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Bridget Vincent
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🐙🐟🦑🪼Ph.D candidate @ UCSB | Artist | Biologist | #UCFAlumni
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Prints available on my website: bridgetvincent.com
Happy #SharkWeek2025! Kicking off the week with a hammerhead <3

#SharkWeek #hammerhead
July 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happy (or at least paused despair?) #MolluscMonday! This species shows some extreme sexual dimorphism. Not only is the gorgeous webbing (blanket) only found in females, but the males are teeny tiny.

Inspired by pcaiger's Robson's blanket octopus observation on inaturalist.

#MolluskMonday #sciart
June 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I look more and more like this crab every day.

Repost of a painting I did of the little baby king crab NOAA found back in January
June 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy summer solstice! Since we're celebrating the sun, it seems like a good time for an ocean sunfish! Like us, they like to bask in the sun after a cold dive to warm up ☀️ 🐟

#fishyfriday #drawntosummer25 #oceanart #solstice
June 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I'm on PST so this still counts for #MolluscMonday, right? (right?!?) Meet the smooth giant clam (Tridacna derasa) 🐚✨ It's name is a bit misleading as it still has plenty of texture, just not quite as much as its cousin, the giant clam (T. gigas).

#MolluskMonday #oceanart #artyear
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Happy Friday the 13th! It's not Halloween but it is spooky so here's a painted wooly bat 🦇 ❤️
Reminder to not buy taxidermied ones online - they aren't bred in captivity so all those specimens are wild-caught. Removing that many from the population isn't sustainable.

#art #bat #artoftheday #nature
June 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Got a favorite frog? Bc I can't decide.

#FrogArt #NeonAnimals #ArtYear
June 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Happy #MolluscMonday! Today it's Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. Seen any near you recently?

#MolluscMonday #SciArt #ArtYear #NearbyNature2025
June 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Love seeing everyone's work on this thread!

Here are some favorites from my recent series - definitely niche but depending on your project, might work.

Website/portfolio: www.bridgetvincent.com/portfolio
April 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I accidentally made this octopus riding a shark into a wildly inaccurate heatmap but this was super cool to see! Happy #MolluscMonday 🐙🦈
March 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day and #MolluskMonday!

#molluscmonday
March 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Wunderpus 🐙 (Wunderpus photogenicus) is a master of disguise - It hides in its burrow with six arms while waving the other two like venomous sea snakes 🐍

🎨 Prints available in my shop, link in bio #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #WildlifeIllustration #DigitalArt #ArtYear
March 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Mondays just seem to keep on coming, ready or not.

This week was a busy one but #MolluskMonday has arrived! Here's a quick sketch of a Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). If you're lucky enough to see these in the wild, they'll likely be in a small shoal.

#artyear #molluscmonday
February 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A bioluminescent octopus (one of the very few) for this #MolluscMonday! Stauroteuthis syrtensis, the glowing sucker octopus, has modified sucker cells that produce light.

#sciart #artyear #molluskmonday #bioluminescence
February 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Happy #molluscmonday! May I present a showstopping cephalopod, the flaboyant cuttlefish. Instead of swimming away when threatened, this species makes undulating bands of color. These shocking hues act as an alarm when predators come around.

#molluskmonday #artyear #nature #sciart #februarty
February 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TIL flapjack octopuses don't have ink sacs or radulas. They eat little worms and inverts thru find after stirring up sediment.

Opisthoteuthis sp.

Requested by @invertebabe.bsky.social

#molluscmonday #molluskmonday #sciart #deepsea
February 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Starting off @sarahmackattack.bsky.social's #NearbyNature2025 with the Garibaldi, California's state marine fish!

I've seen these guys around the #channelislands and just learned the males create circular nests and fiercely guard their eggs.

#fishyfriday
January 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A blue dragon sea slug (or Glaucus nudibranch) for this week’s #MolluscMonday requested by @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social

I was lucky enough to find several of these during fieldwork last year - we were both looking for cnidarians!

#molluskmonday #artyear #sciart #nature #digitalart
January 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
West Indian Manatee

One of my favorites - I'm always grateful to see these guys. ❤️

However, they're still threatened, and their main dangers are boat collisions and cold stress. If you're in a place with manatees, pay attention to the no wake zones

#artyear #floridawildlife
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What to do on a stressful day? Maybe draw a neon version of the little baby king crab 🦀

#sciart #neonart #artyear
January 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Today's #molluscmonday : a glass squid (Megalocranchia fisheri)! I know it looks blue here but these guys are almost completely transparent except for their chromatophores (the little orange spots).

Reference photo from Steven Kovacs

#molluskmonday #deepseacreatures #squidart #digitalart
January 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I couldn't resist drawing Moo Deng anymore so here she is 🦛

#moodeng #neonoilpainting #digitalart
January 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I'm considering restarting my old habit of doing a #MolluscMonday drawing every week to keep my art skills from atrophying while I write.

Help me out by telling me what molluscs I should look into! It can be your favorite one, a weird one, a pretty one, an ugly one, whatever!

Squid here, just bc
January 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Here's a quick little squiddy for ya
January 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Team strawberry! 🍓🦑❤️
September 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM