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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.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 · 15/03/2025

Looks like a Trevally! They love using bigger fish/people as cover.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I get that. I sell aquarium plants online sometimes and basically all anyone sees is my arm 😅

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

If you're cheap like me you can see if anyone nearby is tearing down a tank and buy their wood. I have a bunch of secondhand wood from MarketPlace and it didn't turn my water yellow. I just boiled it well first to kill anything on it.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Technically yes, but I would not guarantee that if you get it online it is actually treated. At your LFS you can ask which bits have been around the longest. If one has had its plant die you can probably get it way cheaper.

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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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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I think I'll avoid that with this tomato, it's way too big 🤣

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

This bed is small, but it is happy and healthy! When we moved in it was just a massive cordyline and about 50 lbs of spider plant, it looks much better now!

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I only have 5 seed packs right now so I don't need to organise yet, but I'm sure I will soon! I'm loving having a little bit of real garden for the first time.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Oh and thank you very very much! This is my first year with a veggie garden that isn't in a tiny window box so I'm leaning A LOT

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Perfect, I'll sow both and see who likes it in the shade. They can go where I had herbs that got totally shaded out.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Just googled and looks like kale is a brassica, I'll dig it out of my seed box!

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Without going out and buying anything new I have kale, Bok Choy, and lettuce. The lettuce will definitely just melt in the 95 degree days, would either of the others help?

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Right now I can't reach it 😅 but that's a good idea.

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

I bought it from the hardware store as a tiny plant, the variety is "Mortgage Lifter". I just bought it for the name, this is my first time having a big enough garden spot with enough light to keep a tomato happy, so to be fair I'm mostly happy it didn't die 😅

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Hrm, can't really take nitrogen out, but I can see if my hardware store has a fertilizer with more of the other nutrients and give it some. Thank you both! It's on worm castings and some tomato fertilizer to stop blossom end rot, I'll avoid this section of the garden with the next round of castings.

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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...

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

This belongs in the science feed too! 🧪

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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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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

It'll eat your guppy fry and become fat and happy, keep it! But maybe put a net cage over the top and a stick out of the water for it to metamorphose on. What do you think @franzanth.bsky.social? Have you raised dragons?

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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Me too! Also glad I found them before the dog did.

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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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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸 @rosieriots.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I'm very glad this was only a semi-sticky label!!

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

It does look like a mauve to me too, but I'm not great at jelly ID. I've seen similar in Aus and they were mauve stingers, so they seem pretty wide spread!

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

I am both the perpetrator and the savior, lol

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