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Ian McCourry
@squids-discover.bsky.social
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Been studying squid since the age of 3
B.S. Marine Biology
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cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social
🦑📷hewittdoesit (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
Two panel meme. Top panel: A Stubby Bobtail Squid (Rossia pacifica) sitting on top of a Giant California Sea Cucumber (Apostichopus californicus). The bobtail squid has its arms back and under its mantle. Its translucent white suckers are visible. It has a dark red colour with orange iridescent bits(especially around its eye) that make it look like a fiery gem. The sea cucumber is way bigger than the bobtail squid, at least twice its height and much longer (One end goes out of frame). The sea cucumber is dark red with large orange fleshy spikes. The sea floor is a sandy light grey. It is night and the sea is dark. Bottom panel: Stilgar from Dune: Part 2 (2024) staring out in the distance. Subtitles have been added to say "Lisan al-Gaib"
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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cephalopodanetwork.bsky.social
Absolutely beautiful first ever footage of Batoteuthis sp. from @schmidtocean.bsky.social ! Well done on this finding, truly a beautiful and very rare specimen!

www.youtube.com/watch?si=WQN...
batoteuthis skolops
YouTube video by yadffej
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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xkcd.com
EPIRBs

xkcd.com/3169/
Comic. [Two people transferring cargo between a dock and a ship on a cart. A box has fallen off of it into the water labeled “EPIRB: Water-Activated Distress Beacons, 1600 ct”] [caption] “Hello, Coast Guard? We’d like to apologize once again for the 1,600 simultaneous false alarms this morning...”
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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ithilestante.bsky.social
🪐Children of Strife 🪐 Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
The only spiders I would like in my bookshelf are these ones. Problem is, then I become emotionally attached to them but hey ho, I'm looking forward to Kern's rivals 💜
Publishes March 2026
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
squids-discover.bsky.social
Field Journal: Nov 17th 2025
squids-discover.bsky.social Ian McCourry @squids-discover.bsky.social · 29d
Nov 17th 2025: Explored low tide beach at night. Heard bird calls, and occasional splash. Lots of graceful crabs and transparent shrimp at the waters edge. Saw some hermit crabs. Found a blobster! I think it was a Harbor Seal. Blurred photos of it, not that graphic but still gross. Not bloody.
Small transparent shrimp. Eyes stark silver-white, easily reflected my headlamp light.
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Field journal: Nov 10th 2025
squids-discover.bsky.social Ian McCourry @squids-discover.bsky.social · 29d
Nov 10th 2025: Walked along the local boat pier. Lots of gulls and Buffleheads in the water and flying about. Northern Kelp Crab found on piling (photos attached). Lots of Red-eye jellyfish! Saw harbor seals 3 times (either same one or 3 separate ones). Seagulls fought cormorant for a sculpin!
Kelp crab from above the water. Hard to see due to surface reflection. Zoomed out image of the same crab
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
squids-discover.bsky.social
I have started a field journal of my local beach. Just did the second day of exploration. I'm going to start posting pictures in a thread on my profile cause I find this valuable practice for my observation skills and I want to share the cool biology I find with y'all! Summary of day 1 & 2 below:
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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gugunderwater.bsky.social
The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!

#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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waynemaddison.bsky.social
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
The Passing of the Tree of Life Web Project
The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and…
subulatepalpomere.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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aptshadow.bsky.social
For those who get audibooks through Audible, Children of Ruin is part of the monthly deal for November in the UK.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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trevorabranch.bsky.social
Annual plug for the fabulous phylopic.org website with tens of thousands of easily searchable silhouette images for almost every life form imaginable. They make nice additions to your biology plots!
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Might make my own little audio lesson for last minute cramming on the flight over.

"Ok, Sarah. Repeat after me.

Would you like a squid zine?
イカのジンはいかがですか？

Which way to the squid?
イカはどこですか？

Thank you for the squid!
イカありがとう!

No octopus please, I only like squid.
タコはやめて、イカだけが好きです。"
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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biologizing.bsky.social
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
squids-discover.bsky.social
The smooth transition of perspectives in a chapter of Children of Ruin was done so expertly well. Chapter was Ch 7 of Past III
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
squids-discover.bsky.social
Love that someone tried naming the Giant Squid "Dinoteuthis" in 1875. Terrible Squid is funny to me
July 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Happy Pride Month!! 🩷💜💙
June 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Just got the Save Our Freaks shirt!!
May 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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csrosbak.bsky.social
Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.
k-hermit.com でんか @k-hermit.com · May 6
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May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
These shirts are back by popular demand. I wish it was under better circumstances.

The US government is all in on deep sea mining 🤮
Time for us to get loud about our beloved freaks.

Start a conversation, get a shirt.
Design by @coreydanks.bsky.social

squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/save...
My grad school roommate nick, who is an extremely adorable bespeckled and mustacio'd Canadian twink, stands against a brick wall wearing a black t-shirt with the words save our freaks don't mine the deep, with a big strawberry squid sinking a mining ship
April 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀

I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑

www.cell.com/current-biol...
Top: Three species of sabellids (left to right: Anamobaea sp., Bispira sp., and Megalomma interrupta) detailing general arrangements of radiolar eyes (arrowheads). The picture of M. interrupta includes a diagram of the anterior end of the worm’s body within the tube. Bottom: Images of radiolar eyes from eight species of sabellids organized by increasing sophistication from no eyes, to ocellar clusters, to compound eyes. Scale bar = 200 μm.
April 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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skulleigh.com
An attempt was made? I don’t know how successful I was at making it look like the squid. Transparent is hard! #SciArt 🐡
A gouache representation of the Colossal squid. It’s like a transparent bubble with orange dots all over it and kind of blue highlights and then a glowing mass at the front that I think has its eyes in it that is red and orange with tentacle sticking out of it.
April 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo
Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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April 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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invertebabe.bsky.social
“Endangered species could be changed forever”

Meanwhile nobody is giving them their territory and resources back. Nor do we live in a country that prioritizes having a livable planet in the first place.

“We brought dire wolves back only for the planet to be on fire!”

Smart call, George
sabs.bsky.social Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · Apr 7
Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
the cover of Time Magazine, with the headline "Extinct" crossed out in red above the text "This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever." by Jeffrey Kluger, and the photo of a white dog-like wolf-like animal
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM