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When you are just trying to chill but the winds of chaos be a-blowin' Couldn't help but chuckle at this little nudibranch feeling the gusts, rhinophores (bunny ears!) getting swept flat side to side in the surge 🧪🦑🐙 #MarineLife #inverts How would you caption this? 😄

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

It's the #CrabAZ that @franzanth.bsky.social has been waiting for: V is for Velolambrus... or DORITO CRAB!!! It's not "the" species he called a dorito, but I think these are even more dorito shaped. They are cryptic under rocks, mud, or seagrasses. 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

When you are just trying to chill but the winds of chaos be a-blowin' Couldn't help but chuckle at this little nudibranch feeling the gusts, rhinophores (bunny ears!) getting swept flat side to side in the surge 🧪🦑🐙 #MarineLife #inverts How would you caption this? 😄

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

A newly hatched octopus among its many siblings who are still waiting for their time to come :) #animalart #sciart #illustration 🐙

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This may be one of the only photos of a live, in-situ Pseudoporcellanella manoliensis porcelain crab and it's our Observation of the Day! Seen in Singapore by caleidoskopable. More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Postdoctoral Researcher – Seaweed Ecology (The Institute of Marine Research, Norway) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #coralreefs #seaweed #seaweedecology #marineecologicalresearch #careers #careerdevelopment #jobopportunity #marinescience #marinebiology

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Bobs in a bobsleigh if anyone needs a little boost! Awesome work @dannastaaf.bsky.social 🦑

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🦑🐙 BIRTHDAY CEPHALOPODS 🐙🦑 A few years ago I offered cephalopod doodles on my birthday, and it was so fun I'm doing it again! send me a prompt today (any cephalopod + anything else) and I'll draw it! here are some examples from 2021/2022

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Psst: carcinization is not inevitable! R is for Raninoides, one of the best examples of DEcarcinization. It's a true crab, but its body is elongated and the abdomen sticks out. The wrench and spadelike appendages, and torpedolike body, are good for burrowing (see video, next skeet) #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Lookin' like they're about to drop the hottest album of 2025 so far. #MarineLife #inverts 🦑

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

So many tiny juvenile Sea Hares (Aplysia punctata) in the rock pools on the North Cornish coast. I stopped counting at 20 🦑 #rockpool #titdepool #seahares #intertidalmarinelife

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Valentine's Day. Caribbean Reef Squids are fun little critters. Video by me #wildlife #squids #videooftheday #underwatervideo 🦑🌿

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This little orange #Nudibranch had been previously ID’d as Polycera abei - but is now more likely to be an undescribed Polycera. This one is about 7mm long and was found in Bali. #MarineLife #Invertebrates #SeaSlugs #Macro

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Scientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

A week or so ago I posted a "spot the slugs!" silliness. Was rummaging through my photos for something else and realised I should share a close-up of one of these tiny friends too. Elysia coodgeensis, from Sydney's rocky intertidal. This was ~1cm long. #inverts #MarineLife 🧪🐙🦑

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L is for Lomis! On #DarwinDay, it's fitting that the #CrabAZ species is MY FAVORITE, and I saw it in Tasmania, where the Beagle also visited. It's camouflaged in the intertidal (except the blue antennae!) BTW, the crab feed is >300 likes, join and post your favorite! bsky.app/profile/luci... 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

why are we constantly overwhelmed or underwhelmed and never adequatelywhelmed

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

K is for Kiwa. In hydrothermal vents and methane seeps >1000m, exotic locales like Antarctica and the Galapagos, yeti crabs (of octonauts fame) thrive. Divorced from sunlight, they farm chemosynthetic bacteria on their own claws, waving them around! Art @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Why is this important? Because, until the 1970s, women in the western world were considered too stupid to be scientists and were expected to sacrifice their lives to men. Men expected to get female servants #WomenInSTEM www.un.org/en/observanc...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Project Animalia #711 Candy crab (Hoplophrys oatesii) If there's one thing I've learned through this project, it's that people secretly F🌪️🤬🌀ING LOVE #crabs! Here you go people. Eat it up. #sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #crab

submitted 331 days ago • 2 comments

H is for Huenia, and Hoplophrys. What these crabs (yes, they are) have in common is ✨fashion✨! Their bodies imitate their environment (algae, soft coral) and use little hooked setae to wear pieces of their home as camouflage. They love you and help fight the horrors with silliness. #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Follow up - The collective noun for sea cucumbers is a pickle! 🥒 🌊🌏🦑🐙

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Here's something to bless your feed. He's just a lil guy. (And a die-cut sticker version of him is coming soon to my shop).

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

G is for Geosesarma. Popular pets, some species were/are exploited by the aquarium trade before being described. Each has a small range in SE Asia, traversing freshwater and land. They hatch as minicrabs instead of larvae, and the mom keeps them safe for a few weeks! #CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

Beaut of a morning for fieldwork at Parsley Bay. Helping @lenaholtmanns.bsky.social with her experiments on ALAN and habitat complexity in the shallow subtidal. @seacs.bsky.social 🧪

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F is for Fennerogalathea. 3 species of these squat lobsters, part of false crabs (Anomura), were described from 120-320m deep (some hanging out in corals) in the south Pacific. The genus is named for Fenner Chace, who collected crab specimens I've studied at MCZ! (Paper next skeet) 🧪🦀🦑 #CrabAZ

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Embrace coziness 😴🍄🌧️

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

E is for Echidnocerus. This is a cute and funny shallow water king crab, but it's not a true crab! Carcinization molded hermit crab ancestors into abandoning shells and developing these camouflaged tanks. Orange ones are juveniles - they become multicolored adults (see video next) 🦀🦑🧪 #CrabAZ

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Finally caught up with some friends yesterday! 🦀 @jopabinia.bsky.social #invertebrate #crab #marinelife

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Cute little octo @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 793 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.

submitted 18 days ago • 141 comments

In recognition that whimsy is it’s own kind of weapon against darkness, and that we need good art and science now more than ever, let me reissue this reminder 🐙🪼 The world is bigger than this moment, and it is still full of magic.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

Valuing Darkness Conference on light pollution will take place March 19th-21st in Naarm (Melbourne). Mariana will be sharing research on the effects of light pollution in marine systems, but lots of other interesting talks as well! #ALAN #light australasiandarkskyalliance.org/program?utm_...

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Hi everyone! We are the SEACS lab at UNSW, investigating Solutions for Estuarine And Coastal Stressors. Headed by Dr. Mariana Mayer Pinto, we study a diverse range of human impacts, including artificial structures, light pollution and climate change in coastal ecosystems 😊🌱✹🐚💡

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sea slug silliness for anyone in need of distractions! Not the best photo, but how many sea slugs can you see? Took this a couple of weeks ago to show a friend what I thought was one tiny green Elysia slug. After I looked again I realised how wrong I was! 🦑🧪🐙

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I'm amazed and in awe of the brittle star but also my day is ruined 😅 🦑

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment