JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg

I need to get out to Vancouver Island 😩

I really thought today I might be able to swing it this weekend but ugggggggh

Anyone got pointers on taking pics of little things that are under 1mm, underwater, and still moving?

I have the magnification for it (SLR lens and microscope setting on my phone), it's just the water surface reflection that gives me trouble every time

I’m very interested in that and sent an email to @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social but let me know if I should send one anywhere else!

I don’t think there is any question I will be at this.

A photo of a large red comb jelly on a black background.

Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists!
Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

I did not! Thank you!

Glass bottle of dark red soda with a worn label that says Microsoft Brainwash for a change of mind with an image of a skull and crossbones. The skull is bashed open exposing a brain

Close up of where the bottle says we want you for life

Found this bottle of “Microsoft Brainwash” that my dad had on his desk as long as I can remember.

Finding it now and reading “We want you for life” after my dad died in October at his desk working through the weekend while sick with covid to meet a Microsoft work deadline is pretty fucked actually.

Send me an email or a DM to remind me but I can try and do that for you!

Thank you @punkwithacamera.bsky.social for the wonderful patches pictured, and get your queer ocean patches from @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social

Teardrop shaped little ctenophore with four orange ribbon-like spots and two white tentacles inside

Back in January, @jensseattle.bsky.social found this rare ctenophore while nightlighting.

Haeckelia rubra is a delightful contrarian. It’s a comb jelly with stinging cells in its tentacles. It might not make them itself but it impressively wields them & steals them from a much larger jelly.
🧪🐙🦑🌿

Teardrop shaped little ctenophore with four orange ribbon-like spots and two white tentacles inside

Back in January, @jensseattle.bsky.social found this rare ctenophore while nightlighting.

Haeckelia rubra is a delightful contrarian. It’s a comb jelly with stinging cells in its tentacles. It might not make them itself but it impressively wields them & steals them from a much larger jelly.
🧪🐙🦑🌿

Yellowish amphipod with an armored look and some deep striping

Gorgeous gorgeous amphipod from nightlighting tonight

🦑🐙

Yellowish amphipod with an armored look and some deep striping

Gorgeous gorgeous amphipod from nightlighting tonight

🦑🐙

the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: writing memoir as a survivor in the age of Epstein I do not know how to write memoir anymore, because all holiday season, while my timeline was busy un-redacting the Epstein Files, I was redacting my childhood Christmas photos.

the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: on not knowing how to write memoir anymore as a survivor in the age of Epstein

tinyurl.com/bdhcbc75

Thinking about Zander. He would have turned 38 today.

6 Zine Bundle by Saimi A bundle by Saimi, $5.00 for 6 games

From now until the end of the month, you can get ebook versions of all of my zines in a bundle for $5.

That includes:
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 1
5 Minute Daily Drawings : Year 2
Insert An Invert
August Arthropod Art
Nudivember 2024
Nudivember 2025

itch.io/s/179175/6-z...

I am already having a day only to get the mail and find replacement ID cards I had to order because they spelled my name wrong arrived with my name mangled even more and so now I have to wait on hold again at multiple different places. Three separate ID cards arrived from this mess today, all wrong

A valentine that says You Make My Jaw Drop, then the inside that says "With their mouths closed, pelical eels are long and skinny. When they open their mouths to grab food, they can balloon out to engulf animals much larger than they are" then the back has a little snailfish that says "Take action to help animals in the deep sea by slowing down climate change ang vocally opposing deep sea mining

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.

I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!

SquidFacts.net

Pilings without a dock and a pier that leads to nowhere

Back in October, the dock I had taken ~1/3 of my natural history documentation notes at got caught up on a piling on one end & lost it's floatation to gravity as the tide left it behind. I knew it was going to be removed & not fixed, but I went to see if it happened yet today. It was gone.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed Linepithema humile you may be ant-titled (to compensation)

3 hours of health insurance phone calls so far today and I’ve needed to cry but I wish it was because I was actually able to work through some grieving and not because I’m frustrated and hopeless to the point of tears trying to just figure out how to get to keep existing next year

I did it anyways and I saw a gossamer worm and a young ruby octopus, so very worth it

Long isopod with a tan body with darker section in the middle with lots of tiny spots. It has a fan tail and big black eyes

This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest

I want to go out nightlighting but feeling pretty bleh.

Long isopod with a tan body with darker section in the middle with lots of tiny spots. It has a fan tail and big black eyes

This parasitic isopod was another of my Peracaridan visitors this week. It's name is Rocinela belliceps and it mostly lives attached to the gills of fishes, but if you are lucky you may find one swimming around.
🐙🦑 #inverteFest

Collage of sea creatures I found tonight with the caption “So many good friends!” There is a seal swimming across the top, a common siphonophore with its tail curled up, a large canadian comb jelly, a baby giant pacific octopus, a feather boa cydippid, a hyperiid amphipod and a yellow polychaete

Such a good night with @jensseattle.bsky.social by the water.

#inverteFest 🦑🐙🌿

Collage of sea creatures I found tonight with the caption “So many good friends!” There is a seal swimming across the top, a common siphonophore with its tail curled up, a large canadian comb jelly, a baby giant pacific octopus, a feather boa cydippid, a hyperiid amphipod and a yellow polychaete

Such a good night with @jensseattle.bsky.social by the water.

#inverteFest 🦑🐙🌿

So stunning 😍

Digital art of a gossamer worm drifting through deep dark water, a mostly transparent bioluminescent creature with many arms and a red stripe running down its body. Softly glowing particles float in the water around it

I’m going to try to get a few more pieces done for deep sea December, so here’s day 15 - Gossamer (worm)
#art #ocean #deepseadecember

I hope I find a way to visit someday