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 🇨🇦
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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
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as far as I know, the species isn't even named. there are literal glowing shrimp just chilling in puddles in rural Argentina and somehow they're not even printed on their money yet
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
as far as I know, the species isn't even named. there are literal glowing shrimp just chilling in puddles in rural Argentina and somehow they're not even printed on their money yet
I have a shared folder full of R code for a publication I'm working on with my very offline previous manager and I am mortally tempted to spend way too much time to find-and-replace every dplyr verb with these just to see what they say
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I have a shared folder full of R code for a publication I'm working on with my very offline previous manager and I am mortally tempted to spend way too much time to find-and-replace every dplyr verb with these just to see what they say
Bold of you to show your face around here bud, everybody's pretty disappointed in you tbh
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Bold of you to show your face around here bud, everybody's pretty disappointed in you tbh
Me 🤝 bugs
Piles of
fallen leaves
Piles of
fallen leaves
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Me 🤝 bugs
Piles of
fallen leaves
Piles of
fallen leaves
I was at a Halloween party last night wearing a lobster onesie and I am not exaggerating even slightly when I say that TWO different people just walked away from me while I was literally mid-sentence telling them a lobster fact
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was at a Halloween party last night wearing a lobster onesie and I am not exaggerating even slightly when I say that TWO different people just walked away from me while I was literally mid-sentence telling them a lobster fact
I took a wrong turn during a hike last week and ended up on the mountain biking route, on which I found this plank of wood with a handwritten Macbeth quote nailed to a tree (?????)
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I took a wrong turn during a hike last week and ended up on the mountain biking route, on which I found this plank of wood with a handwritten Macbeth quote nailed to a tree (?????)
Them: Ready to go! Should we take your car or mine?
Me: Can we take yours? Mine has a spider on it.
Them: Ha ha ha, for sure, I get it
Me, thinking about how I drove the entire way home at 20km/hr that morning with my hand cupped over the spiderweb and spider on my side mirror: I'm not sure you do
Me: Can we take yours? Mine has a spider on it.
Them: Ha ha ha, for sure, I get it
Me, thinking about how I drove the entire way home at 20km/hr that morning with my hand cupped over the spiderweb and spider on my side mirror: I'm not sure you do
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Them: Ready to go! Should we take your car or mine?
Me: Can we take yours? Mine has a spider on it.
Them: Ha ha ha, for sure, I get it
Me, thinking about how I drove the entire way home at 20km/hr that morning with my hand cupped over the spiderweb and spider on my side mirror: I'm not sure you do
Me: Can we take yours? Mine has a spider on it.
Them: Ha ha ha, for sure, I get it
Me, thinking about how I drove the entire way home at 20km/hr that morning with my hand cupped over the spiderweb and spider on my side mirror: I'm not sure you do
I accidentally stayed up until 3am reading and I'm now beefing with the entire local starling population because apparently every single individual inhabiting Newfoundland AND Labrador was posted outside MY window this morning boopling and burbling and SCREAMING
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I accidentally stayed up until 3am reading and I'm now beefing with the entire local starling population because apparently every single individual inhabiting Newfoundland AND Labrador was posted outside MY window this morning boopling and burbling and SCREAMING
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was randomly browsing r/megalophobia earlier only to see an image of stygiomedusa with a snorkeler at the surface, which is bonkers since it's a deep sea jelly. 🦑🧪
after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198...
about this observation:
www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y
after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198...
about this observation:
www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
was randomly browsing r/megalophobia earlier only to see an image of stygiomedusa with a snorkeler at the surface, which is bonkers since it's a deep sea jelly. 🦑🧪
after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198...
about this observation:
www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y
after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198...
about this observation:
www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y
Not to brag or anything but I saw a pretty cool spider on a walk yesterday
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Not to brag or anything but I saw a pretty cool spider on a walk yesterday
The autumn colours here have been SPECTACULAR (in between the near-constant RDF), so please enjoy this view of Quidi Vidi and Signal Hill with me
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The autumn colours here have been SPECTACULAR (in between the near-constant RDF), so please enjoy this view of Quidi Vidi and Signal Hill with me
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
It's the last day of my contract today and I'm debating if anyone will notice if I pack up my things and also the decorative fish earbones and seal skull that were already in my cubicle when I arrived
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's the last day of my contract today and I'm debating if anyone will notice if I pack up my things and also the decorative fish earbones and seal skull that were already in my cubicle when I arrived
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Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
Sometimes your friends are being nice and showing you a thing you'd like but you can't keep the ☝️🤓 inside the privacy of your own head for even one second
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sometimes your friends are being nice and showing you a thing you'd like but you can't keep the ☝️🤓 inside the privacy of your own head for even one second
In my home province (Quebec): Poutine. Or Quebec
In my current province (Newfoundland): literally any word. Any phoneme that exists that you think you know how to pronounce
In my current province (Newfoundland): literally any word. Any phoneme that exists that you think you know how to pronounce
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In my home province (Quebec): Poutine. Or Quebec
In my current province (Newfoundland): literally any word. Any phoneme that exists that you think you know how to pronounce
In my current province (Newfoundland): literally any word. Any phoneme that exists that you think you know how to pronounce
I heard it's #WorldOctopusDay so I MUST shared some of my favourite octopus ~memories~ like of Petunia, my darling, from whomst I still have some art
The Art The Artist
The Art The Artist
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I heard it's #WorldOctopusDay so I MUST shared some of my favourite octopus ~memories~ like of Petunia, my darling, from whomst I still have some art
The Art The Artist
The Art The Artist
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For #WorldOctopusDay we'd like to share with you this rare octopus skeleton that was found at the Palace.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For #WorldOctopusDay we'd like to share with you this rare octopus skeleton that was found at the Palace.
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book
The job ad: "Teach practical skills from assigned training material"
My resume: "Experienced in training staff in safety protocols and animal husbandry skills"
The actual experience: Holding onto someone's ankles as they are submerged headfirst into a sculpin tank on surface-supplied air
My resume: "Experienced in training staff in safety protocols and animal husbandry skills"
The actual experience: Holding onto someone's ankles as they are submerged headfirst into a sculpin tank on surface-supplied air
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The job ad: "Teach practical skills from assigned training material"
My resume: "Experienced in training staff in safety protocols and animal husbandry skills"
The actual experience: Holding onto someone's ankles as they are submerged headfirst into a sculpin tank on surface-supplied air
My resume: "Experienced in training staff in safety protocols and animal husbandry skills"
The actual experience: Holding onto someone's ankles as they are submerged headfirst into a sculpin tank on surface-supplied air
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Nice titmouse. Tufted?
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nice titmouse. Tufted?
My roommate got home from errands the other day and said she got me something "because you've been going through it lately" and they say money can't buy happiness but your friend CAN buy you a snail hairclip and I'm not sure there's a difference
October 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My roommate got home from errands the other day and said she got me something "because you've been going through it lately" and they say money can't buy happiness but your friend CAN buy you a snail hairclip and I'm not sure there's a difference
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being nice to bugs is hot
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
being nice to bugs is hot