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Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · 20d

We’re combining science and art into double-sided cards featuring local scientists and leaving them at local coffee shops and breweries. Want to be featured or nominate a scientist? Fill out this interest survey by Sept 28th: forms.gle/CsTDjisunDMo...

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 26d

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Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · 28d

For #cephalopodweek we are jumping into scientific paths, featuring @cephalopodanetwork.bsky.social and @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social

Remember it’s never too late to discover something new!

#dreamsofascientist #scientificjourney #sciencecommunication #sciencestory #marinescience #octopus #squid

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Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · Aug 3

We have a new project: Made in Your Community!

With support from @skypeascientist.bsky.social , we’re creating beautiful double-sided cards that feature local scientists and their work — all placed in local cafes, breweries, and community spaces.

#SciComm #RepresentationMatters #ArtandScience

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Aug 14

We're looking for scientists to feature on our next cards! If you're interested, please go to the website and fill out the form

Dreams of a Scientist: Lessons from the Sea @dreamsofascientist.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our Made in Your Community project has been co-created by @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social , who is also one of the illustrators behind the double-sided cards.

You can learn more about our initiative on our website: www.dreamsofascientist.com/made-in-your...

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jul 19

Happy #SharkWeek2025! Kicking off the week with a hammerhead <3

#SharkWeek #hammerhead

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Jul 14

The 2025 advent calendar will drop tomorrow at 10am!!!

The artist? @ehrenenglish.bsky.social

The animal? EELS.

Here's the sneakiest of sneak peeks 👀

a ribbon eel with its mouth wide open like OMG, illustrated

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy (or at least paused despair?) #MolluscMonday! This species shows some extreme sexual dimorphism. Not only is the gorgeous webbing (blanket) only found in females, but the males are teeny tiny.

Inspired by pcaiger's Robson's blanket octopus observation on inaturalist.

#MolluskMonday #sciart

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 23

Oooo I'll keep this in mind next time I restock stickers and prints

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 22

I look more and more like this crab every day.

Repost of a painting I did of the little baby king crab NOAA found back in January

Digital painting of a baby king crab using saturated colors - lots of oranges. Crab looks...nervous?

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Erin Spencer, PhD @etspencer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Absolutely stunning video of a Antarctic gonate squid captured during an expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (Too). It's never been seen alive before! Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

Video: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, courtesy of National Geographic 🦑🌊🧪

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy summer solstice! Since we're celebrating the sun, it seems like a good time for an ocean sunfish! Like us, they like to bask in the sun after a cold dive to warm up ☀️ 🐟

#fishyfriday #drawntosummer25 #oceanart #solstice

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Victoria Pfeiffer @victoriapfeiffer.bsky.social · Jun 20

Here is the feed for #FishyFriday !

Use the tag to get a flood of fish/ #aquatic themed creatures in the feed every Friday. No rules or prompts, just #art and #photography you’d like to share.

Thanks for joining in today and sharing your lovely #fish 🥰

bsky.app/profile/did:...

A watercolor painting of 3 vibrant fish with prominent scales and bright colors.

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 17

I'm on PST so this still counts for #MolluscMonday, right? (right?!?) Meet the smooth giant clam (Tridacna derasa) 🐚✨ It's name is a bit misleading as it still has plenty of texture, just not quite as much as its cousin, the giant clam (T. gigas).

#MolluskMonday #oceanart #artyear

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy Friday the 13th! It's not Halloween but it is spooky so here's a painted wooly bat 🦇 ❤️
Reminder to not buy taxidermied ones online - they aren't bred in captivity so all those specimens are wild-caught. Removing that many from the population isn't sustainable.

#art #bat #artoftheday #nature

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Manuel Fallmann-Kerrutt @mindistortion.tv · Jun 13

Today is Friday the 13th, the perfect day for a

✨🔮 DARK ART SHARE 🔮✨

🕷️ Share your #darkart
🖤 Like and repost!
🐀 Tag friends, if you like!
🖤 Add alt text, if possible!
🕸️ Label NSFW!
🖤 Support each other with a comment, repost or like!
❌ Human-made only, no A👁️ or NF🍵s

#artshare #art #friday13

#darkart artshare promo image. Charcoal drawing of an eerie landscape. A bright light is hovering over a mountain forest, lights moving down alongside the trees as if in procession.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Jun 13

Reminder: sci-comm and outreach costs money, and it’s being defunded across all STEM fields. It’s not just something scientists “do” (or fail to do, or need to do more).

I mean, most of us do “do” it on our own time too, but that will never be enough.

Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · Jun 13

I see a lot of people talking about how "we just need to explain science more to the public".

The state Space Grant programs (one issued in each state) does incredible deep and wide outreach work - supporting education at every age and stage, nurturing science interest.

Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars.bsky.social · Jun 12

Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated.

I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars.

I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)

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Laura Galli @lauragalliart.bsky.social · Jun 13

Another frog! 🐸 this is another super fun study painted for the mentorship with @leeshahannigan.bsky.social. Thank you as always, for being the kindest and most patient mentor! 💙

Fell in love with this little friend and its cute colours!
Reference in thread ⬇️

Digitally painted photo study of a poison dart frog on a leaf.

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · Jun 13

this is me if you even care

Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · Jun 12

Bobtail squid (Eumandya parva) in the darkness, looking like it's ready to start a tiny, tiny fight with someone

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 12

Got a favorite frog? Bc I can't decide.

#FrogArt #NeonAnimals #ArtYear

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Bridget Vincent @bridgetsquidget.bsky.social · Jun 9

Happy #MolluscMonday! Today it's Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. Seen any near you recently?

#MolluscMonday #SciArt #ArtYear #NearbyNature2025

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Zillah @zillahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 9

Don’t forget you can just go draw a bug whenever you want.

Zillah @zillahsmith.bsky.social · May 3

When the world gets too weird you can just go outside and look at bugs.

Open sketchbook depicting ink drawings of two moths. A live moth sits on the bottom right corner. It is dark outside and the page is illuminated with a flashlight. In the background is a white sheet with blue light reflected off of it.

Photo of hands holding three kinds of moth, two smallest ones on the left and a large one on the right.

Close up of a small painting in a sketchbook of a small green and brown moth. A live moth perches next to its drawing on the book.

Landscape photograph taken around midnight. The sky is dimly illuminated and cloudy. A white sheet hangs between two trees in the middle distance and a man wearing a red headlamp is bending over in front of it. It is a nature scene sparsely populated with trees which have not leafed out yet.

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · May 13

Our chromosome-scale genome assembly of Nanomia septata, a siphonophore - doi.org/10.1101/2025... . Much larger than many other cnidarian genomes, fewer chromosomes, and highly rearranged. No smoking gun for how they achieve complex colony-level organization. Great work Namrata Ahuja and friends!

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · May 9

But until then, you have two assignments:

1. Keep being a scientist.

2. Be the biggest, most creative, most persistent pain in the ass Trump and his clown posse have ever experienced.

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