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Meg Mindlin
@invertebabe.bsky.social
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Molecular Biologist studying cephalopods and their RNA 🐙🧬🦑 Illustrator, photographer, science communicator ✨ Click link for shop + more bio.site/invertebabe
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · Aug 18
Officially re-opened my store! Find tons of cephalopod goods and more 🥳 Including all my latest illustrations in print and sticker form!

Shop now at megmindlin.com
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19h
Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.
A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 9h
Very upset i didnt find an undead coworker made out of pipette tips like the grandma made out of roses in A House With Good Bones. Extremely disappointing work day.
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 16h
I just read a book that featured vultures who would watch over a house because of ghost/demon activity. And currently sitting outside of my job for lunch and theres like an ungodly amount of vultures circling and perching on my work building. I think I work at the bad place.
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Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 1d
Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 16h
I just read a book that featured vultures who would watch over a house because of ghost/demon activity. And currently sitting outside of my job for lunch and theres like an ungodly amount of vultures circling and perching on my work building. I think I work at the bad place.
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 17h
I cannot over state how ill prepared i am for Japan in two weeks
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d
I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

SquidFacts.net
a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog. a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 1d
Truly my week days are so packed and exhausting, creative projects keep getting sidelined. It just makes me sad.
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 1d
Needed good health insurance so gave up freelancing for an industry job. Now I have a 12 hour work day due to commuting and can barely find time to do anything else. Fuck adulting.
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 2d
A house with good bones by t kingfisher!
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 2d
It’s about an entomologist and sorcerers. You’ll love it
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 2d
READ THE BOOK I SENT YOU
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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 2d
Happy #WorldOctopusDay! My newsletter today has a guide for teaching tricks to your pet octopus 🐙🦑 or maybe it's research about octopus arm flexibility in the wild, read it and find out!
buttondown.com/dannastaaf/a...
The OctoPost: Happy World Octopus Day!
Cephalopod News October 8th is World Octopus Day, and the octopuses have given us plenty to talk about! The full scope of octopus arm flexibility during...
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 2d
🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Snow Queen of Hoth @snowqueenofhoth.bsky.social · 2d
YES @invertebabe.bsky.social HAS AN AMAZING ARTICLE ABOUT RNA EDITING!!!

octonation.com/octopus-can-...
Octopus Can Edit Their RNA – Here’s How
Ever wonder why people label octopuses as "aliens"? It's not because they hitched a ride on a meteor from outer space. Nope, these eight-armed geniuses earned their intergalactic reputation by doing s...
octonation.com
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 3d
The curse of baby bangs is never being able to leave the baby bangs alone. Why am I so scissor happy and when will I ever learn?
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 4d
🦑 Mollusques meÌditeraneÌens [!]
GeÌ ACnes: Impr, des sourds-muets, 1851.

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Historical scientific illustration of a squid (Loligo vulgaris) shown from a dorsal view. The squid is depicted with a rounded, elongated body covered in pink and greenish speckles. Its large eyes are prominently illustrated, along with ten tentacles, two of which extend to the sides and appear longer with detailed suction cups. To the right of the squid, an elongated, leaf-shaped internal shell or gladius is displayed separately. The illustration is labeled with scientific terms and appears on an aged beige background, typical of 19th-century natural history prints, emphasizing anatomical features for identification.
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 4d
All I had was 3 drinks at my cousins wedding, and danced all night long, and my stomach has reeked havoc on me for TWO days now. Im only 26!! I should not suffer like this yet!!
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 4d
MY QUEEN
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 4d
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d
To support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, @ehrenenglish.bsky.social & I collaborated to create the Eel Facts Advent Calendar!!

Every day, scratch off a box to reveal facts about eels.

Art by a real artist, facts by a real scientist 😎

Order by Thurs to get yours b4 I leave for 3 weeks!
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Sarah holds a poster that is 11“ x 14“ in front of a bunch of flowers. The poster has a bunch of eels on it including a yellow Mauri two splendid garden meals, a blue and yellow ribbon meal and an American meal and European meal there are 24 boxes each of which has orange zigzags and a yellow circle with a number inside. The top says eel facts an advent calendar
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 8d
I forgot my black n95 to the airport rn and had to buy a white one at a kiosk and it 100% ruined my outfit. How dare they
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you!!
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 8d
Love my art? Subscribe to my patreon at patreon.com/invertebabe or visit my online store at megmindlin.com 🥰 4/4
Illustration of teuthowenia pellucida and a stubby squid, rossia pacifica. Speech bubble next to teuthowenia reads “fallen in love yet? Get a sticker of the googly eyed squid for the month of october by joining my patreon! Link in bio <3” Middle of graphic reads “find more ceph art at megmindlin.com link in bio”
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 8d
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Glass squids are found in all oceans except the arctic. Some species, like the googly-eyed squid, undergo a vertical migration with maturity and seasonality. Where they travel from the depths to shallower waters and back. Teuthowenia is characterized by these three large photophores (light producing organs) in their eyes. Arrows pointing out photophores in the eyes on my illustration of teuthowenia pellucida. These eye photophores help the glass squids hide themselves by counter-shading against the down-welling light from the surface. Source evans et al 2015
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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 8d
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The googly-eyed squid is a species of glass squid from family cranchiidae. Named for their see-through bodies. Unknown to most, the colossal squid is ALSO a glass squid and member of family cranchiidae. This is much more apparent in their juvenile form, which we saw at depth for the first time ever in april of this year. Arrow pointing to a photo of the juvenille colossal squid. What a colossal cutie. Photo by schmidt ocean institute.
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