

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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 18/01/2024

Hello all! I am re-upping this fundraiser to raise tuition funds for my friend! My friend needs to pay her tuition bill by the end of this month in order to graduate! Please donate if you can. Also please boost if you can't donate! gofund.me/1d1d9146

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Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria

Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!

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Coral Morphologic @coralmorphologic.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Hammer coral close-ups from the Coral Morphologic lab / studio

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

To all non scientists - please feel free to chat with scientists, reply to their posts, ask them questions etc. This is a resource for everyone, we just want to make sure we aren't putting out misinformation for you all :)

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Anyone else out there love microbes, where they live, and what influences the species you find? 🧪 This article is super interesting - it gives us baseline information to start using germs to rehabilitate contaminated groundwater. phys.org/news/2024-01...

phys.org

Translating nuclear waste site data into microbial ecosystem insights

A flagship seven-year study led by the University of Oklahoma that explores how environmental stresses influence different ecological processes shaping the composition and structure of microbial commu...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

#InsertAnInvert2024 Bugs Among Us - In Leaf Litter Garden symphylans (Scutigerella immaculata) are common animals that live worldwide. Despite this, they're smol, scuttly, and like to hide in moist soil, so most people don't even know these critters exist under their plants. 🎨 🐡

a pile of brown leaves with ghostly white, smol millipede-like animals on them. illustration.

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Regular nudi drop. These little beans are so abundant and thriving in my favourite snorking spot I take a ridiculous amount of photos of them. Dorisprismatica, aka black-margined nudibranch, or as we prefer to call them, tuxedo formalwear penguin cheesecake bb. #MarineLife #invertebrates 🧪🐙🦑

so smol, so perfect. Close-up with one of the nudibranchs. bright white, black frilly margins, black rhinophores, and magnificent black and white butt-gills in the background

A nudibranch from above, stretching between two algal fronds.

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Ariel @freeflowergirl.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

My pink feather boa millipede for #InsertAnInvert2024 has a home! The log itself is based off a manzanita, the leaves are from an Engelmann oak, and there is also a slime mold, a fungus, and lichen on the log.

Crochet log coved with crochet leaves, lichen, slime mold, and fungi. A pink crochet millipede peaks its head out of the log.

Close-up of pink crochet millipede sitting on a log.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

New year, same lab work. Who else in back in lab already? 🧪 I'm sorting the junk that got scraped off pylons in a tropical marina, it's actually really cool!

A selfie of a blonde woman (me) wearing glasses, cauliflower earrings, and a lab coat. From the angle you can see into a white tub that's next to me, which contains a plastic zip top bag full of brown crud.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

#InsertAnInvert2024 Bugs Among Us - At Home Firebrats (Thermobia domestica) are wingless insects related to silverfish that often find shelter in our warm homes. Though harmless, like any friend that shows up uninvited, they might eat food that isn't theirs & leave behind unwanted "gifts". 🎨 🐡

three firebrats on a cracked wall, illustration. firebrats are teardrop-shaped bugs with two long antennae in the front and three protrusions from the back, almost as long as the antennae.

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Did this make it over to the #SciArt feed? I can't remember. Draw some bugs*! *Used as an inclusive, shortened, term of endearment, for any and all invertebrates.

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Nu year, nu-di (sorry) #invertebrates #MarineLife 🧪🐙🦑

A tiny nudibranch in a big world. A Bennets hypselodoris exploring algae on a rocky reef. The nudi is side on, a beautiful blue with yellow edge around its mantle, and pink spots, pink rhinophores and pink n white butt-gills.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

January's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme is "Bugs Among Us" You don't need to do the animals we listed, feel free to pick your own species. If you need refs, you can ask @derekhennen.bsky.social millipede questions or visit: Bug guide bugguide.net/node/view/15... iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/home

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Hey 🌱, a reminder to clean up sticky stuff right away! This was the label to a new plant pot that I left outside for an hour and this poor lizard got stuck to it. They came off easily with some olive oil, but be careful out there!

A small grey lizard with a dark brown head stuck to the sticky side of a sticker that used to be the label of a plant pot.

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...

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Biological Sciences: Research Experience for Undergraduates | AMNH

Approximately eight students gather each summer at the Museum for a ten-week experience working with curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Have you ever heard of Lollipop crab? Sea walnut? Spricket? Godzillius? Headless chicken monster? 14 people showed me hundreds of the weirdest animals living today and I'm picking 52 of them to illustrate this year. Art along with me and post your creations with the hashtag #InsertAnInvert2024!

a very long list of animal names grouped by months

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

We're into our final two days of #InverteFest! Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. Keep sharing your observations, art, facts and everything else spineless. It all counts! Please promote your own invertebrate creative work too.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

🌱 I'm so happy with how my succulent corner is coming along! Most of these are found bits that I've propagated, and now they're so big!

The corner of a tile patio with each side completely covered by plant stands and planters full of succulents. A black dog lies between them all looking at the camera and panting.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Today for #InverteFest I present the harlequin red bug, Dindymus versicolor, eating a fry by the beach. These cuties are true bugs, like stink bugs and squash bugs, and therefore have piercing and sucking mouth parts to help them eat fries. #invertebrate 🧪

A photo of two adult red bugs and a juvenile red bug crawling all over a crispy fry in some bark mulch. The adults are black with two red bands, while the baby has a red butt and black head.

