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T'falah @tifalah.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

@theoctopuslady.bsky.social I completely forgot to share this over here on bs. Your latest video reminded me to! This was a doodle I made durring a lunch break at work after watching one of your videos earlier that day 😅

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Whale Tales @whaletalesorg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our most popular (and controversial!) post from the Naming of Things blog was in celebration of #OrcaActionMonth in 2019 and here it is again: Killer Whale or Orca? buff.ly/34ajABd Meme by @emmaluck22.bsky.social‬ #WhaleTales #NamingOfThings

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL THE OCEAN IS GAY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌟🐙🦞🦐🦈🐡🐠

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Spider 🦀 liftoff @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 84 #MarineLife

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Juvenile fish sometimes shelter in and around jellyfish. This one's a juvenile jack of some kind. Pic from Balayan Bay, Anilao #MarineLife 🐟 #Invertebrate #Blackwater

A small fish sheltering next to a jellyfish. The jellyfish has short tentacles and is somewhat damaged with much of the bell missing. The fish is yellow with darker bars, and has a remarkably long dorsal spine projecting above it from its rear dorsal fin. Its oversized pelvic fins are also noticeable.

#Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Divesky #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro

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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

CSIRO Publishing is seeking Social Media Editor(s) for the journal Marine & Freshwater Research. The engagement is for a term of two years, with potential for renewal. 👀 Expressions of interest are now open here: www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Expressio... #scicomms #job #fish #biology

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 27/05/2025

😔 I totally borked the resin layers on this piece. Super sad because the pink corals came out so pretty 🪸🪸🪸 and I love this species a lot. What should I do with this piece?? 😭 #ArtYear #Art #MixedMedia #Sculpture #Bleh #Help 🐡🦑

Pink and green corals and seaweeds made from glass beads on wire. Attached across a vintage porcelain tea set. A small octopus sculpture sits on top of the cup.

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The subtle sproing of a sea spider #Invertebrates

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Day31 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John (H. sapiens) is cozying up to the echinoid Phymosoma texanum(PRI78781) #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🦑⚒️ (We can keep going even if you help us!)

John Oliver in a sweater with his arms around a large echinoid fossil with no spines

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Oarfish Occasionally @oarfishingdaily.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Today's Oarfish comes from jojovilll on Instagram! This is another ensemble, with the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing red frills, covered in yellow spots. This one is in a beige background, accompanied by the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Beware the Britifh Sea-Pen

“This Sea-Pen has a round flefhy ftem […] and fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers on each fin”

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Oarfish Occasionally @oarfishingdaily.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Today's Oarfish comes from Amphisbaena on Tumblr! This is a blog from a duo of artists, erikasignini and umberto! They challenged each other to draw an animal each day for a year! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills. This one is drawn slightly front facing against a light purple-ish background.

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My newest video is up on YouTube! And has been for an entire week! I'm so bad at social media! This is part 2 of my series on geoduck clams, and it's all about how these odd looking bivalves kicked off one of the greatest crime sprees in Washington state history! youtu.be/-gmVnHL1k0M 🦑

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The Bizarrely Violent World of Clam Smuggling

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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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Arthur Wesley @arthurwesley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

@theoctopuslady.bsky.social I created an “octopus lady bingo card” from some recurring themes I noticed in your videos. Thoughts?

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 16/04/2025

Space vibes 🌌 with Halcyon Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics and pigments 🎨💕 #Sculpture #Handmade #Art #ArtYear #Octopus #Invertebrates #OctopusArt #ArtOriginals #OOAK #Stars #Space 🐡🦑

Photo of an octopus sculpture painted in a black to blue gradient, with radiant meticulously hand painted stars and shimmering clouds of stardust. The octopus's long arms are flowing beneath and trailing off to the side, as if the octopus is flowing on a current.

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME!! (And I love those boots, I would totally rock those!)

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Grudge Match: Seastars vs Anemones 🦑 #PNW #travel #oregoncoast #starfish #photography #seastar #hiking #beach ##smallwonders

Picture from tidepool of many green anemones bunched together on rock wall, and further up a large Constellation of starfish.

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Oarfish Occasionally @oarfishingdaily.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Today's Oarfish comes from AlienTripod on Reddit! They shared this to a subreddit all about deep sea creatures! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife

Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills.

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?... I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...) 🦑🐡

A four-panel comic. First panel has art of an argonaut (octopus in a coiled shell) riding a jellyfish, and the text "THE ARGONAUT is the octopus cowgirl of the sea, riding jellies, salps, and even driftwood. AMAZING!" Second panel zooms out to show two brown octopuses in the foreground, watching the argonaut and jelly in the background. One of the octopuses is eating a crab. The nose of a shark is just poking into view at the right side of the panel. In the third panel, the jelly is drifting out of view, and more of the shark is visible. The octopus who was eating passes its food to its friend and says, "Hold my crab." In the fourth panel, the octopus is riding the shark, waving one arm and yelling "YEEHAW!" while its friend watches. The shark looks deeply unimpressed.

