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...
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
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Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
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This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Remember these baby octos? 🐙🦑🐡
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
This piece is in memory of my father, Jonathan Fay, who died suddenly in October.
He took the astro photo of NGC2244 with his SeeStar. He loved when I'd message him critters I found, & joining me when he could.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/product/baby...
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I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow.
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
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Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow.
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow.
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
Shop
Browse all products from NonCompliant Cyborg.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I cannot control the USPS but I can tell you your window for ordering a package and having it likely arrive by Christmas is beginning to narrow.
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
Get your ocean art in orders ASAP to increase your chances.
shop.noncompliantcyborg.com/products
I have such a love/hate relationship with being my own manufacturer.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I have such a love/hate relationship with being my own manufacturer.
The Trolley Problem except
the lever is too late
to save your father
you're tied down
beside your brother
bridging two tracks
the trolley's set
to take you both
at the knees
a voice calls out
if you say yes
they'll pull the lever
for a third track
that hits no one
or so they say
the lever is too late
to save your father
you're tied down
beside your brother
bridging two tracks
the trolley's set
to take you both
at the knees
a voice calls out
if you say yes
they'll pull the lever
for a third track
that hits no one
or so they say
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The Trolley Problem except
the lever is too late
to save your father
you're tied down
beside your brother
bridging two tracks
the trolley's set
to take you both
at the knees
a voice calls out
if you say yes
they'll pull the lever
for a third track
that hits no one
or so they say
the lever is too late
to save your father
you're tied down
beside your brother
bridging two tracks
the trolley's set
to take you both
at the knees
a voice calls out
if you say yes
they'll pull the lever
for a third track
that hits no one
or so they say