Dindymus versicolor, commonly called the harlequin bug, is a species of cotton stainer bug (red bug), found in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. In North Central districts of Victoria it is sometimes colloquially known as the "Sex Beetle". An attractive insect, up to 12 mm long with a black head and bands on the fore-wing, and orange/red elsewhere. When the wings are folded, two red triangles appear. Legs are relatively long. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Come hang with us and post #invertebrates for #InverteFest! As an offering, here is an adorable jumping spider in the plant department of my local hardware store. Invertebrates are the best because in a single group, like spiders, you have everything from adorable puppy to terror monster 🤣

A very cute brown jumping spider with white markings climbing on a lily bud and staring directly into the camera curiously.

A very cute brown jumping spider with white markings climbing on a lily bud photographed from above so you can see how pretty the making are.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Here are some Eubranchus rupium nudibranchs I also saw yesterday. These are incredibly challenging to photograph because they are literally the size of a grain of rice. And that's the larger ones. Shoutout to the photobombing skeleton shrimp ウミウシ

a light white/greenish translucent nudibranch with brown spots

two light white/greenish translucent nudibranchs with brown spots and a skeleton shrimp popping up behind them

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

They say Triops is a "living fossil" since the Triassic, but it never stopped evolving. Key papers (next skeet) show molecular evolution & speciation over time, expected with stasis. 4th paper shows subtle morphological change over time, too! *these fossils are Triops relatives #Crustmas 🧪 1/3

Triops longicaudatus (not T. cancriformis), a freshwater crustacean in ventral view. There is a big head shield and labrum. Visible are elongate antennae and mandibles and many phyllopodous trunk appendages. The limbless abdomen and long furcal rami protrude.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Triops-longicaudatus-adult-ventral.jpg

Notostracan fossil from the Triassic Keuper limestone of Germany (237–227 million years ago). Previously described as Triops cancriformis, here shown to have different ratios between head shield length/width and trunk width, and should not be Triops cancriformis and maybe not Triops at all.
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12542-017-0370-8

Chenops yixianensis, the probable oldest crown group notostracan (Cretaceous), holotype in ventral view showing the labrum, some appendages, digestive system, and egg sacs. We know it is different from Triops (and Lepidurus) from the length of appendages. It is under 5 cm long.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00232.x

One of the oldest known stem group notostracans (Devonian, ~360 million years ago),
Strudops goldenbergi gen. et sp. nov. holotype, IRSNB a 12858a–b. Complete specimen in ventral view. The arrow highlights the prominent subfrontal plate/frontal doublure of the carapace. Scale bar represents 1 mm
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/pala.12155

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Was shoving my face under a rock when a piece of barnacle rubble near my nose started rearing up. Turtle Crab! Just what the doctor ordered. They've got the same gig as umbrella crabs but with a few key differences. Stick around and I'll compare the two species side by side. 🦀

A small beige crab with a dome shaped carapace. Its pincer legs hang down while I hold it in the air between my fingers showing the view of the animal from the front

The top down view of the turtle crab's flared carapace. In terms of shape looks like if you put squidward's face on a Mercator projection. It is beige with lighter and darker dappling. I'm holding it on my hand

The crab back near where I found it. It looks in shape and colour exactly like the barnacle rubble substrate that makes up the floor of the surge channel

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates

Close-up with a tiny white and black nudibranch. The nudibranch is front-on, both rhinophores in view (its bunny ears). The nudibranch is exploring a rocky shelf covered in light brown algae.

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

A quick photo from Sawmillers Reserve, where I got to help @dayanithaangela.bsky.social with fieldwork yesterday. Tiring but fun! Dayanitha is setting up experiments with mussels, investigating settlement and heat 🧪 #MarineLife

Part of Sydney's skyline in the distance. Above, bright blue sky. Below, the blue water of Sydney Harbour. In the mid-distance a line of trees can be seen, part of the reserve. And in the foreground is an old, rusty, crusty wreck emerging from the water, covered in marine life.

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Kai Lorenzen @fisheriesprof.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Postdoc opportunity for recent PhD grads with interest in tropical ecology incl. fish and fisheries postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/programs/ewe...

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Ewel Postdoctoral Fellowship - Office of Postdoctoral Affairs - University of Florida

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Paco Martínez Baena, PhD @pacomttz.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Are you a marine research postgrad looking at PhD opportunities? Are you interested in seascape ecology, marine conservation and restoration? We are looking for passionate students who’ll be joining us in answering key questions to protect and restore the endangered seagrass meadows in NSW. Info 👇🏼

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I may have found the most amazing pair of earrings for an aquarium enthusiast. I'm absolutely in love 😍 and only $10!

A close-up selfie of the side of a blonde woman's face with the ear centred. She's wearing blue and brown glasses, a blue surgical mask, and has 2 ear lobe piercings. The lower piercing is gauged to 1/2 inch and has a shiny blue stone, the other has a dangly earring that looks like a goldfish in a bag ready to go home. It is super duper cute!

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