Dr Kym Abrams

semi realistic drawing of a painted spiny lobster, a very fancy juvenile male with a blue yellow gradient tail, blue and white striped legs, a thorax covered in yellow, black and white dots, and long antennae in pink and cream colors, on a black background.

semi realistic drawing of a painted spiny lobster, a very fancy juvenile male with a blue yellow gradient tail, blue and white striped legs, a thorax covered in yellow, black and white dots, and long antennae in pink and cream colors, on a white background.

Day 5 #Invertober2025 - Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) 🦞

#SciArt #invertebrates

Reminder that you can submit early to the December art book so we all won't scramble when the holiday season comes!

A blue bottle jelly with many tentacles emerging from it

oh wow! A stunning Porpita shot from @natalipaqpa on the other site

Whoa!

Thanks so much! I've never seen one before, so shiny 🙂

Side view of beetle with shiny blue body

Top view of beetle with shiny blue- green abdomen

Cute beetle in my garden - Histerid beetle/ Saprinus sp
🪲 #insects #bugsky

🚨 Call to scientists, research groups, and universities across Europe!
The EC is considering “simplifying” core EU environmental laws — incl. Nature Restoration Regulation, Water Framework Directive, Birds & Habitats Directives etc.

Submit your input & share:
🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

Oh thanks for letting me know. I'll save the link instead

Eminent entomologist Dr Chris Reid is awarded the 2025 Australian Museum Research Institute Medal for his outstanding career which has transformed our understanding of beetle taxonomy.
#EurekaPrizes

📌 so I don't forget

I think the common name for this flower is "Billy button" but I forgot the scientific name (sorry)

Pretty pink and white flowers of Hypocalymma angustifolium

A close up of Drosera (sundew)

A close up of donkey orchids (Diuris sp.). These flowers always look so happy

It's wildflower season!

I'd be so disappointed if we lose this 😟

Not just under-16s: all Australian social media users will need to prove their age – and it could be complicated The age assurance technology trial found errors are inevitable – meaning users might have to provide other ID, and appeal against wrongful bans

I hope Aus won't be blocked!

"...smaller providers may choose to opt out of Australia entirely. Bluesky blocked Mississippi users after a similar age assurance law passed in the state, citing costs in developing age verification systems and lack of resources."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pixar movie? The possibilities are endless 🙂

Not unclear, I'm just impressed with how crisp they are. Cute crabs and worms too. The whole community would be a fun sci-fi book

Beautiful photos. I like that you get 2 inverts for the price of one

Adorable pseudoscorpion 😍

There always has to be an exception. They don't want things to be too easy and simple for us 😅

since people keep asking what our current activities are, I've compiled the links and made this my pinned post. you can now easily send this to your friends. #InverteFest

A beautiful example of Inostemma, the tiny unicorn of the garden! The long horn on the female metasoma houses its unique ovipositor system. Males don't have horns.

A repeat pattern made with my linocut blue S-shaped velvet worm, resembling a many-legged caterpillar with two antennas and a pattern of spots. Along its length there’s a central darker blue stripe. The image is repeated and reflected to make mesh of nearly interlocking S-shaped velvet worms against a deep raspberry purple background.

Velvet worm repeat pattern! Putting more invertebrate linocuts into surface design! 🧪🐡

These adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand (Aotearoa). Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongated, 🧵

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a prehistoric crab, which has paddle like legs and big eyes

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a black and white beetle with a long neck

The last two days of drawings for #AugArthroAwe.

#TradArt

A platypus swimming on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

May I present my super clear photo of a platypus in the wild - similar cursed vibe

The second volume of 'Dhoombak Goobgoowana', the Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne, subtitled 'Voice', now available entirely open access @mupublishing.bsky.social
At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb...

@austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Opportunity: Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists (10 positions) at the University of Guelph 🪰🐝🪲🕷️🦂

A comprehensive checklist of bat species recorded from selected caves in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #ecology #bats

My photo shows a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty Funerary Temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, 2465-2458 BC. It shows birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket in the marshes of the river Nile. A pied kingfisher and butterfly hover above the papyrus thicket, whilst a hoopoe, an ibis with long curved beak, a night heron, and a gallinule,are depicted amongst the papyrus umbrels. Height 102 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

Anatemnus capillatus is about two-three millimetres long, an average-sized pseudoscorpion. Close up photo of the head and body shows the lack of eyes and pale colouring typical of troglofauna

Two new #subterranean #pseudoscorpions just dropped! 🪲🌏🧪
au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

2 black millipedes on a piece of bark. The top one is curled in an "S" shape

A little closer up view of one of the millipedes

Kind of this lovely #millipede to give us a clue to its identity - forming an "S" for Spirostreptida. Mount Cooke Area, Western Australia.