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The Introvertebrates
@introvertebrates.bsky.social
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Cambridge (UK) based science arts and crafts

created by @fionatel.bsky.social‬ and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social‬

https://theintrovertebrates.carrd.co/
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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 1
we are @fionatel.bsky.social and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social, a duo of geneticists from Cambridge (the UK one) that loves to do science arts and crafts, so we decided to open our own little business at the intersection of genetics, paleontology, gardening and more!

theintrovertebrates.etsy.com
A hall full of people setting up tables, two people are sitting down onr with a light blue ammonite blouse the other dark blue cartoony ammonite, the table has multicolor dinosaur crochet planters, paleonthology tshirts, a rack with jewelry, an anti ai sign. Screenshot of our etsy shop, orange strip with iur orange square the introvertebrates science mosquito in a labcoat logo. A bubble with a heart has the number 14 next to it. Text says: theintrovertebrates All things insect and science art and crafts Cambridge, England Latest activity: 03 May, 2025 123 sales 5.0 (3) The shop is for gifts in the UK. Buyers bought gifts from this shop and gave them 5-star reviews!
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
a bigger photo of the design itself 🧪

#SciArt #MolBio
a collage in CMYK of various molecular biology motives, human cells in a petri dish, bacteria in a petri dish, a large woobly pipette, a falcon tube with plasmids, chromosomes, viruses (including a suspicious phage) and dots creating a circular look. on the side it says (c) Petra K.
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
done and dusted! #SciArt #MolBio t-shirts available in light and dark (with blacks and whites on top of the CMY)

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
a cream and navy t-shirts, with a cyan magenta yellow design with either black or white details of various molecular biology themes (tube, pipette, human cells, microbes)
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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flygirlnhm.bsky.social
I’ve been @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social - fied

Yep the wonderful Petra dropped in at the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social to share a small hug and splatter me with merch

Beeflies, Tachinids and the wonderful Mosquitoes
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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introvertebrates.bsky.social
look at this baby, she could be yours and NOT make your plants extinct... hopefully

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

#SciArt #Handmade
a silly little dodo crochet planter, with a dark beak, white face and wing tip, brown body, and a silly little yellow eye, with a purple african violet, sitting on a round slice of wood on a wooden table. same dodo crochet planter, but now shown facing forward, looks like a silly borzoi dog, with a purple african violet inside, sitting on a wood slice with little feet poking underneath, on a wooden table.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
look at this baby, she could be yours and NOT make your plants extinct... hopefully

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

#SciArt #Handmade
a silly little dodo crochet planter, with a dark beak, white face and wing tip, brown body, and a silly little yellow eye, with a purple african violet, sitting on a round slice of wood on a wooden table. same dodo crochet planter, but now shown facing forward, looks like a silly borzoi dog, with a purple african violet inside, sitting on a wood slice with little feet poking underneath, on a wooden table.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
i did partially save them all as transparent pngs because my friend @fionatel.bsky.social wants to do more scrunchies with the designs for our etsy shop @introvertebrates.bsky.social lol
a teal scrunchie covered in semi-realistic fly drawings on a jeans leg. a dark blue scrunchie covered in semi-realistic butterfly and moth drawings on a jeans leg.
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
here we have it folks! both extra small gel and pipette charms version and "simple" version, showing off both front and back for each cat and dog! 🐕🐈🥼

#SciArt #HumanMade
a grid of 5x2 photos, top row is dogs in light blue labcoats labcoats charms, bottom is cats in labcoats charms, dogs are holding a tablet, cats are holding a lab flask, each photo has the charm front and back, with one having additional little charms on an agarose gel and pipette. from top left: black dog with white snout, beagle, doberman, golden lab, dalmatian, tuxedo cat, ginger tabby, grey cat, burmese, calico
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
coming to our etsy store soon! cat chemist and dogtor keychains, with little pipettes and agarose gels!

#SciArt
two keychains on a wooden table, left is a black dog in a blue labcoat holding an ipad with a DNA strain, the right is an orange tabby cat holding a flask with pink liquid wearing a blue labcoat, both have a little blue pipette and an orange gel with DNA bands on it as smaller charms on the same keychain.
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
look at our little Annie doing so much SCIENCE!

in such a clean lab too
paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social Pauline @paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social · Oct 16
This little mosquito is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough! 🧪🦟🔬

She is also the first of the two full illustrations I am making for participants of my DTIYS challenge, and an original design by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social💛

#artyear #art #sciart #smartist #mosquito
A digital drawing of a mosquito in a white lab coat in front of a suspiciously clean lab environment. The mosquito is looking up to a test tube filled with blue liquid that it is holding with one of its four arms. Another arm is holding a pipette while her last two arms are resting on the lab bench behind her. Some additional lab equipment is sitting out on the bench and the wall in the background is covered in some science articles and a poster featuring a microscope next to a window from which the sky is visible. On the top of a shelf on the lab-bench there is a green triceratops planter with a dark green plant made out of little leaves. The mosquito in the image was designed by @petrathepostdoc.
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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introvertebrates.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

get your Dogtors and ChemCats here, fresh off the Etsy!

keychain charms ordered and we will assemble them and hopefully have them in Oct-Nov :)

#SciArt
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

get your Dogtors and ChemCats here, fresh off the Etsy!

keychain charms ordered and we will assemble them and hopefully have them in Oct-Nov :)

#SciArt
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
Keychains will still happen, but for now Dogtor and ChemCat stickers have happened!

#SciArt
10 stickers on a cream thread blanket, all of cats holding a pink liquid chemistry flash and dogs holding a folder with a pink DNA on it. cats are bengal, grey, orange tabby, calico, tuxedo, dogs are golden retriever, rotweiler, black with grey snoot, dalmatian, beagle.
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
slightly less blurry photo! in the Etsy shop soon

#paleonthology #SciArt #invertebrates
three little wooden pins on a wooden table, of an opabinia a jaekelopterus and a perplexa, all extinct invertebrates.
September 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
new wooden pins of some extinct weirdos!
extra silly, extra cute

#paleonthology #SciArt #invertebrates
fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of a Jaekelopterus, an extinct half scorpion half shrimp fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of an Opabinia, an extinct tube organism with flappy arms, 5 eyes, and a long proboscis with a claw. fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of a perplexa crab, an extinct crab with absolutely ridiculous anime eyes.
September 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
inspiration struck during @dinoconuk.bsky.social and now we have mammoth planters!

friend shaped, will keep your plants warm 🦣🪴
photo of a crochet mammoth planter, made with a very fuzzy brown yarn, big beady eyes, and large white tusks. a small purple grey plant sits in it. photo of a crochet mammoth planter, now in a side view, made with a very fuzzy brown yarn, big beady eyes, and large white tusks. a small purple grey plant sits in it.
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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dinoconuk.bsky.social
Check out this awesome video that Tom Fishenden captured for us of DinoCon 2025!

It was an absolute blast and we will see you all again in 2026! (updates still to come!)

To find more of Tom’s work, see the links in the comments.
DinoCon 2025
YouTube video by DinoCon UK
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August 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
we might be trying some more silly extinct invertebrate wooden pin designs, let's see how they turn out!

Callichimaera perplexa aka UwU anime crab
Jaekelopterus aka shrompion
Opabinia aka "Cambrian what are you doing again"
three pins in black lines with a red line around them (cut line) and a red dot in the middle (pin placement) of three extinct invertebrates (Callichimaera perplexa, Jaekelopterus, Opabinia) with their respective measurements on the side 25.147mm 25.172mm 25.325mm 24.966mm 23.649mm 25.163mm
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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polydontid.bsky.social
My #dinoconuk haul! (Missing a couple of items)
August 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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adamrl.bsky.social
Cool Things I picked up (or was gifted 🤯) at #DinoConUK. Had a great weekend.

Thank you so much to everyone who visited my stall and said nice things/ bought something!
From left to right: Dinocon Vendor badge; postcards and original drawing by Ivan Kay; Moganopterus print by CM Kosemen; Dodo and Anchiceratops by KakapoJay; sticker sheet by Jay Eaton; Ex Terra 3 (book) by DragonsOfWales/ Andy Frazer; keychains by AugustJosephCo; plesiosaur keychain gifted by RoAR board game; ammonite pin by the Introvertebrates; Marine reptile prints by EmilyHiggsArt; Ankylosaurus and Dunkleosteus stickers by SpeedThief; T-Rex sticker by SketchyRaptor; Stegosaur keychain by WightCoastFossils; Duria Antiquior by Phoebe Ginger; Spinosaurus Skull by Nathan Dehaut; Skeleton coasters and postcards by Katrina Van Grouw
August 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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jamespascoe.bsky.social
Thanks to @bethverityart.bsky.social @neilgostling.bsky.social @dragonsofwales.bsky.social @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social @gaffamondo.bsky.social & @tetzoo.bsky.social for donating things to the auction and materials to the art event at @dinoconuk.bsky.social. We raised over £3000 for charity 🥹🖤🏴‍☠️🦖
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
introvertebrates.bsky.social
What we have learnt from #LymeRegis #FossilFestival: need more small/todler sized t-shirts

What we have learnt from #DinoConUK: need more medium/large sized t-shirts

Will we ever get the t-shirt stock just right? Probably not!
a netflix ad shows a woman walking through a store full of clothes
Alt: gif of a woman standing in the middle of an isle as the camera pans out and there are hundreds of variously coloured slothing items, bottom right is the netflix logo.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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jamespascoe.bsky.social
So how was @dinoconuk.bsky.social this weekend? So many smiles, so many enthusiastic people engaging with Palaeontology and SciComm! It was a whirlwind of enthusiasm, passion, and chaotic activity!

Constant joy, so much enthusiasm and inspiration, and it was such a pleasure being involved!! 🏴‍☠️🖤🦖
Smiling men Smiling men with natty shirts and waistcoats The Celtic Connection Group shot in the sun
August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
And thanks for the dinosaur stickers @sovanjedi.bsky.social, great to see you again after all these years.

Pictured alongside a brilliant sticker of a rabbit riding an ammonite from @introvertebrates.bsky.social
Photograph of 6 stickers. At left are five of various dinosaurs in a pixelated style. Clockwise from left: Scelidosaurus, Corythosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Plateosaurus and Dilophosaurus. On the right is a sticker depicting a rabbit riding an ammonite in the style of medieval marginalia.
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
Just got in from a weekend at #DinoConUK, a worthy successor to TetZooCon. Didn't win anything in the quiz this time (only got 25/30) & managed to be fairly restrained at the stalls but did get these from @dragonsofwales.bsky.social, @introvertebrates.bsky.social and @buttonandsquirt.bsky.social 🦕🦖
Photograph of a selection of items. At top the book Project: Tepui by Andy Frazer. Below is a business card for The Introvertebrates alongside two of their pin badges, top a peacock spider and below a rainbow coloured tardigrade wearing sunglasses and with a bottle of alcohol and the writing Partygrade, in the middle a DinoCon pin badge and right a round pin badge of a great white shark from Button & Squirt.
August 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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anakey.bsky.social
What a brilliant #DinoConUK 2 days of fantastic talks and a great vendor hall, hopefully vendors going back with many empty cases. My haul is below, just got to pack it well as a week in Devon camping to go before home.
Photo of my purchases from DinoCon 2025; 2 posters of dinosaurs on black backgrounds, original artwork of a Carnotourous skull, A copy of the Speed Thief book, A print of a hadrosaur, Dino Con mug, 1/5 scale Carnotourous skull model, a print from one of the characters from Bygone Dawn, AT Rex Christmas ornament, Dino paperclips and stickers, an iguanadon print, Dinocon stickers and pin badges, more Dino stickers and some Dino postcards.
August 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM