Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

You guys aren’t as excited about this as me I was having myself a time out there

A goofy little found object still life with a bottle of empty vampire blood drizzled over a rock with a plastic bird skull next to it in front of some pink and blue graffiti

Imagine my cackle of delight when I found the plastic bird skull 10 yards from the blood bottle

🤝

I’ll stay in the house tomorrow?

Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers

Sarah, how's the writing going?

Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.

A photo showing the American Robin and its scientific name Turdus migratorius. Referencing the US fish and wildlife service

Blue Jay: My scientific name is Cyanocitta cristata

American Robin: Oh that's beautiful, I don't know mine, not sure if I have one

Text me i guess

The cool thing about making art is that you can make something over-the-top when you're having big feelings and be like yeah no no I'm not just a 37 year old teenager posting dressed-up emo lyrics on my away message, this is ART, okay?

Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers

Sarah, how's the writing going?

Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.

Fully understand that!

exactly

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

They don't need to be in focus, nah. I'll figure it out! In a perfect world I'd get them in very soft focus while getting the resolution of the macro lens, but i may be able to do it with the other more versatile lens

Do eeeeet

a queen, i think of a bald faced hornet, standing on a tree branch looking at us

👉👈

I don't know either lol

Yeah I was shooting on 90mm f/3.5 Micro 4/3

Even with focus stacking it wasn't working unfortunately.

a bug of some kind, idk a caterpillar or something, sitting on a leaf, with flowers all around it.

a very handsome eastern red backed salamander on some leaves

I saw this girl on insta taking pictures of women while her camera lens was covered in flowers. I was like oh I should do that with bugs.

BUT.

The macro lens doesn't really play nice with flowers. The 12-45mm lens can handle it... but I don't feel like I'm also tiny when i look at it.

What to DO.

an eastern red backed salamander in the leaves

(._____.)

Close up photo of some wispy green moss and forest floor detritus.

Two wood frogs in an amorous embrace in a vernal pool.

Out with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social today for some touching grass... and mud... and leaves. Well some much needed nature really.

Yellow and green turkey tail Mushrooms on a log

Can’t talk, woods time.

Alright book deadline is in 8 days, and I need at least another 3775 words. I've been averaging 1700 words a day on my writing days. This is officially doable.

I'm writing the part of my book about dock fouling & describing why it's a perfect summer activity.

Laying in the sun, face down on a dock, face shaded from the sun, arms dangling in the cool water, watching ctenophores float lazily by.

I need summer moments like these ASAP.

Sarah is in her pack stockroom wearing a T-shirt that says plant native plants with a cool goth girls surrounded by plants in a stained

A print leaning on some plants that says please plant native plants or go to hell. The background is purple and the graphic is green blue and white. There’s a kitty cat with a hose and a watering can standing on skulls and there’s flowers with faces

My cousin and her family are staying with me in April so I gotta get this Skype a scientist stock room cleared out!

May I interest you in a native plants t shirt or print? Our shop supports our work here in Philly connecting people with science via art!

SquidFacts.net

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I literally changed the clock in the Squidmobile on Tuesday. I didn't realize it was almost time to change them again. I am slow-moving time change Sisyphus.

That one is indeed new.

I was like "That's so weird i feel like that gif has existed forever"

It has, Sarah. You are a ding dong.

Wait apparently these episodes are from 2015 lmfao