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The Octopus Lady
@theoctopuslady.bsky.social
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Marine biology YouTuber, talking about all the weird and bizarre creatures that live in the ocean. https://www.youtube.com/@OctopusLady
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The Octopus Lady @theoctopuslady.bsky.social · May 17
My newest video is up on YouTube! And has been for an entire week! I'm so bad at social media!

This is part 2 of my series on geoduck clams, and it's all about how these odd looking bivalves kicked off one of the greatest crime sprees in Washington state history!

youtu.be/-gmVnHL1k0M

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The Bizarrely Violent World of Clam Smuggling
YouTube video by The Octopus Lady
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whaletalesorg.bsky.social
Our most popular (and controversial!) post from the Naming of Things blog was in celebration of #OrcaActionMonth in 2019 and here it is again: Killer Whale or Orca?
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Meme by @emmaluck22.bsky.social‬
#WhaleTales #NamingOfThings
June 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
theoctopuslady.bsky.social
HAPPY PRIDE Y'ALL

THE OCEAN IS GAY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌟🐙🦞🦐🦈🐡🐠
gimbaled.bsky.social Emily Peck @gimbaled.bsky.social · Jun 2
Happy Pride, y’all!

This flag was shared by my alma mater, New England Aquarium, in 2022 and it’s still my favorite!

🧪 🦑
A progressive pride flag, where the stripes are made of animals from the New England Aquarium. My ID’s below: White: Harbor Seal Pink: Anemone Baby Blue: Garden Eels Brown: Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle (?) Black: Comb jellies Red: Lionfish Orange: Clownfish Yellow: Yellow tang Green: Pacific Surf Anemone Blue: Chromis (?) Purple: Giant Pacific Octopus
June 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Spider 🦀 liftoff
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 84 #MarineLife
June 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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xenomatt.bsky.social
Juvenile fish sometimes shelter in and around jellyfish. This one's a juvenile jack of some kind. Pic from Balayan Bay, Anilao

#MarineLife 🐟 #Invertebrate #Blackwater
A small fish sheltering next to a jellyfish. The jellyfish has short tentacles and is somewhat damaged with much of the bell missing. The fish is yellow with darker bars, and has a remarkably long dorsal spine projecting above it from its rear dorsal fin. Its oversized pelvic fins are also noticeable. #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Divesky #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro
June 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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austsocfishbiol.bsky.social
CSIRO Publishing is seeking Social Media Editor(s) for the journal Marine & Freshwater Research. The engagement is for a term of two years, with potential for renewal.

👀 Expressions of interest are now open here: www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Expressio...

#scicomms #job #fish #biology
June 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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sculptedreef.com
😔 I totally borked the resin layers on this piece.

Super sad because the pink corals came out so pretty 🪸🪸🪸 and I love this species a lot.

What should I do with this piece?? 😭

#ArtYear #Art #MixedMedia #Sculpture #Bleh #Help 🐡🦑
Pink and green corals and seaweeds made from glass beads on wire. Attached across a vintage porcelain tea set. A small octopus sculpture sits on top of the cup.
May 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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kelporama.bsky.social
The subtle sproing of a sea spider #Invertebrates
May 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
theoctopuslady.bsky.social
CLIFF JUMPING CRABS LETS GOOOOOO
tuexplorer1.bsky.social Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · May 28
Parapagurid 🦀 with zoanthids cliff jumping. The stunned fish at the end is funny. Idk why the video jumps cus during the live feed it did not. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 398 #EdgeGBR #MarineLife
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Day31 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Today John (H. sapiens) is cozying up to the echinoid Phymosoma texanum(PRI78781)

#savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth 🦑⚒️
(We can keep going even if you help us!)
John Oliver in a sweater with his arms around a large echinoid fossil with no spines
May 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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oarfishingdaily.bsky.social
Today's Oarfish comes from jojovilll on Instagram! This is another ensemble, with the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife
Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing red frills, covered in yellow spots. This one is in a beige background, accompanied by the dumbo octopus, whale shark, flying fish, sunfish, and manta ray.
May 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑
standupforscience.bsky.social Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 18
Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.

*GASP* 😮

We know, it's a big goal.

If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.
Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.
May 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
Beware the Britifh Sea-Pen
“This Sea-Pen has a round flefhy ftem […] and fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers on each fin”
March 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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oarfishingdaily.bsky.social
Today's Oarfish comes from Amphisbaena on Tumblr! This is a blog from a duo of artists, erikasignini and umberto! They challenged each other to draw an animal each day for a year! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife
Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills. This one is drawn slightly front facing against a light purple-ish background.
May 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
theoctopuslady.bsky.social
My newest video is up on YouTube! And has been for an entire week! I'm so bad at social media!

This is part 2 of my series on geoduck clams, and it's all about how these odd looking bivalves kicked off one of the greatest crime sprees in Washington state history!

youtu.be/-gmVnHL1k0M

🦑
The Bizarrely Violent World of Clam Smuggling
YouTube video by The Octopus Lady
youtu.be
May 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
theoctopuslady.bsky.social
I.

LOVE.

THIS.
ender007.bsky.social Ender_ @ender007.bsky.social · May 13
@theoctopuslady.bsky.social tried doin' your avatar, if you want to talk more about this, pls dm me, hope you like it!!
May 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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nudibranchnerd.bsky.social
silly bee, that's not a real sunflower, it's my sunflower star model

🌊🐙🦑🌿🌎
a honey bee crawling on my painted model of a sunflower sea star
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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federgeistchen.bsky.social
Fluffy Crab! :D

#MarineLife #Crustacean #Crab #MacroPhotography
Closeup of the porcelain crab Porcellana platycheles. It has a round body with large claws and long antennae. It's caramel brown all over and is covered in hair-like structures.
April 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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5 things you can do if you’re ANGRY about the latest Trump EO www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...
5 things you can do if you’re pissed off about the latest Trump EO
Donald Trump opened an area of about 250 million acres of protected American waters to industrial fishing fleets on Thursday.  This sets a very dangerous precedent that our public lands and wa…
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April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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arthurwesley.bsky.social
@theoctopuslady.bsky.social I created an “octopus lady bingo card” from some recurring themes I noticed in your videos. Thoughts?
April 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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sculptedreef.com
Space vibes 🌌 with Halcyon

Sculpted from clay and lovingly painted with acrylics and pigments 🎨💕

#Sculpture #Handmade #Art #ArtYear #Octopus #Invertebrates #OctopusArt #ArtOriginals #OOAK #Stars #Space 🐡🦑
Photo of an octopus sculpture painted in a black to blue gradient, with radiant meticulously hand painted stars and shimmering clouds of stardust. The octopus's long arms are flowing beneath and trailing off to the side, as if the octopus is flowing on a current.
April 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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SOMEONE DREW FAN ART OF ME!!

(And I love those boots, I would totally rock those!)
coricus.bsky.social coricus.bsky.social @coricus.bsky.social · Apr 16
Saw how excited @theoctopuslady.bsky.social got at receiving fanart a few weeks ago, and couldn't help but think that she deserved to feel excited like that again. Proportions ended up a bit lanky, but wanted to see if I could interpret her as a #Splatoon Octoling!
Image of the YouTuber The Octopus Lady depicted as a Splatoon Octoling in a pink sweater, pink boots, and yellow pleated skirt, with a Splatoon scallop-bird flying beside her.
April 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHH

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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menestune.bsky.social
Grudge Match:

Seastars vs Anemones

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#PNW #travel #oregoncoast #starfish #photography #seastar #hiking #beach ##smallwonders
Picture from tidepool of many green anemones bunched together on rock wall, and further up a large Constellation of starfish.
April 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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oarfishingdaily.bsky.social
Today's Oarfish comes from AlienTripod on Reddit! They shared this to a subreddit all about deep sea creatures! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife
Oarfish is a long, snake like fish with long flowing pink frills.
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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dannastaaf.bsky.social
Remember the shark-riding octopus? youtu.be/F9osYO9VRlg?...
I made a comic about it (which is also about argonauts because they're the best; here's an article I wrote if you want to know more about the cowgirls of the sea: octonation.com/should-you-p...)
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A four-panel comic. First panel has art of an argonaut (octopus in a coiled shell) riding a jellyfish, and the text "THE ARGONAUT is the octopus cowgirl of the sea, riding jellies, salps, and even driftwood. AMAZING!" Second panel zooms out to show two brown octopuses in the foreground, watching the argonaut and jelly in the background. One of the octopuses is eating a crab. The nose of a shark is just poking into view at the right side of the panel. In the third panel, the jelly is drifting out of view, and more of the shark is visible. The octopus who was eating passes its food to its friend and says, "Hold my crab." In the fourth panel, the octopus is riding the shark, waving one arm and yelling "YEEHAW!" while its friend watches. The shark looks deeply unimpressed.
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM