Meg Mindlin

@invertebabe.bsky.social

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MSc student | cephalopods & rna 🐙🧬💖
illustrator, photographer, science communicator✨
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Sure, July is so hot that I feel like I’m being cooked alive every time I walk to the coffee shop, but it’s also moth portrait season, so it’s not all bad. Found this Rosy Maple moth on Saturday night in the Pine Barrens 😍

Gastroptreon pacificum, easily the hardest organism I’ve tried to photograph (besides larval octopus babies)!! Out of 106 photos I got ONE that was actually in focus because these girlies be MOVING, and a fast moving organism can be really difficult for a macro lens to focus on But she is radiant

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We saw Pacific Batwing Slugs tonight!! Hoping between the three of us (me, @jensseattle.bsky.social , @invertebabe.bsky.social ), we’ll have at least a few good camera pics - these slugs were so little and moving and grooving so much it was tricky to image them. For now, phone pics:

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Polyorchis penicillatus 😁 🪼🐙🦑

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I'm a disabled horror and fantasy illustrator with many things on offer: Licensing Prints Merch Need physical art? A shirt with a Furby creature on it? Horror art for your band/book/project? I've got a lot here and need income 🐴💀 #HorrorArt #BSNM #ArtShopLicensing Prints Merch Need physical art? A shirt with a Furby creature on it? Horror art for your band/book/project? I've got a lot here and need income 🐴💀 #HorrorArt #BSNM #ArtShop

enjoying my macro this summer 🫶

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Happy Polychaete day! Here’s some worms to celebrate 🥳 If you need one for your wall, they are 30% off today with code WORM shop.noncompliantcyborg.com 🦑🐙

Happy International Polycheate Day! To celebrate a macro shot of a nereid worm we found nightlighting in the Salish Sea 🪱

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Just realized I didn’t share these here! Last week @invertebabe.bsky.social and I went tidepooling by the Fauntleroy Ferry docks and got to see so many sea slugs! (And @jensseattle.bsky.social 😄) 🐙🦑🌿#nudibranch

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I'm catching up on #CephalopodWeek content (since I didn't have much online time this week) and this ink-terview is FASCINATING! I did not know about pygmy sperm whale ink 🤯 nor that melanin binds to heavy metals so ink helps remove toxins! 🦑🧪

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived: #CephalopodWeek. To celebrate, Dr. Lauren Simonitis joins us to discuss the science of cephalopod inking.

Why Do Cephalopods Make Ink?www.sciencefriday.com Squid, octopuses, and cuttlefish use ink to confuse predators and to communicate. But there’s still a lot we don’t understand about inking.

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adult vampire squid: *is weird on every possible axis* humans: ok are you done adult vampire squid: no adult vampire squid: *has babies* baby vampire squid: imma grow two fins and then imma grow two more and then imma reabsorb the first two hehehe humans: ...why

#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 6/8 Vampire Squid, which isn't really a squid, is an oddball like no other. It's more closely related to all octopuses than squids, which explains its weird, mixed up anatomy. 🐡 🎨 apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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Cephalopods🦑✨🌿

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I hope everyone knows the correct posture to assume when discussing Bigfin Squid a.k.a. Elbow Squid

#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 2/8 Bigfin Squid, one of the most striking squids, was the first squid included in our roster. The earliest specimens were found dead in a bad shape. They lacked the extremely long appendages, hence the name "bigfin". 🐡 🎨 apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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Yes @dannastaaf.bsky.social is 100% right about this ✅ Evidence: me describing bigfin squid on Tuesday with @funkminister.bsky.social during @scifri.bsky.social Cephalopod Week trivia night 🦑🐙🧪 Shirt by the one and only @invertebabe.bsky.social

I hope everyone knows the correct posture to assume when discussing Bigfin Squid a.k.a. Elbow Squid

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Happy #CephalopodWeek! 🐙🦑 Here's a couple of Ruby Octopus photos I took last year at Rosario Beach Marine Lab while hanging out with @invertebabe.bsky.social. So excited to get back there later this month. To celebrate, here's 20% off art prints with code CEPHALOPODWEEK shop.noncompliantcyborg.com

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Back by popular demand...MOTH NIGHT! I know what you're thinking..."I want to go into the spookiest local ecosystem at night & appreciate biodiversity, but I can't convince any of my friends to do that with me!" I understand. Moth night is for you. 7/27 givebutter.com/PC0VZX

Moth Night July 27givebutter.com By Skype a Scientist

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I just spend two amazing days bumming around Roman ruins in the south of Italy, so my contributions to #CephalopodWeek are these two absolutely stunning more-than two-thousand-year-old mosaics from the apodyterium (changing room) of the women’s baths at Herculaneum

Cephalopod Week begins tomorrow! It's a 8-day celebration of goopy goodness. Science Friday asked me to update their fundraiser badges, check them out in their natural habitat, SciFri's Sea of Support: apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo... More shenanigans: www.sciencefriday.com/spotlights/c...

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#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 3/8 Blanket Octopus is another returning species from our old roster. With its wide, blanket-like appendages, it has one of the most iconic octopus silhouettes out there. 🐡 🎨 apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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John Oliver correctly identified a flapjack and a dumbo in his segment about deep sea mining. so you have no excuses anymore

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Insert an Invert: Ectoparasite Now introducing: Ceratothoa springbok, as shown in an unlucky Carpenter fish. Not gonna lie, these parasites are very cute to me. If one promised me it could do amazing job interviews for me, I might just trade in my tongue.

Starting cephalopod week off strong w my favorite deep sea ceph 🫶😭

wake up babe new magnapinna clip dropped (this one's from the INDEX2016 series of expeditions to the indian ocean, shoutout to klass meyn for granting the archive permission to publish this) 🦑🧪 youtu.be/SY7_758qUk4?...

Ultra Close Up of Magnapinna Squid 2023 | Magnapinna Archiveyoutu.be This incredible footage shows an ultra close up of an adult magnapinna spotted in the Indian Ocean in 2023. Thanks to the quality, we are able to observe much closer the movement of the fins. Many thanks to Klass Meyn for facilitating this footage. Read the paper from this observation: https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/69955/ Date: October 16, 2023 Location: Rodriguez Triple Junction - Indian Ocean Depth: 2950 meters (1.8 miles)

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It’s the first day of cephalopod week 2024! Happy cephalopod week!!

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OMG OMG OMGGGGGGGG new footage of one of my all time FAVE squid species???? oh HELL YES 🤩🤩🤩 🦑🧪

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#CephalopodWeek 2024 illustrations 1/8 Nautiluses are the only living cephalopods with external shells. They look so strikingly different from other cephalopods, it was only right to include it again in the updated illustration set. 🐡 🎨 apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo...

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Happy World Oceans Day 🌊 & Happy Pride Month! 🌈 Want to support queer ocean art & science? 🧪🦑🐙🐡 I’m a Salish Sea natural historian photographing gelatinous marine inverts & trying to 3D scan them this summer. I’m selling my art & fundraising research costs. linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg

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Cephalopod Week is coming up this month!! 🦑🧪 Join me: June 18 (NYC): Trivia Night w/ @scifri.bsky.social Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/cepha... June 20 (NYC + virtual): Facts Machine science & comedy show. I've got a fun new talk about neuroscience & giant squids! Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/facts...

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