Bridget Vincent

Happy #SharkWeek2025! Kicking off the week with a hammerhead <3

#SharkWeek #hammerhead

a ribbon eel with its mouth wide open like OMG, illustrated

The 2025 advent calendar will drop tomorrow at 10am!!!

The artist? @ehrenenglish.bsky.social

The animal? EELS.

Here's the sneakiest of sneak peeks 👀

Happy (or at least paused despair?) #MolluscMonday! This species shows some extreme sexual dimorphism. Not only is the gorgeous webbing (blanket) only found in females, but the males are teeny tiny.

Inspired by pcaiger's Robson's blanket octopus observation on inaturalist.

#MolluskMonday #sciart

Oooo I'll keep this in mind next time I restock stickers and prints

I look more and more like this crab every day.

Repost of a painting I did of the little baby king crab NOAA found back in January

Absolutely stunning video of a Antarctic gonate squid captured during an expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (Too). It's never been seen alive before! Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

Video: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, courtesy of National Geographic 🦑🌊🧪

Happy summer solstice! Since we're celebrating the sun, it seems like a good time for an ocean sunfish! Like us, they like to bask in the sun after a cold dive to warm up ☀️ 🐟

#fishyfriday #drawntosummer25 #oceanart #solstice

A watercolor painting of 3 vibrant fish with prominent scales and bright colors.

Here is the feed for #FishyFriday !

Use the tag to get a flood of fish/ #aquatic themed creatures in the feed every Friday. No rules or prompts, just #art and #photography you’d like to share.

Thanks for joining in today and sharing your lovely #fish 🥰

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I'm on PST so this still counts for #MolluscMonday, right? (right?!?) Meet the smooth giant clam (Tridacna derasa) 🐚✨ It's name is a bit misleading as it still has plenty of texture, just not quite as much as its cousin, the giant clam (T. gigas).

#MolluskMonday #oceanart #artyear

Happy Friday the 13th! It's not Halloween but it is spooky so here's a painted wooly bat 🦇 ❤️
Reminder to not buy taxidermied ones online - they aren't bred in captivity so all those specimens are wild-caught. Removing that many from the population isn't sustainable.

#art #bat #artoftheday #nature

#darkart artshare promo image. Charcoal drawing of an eerie landscape. A bright light is hovering over a mountain forest, lights moving down alongside the trees as if in procession.

Today is Friday the 13th, the perfect day for a

✨🔮 DARK ART SHARE 🔮✨

🕷️ Share your #darkart
🖤 Like and repost!
🐀 Tag friends, if you like!
🖤 Add alt text, if possible!
🕸️ Label NSFW!
🖤 Support each other with a comment, repost or like!
❌ Human-made only, no A👁️ or NF🍵s

#artshare #art #friday13

Reminder: sci-comm and outreach costs money, and it’s being defunded across all STEM fields. It’s not just something scientists “do” (or fail to do, or need to do more).

I mean, most of us do “do” it on our own time too, but that will never be enough.

Digitally painted photo study of a poison dart frog on a leaf.

Another frog! 🐸 this is another super fun study painted for the mentorship with @leeshahannigan.bsky.social. Thank you as always, for being the kindest and most patient mentor! 💙

Fell in love with this little friend and its cute colours!
Reference in thread ⬇️

this is me if you even care

Got a favorite frog? Bc I can't decide.

#FrogArt #NeonAnimals #ArtYear

Happy #MolluscMonday! Today it's Cornu aspersum, the common garden snail. Seen any near you recently?

#MolluscMonday #SciArt #ArtYear #NearbyNature2025

Don’t forget you can just go draw a bug whenever you want.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Our chromosome-scale genome assembly of Nanomia septata, a siphonophore - doi.org/10.1101/2025... . Much larger than many other cnidarian genomes, fewer chromosomes, and highly rearranged. No smoking gun for how they achieve complex colony-level organization. Great work Namrata Ahuja and friends!

But until then, you have two assignments:

1. Keep being a scientist.

2. Be the biggest, most creative, most persistent pain in the ass Trump and his clown posse have ever experienced.

Loved seeing all this amazing art!!! You should definitely check it out (and you'll see a nudibranch made by me)

What is #InverteFest? It’s a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, and December over the last 7 days of the month. Going out? 1. Find invertebrates 2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest 3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event BONUS: Join our iNaturalist project to contribute to community science NOT Going out? • Post your squid painting • Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife • Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins • Write wikipedia pages QUESTIONS? ask franzanth / maureenbug / kellybrenner on iNaturalist / twitter / tumblr / instagram / bluesky MORE INFO AND IDEAS ON: invertefest.com

It's spring in the northern hemisphere, the flowers are blooming, the sun is peeking out and the bugs are starting to emerge. You know what that means, don't you?

It's almost time for #InverteFest!!!

Share your #invertebrates with us April 24-30.

www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

Alligators are so much cuter than crocodiles. Like mostly being an American is bad right now, but you gotta admit, we got the cuter crocodilian. So. We have that going for us.

#illustrators I'm currently looking for an artist whose work is more painterly/ atmospheric/ bordering on abstract for a YA project. Please reply to this thread with a few samples of your work with a link to your portfolio if you think you might fit this criteria 🎨🖌️

Love seeing everyone's work on this thread!

Here are some favorites from my recent series - definitely niche but depending on your project, might work.

Website/portfolio: www.bridgetvincent.com/portfolio

I accidentally made this octopus riding a shark into a wildly inaccurate heatmap but this was super cool to see! Happy #MolluscMonday 🐙🦈

Strawberry Conch Portrait of a Strawberry Conch (Strombus luhuanus). Fairy Bower, Manly, NSW This tropical conch is at the extreme southern end of its range here in Sydney, but seems to be doing quite well in the res...

Lookin' out for the world! #molluscmonday strombid eyes flic.kr/p/7Fas69

More Cephalopods, because I love them. 🐙✨🌿

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024!

Do you have a favorite?

marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Drawing of a clover made up of cephalopods

Happy St. Patrick's Day and #MolluskMonday!

#molluscmonday