Sophie W
@biologizing.bsky.social
Thirt(ies) and feeling invert-y 🐙 MSc studying Arctic and North Atlantic deep-sea weirdos ❄️ Ex-professional jellyfish mom ♨️ she/her 🇨🇦
Pinned
Sophie W
@biologizing.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Tfw you are a small rock crab and some kind of delicious worm sausage thing is right there but it knows invisible shield magic
Reposted by Sophie W
thinking about them 😍 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
thinking about them 😍 🪶
Reposted by Sophie W
Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW!
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
January 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW!
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)
Reposted by Sophie W
“pivot to video”
no thanks I’m gonna pivot to the woods
no thanks I’m gonna pivot to the woods
January 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
“pivot to video”
no thanks I’m gonna pivot to the woods
no thanks I’m gonna pivot to the woods
exCUSE ME
The last bombshell paleontology discovery of a year of bombshell discoveries: Ammonites survived the K-PG extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at ...
www.nature.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
exCUSE ME
I love visiting my hometown and getting to eat poutine 😌
December 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I love visiting my hometown and getting to eat poutine 😌
Every year I say I'm going to do better at creature-finding for December Invertefest and yet every year I decide to spend Dec 27-30 in the Outaouais where it is currently *checks notes* -24°C with the wind chill
December 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Every year I say I'm going to do better at creature-finding for December Invertefest and yet every year I decide to spend Dec 27-30 in the Outaouais where it is currently *checks notes* -24°C with the wind chill
I was trying to get a sluggish dragonfly to crawl onto my hand so I could move it out of the middle of the road, but the wind kept blowing it off. Someone stopped to block the wind, and after I'd successfully moved it, I looked up and it was one of the most preeminent scientists in my field
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I was trying to get a sluggish dragonfly to crawl onto my hand so I could move it out of the middle of the road, but the wind kept blowing it off. Someone stopped to block the wind, and after I'd successfully moved it, I looked up and it was one of the most preeminent scientists in my field
Now this is an #InverteFest boxing week sale I can get behind
December 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Now this is an #InverteFest boxing week sale I can get behind
Bryozoa mention
December 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bryozoa mention
There's a snowstorm in the part(s) of Ontario that I have been spending the holidays in so to celebrate #InverteFest on day 2 of it, here are some invert-adjacent ephemera I have seen
December 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There's a snowstorm in the part(s) of Ontario that I have been spending the holidays in so to celebrate #InverteFest on day 2 of it, here are some invert-adjacent ephemera I have seen
Reposted by Sophie W
Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time.
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
December 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time.
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
Reposted by Sophie W
Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras
I'd like to thank the people who put St. John's in a natural harbour because it meant my house was slightly sheltered from the record-breaking 137km/hr winds last night
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'd like to thank the people who put St. John's in a natural harbour because it meant my house was slightly sheltered from the record-breaking 137km/hr winds last night
I love when the spam predatory journal emails are desperate
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I love when the spam predatory journal emails are desperate
I bought this shirt on the first run and it is truly so comfy, and when people polite-small-talk ask me about it I can spring my trap and talk to them about white-throated sparrows' four sexes or giant grouper protogyny. would recommend 10/10
Tomorrow IRL markets in Philly start, which means a bunch of squid facts shop items will sell out!
We have a few Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirts (designed by @franzanth.bsky.social) left. They're comfy & colors printed great!
Once they're gone that's it.
Get 'em now:
SquidFacts.net
We have a few Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirts (designed by @franzanth.bsky.social) left. They're comfy & colors printed great!
Once they're gone that's it.
Get 'em now:
SquidFacts.net
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I bought this shirt on the first run and it is truly so comfy, and when people polite-small-talk ask me about it I can spring my trap and talk to them about white-throated sparrows' four sexes or giant grouper protogyny. would recommend 10/10
I bid on and won these 30-year-old trail signs in a charity auction for the East Coast Trail Association (all of their signage was just updated and replaced) and I haven't figured out what I'm doing with them or where I'm putting them but I love them so much
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I bid on and won these 30-year-old trail signs in a charity auction for the East Coast Trail Association (all of their signage was just updated and replaced) and I haven't figured out what I'm doing with them or where I'm putting them but I love them so much
Lemme just say - and I cannot emphasize this enough - 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Lemme just say - and I cannot emphasize this enough - 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀
Me, pointing: So those bigger ones are from blue jays, and the smaller ones are juncos
Them: Whoa, that's so cool, how can you tell?
Me: I saw blue jays and juncos running around making them this morning
Them: Whoa, that's so cool, how can you tell?
Me: I saw blue jays and juncos running around making them this morning
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Me, pointing: So those bigger ones are from blue jays, and the smaller ones are juncos
Them: Whoa, that's so cool, how can you tell?
Me: I saw blue jays and juncos running around making them this morning
Them: Whoa, that's so cool, how can you tell?
Me: I saw blue jays and juncos running around making them this morning
My cat, Totoro, had a follow-up vet appt today where they had to bring her to the back, but they put me in an exam room where I could hear the staff talking through the closed door. One person was just quietly singing the My Neighbour Totoro theme to her for the entire procedure and it was the best
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My cat, Totoro, had a follow-up vet appt today where they had to bring her to the back, but they put me in an exam room where I could hear the staff talking through the closed door. One person was just quietly singing the My Neighbour Totoro theme to her for the entire procedure and it was the best
A friend gave me their AppleTV login so I'm catching up on Prehistoric Planet and I gotta say I think this is my favourite episode so far
![A CGI toad, standing in a swamp and croaking. The subtitles say "[croaks]".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7rwpvuxa243ssne2lqhmnfu2/bafkreibl7emkfdsrlddljv6g3bynldfiwhmh6g5dild6sn6hgpnpubdi3u@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A friend gave me their AppleTV login so I'm catching up on Prehistoric Planet and I gotta say I think this is my favourite episode so far
Reposted by Sophie W
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
I was going to be a vertebrate palaeontologist but I spent one (1) summer in the badlands of Alberta while it was 45°C and then I became a coldwater marine biologist
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I was going to be a vertebrate palaeontologist but I spent one (1) summer in the badlands of Alberta while it was 45°C and then I became a coldwater marine biologist
This has now become my most popular post on here, I can't believe that for a second time it is once again an eel post that I will be known for
If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This has now become my most popular post on here, I can't believe that for a second time it is once again an eel post that I will be known for
Reposted by Sophie W
It's axiomatic! You have to hold them by the head!
In pre-modern England, the expression, "Holding an eel by the tail" meant that you were doing something the wrong way. Like...did you just buy a cyber truck so that you could look cool and pick up women? You, sir, are holding an eel by the tail.
In pre-modern England, the expression, "Holding an eel by the tail" meant that you were doing something the wrong way. Like...did you just buy a cyber truck so that you could look cool and pick up women? You, sir, are holding an eel by the tail.
If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's axiomatic! You have to hold them by the head!
In pre-modern England, the expression, "Holding an eel by the tail" meant that you were doing something the wrong way. Like...did you just buy a cyber truck so that you could look cool and pick up women? You, sir, are holding an eel by the tail.
In pre-modern England, the expression, "Holding an eel by the tail" meant that you were doing something the wrong way. Like...did you just buy a cyber truck so that you could look cool and pick up women? You, sir, are holding an eel by the tail.