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10/21/2026

Heptacarpus trident, the Threespine Coastal Shrimp

This beautiful little shrimp looked like a watercolor to me when I went to take its photo, so I leaned into that when editing. As someone with a gooey critter bias, I think this shrimpy partly called to me because of its transparency and the way the colors in the water interact with it.

10/20/2026

✨ Portals ✨
One of our meet-ups took us to a dock I hadn’t gotten to properly explore before, dominated by some of our closest invertebrate relatives, the sea squirts.

I loved how these Star tunicates blanketed the dock and other life, and how this one was like a portal between the sunlit kelp and the sea lettuce.

Jelly Crust tunicate covered in little sparkles like clusters of stars

Solitary tunicate in a field of Plumose anemones

10/19/2026

It’s been a while since I slowed down and just let myself play with my photos, so I’m making an effort to do that and share a few this week. These are mussels I saw during a event. I had a lot of fun playing with shape and color and laying levels of crystallize and posterize in Photopea to make this.

10/13/2026

Ce n’est pas un nudibranche… Okay, but really it’s not.

Nudibranch has gotten the colloquial treatment with the rising popularity of sea slugs and the desire for a cool, in the know name, but it is not all encompassing. While all nudibranchs are sea slugs, not every sea slug is a nudibranch.

The beautiful little slugs in this carousel are their own superorder (a term that comes from them being a bit more broad than an order, not from their crazy powers of kleptoplasty which we will get into in another post) called Sacoglossans. Many of their common names include the work “sapsucker” because many suck out the contents of algae.

We saw a few of these beauties during the last meet up 😊

10/11/2026

Sometimes I get this feeling on the docks like I’m being watched…

10/08/2026

I’ve gotten to work with so many incredible octopus scientists, and I’ve gotten to meet so many of them through Rosario Beach Marine Lab and Dr Kirt Onthank. While I miss everyone while the lab is closed in the off-season, this is around the time the baby octopuses start visiting me at my nightlight, like this baby ruby octopus.

10/04/2026

Ctenophore Day falls beside a really difficult anniversary for me this year and so I did not have the capacity the properly intend to celebrate it and organize something, but I wanted to acknowledge it even if it is last minute. It would mean a lot if you added some ctenophores to iNaturalist today or tagged me in some ctenophore art or other appreciation. Grateful for you all. Go celebrate our distant cousins.

10/03/2026

Some idols are iconic enough to go by just one name; this one is recognizable from a single cell.

I didn’t know about this golden gem before this year, but not I get excited everytime I find one and get to add it to my iNaturalist. Swipe for the full story :)

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