This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
(Very) belated post but super jazzed to have my undergrad research thesis (and first ever publication) published at the Journal of Insect Behavior with @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Flamingos and quite a few other birds
African Wildebeest Migration
A colored pencil drawing of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
I started working on this drawing half a year ago as a part of the #BirdWhisperer challenge, but I got very busy around that time and only finished it recently. It is far too late for the official posting date, but I am glad I completed this one!
“Male Andrea cuttlefish (Doratosepion andreanum) – quite drab to human eyes – use their birefringent arms to literally twist light, creating a highly conspicuous signal precisely tuned to cuttlefish vision.”
#scicomm
www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-l...
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@bd-stew.bsky.social explaining the Report on the 2025 Octopus Bloom 👇
A New Way to Flirt: Dazzle Potential Mates With Patterns Invisible to Humans www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/s...
Today's frog is the horned marsupial frog. And its kids.
An image of Samwise Gamgee - the real OG - from the LOTR movies. "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something." ~Samwise Gamgee
It is getting harder to see it these days, but I always hold on to this quote from Samwise in LOTR: "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
The Devonian Period Dunkleosteus didn’t have teeth but instead exposed jaws that self sharpened like two knives every time they opened and closed their mouth.
Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 📚🦕 grab yours here: a.co/d/jiarhqN
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #evolution
New paper from the lab, led by @ronjabigge.bsky.social, in collaboration with Kentaro Arikawa. We reconcile contrast and spatial processing functions of lamina monopolar cells by integrating 3D morphology, connectivity and neurophysiology in the hummingbird hawkmoth. tinyurl.com/mvnh3325
For more 👇
Thought I’d post regular book updates; here’s read #1 of 2026. An excellent and exhaustive account of sensory ecology
The Emperor stands erect on a terraced throne of staghorn coral.He wears a bejeweled crown ring around his spiked mantle, and wields a turitella shell spear. A large nautilus shell covers his third right arm, and harp snail envelops his fore-arm. Swimming behind him is a male sheepshead wrasse, along with a school of inflated man-o-war siphonophores. Digital drawing by SS Julian for Octopolis
The Emperor
#Octopolis #Tarot #octopus 🐙🐡
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
In a recent BBC interview, Senior Research Fellow Dr Nova Mieszkowska discusses what the surge in octopus numbers along the southwest coast last year may reveal about changing conditions in our coastal seas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-H...
Circle of life...
Susie the octopus 🐙 is exercising as she hunts her meal.
youtube.com/shorts/BamoP...
These 3 tiny dots are not just random stars in the sky.
That's Earth, Jupiter and Venus seen from Mars 🌌
That’s us… 225 million miles away 🤯
“‘This is the highest reported reflectivity of any land-based biological organism, including beetle exoskeleton, bird feathers, and the famously intense blue of Morpho butterfly scales.’”
#scicomm
#sensoryecology
www.sciencealert.com/this-stunnin...
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Nice video explainer to go along with this cool article about spectral tuning of motion vision in butterflies in relation to wing color: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
We saw an octopus hunt, hamlets mate, a nurse shark super close, a barracuda’s teeth, manatees and their bellies, and hosted an interspecies parrotfish party. But it was the jack crevalles that stole the show, swimming back and forth throughout the day #coralcitycamera #miami #biscaynebay #coralcity
Two Papuan Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion papuense) floating. One is in the background and out of focus; its arms are held together and pointing downward. The one in the foreground has its two centre arms raised up and curl slightly back. Its other arms are pointing down but are not held together. Its two, largest outer arms are pointing back. The cuttlefish have a light bluish grey coloured flesh, but their top sides have a beige and golden yellow colour.
"Waiter, two crustaceans please."
🦑📷Frank Krasovec (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
🐙 Inspired by the power of octopus camouflage, @ucsandiego.bsky.social scientists have developed a way to produce xanthommatin, a color-changing pigment with potential real-world applications ranging from UV protection to thermal coatings.
Less than two weeks left to apply for the Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Conference! An exciting lineup of speakers and posters, and financial aid is available upon request. 🐙🦑
www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...
How #fungi ‘superpowers’ from #mushroom pellets are #restoring #forests across the world
‘Rhizopellets’ are being planted alongside #saplings and enhance the roots of the tree as it grows
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
#trees #orchards #forestry #mycoremediation
New year, new career? It's the last chance to apply for these positions at the laboratory, find out more, and make 2026 your year!
Jobs 🔗 pml.ac.uk/working-with...
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Caddo agilis, a large-eyed harvestman photographed on a reflective glass background, mostly a frontal view
Caddo agilis, a large-eyed harvestman photographed on a reflective glass background, mostly a lateral view
A photo of the lateral side of a preserved Caddo agilis under a scope
A closeup of a Caddo agilis eye under a microscope
SO EXCITED to be finally talking about some funky preliminary results on the eyes of this funky harvestman at #SICB2026 on Tuesday! Here are a few sneak peak pics :D
Whoa, that is so awesome! Can you pin an update after your talk as I cannot be there? Love to know the resolution of the receptors?
I usually share the big stuff but there are a lotta funky creatures down there. 🤿 #marinelife
