Timeline cleanse - check out this thread of gorgeous sea slugs. Proof that beauty is everywhere if you look closely enough.
#nature #animals

If you need proof that everything becomes crabs, even the rocks are becoming crabs.

This is not a crab that merely looks like a rock do not be fooled.

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In exciting news from back home in Wales, there's a tawny owl building a nest in the garden owl box for the first time!

Now I kinda need to go home 😅🦉

We only have about 10 slots left! Submit today! #InverteFest

I love this!

Wholesome thread.

I tried a couple of ways. First was to edit photo transparency in GIMP to isolate the subject and use an automatic colour picker site. And then tried a different website that allowed manual placement of the colour pickers to generate the palette/hexcodes. Then back to GIMP for image wrangling!

A tiny nudibranch sparkling against a brown algae background. The lower half of the image is a range of swatches - a gradient of silvers and greys - made from the nudi's colours.

A tiny Jorunna (pantherina, I think) in a shallow tidepool. A nudi that might look pale and grey from distance, but shines & sparkles up close because of its texture. Really like the gradient of silver and greys with the brown spots! 🩶

#nudibranch #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

A chonks of a Harpacticoida copepod! This is Alteutha sp. and it’s gorgeous!

#marineplankton 🦑

does anyone know any artists currently open for commissions? might need some art for work containing both cats and cars...

"Sea slugs make killer web palettes" is not a sentence I ever expected to find myself saying, and yet

I love this!!!

This is so cool!

Really good tardigrade culture in the Invertebrate teaching lab today! #invertebrates #tardigrades

Close-up and front on with a large lumpy sea hare. A beautiful, silly, derpy kinda face, looking a bit bewildered by the strange biped peering at it adoringly. Lower half of the image contains swatches of the slug's colour palette, browns and beige, through to a bright lime green

Meet Doli. Dolabrifera. Look at that face! 😍

One of my first ever Sydney tidepool trips, I was busy looking for tiny nudis on shallow rocks, without realising like a herd of these slug-cows were RIGHT NEXT to me, incredibly well camouflaged.

#rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

devpalmer military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it devpalmer Follow whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

amazing thread

We'll release the very first #InverteFest Anthology on the first day of #InverteFest, 24 April! It's almost finalized and it looks really good. We have 17 incredible submissions from writer/artist partners, all about invertebrates, and I'm really looking forward to sharing it!

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

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#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds

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If you love color or nudibranchs (why not both?) this thread is marvelous!

It's March here, so it's time to help me decide the vibe for the next art book cover for the end of April. Previous 4 covers are below.
#Art #SciArt

I'm thinking either green or sepia.

Some kind of candy lying on a brown algae background. No wait, it is a nudibranch. White, pale pink, vivid ridiculous spots of magenta and sunflower yellow. Silly and beautiful. Lower half of the image contains swatches of the nudi's colour palette.

Always a rare treat when I am lucky enough to spot a tiny clown doris! One of my missions is still to get a better photo of one too 😅 🤡

The R package has been uploaded to CRAN for review!

#nudibranch #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Hey, all! @nikihubbard.bsky.social keeps adding more nudis & slugs to this amazing collection of molluscan color palettes - so fun! 🤩 🌊🫧🐌🎨🦑 #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #MarineLife #RStats

A valid question for my fellow bibliophiles! 👀📚😍
#WritingCommunity #readers #readingcommunity #books

a translucent nudibranch with finger like cerata lining its back which are also translucent with a brown line and tipped in orange. it's against a black background moving towards its reflection

a translucent nudibranch with finger like cerata lining its back which are also translucent with a brown line and tipped in orange. it's against a black background curled with its reflection underneath it

a translucent nudibranch with finger like cerata lining its back which are also translucent with a brown line and tipped in orange. it's against a black background moving towards the camera with it's reflection to the right

a translucent nudibranch with finger like cerata lining its back which are also translucent with a brown line and tipped in orange. it's against a black background moving towards the camera

I'm not really coming back quite yet, but I've been working on a backlog of my photos and I thought I'd pop back in to share these glamour shots of a Hermissenda crassicornis nudibranch.

#Invertebrates

Nature heals.
Natures creates.
Nature understands color like no other!

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

I’m really excited for this SF! With it we’re trying to combat the positive bias in publishing - how we and reviewers are inclined to only lift up research that goes as expected. But we all know there are so many lessons to be learned when you get unexpected results, or when things don’t work. 🧪

24 new species found in ocean zone eyed for battery metals mining Researchers pulled 24 tiny new creatures from a deep abyss in the central Pacific Ocean, some with long, spindly legs and others with more squat, compact bodies. Some appeared to feed on the sediment ...

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A tiny bubble snail in a shallow rockpool. Two tiny eye spots face upwards amidst a wealth of speckles and spots and sparkles that look like distant stars. The lower half of the image contains swatches of its earthy colour palette.

Low key, earthy colour palette, but when you look close, this species of bubble snail (Haloa) is speckled and spotted and looks like it is full of distant stars ✨

#rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates