JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg
@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
Disabled Marine Scientist & Artist living by the Salish Sea
Actually a cyborg
Probably has seen a ctenophore today
3D visualization of marine inverts
Support my work, get some art: https://linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg
📸 by me unless cited
Actually a cyborg
Probably has seen a ctenophore today
3D visualization of marine inverts
Support my work, get some art: https://linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg
📸 by me unless cited
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Hi BlueSky!
I’m JA, a marine scientist & artist living by the Salish Sea.
I post marine life 🦑, especially invertebrates 🐙, visual art & embroidery.
I’m looking forward to the spring ctenophore & jelly blooms, and bringing ROV live dives back soon.
Art & YouTube link:
linktr.ee/noncompliant...
I’m JA, a marine scientist & artist living by the Salish Sea.
I post marine life 🦑, especially invertebrates 🐙, visual art & embroidery.
I’m looking forward to the spring ctenophore & jelly blooms, and bringing ROV live dives back soon.
Art & YouTube link:
linktr.ee/noncompliant...
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the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: on not knowing how to write memoir anymore as a survivor in the age of Epstein
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the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: writing memoir as a survivor in the age of Epstein
I do not know how to write memoir anymore, because all holiday season, while my timeline was busy un-redacting the Epstein Files, I was redacting my childhood Christmas photos.
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February 1, 2026 at 3:49 AM
the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: on not knowing how to write memoir anymore as a survivor in the age of Epstein
tinyurl.com/bdhcbc75
tinyurl.com/bdhcbc75
Thinking about Zander. He would have turned 38 today.
Five years ago today, my mentor Zander Fodor unexpectedly passed away. He loved ctenophores and tunicates, and he’s why I went on to study marine inverts and dev bio. He loved to make ice cream and mini donuts. He’d answer any either/or question with “yes”.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Thinking about Zander. He would have turned 38 today.
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From now until the end of the month, you can get ebook versions of all of my zines in a bundle for $5.
That includes:
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2
Insert An Invert
August Arthropod Art
Nudivember 2024
Nudivember 2025
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That includes:
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2
Insert An Invert
August Arthropod Art
Nudivember 2024
Nudivember 2025
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6 Zine Bundle by Saimi
A bundle by Saimi, $5.00 for 6 games
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January 22, 2026 at 5:58 PM
From now until the end of the month, you can get ebook versions of all of my zines in a bundle for $5.
That includes:
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2
Insert An Invert
August Arthropod Art
Nudivember 2024
Nudivember 2025
itch.io/s/179175/6-z...
That includes:
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2
Insert An Invert
August Arthropod Art
Nudivember 2024
Nudivember 2025
itch.io/s/179175/6-z...
I am already having a day only to get the mail and find replacement ID cards I had to order because they spelled my name wrong arrived with my name mangled even more and so now I have to wait on hold again at multiple different places. Three separate ID cards arrived from this mess today, all wrong
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM
I am already having a day only to get the mail and find replacement ID cards I had to order because they spelled my name wrong arrived with my name mangled even more and so now I have to wait on hold again at multiple different places. Three separate ID cards arrived from this mess today, all wrong
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Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
January 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
Back in October, the dock I had taken ~1/3 of my natural history documentation notes at got caught up on a piling on one end & lost it's floatation to gravity as the tide left it behind. I knew it was going to be removed & not fixed, but I went to see if it happened yet today. It was gone.
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Back in October, the dock I had taken ~1/3 of my natural history documentation notes at got caught up on a piling on one end & lost it's floatation to gravity as the tide left it behind. I knew it was going to be removed & not fixed, but I went to see if it happened yet today. It was gone.
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed Linepithema humile you may be ant-titled (to compensation)
January 11, 2026 at 2:02 AM
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed Linepithema humile you may be ant-titled (to compensation)
3 hours of health insurance phone calls so far today and I’ve needed to cry but I wish it was because I was actually able to work through some grieving and not because I’m frustrated and hopeless to the point of tears trying to just figure out how to get to keep existing next year
December 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
3 hours of health insurance phone calls so far today and I’ve needed to cry but I wish it was because I was actually able to work through some grieving and not because I’m frustrated and hopeless to the point of tears trying to just figure out how to get to keep existing next year
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This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
I want to go out nightlighting but feeling pretty bleh.
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I want to go out nightlighting but feeling pretty bleh.
This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
🐙🦑 #inverteFest
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December 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I’m going to try to get a few more pieces done for deep sea December, so here’s day 15 - Gossamer (worm)
#art #ocean #deepseadecember
#art #ocean #deepseadecember
December 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I’m going to try to get a few more pieces done for deep sea December, so here’s day 15 - Gossamer (worm)
#art #ocean #deepseadecember
#art #ocean #deepseadecember
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Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.
December 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today I visited the Takeshima Aquarium in Gamagori, which specializes in deep sea animals. I saw giant isopods, spider crabs, deep sea octopus and all kinds of fascinating #invertebrates.
I’m literally one item away from 1500 pieces of art sold this year…
December 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I’m literally one item away from 1500 pieces of art sold this year…
Lanterns at the Solstice Luminaria walk with the Salish Sea School tonight
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Lanterns at the Solstice Luminaria walk with the Salish Sea School tonight
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We lost power the other night for long enough that everything in the freezers was totally soft and a loss and folks trashed it all while I was vending.
I’d bought some apple blossom pastries to have with my dad before he died & I’d been trying to get myself up to make them. Just realized I can’t.
I’d bought some apple blossom pastries to have with my dad before he died & I’d been trying to get myself up to make them. Just realized I can’t.
December 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We lost power the other night for long enough that everything in the freezers was totally soft and a loss and folks trashed it all while I was vending.
I’d bought some apple blossom pastries to have with my dad before he died & I’d been trying to get myself up to make them. Just realized I can’t.
I’d bought some apple blossom pastries to have with my dad before he died & I’d been trying to get myself up to make them. Just realized I can’t.
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More excellent tunicate news this morning, with a new preprint from the @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social lab 🤩 This work, led by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, describes the fascinating diversity of behaviors displayed by the larvacean Oikopleura throughout its life cycle ⤵️🧪
New preprint from our lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, Sissel and Rodolfo in collaboration with @appygenetics.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social built a behavioral atlas of the planktonic tunicate Oikopleura dioica across its life cycle.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
More excellent tunicate news this morning, with a new preprint from the @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social lab 🤩 This work, led by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, describes the fascinating diversity of behaviors displayed by the larvacean Oikopleura throughout its life cycle ⤵️🧪
I love Phronima so much...
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I love Phronima so much...
Just think this gossamer worm needs a moment again 🐙🦑🐡
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Just think this gossamer worm needs a moment again 🐙🦑🐡
Just managed to fumble a nearly four pound container of peanut m&m’s I’d bought because they were my dad’s favorite and it of course flipped so all of them spilled across the floor and under furniture
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Just managed to fumble a nearly four pound container of peanut m&m’s I’d bought because they were my dad’s favorite and it of course flipped so all of them spilled across the floor and under furniture