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dannastaaf.bsky.social
https://www.dannastaaf.com/ Author, artist, speaker with a fondness for cephalopods. Books: πŸ¦‘ Monarchs of the Sea πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ The Lady and the Octopus 🐣 Nursery Earth πŸ™ The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/dannastaaf
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true. cephalopods however have been in charge for 500 million years

ARGONAUT ARGONAUT ARGONAUT πŸ™πŸš and tardigrade flatworm hydra bivalve coral some kinda arthropod whatever I guess

IT'S FINISHED! The Art of #InverteFest April 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 86 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1JvEx...

My latest OctoPost spreads the news of an incredible ancient cephalopod animation by @kiabugboy.bsky.social as well as the colossal squid discovery by @schmidtocean.bsky.social, with a shout-out to @jopabinia.bsky.social for motivating me to start drawing dicyemids buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...

Happy Spring! I'm giving an online talk about baby animals--the cute, the creepy, and the crucial--with Smithsonian Associates tomorrow at 3:45pm PT/6:45pm ET. (Though it's only spring up north, I'll talk about southern babies like joeys and puggles too!) smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

Some lovely soul just bought a sticker of my [cetacean needed] design, which reminded me that this design exists and I should tell people about it! 🌊 Sometimes I have mixed feelings when I look at my old art, but this one always makes me smile. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1421...

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Sometimes I wake up wanting to shout "PEOPLE ARE MAKING GLORIOUS ART EVERYDAY!", a fact which keeps me going.

Some lovely soul just bought a sticker of my [cetacean needed] design, which reminded me that this design exists and I should tell people about it! 🌊 Sometimes I have mixed feelings when I look at my old art, but this one always makes me smile. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1421...

just when you thought prehistoric cephalopods couldn't get ANY weirder

Welp due to overwhelming demand (=one[1] nudge from the inimitable @jopabinia.bsky.social) I'm making an informational comic about dicyemids #invertefest πŸ¦‘πŸŒŠ I do not know how long it will take to finish, so please enjoy the heck out of this title page for now

Hey #Invertefest! Here’s another invertebrate comic I’ve made. This one is available as a print on my Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/s/d0737eb95f

Updated the #InverteFest phylum list! Now with better (invented) common names! As before, please click on the images because I don't know how to size for the bsky preview. The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? πŸ§ͺπŸ¦‘

why it took me all day to finish this thread, an incomplete list of distractions: - helping elder child prepare bedroom for a snake vivarium - helping younger child do laundry - finishing a 3D puzzle of the Taj Mahal - family D&D session - supervising debate over equivalence of candy and ice cream

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay! Let's show our endless appreciation for these lighthouses of learning, storehouses of stories, juiceboxes of joy! I'm celebrating with a thread of visits to indie bookstores, starting with @booksinc.bsky.social of course. booksinc.net

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay #IndieBookstoreDay!

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

It's officially #InverteFest in the west! We want to see your bugs! Get outside for an invertebrate scavenger hunt. Introduce us to the spider in your basement. Paint a polychaete worm. Write a song about a giant isopod. Whatever you do, we want you to share it with us using #InverteFest

I loved sharing "behind the scenes" research from my book THE LADY AND THE OCTOPUS in this interview for From the Mixed Up Files of Middle Grade Authors: fromthemixedupfiles.com/stem-tuesday... @carolhinz.bsky.social @therightsfactory.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social @staceykondla.bsky.social