Alison Young

Ceramic bird bath, mostly blue with some tan and white mottling from another glaze.

Ceramic cake stand with vertical grooves carved into the plate edge and the pedestal. Green glaze applied at the top of the grooves with a cream glaze over the whole cake stand, the green glaze has flowed into the groves and left some glaze drips on the edge of the plate.

A vase with a noticeable cracking texture through the middle of it. Blue glaze applied to the whole thing and then wiped away where the cracks are, so there is blue at the top and the bottom of the vase and then blue inside the cracks themselves.

Four ceramic oil bottles with metal pourers at the tip. The bottle on the left has vertical grooves carved into it and a green glaze flowing down into the grooves with a cream glaze applied over it; the next bottle has vertical grooves carved into it with a purple glaze flowing down into a greenish-blue glaze; the third bottle has a blue glaze at the top and a cream glaze at the bottom; the final bottle has blue glaze at the top and a green-ish blue glaze at the bottom. All four bottles have indents in body of the bottle to make it easier to pick up and hold the bottles.

Some recent(ish) #pottery outta the kiln! 1: birdbath, 2: drippy cake stand, 3: vase crackled with sodium silicate, 4: oil bottles.

Baby sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides. My first time seeing live ones in the wild since 2013! 🤩😍

A variety of corals, mostly purple, gray, and light brown, with Atlantic Sergeant Major fish swimming around. The water is aqua blue.

A Spotted Seahare in between two Purple Sea Fans.

A Zebra Dorid on a sandy sea bottom.

A mostly yellow Rainbow Parrotfish behind a coral.

Spent some time in Bermuda last week with my face in the water. It was pretty lovely, lots of #corals and #seahares and #fishes and even a #nudibranch.

Strrrrrrrrretch! #anemone

More #nudibranchs from Monday's #tidepool trip. 🤩

Great low tides this week — get out to the #tidepools if you can! Got up early yesterday to find these #nudibranch gems.

The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) Morphological and molecular data are presented for the first time in an integrative way for the genus Myja Bergh, 1896. In accordance with the new molecular phylogenies, the traditional Facelinidae is...

It looks like WoRMS is following the taxonomy in that paper for the Glaucus species, but also this more recent (2019) paper that restored the Glaucilla genus: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/3047...

A very tiny Hopkins' Rose nudibranch, all pink with pink cerata.

Festive Tritonid nudibranch, whitish-yellow with diamond & circle patterns on its back in white.

Opalescent nudibranch, electric blue with orange cerata, on red algae.

A tiny Red Dorid nudibranch, dark orange, with sand on its back.

Spent a couple morning low tides this week in the #tidepools near Morro Bay. Saw some fun stuff, like #nudibranchs, including the tiniest Hopkins' Rose I've ever seen!

Lots of sparkly Branched Dendronotid #nudibranchs (Dendronotus venustus) hanging out on the docks in Morro Bay today.

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The latest update to our free and fun Seek by iNaturalist app adds more than 60k species to its image recognition model!

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There have been a bunch of A. rhodocerus around lately, something about the last 4 months or so has been treating them right! 😄

Hopkins' Rose nudibranch with lots of pink cerata & dark pink rhinophores.

Opalecent nudibranch, with electric blue margins & lines on its body and orange cerata with white tips.

Sea Lemon aka Noble Dorid, yellow with dark spots on its back between the papillae.

Black & White Dorid, with lots of white cerata tipped with black, and light red gills & rhinophores.

Just tryna live my best #lowtidelife, getting out to the #tidepools when I can! Yesterday was big surf & a mediocre low tide, but still managed to find a good group of #nudibranchs & thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Infinity worm. ♾️🪱
#tidepools #polychaete #polychaeteworm

That's its siphon.

Eastern Pacific Red.

Just an #octopus doing octopus things in the #tidepools.

Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...

🎉 Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa in the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset!

To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍
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Photo taken under the water in a tidepool, facing up towards the sky. On the surface of the water is a pink Hopkins' Rose nudibranch, floating upside down, perfectly covering the photographer's face.

Literally the best selfie I have ever taken. No notes.
#nudibranch #tidepools

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Love googly conch eyes! 👀

Painted Wentletrap snail (Epitonium tinctum) with a highly scalloped, long white shell, and a cute little face.

Threaded Bittium (Neostylidium eschrichtii) snail with a yellowish shell and a cute mostly long white face with darker stripes.

A Velutinid snail (Family Velutinidae) with its mottled white mantle covering its thin inner shell, and a cute face mostly translucent face with yellow spots on it.

A tiny Pear Marginella (Granulina margaritula) snail, with its colorful black and orange and blue and yellow mantle partway up its yellowish-pink shell, a long translucent foot with a yellow stripe sticking out the back, and a cute little translucent-ish white-ish face with some yellow.

Okay but hear me out: intertidal snails have the cutest faces. #tidepools #snails

I voted! And you can vote everyday! ⭕

A small sea cucumber on a blade of red algae. The cucumber is mottled pink and white on its back, with pointed, bulbous projections. Its underside and tube feet are white.

Close up of the organism in the previous picture, focused on its head. You can see the frilly ends of its oral tentacles sticking out from underneath it.

One of my fun finds from the weekend in the #tidepools was this baby Giant California Sea Cucumber! I've only ever found them farther north and have only ever seen them full-grown, so it was an unexpected sighting.

A Hopkins' Rose nudibranch, bright pink with pink cerata, pink rhinophores, and pink gills.

A Black-tipped Spiny Dorid, a white nudibranch with many short white cerata tipped with black, looking like a cute little fluffy sea bunny with long white rhinophores tipped with red and black and a tuft of red gills.

A Warty Shag Rug Nudibranch. It's mostly pinkish-peach in color, with peachy cerata with brown splotches on them. Its rhinophores are grayish in color with little "warts" on them. It has a white band going across its head and onto its oral tentacles.

A Modest Cadlina Dorid nudibranch, pale yellow in color with tiny, bright yellow dots along its edges.

Spent both days this weekend in the #tidepools at a couple of my favorite sites. Things felt a bit churned up from the recent storms, but still spotted many cool creatures, including many #nudibranchs. Here are a few of them.

It's called a slurp gun or a shrimp gun.

Today was #FatInnkeeperWorm day! Searching the mud flats of Bodega Bay for these worms and other interesting bay creatures.

A framed print of three Orcas in the waves, done in a pop-art style with bright colors and patterns. The poster reads "Migration is natural | La Migración es Natural | No Borders"

My favorite souvenir from #COP16 in Cali, Colombia. Now more pertinent than ever. Print from La Linterna: lalinternacali.com

Kind of like wet dog mixed with trash can stinky? Only really noticeable once you give them a sniff.

A closeup of a Fetid Adderstongue flower. There are three larger petals that are pointed oval in shape, white with purple stripes, and in between them, three narrow, linear petals, white and purple.

A Fetid Adderstongue plant with two flowers, coming up from two leaves. The leaves are large and bright green with darker, brown spots that look like bruises.

A Fetid Adderstongue plant with three flowers.

'Tis the season for California Fetid Adderstongue flowers! Took a little iNaturalist staff field trip to say hi to these stinky yet beautiful blooms. #fetidadderstongue #inaturalist

These were taken one after the other, at night!