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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg

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Disabled Marine Scientist & Artist living by the Salish Sea Actually a cyborg Probably has seen a ctenophore today 3D visualization of marine inverts Support my work, get some art: https://linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg 📸 by me unless cited

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hi BlueSky!

I’m JA, a marine scientist & artist living by the Salish Sea.

I post marine life 🦑, especially invertebrates 🐙, visual art & embroidery.

I’m looking forward to the spring ctenophore & jelly blooms, and bringing ROV live dives back soon.

Art & YouTube link:

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Photo of JA in front of a whale poster. They are wearing a jellyfish shirt and a crab claw necklace.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 1d

He was so fucking scared he was going to die before he could retire and that the stress of his job would kill him and he was scared of what would happen to everyone if he did.

And it happened.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 1d

They tried for maybe forty minutes. He died in his office. He died working in a stupid project he was supposed to present on Monday for work even though he had Covid. He died right above where I’m sitting in my room trying to figure out what to do.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 1d

I cradled his head & told him I loved him and I was here & getting help and I was so sorry as I had to dump him out of his chair because he has a spinal injury & I was scared of hurting him. But I got him on the floor and I did the compressions and his color was coming back & I thought he’d make it

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 1d

My dad died last night. I think he was dead when we found him but I did compressions until the ambulance arrived and his color was coming back but they just couldn’t get his heart going again. I talked to him an hour before, but he wasn’t answering when I told him I’d made it home with his dinner.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2d

Get vaccinated and wear a fucking mask. And please fucking stay home and rest when you are sick if at all and as much as possible. And do whatever you can to support the people in your lives in doing the same.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2d

The Lovers

#nudibranch Art Print 🐡

shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/the-lovers-leopard-dorid-pair-art-prints

A pair of leopard dorids pressed together, likely mating. These two white sea slugs have bumpy bodies with brown spots, yellow rhinophores, and a circle of white fluffy gills.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2d

The Lovers

#nudibranch Art Print 🐡

shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/the-lovers-leopard-dorid-pair-art-prints

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the idea! I celebrate on both 😊
For next year I am going to set up the iNat project to be on both days - I just set it up too late this year to do that.

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 4d

HAPPY CTENOPHORE DAY (part I).

The fjords around Bergen are full with Mnemiopsis right now. Movie by the amazing @alexandrejan.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social #ctenophores #GoPro

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Love love love these illustrations!

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Nick Bezio @beziostudio.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore day! Its a perfect day to celebrate such a small yet beautifully diverse phyla that comes in a wide array of shapes and colors. #Ctenophoreday

Drawing of various Ctenophore anatomies showing the diversity of the phylum. center/front, top left, and right are lobate ctenophores, center/back is a beroid or nuda ctenophore, center/right is a cydippid or tentacled ctenophore, and bottom/left is a benthic ctenophore

A drawing of the Blood belly comb jelly ctenophore (comb jelly) which is known for its stricking red coloration that helps it live in the deep sea

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪

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Mr. Gandalf B. Naturals @voidfemme.bsky.social · 3d

LOVE these divas.

JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
🐙🦑🧪

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Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋 @aquariumpacific.bsky.social · 3d

UFOs? A music festival viewed from space? Some sort of rare gem earrings? No, these are "Mnemiopsis leidyi", aka comb jellies! 🧵

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Fingers crossed!!

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe self-replying for each option and having people like their choice?

Reduces the bias of seeing immediately who picked what (though would still show the # so far).

Also still has the issue of whether replies show or get buried by other engagement & whether folks will click through. 🤷

JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Ctenophore Day!

I also wish bluesky had a native polling option. I am going to abstain on a reply vote since I know definitively.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 4d

For CTENOPHORE DAY, a little survey:
Which end of this fishing Pleurobrachia is the mouth on? Please just "vote" in the comments — no definitive answers. 🦑🧪🌊

P.S. this is one of my earliest #ctenophore photos, shot on film in a home-built kreisel.

P.P.S. Legit data-gathering for a future paper.

A spherical comb jelly floating against a dark background, with its tentacles deployed, tentilla (side branches) fanned out. There is a number 1 above the body and number 2 below the body. Photo by S. Haddock taken around 1990.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Ctenophore Day! (‘Cos it’s the 4th of Oct and in the States you’d say it’s 10/04 ten-oh-four ctenophore. See? See?) So here’s a Ctenophore juvenile for #ctenophoreday ! Now the word ctenophore doesn’t make any sense to me, I’ve said it too many times.
#marineplankton 🦑

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Still so happy for you that you got to see these in the wild. Benthic ctenos and Ocryopsis are big on my bucket list

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

I mostly know my local species but I’m gonna take a stab at this…

Clockwise from top right

Menmiopsis leidyi
Beroe abyssicola
Coeplana? (Or another benthic species)
Pleurobrachia pileus
Mertensia ovum
Hormiphora plumosa
Hormiphora (californensis?)
Bolinopsis (infundibulum?)

Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

Also OMG you have the coolest job ever. What a dream!

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Alexandre Jan @alexandrejan.bsky.social · 3d

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 3d

The second to the left on the bottom is Dryodora glandiformis, but otherwise bang-on!

I have seen Haeckelia rubra once though

Very transparent ctenophore with four orange spots. It has super long baby ctenes

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