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Cephalopod researcher, loves animals and outdoors and spending time with family.
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Cephalopod Whisperer @ceph-whisperer.bsky.social · Oct 8
I want to share a new project: We are working to support the neurodivergent community with the goal to educate young children about different brains and skills that people have to offer. Along with some fun about insects, vision, flight and ecology.

See here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fli...
Flight Camp - The Animated Series
This is the pilot for a comedic and educational animated series, where an amazing group of insects attends summer camp.
www.kickstarter.com
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mbarinews.bsky.social
Peek-a-boo with an octopus and her eggs 🙈

MBARI researchers used ROVs to study pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mothers nesting near warm seafloor springs. Unlike other deep-sea octopuses, their eggs hatched in under two years. The extra warmth boosted metabolism of the moms and their broods.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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neurochicano.bsky.social
Ed Kravitz was an extraordinary scientist, educator and activist. I had the privilege of getting to know Ed through his work with SPINES, a professional development course at the MBL. His legacy will carry on, not only through his science, but also in the many students he taught and mentored. 🧪
Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz
The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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nmbluk.bsky.social
Did you know that the original logo of @thembauk.bsky.social was inspired by the inlay on the library's main staircase.

The logo may have undergone an update in recent years, but it still retains the iconic seahorse as its focal point
a colour photograph of the brass inlay of a staircase finial. The inlay shows a seahorse, surrounded by two fronds of seaweed and some bubbles
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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wensungceph.bsky.social
Co-option of TTX for octopus reproduction. (DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.027)
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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hartman-plantlab.com
Stuck in the US as a postdoc due to the current political nightmare? Consider to join us in Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience
kleinevehnlab.bsky.social KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 10d
If you know postdocs in the US whose work is restricted or becoming difficult, there are new fellowship possibilities in the south of Germany. Please, forward this information to them:

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Our lab in Freiburg can also serve as a host — happy to discuss options.
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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joachimgoedhart.bsky.social
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience
Tools that track specific molecules in neurons have enabled researchers to probe previously unexplored aspects of neurobiology — although important caveats remain.
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
No animal can nail the whole "spectacular creature" thing as well as the whole "a little cutie patootie" thing like a bobtail squid can.

🦑📷Adrien Cantat (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A Berry's Bobtail Squid (Euprymna berryi) sitting on the sandy sea floor. Its arms are all together and going forwards. Its gins a flapping. On its head, around its mantle opening and especially on its arms, it is a mix of iridescent blue, cyan, green and yellow. It is covered in black chromatophores all over, and the rest of its flesh is translucent or off white. A Berry's Bobtail Squid (Euprymna berryi) buried in the sand. Just part of its head and mantle are sticking out of the sand, with its eyes peering out. Its pupils are a horizontal line, so it looks like it is sleepy and squinting. It has a little bit of sand on top of its head. It is mostly purple with lots of of purple chromatophores. Its eyes are silvery, and around its eyes is some iridescent cyan, blue and purple.
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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whoi.edu
We’re used to seeing our planet with land at the center.
But what if we shift our perspective?

📲Discover the wonders of our ocean world with our mind-blowing new web experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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terumbudivers.com
Cuttlefish camouflage
youtu.be/P66kyLEnDgI
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #cuttlefish
Camouflage of Cuttlefish in Gili Lombok
Diving with Terumbu Divers Gili - Lombok Diving and/or stay : https://terumbudivers.com/ Snorkeling trips with statues, turtles : https://snorkelinggili.com/
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November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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terumbudivers.com
Nudibranch Halgerda batangas
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #seaslug #nudibranch
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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oceanoculus.com
If anyone was ready for Halloween, it has to be this Halloween crab!

These absolute beauties live in coastal forests in Central America and Mexico, heading back to the ocean to make babies

📷 Halloween crab at Carillo beach in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Credit Thomas Splettstoesser (CC BY-SA 3.0)
a Halloween crab on a pebbly beach with its front claws facing up (possibly in a defensive stance)
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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tuthill.bsky.social
Do flies feel pain?

Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!) @jonesjes.bsky.social.

🪰⚡👻🎃

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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viveknityananda.bsky.social
New #PhD ad alert!
Interested in wild #bee #cognition and #brains in different #bumblebees? Want to live in #Newcastle and the beautiful north-east of England?

Check out this project with me, @lenariab.bsky.social and Sarah Scott. Contact me for further information.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The cognitive ecology of wild bumblebees
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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punkrockscience.bsky.social
I did NOT know this!
ellisonhyde.bsky.social ellison hyde @ellisonhyde.bsky.social · 27d
I am woefully bug ignorant and today I saw a woolly bear caterpillar like ive seen a thousand times and realized I knew nothing about it. Looked it up on Wikipedia and oh my god did everyone else know this??
The Isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold and temperate regions. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, by allowing most of its mass to freeze solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body. It survives being frozen by producing a cryoprotectant in its tissues. 5] This freezing occurs outside of body cells, but not within. In the spring, it thaws.
October 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Screaming inside with joy seeing @jeffday.bsky.social on the slide at the cephalopod international advisory council meeting this morning.

“He is massively accelerating our ability to monitor cephalopods in the deep sea”- Kat Bolstad

Jeff started his work on cephalopods here on social media 😭
Kat standing regally at the podium in front of her slide of a deep sea squid titled “deep-sea cephalopod observations from Schmidt ocean institute’s first Antarctic field season”
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
"first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a way to identify pregnancy in the archaeological record." phys.org/news/2025-10... #histmed #WomensHealth #MedievalSky
Ancient skeletons yield the first hormonal evidence of reproductive life
University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a wa...
phys.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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royalsocietypublishing.org
We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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animalbehaviour.live
1️⃣ month to go! ⏰

#ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉

6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more !

🌐 Free registration — register now!
👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
The Wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus), as its flattering name suggests, is an incredibly popular subject for underwater photography.

With their lanky limbs and stripes, they look very similar to the mimic octopus. Both species have a similar range and mimic other animals.

#OCTOtober
A Wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus) standing on the sea floor. It has its arms together, so it looks skinny and tall. Its mantle and eye stalks are also quite thin. The octopus has an orange colour with some black stripes and white stripes. A blackwater photograph of juvenile wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus). It is facing the camera and has its arms curving and dangling down. Its body is translucent except for its eyes and an internal organ. There are shiny, multicoloured specs in its flesh. Some are blue, green yellow or red. A wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus) sitting on the seabed, looking at the camera. It has a thin mantle and eyes on long stocks, with fleshy "horns" above the eyes. Its long arms feeling around and widened. It is orangish brown coloured, with off white stripes. Its suckers are visible, and they alternate in colour with the stripes on the arms. A wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus) sitting on the seabed. It has a thin mantle and eyes on long stocks, with fleshy "horns" above the eyes. Its long, thin arms are stretching across the sand. It is mango coloured, with beige, sandy textured stripes. Its suckers are visible, and they alternate in colour with the stripes on the arms.
October 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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ceph-whisperer.bsky.social
Here is a sneak peak of some of the animation using the motion capture pipeline for body and face expressions.
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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mattsmear.bsky.social
Octopus track chemosensory plumes to find food

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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unacctmango.bsky.social
#invertober day 9: flamboyant cuttlefish!!! 💃🦑
#art #sciart #cuttlefish
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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ceph-whisperer.bsky.social
I want to share a new project: We are working to support the neurodivergent community with the goal to educate young children about different brains and skills that people have to offer. Along with some fun about insects, vision, flight and ecology.

See here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fli...
Flight Camp - The Animated Series
This is the pilot for a comedic and educational animated series, where an amazing group of insects attends summer camp.
www.kickstarter.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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stomachlining.bsky.social
Today in #CephalopodAwarenessDays: #Squittleday! Today honors squid & cuttlefish. This should be done every day imo, I'll take what I can get..

FUN FACT: Cuttlefish have been my favorite creature since I was 5. I fell for them HARD. Here is Ze Frank with TRUE FACTS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwO...
True Facts About The CuttleFish
YouTube video by Ze Frank
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM