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SAHASA 🐙

@sculptedreef.com

✨ New artwork is here! ✨

🐙 👀 Are you ready for new Caribbean Reef Octopus sculptures??

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Close up of a Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture, a bluish teal octopus with neon green patches around the eyes. It is painted with very tiny detailed brush marks in pearl, bronze, green and teal.

November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM

Cephalopods Daily

@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social

I will never get tired of tiny octopuses.

🐙📷Xavier Rufray (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

A tiny, juvenile common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) crawling on the sea bed. It is orangish red and beige, and one of its arms is grabbing something.

November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Jeff Day

@jeffday.bsky.social

wake up babe, new taningia observation dropped

one of my faves, great piloting by the ROV folks at @schmidtocean.bsky.social

Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 6h

ROV SuBastian pilots need raises because CAN YOU SEE IT?! ROV SuBastian in the eye of this Taningia! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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cow tools daily

@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

he's the reason for the season

In the style of the Cow Tools Far side cartoon: a robed figure with horns, a goatee, and tail stands in a pasture behind a table. On the table is a plate with 4 devilled eggs on it. Caption reads, "Devil eggs."

November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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beetle moses

@beetlemoses.bsky.social

Comic:
Panel one: “these soft bodied aliens operate mech suits”
Panel two: “their plan: invade earth” and the aliens are jumping out of the ship towards earth.
Panel three: they are really small and they crash landed in a marsh and are being terror a limpkin (snail eating water bird)

November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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beetle moses

@beetlemoses.bsky.social

Panel 1: classroom setting of animals. Gazelle teacher tells two hyenas sitting next to each other to stop laughing or she’ll separate them

Panel 2: one hyena bro looks at the other

Panel 3: the other hyena bro is hitting him with a deadpan expression which makes him burst out laughing

November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM

Cephalopods Daily

@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social

This is a great photo showing of the bioluminescent arm tips of an Octopoteuthis deletron, but it still looks to me like a squid showing of its freshly painted nails...

💅🦑📷MBARI

An Octopoteuthis deletron floating in the deep sea with its arms raised. The photo is taken above the squid, so you can see the top of its mantle, although the photo is focus on the white bioluminescent arm tips. Its arms are raised but in various poses, so you can see the arm hooks on some of them. The squid is orange.

November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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Chris Taylor

@christaylornyc.bsky.social

Lots of pie discourse on Bluesky I see

I will take the opportunity to stan for Canadian butter tarts 🇨🇦

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019...

Butter Tarts (Published 2018)

cooking.nytimes.com

November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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Lisa

@tuexplorer1.bsky.social

Another old dive clip for your eyeballs. Cirroctopus I think? I remember it had those weird lumps on the back of the mantle, but idk what those are. Injury? From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 606 #mappinggalapagosvents #MarineLife

November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM

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Mr. Joshua

@pantspants.bsky.social

November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Look we all love a nuns having fun calendar, but @megstampede.bsky.social and I would like to suggest something a little different for next year.

The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!

Get em at SquidFacts.net!

November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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pikaole

@pikaole.bsky.social

🦑~

It's a two-panel cartoon that promotes "squid is cute."

November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

I was writing, I swear I was, but then she did this and…my hands are tied, she needs attention.

A fluffy black cat lounges on Sarah’s desk

November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Cephalopods Daily

@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social

It's crazy how cute octopuses are. Like there is no way I could say no to those eyes...

🐙📷NOAA Ocean Exploration

A cute Graneledone sp. sitting on the sea floor. The arms are curled and sitting around it. The octopus is purple and bumpy with big black eyes, making it look quite cute. The sea floor is mostly sand but there are some rocks of various sizes.

November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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Chris

@indrifan.bsky.social

I have a testimonial for @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's Eel Facts Advent calendars (which can also be any old b-day countdown calendars!) 2 13-year-olds walked into our kitchen (first time visiting us), shouted "Eel facts!" simultaneously and started reading the facts together

November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Honestly this is how I’ve felt all week. Not sad though just tiiirredddd

Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

Taonius borealis has a special place in my heart because of this one photo. It looks so sad that it just tugs at the heart strings.

Why are you sad, Taonius borealis? I hope you feel better soon...

November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM

Cephalopods Daily

@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social

Taonius borealis has a special place in my heart because of this one photo. It looks so sad that it just tugs at the heart strings.

Why are you sad, Taonius borealis? I hope you feel better soon...

November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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Meg Mindlin

@invertebabe.bsky.social

- raised as an artist, made some money, hated making art for others & lost my passion
- followed a whim & pursued making ocean documentaries w/ a marine bio degree
- research writing course my first year introduced me to rna editing in 🐙
- entire life plan out the window to follow my curiosity
- now

Photo of me sitting on a desk with my hands under my chin, princess pose. Above me is the opening slide of my masters thesis presentation. It reads “tickled zinc: characterizing a to i rna edits in nervous tissue of octopus rubescens in response to ocean acidification”

November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Cephalopods Daily

@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social

I want to be this cozy.

🐙📷Susanne Spindler (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Brown-striped Octopus (Amphioctopus burryi) in a glass jar or bottle under the sand. The brown bottle is completely covered in sand, with only rim visible. The octopus has its eyes and part of its arms out of the bottle, with its arms reaching back into the bottle. It appears to be in a small repression. The octopus is grey and brown, with a brown strip going through its eye. It looks very cute and cozy.

November 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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Jeff Day

@jeffday.bsky.social

this is a weird one. discussing with a few folks and current theory is that this is batoteuthis skolops, a really obscure chiroteuthid from antarctic and subantarctic waters, notable for having strange tentacle clubs (missing in this individual) and a very long, tapered mantle fin

Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe Gonatus, but this one looks weird. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife