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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.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 11d

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

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 11d

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

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Sep 7

where does the balloon have a spinal column even

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Sep 7

oh my god what in the world
we def need to think of something with this balloon

a creature from the cambrian, looks like a balloon with a beak and a comical tail

upper corner has the copyright
3D dinopedia
Copyright Digital Patron studio

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Sep 6

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.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 26

he will honk at you if you forget to water your plant. maybe. we didn't implement that function yet.

The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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Felix @polydontid.bsky.social · Aug 19

My #dinoconuk haul! (Missing a couple of items)

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Adam_RL @adamrl.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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James Pascoe @jamespascoe.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 🥹🖤🏴‍☠️🦖

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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James Pascoe @jamespascoe.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 with natty shirts and waistcoats

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 18

glad to have met so many weird medieval guys fans at #DinoConUK of all places, now we need to think of more unhinged stuff like "medieval trilobite"

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.

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Anakey @anakey.bsky.social · Aug 17

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.

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DreamBob @dreambob.bsky.social · Aug 16

All the merchant I brought #dinoconuk.... I may never financially recover, but emotionally rich

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 17

an extremely successful #DinoConUK

met a lot of wonderful people and thank you for everyone that stopped at our shop to grab a little something silly

posing with the velocinator 🤖

photo of petra in a grey t-shirt, holding a skeleton structure model but made from moveable metal and 3D printed parts of a velociraptor on a stand, but it is only one glasses eye while the other is behind the raptor's torso.

photo of fiona in a light blue ammonite shirt holding a 3D and metal printed velociraptor model where you can move each join in a specific way, she is looking at it lovingly like a baby.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Aug 16

Day 1 @introvertebrates.bsky.social @dinoconuk.bsky.social absolute success! Thanks to a stampede of wonderful people certain shirts and planters running low!

Our table at dinocon with a black tablecloth, on the table from left to right:
Tall spinning wooden rack with keychains
Toast rack with cards
Anti AI poster
Coloring books
Variius dinosaur planters with little plants in all the rainbow colors
Embroidery hoops
Jewelry rack
Tshirts

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Aug 16

The @introvertebrates.bsky.social all set up @dinoconuk.bsky.social

#SciArt

Photo of Fiona Teltscher in a dinosaur shirt standinh by a table at dinocon with a blsck tablecloth covered in t-shirts in grey and dark blue, jewelry, rainbow colored crochet dinosaur planters, books, and a tower with charms.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Aug 15

Making our way downtown, driving slow because that is just the London Orbital...

See you at @dinoconuk.bsky.social soon lads ladies and enbies!

Photo of a car screen showing on thr left in red playing Incident At Isla Nublat Jihn Wiliams, and on the right google .aps showing us being stuck in a long red line, stay on m25 15mi to 12, 4hrs 25min 166mi 18:41.

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