Meg Mindlin

@invertebabe.bsky.social

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MSc student | cephalopods & rna 🐙🧬💖
illustrator, photographer, science communicator✨
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

Polyorchis penicillatus 😁 🪼🐙🦑

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Xeni | Horror Artist @xenianth.com
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:08 UTC

I'm a disabled horror and fantasy illustrator with many things on offer:
Licensing
Prints
Merch

Need physical art? A shirt with a Furby creature on it? Horror art for your band/book/project? I've got a lot here and need income 🐴��

h ref='https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HorrorArt'>#HorrorArt #BSNM #ArtShop

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:15 UTC

They’re so beautiful!!! Truly a majestic lil dude

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

YES

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:05 UTC

enjoying my macro this summer 🫶

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

Happy Polychaete day!

Here’s some worms to celebrate 🥳

If you need one for your wall, they are 30% off today with code WORM

shop.noncompliantcyborg.com

🦑🐙

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

Happy International Polycheate Day! To celebrate a macro shot of a nereid worm we found nightlighting in the Salish Sea 🪱

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:49 UTC

Just realized I didn’t share these here! Last week @invertebabe.bsky.social and I went tidepooling by the Fauntleroy Ferry docks and got to see so many sea slugs! (And @jensseattle.bsky.social 😄)

🐙🦑🌿#nudibranch

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:26 UTC

I'm catching up on #CephalopodWeek content (since I didn't have much online time this week) and this ink-terview is FASCINATING! I did not know about pygmy sperm whale ink 🤯 nor that melanin binds to heavy metals so ink helps remove toxins! 🦑🧪

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

adult vampire squid: *is weird on every possible axis* humans: ok are you done adult vampire squid: no adult vampire squid: *has babies* baby vampire squid: imma grow two fins and then imma grow two more and then imma reabsorb the first two hehehe humans: ...why

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Valentino Lasso🌿 @valentinolasso.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

Cephalopods🦑✨🌿

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:38 UTC

I hope everyone knows the correct posture to assume when discussing Bigfin Squid a.k.a. Elbow Squid

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 05:47 UTC

Slay

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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 05:42 UTC

Yes @dannastaaf.bsky.social is 100% right about this ✅

Evidence: me describing bigfin squid on Tuesday with @funkminister.bsky.social during @scifri.bsky.social Cephalopod Week trivia night 🦑🐙🧪

Shirt by the one and only @invertebabe.bsky.social

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

Happy #CephalopodWeek! 🐙🦑

Here's a couple of Ruby Octopus photos I took last year at Rosario Beach Marine Lab while hanging out with @invertebabe.bsky.social. So excited to get back there later this month.

To celebrate, here's 20% off art prints with code CEPHALOPODWEEK shop.noncompliantcyborg.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

Back by popular demand...MOTH NIGHT!

I know what you're thinking..."I want to go into the spookiest local ecosystem at night & appreciate biodiversity, but I can't convince any of my friends to do that with me!"

I understand. Moth night is for you.
7/27
givebutter.com/PC0VZX

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

I just spend two amazing days bumming around Roman ruins in the south of Italy, so my contributions to #CephalopodWeek are these two absolutely stunning more-than two-thousand-year-old mosaics from the apodyterium (changing room) of the women’s baths at Herculaneum

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 3/8

Blanket Octopus is another returning species from our old roster. With its wide, blanket-like appendages, it has one of the most iconic octopus silhouettes out there. 🐡 🎨

apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 12:01 UTC

#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 2/8

Bigfin Squid, one of the most striking squids, was the first squid included in our roster.

The earliest specimens were found dead in a bad shape. They lacked the extremely long appendages, hence the name "bigfin". 🐡 🎨

apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 06:25 UTC

John Oliver correctly identified a flapjack and a dumbo in his segment about deep sea mining. so you have no excuses anymore

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

Insert an Invert: Ectoparasite Now introducing: Ceratothoa springbok, as shown in an unlucky Carpenter fish. Not gonna lie, these parasites are very cute to me. If one promised me it could do amazing job interviews for me, I might just trade in my tongue.

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 06:19 UTC

Starting cephalopod week off strong w my favorite deep sea ceph 🫶😭

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:38 UTC

It’s the first day of cephalopod week 2024! Happy cephalopod week!!

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:32 UTC

wake up babe new magnapinna clip dropped (this one's from the INDEX2016 series of expeditions to the indian ocean, shoutout to klass meyn for granting the archive permission to publish this) 🦑🧪

youtu.be/SY7_758qUk4?...

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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

OMG OMG OMGGGGGGGG new footage of one of my all time FAVE squid species???? oh HELL YES 🤩🤩🤩 🦑🧪

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 04:42 UTC

#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 1/8

Nautiluses are the only living cephalopods with external shells. They look so strikingly different from other cephalopods, it was only right to include it again in the updated illustration set. 🐡 🎨

apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

I’m so obsessed with these

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

Cephalopod Week begins tomorrow!
It's a 8-day celebration of goopy goodness.

Science Friday asked me to update their fundraiser badges, check them out in their natural habitat, SciFri's Sea of Support: apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

More shenanigans: www.sciencefriday.com/spotlights/c...

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

Happy World Oceans Day 🌊 & Happy Pride Month! 🌈

Want to support queer ocean art & science? 🧪🦑🐙🐡

I’m a Salish Sea natural historian photographing gelatinous marine inverts & trying to 3D scan them this summer.

I’m selling my art & fundraising research costs.

linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg

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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Cephalopod Week is coming up this month!! 🦑🧪 Join me:

June 18 (NYC): Trivia Night w/ @scifri.bsky.social
Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/cepha...

June 20 (NYC + virtual): Facts Machine science & comedy show. I've got a fun new talk about neuroscience & giant squids!
Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/facts...

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

this was fun …what now ?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 10:21 UTC

Are the #SciArt people populating Cara yet?

I saw @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social, @franzanth.bsky.social @invertebabe.bsky.social @leafhopper.bsky.social @isabetabug.bsky.social & a few philly people there…

@flyingtrilobite.com are more #SciArt folks joining?

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 28, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

Surprise! I’m having a sale! My misprinted items are sold to reduce waste as they’re totally usable, just have some flaws.

This includes girls night shirts if you missed out 😉

Totes $5 shirts $10 hoodies $15

Limited quantities and sizes

Megmindlin.com/shop

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

Jk found it

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

I don’t think they ever published about just specifically that but this paper mentions it for the first time (from what I can find in Kirts google scholar)

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

In the puget sound we see this with muusoctopuses! Species that should be found way deeper in much shallower waters!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
[ View ] May 16, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

WEIRD + EXCITING thing going on. Folks in CT found a bobtail squid living in shallow seagrass. Spencer Nyholm told me this morning & we both got VERY excited about it. We'd expect to see those bobtails in much deeper water. (This pic is a bobtail, different species) (1/?)

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 15, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

Come ask me very weird and wacky question you’ve ever had about octopuses! I was built for this 💪😤 …also learn about what research looks like but questions are admittedly more fun 🤧

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Marie @streetcat-stan.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

I'm so excited for this!!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
[ View ] May 11, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can! THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 21:01 UTC

ok but love accurate while still maintaining ur own style???? slay

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Here's your squid of the day.

Based on a blackwater dive shot by www.instagram.com/andrey_shpat...

Wish I knew more about this species but unfortunately I'm not sure.

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Casey Wagner @cannibal.holiday
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 04:13 UTC

It's the time of year when dogs start going in the water in many places, so just be aware that if your dog has a topical flea treatment, it can wipe out the invertebrate ecosystem in whole ponds.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 06:23 UTC

Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that your capacity for language creativity REGRETTABLY MIGHT enable you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com
[ View ] May 12, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

This illustration was created by Leo the Alien/@alienyrox. Full version below.

RedBubble store:
www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Col...

#scicomm #sciart #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

come ask me all the questions you’ve been dying to know the answer to <3

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social
[ View ] May 07, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

You asked for it, you got it. We're talking all about octopuses with @invertebabe.bsky.social on May 28th!

This is a time for YOU to ask everything you've ever wanted to know about one of the ocean's weirdest inhabitants.

RSVP here: givebutter.com/QNplGp

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

Story time: one time I found a new species unknown to science during #InverteFest in Dec 2021.

This thing that looks like a weird, long spider is called a schizomid, also known as spricket (short for spider cricket). Schizomids are obscure, understudied arachnids most people have never heard of.

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

Facts! I def do not see as much dive content here as I do on instagram. Even twitter doesn’t have a lot of dive content

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

That’s so interesting!!! Bugs deserve their time in the spotlight but always here to represent our salty inverts

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