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Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Here's the still photo of the Whale Shark. I really dig the way the background turned out. 🦈 #sciart #fishart #ArtYear #marinelife #nature #animal #shark #art #blueskyartists #ocean

Whale Shark illustration in marker and Prismacolor on Strathmore tan paper.

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Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA) @oceanspecies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🥁Drumroll, please! The 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗰 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 is… 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴, the 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗽𝘂𝘀! 🐙 Over 4,000 fans voted and though all the creature candidates were impressive, 𝘔𝘶𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 stole the show and our hearts! The prize: complete genome sequencing. @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social 🎥:@schmidtocean

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Oh, I miss taking care of cuttlefish 💜

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This Trans Day of Visibility I want to talk about sand dollars 🦑🐙 #TDOV 🧵

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My latest episode of Alien Ocean is up on YouTube! This time, we're talking all geoducks and why they look like...THAT. And...I don't really know what else to say! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGI... 🦑

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Uh, Why Do These Clams Look Like...THAT?

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Can’t believe it took me so long to try putting the kelp crab on a pink beanie… it’s so cute 😭 🦀🦑🐙🐡

Deep red kelp crab embroidered on a pink beanie

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

HELL YEAH I WANNA SEE AN OCTOPUS RIDING A SHARK.

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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME 😍😍😍

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Tiny little opisthoteuthis blinking. Thanks @jeffday.bsky.social for the ID! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Beautiful basket star and some amphipods. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

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Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Everything is better with googly eyes and that includes snails. Today’s #AtoZ is S for Strombus (Strombidae), marine snails with lens-bearing eyes, excellent vision and quite the dashing personality. (1/8) Pic: © Squidpastry CC BY-NC

Close up of a snail retracted into its shell. The aperture of the shell is glossy and warm orange-brown. Very nice but what draws all the attention is two blue eyes on stalks.

Strombus pugilis: Florida, USA. © Squidpastry CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/266414316

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Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A notebook of ‘Orkney Sea-weeds presented by Gunner at Hoxa Battery’ in WWI was the inspiration for Sheila Fleet Jewellery's new Sea Moss collection. Both feature in our Seaweed Secrets exhibition until 10 May 2025, and the jewellery is on sale in our Museum and online shop. [📷 Sheila Fleet]

Seaweed samples at Stromness Museum, including ‘Orkney Sea-weeds presented by Gunner at Hoxa Battery’. Photo by Sheila Fleet Jewellery.

Sheila Fleet Jewellery Sea Moss Moonstone 11-link Statement Necklace in Sea Pink Enamel. Photo by Sheila Fleet Jewellery.

Sheila Fleet Jewellery Sea Moss Moonstone & Cubic Zirconia Ring in Sea Blue Enamel. Photo by Sheila Fleet Jewellery.

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New bumper stickers are here! I wanted to update my giant isopod sticker design and ended up designing three more new ones :) This time last year I designed my first sticker inspired by the local brood X emergence so I’m happy to be drawing them again! 🪳🪲🐙🐡🦑 microbiomearts.com

a spread of 4 bumper stickers against a faux wooden deck. From top down, the bumper stickers are “my other ride is a giant salamander”, “that’s a moray”, “my other ride is a giant isopod”, and “scream if you love cicadas” with matching animal illustrations!

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

They were saying snailfih will lay eggs in the gills of crabs! 🦀 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 805 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 17/03/2025

🤗💐 Happy Monday, friends! Cozy 🐙 hugs! 📸 "Makana" Sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨💖 #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

"Makana" a handsculpted octopus made from clay over a wire armature and painted with acrylics. Created by Sahasa.

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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Parasites on pycnos....this Pallanopsis sp. sea spider (Pycnogonida; Pallanopsidae) has a gooseneck barnacle tag along....captured in #Antarctica on the continental shelf. LMG13-12 cruise. 🧪🦑🌎🐧🇦🇶

Pallanopsis sp. sea spider (Pycnogonida; Pallanopsidae) has a gooseneck barnacle tag along....captured in #Antarctica on the continental shelf. LMG13-12 cruise.

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 17/03/2025

Carina 🌌🐙 the Nebula Octopus 🎨 Sculpture #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

Carina the Nebula Octopus sculpture, handcrafted from polymer clay over a wire armature and painted with acrylics and pigments. Painted in black and purple with hues of green, gold and magenta.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Banner design complete and off to the printers! #octopolis 🐙🦑🐡

A vertical illustrated poster depicting several cartoon octopuses and fish in an aquatic environment. An imposing yellow octopus hovers above a happy purple octopus holding the arm of a yellow scared octopus. A yellow cuttlefish swims alongside them. Below an orange octopus wearing a lobster headdress rides an aggressive wolf eel and stares at the party menacingly. In the background an octopus rides a manta ray while another rides a zeppelin. A castle wall of coral can be seen against a background of the ocean surface. Text: S.S. Julian: Octopolis. octopoliscomic.com

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 17/03/2025

⭐ Tarak the Kingly 🌌🐙 Sculpted from clay & lovingly painted 🎨💖 #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🦑

Tarak the Nebula Octopus sculpture, made from polymer clay over wire and painted with acrylics and pigments. Handpainted stars amid shimmering clouds of stardust.

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