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Sophie W
@biologizing.bsky.social
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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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I love fall, when the leaves change colour and *checks notes* dozens of fungal fruiting bodies burst the earth apart to disperse spores into the air
A strip of grass next to a sidewalk and parking lot. There are fallen leaves and many batches of brown mushrooms pushing up out under the grass. A close up on the brown mushrooms forcing the grass up into a relatively large trench of exposed dirt.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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
A list of dplyr verbs with the genzplyr verb next to them, with things like filter() being replaced with yeet() and mutate() with glow_up(). A second list continuing of dplyr verbs replaced with genzplyr, things like count() to its_giving() and full_join() to everyone_in_the_groupchat()
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The whole team is here for the off-season I guess
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Bold of you to show your face around here bud, everybody's pretty disappointed in you tbh
A blue jay sitting on a telephone wire in the distance
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Oh yeah. That's the good stuff
A view down at legs standing in a pile of colourful fall leaves
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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How do I know it was a mountain biking route? Well, I was walking blithely along a boardwalk and then it became very obvious
A boardwalk through the woods, there is a clear break with a small jump in the boardwalk ahead. A side view of the jump built into the boardwalk. It looks pretty intense.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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 (?????)
A photo of a tree next to a boardwalk with forest behind. A plank of wood is nailed to the tree with writing on it. A Macbeth quote is written on the plank of wood, it is quite long but it is the section that begins "out out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow."
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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That'll be $65 in taxi fees pal
A red car side mirror showing a spiderweb with a spider in the middle. A close up on the spider showing its underside. The web around it looks disheveled.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Not to brag or anything but I also saw A SHARK
A photo of the edge of a path with a metal photo bolted to the lower trunk of a tree. A closer image of the metal photo bolted to a tree trunk, it is a picture of a great white shark.
October 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Not to brag or anything but I saw a pretty cool spider on a walk yesterday
A view down a gravel path through the woods, there are evergreens and some autumn coloured leaves in the distance. Very small on one of the right-hand trees is a square something bolted to the tree. A closer view of the bolted metal square on the tree, it clearly has a picture of a spider on it. Now the metal picture is clear, it is a photo of an orbweaver.
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I continued walking and the RDF must have heard me. It's coming for me
A view along the shore of a pond with a hill in the background, there are low clouds and fog getting closer
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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
A photo out over a pond with a hill in the background, there are beautiful autumn colours on the trees and the sky is blue
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Can I realistically claim I thought it was a cubicle-warming gift
A photo of the corner of an office cubicle, there is a fragmented part of a skull on the furthest corner A zoomed in photo showing the skull fragment on the desk
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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
A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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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
A screenshot of a nalgene bottle for sale with sea nettles and moon jellyfish on it, it also appears to glow in the dark. A screenshot of a text chat where the other person says "so cool! So glowy!" And the sender replies "although slightly inhumane to have moon jellies and sea nettles on the same bottle. Since sea nettles predate on moon jellies"
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I was backup octopus mom at work so I got to help bucket train Spaghetti the octopus, which is an important trained behaviour for a lot of useful and important reasons, as well as for the reason of it being the cUTEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN
A very small octopus that has climbed into a submerged bucket, it is so cute. Just unbelievably cute.
October 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Spaghetti was BABY. absolutely baby. so smol. but soooo ferocious definitely. omg I loved Spaghetti, perfect creature, no notes
A very small giant pacific octopus viewed through the window of a tank. It is looking out with one eye and one arm curled over its head. A very small giant pacific octopus again viewed through the same window, this time it is rampaging with all of its arms out.
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Sully was a monster and liked to fight over the target pole. There was no food on the target pole. He would get food when he let go of the target pole. He just wanted the target pole I guess so that he could let go of it whenever he wanted and unlock the infinite food hack
A giant pacific octopus in an aquarium tank holding very firmly onto a PVC pole being held by the person taking the photo. Another photo of a giant pacific octopus in an aquarium tank holding very firmly onto a PVC pole being held by the person taking the photo. His arms are more coily this time.
October 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Petunia either liked or tolerated animal-safe paints as an enrichment activity but either way she was PROLIFIC. Personally I liked her blue period but the multicoloured era was also inspired
A piece of paper with splattered paint over it attached to a clipboard, it is red and blue and black. A piece of paper with splattered paint over it attached to a clipboard, it is black and yellow. A piece of paper with splattered paint over it attached to a clipboard, it is blue and yellow. A piece of paper with splattered paint over it attached to a clipboard, it is black and yellow and brown.
October 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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
A framed painting in blue paint that is haphazardly splattered around the canvas and appears to have been very wet and then dried unevenly. Also a smaller piece of paper that has a print of octopus suckers in dark ink. A bright orange-red coloured giant pacific octopus suckered to the acrylic of an aquarium tank. She is staring directly at the camera from over her arm.
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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
A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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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
A white woman sitting in a chair, with a snail hairclip haphazardly placed in her hair so it looks like it's sitting on her head. She's posing with her hand under her chin A snail hairclip, showing the slight iridescence and spotted spiral shell. Showing the inside clasp of the snail hairclip.
October 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I will go back to making my tiny little goofs that I can finish in a single day (after I finish a second, other baby gift cross stitch pattern I also bought and started, why, why did I do this)
Three tiny cross stitches in small embroidery hoops, they read "clean up ya dusty knife mess", "maybe all your bacon burn" with Calcifer behind it, and "the buttless wonder" with a beige worm and stars around it.
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I like to make silly little 3inch cross stitch patterns myself but I decided to buy a pattern for the first time as an incoming baby gift for my 5-year-D&D-campaign friends, and a) professional artists are way better at colours than me but also b) oh my god it took so much work, oh my god, my arms,
A cross stitch that has a d20 dice showing a 1, with a banner flowing around it that says "crying is a free action".
September 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM