Sophie W

@biologizing.bsky.social

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Thirt(ies) and feeling invert-y 🐙 MSc studying Arctic and North Atlantic deep-sea weirdos ❄️ Ex-professional jellyfish mom ♨️ she/her 🇨🇦

A photo over a bay of a town with a lighthouse on a hillside. Up the hill is a Hollywood sign, except it spells DILDO
Another view from over top of the whale skull, showing it from the top down
A view from behind a whale skull on the sea floor, it is covered in kelp, anemones, and urchins.
A video of someone circling a large whale skull degrading on the sea floor. There are urchins and anemones on it.
A photo of big rocks on the sea floor, someone has laid out a very large limb bone and lower jaw of a moose. They have some urchins and coralline algae on them
A grassy stretch with a flock of ducks and pigeons hanging out. A bunch of both are napping.
A view over the railing of a boardwalk out on a trail around a pond. There are flowers just starting to bloom and the leaves are just coming out.
A glass case of pottery mushrooms, they are very beautifully coloured
A sea cucumber on a rock, it is bright orange with lighter orange feeding arms extended.
A wall display at a museum showing deeper Arthropleura tracks
A stone slab in a museum, it has shallow indents in two tracks that show the fossilized trail of Arthropleura, the giant Carboniferous millipede
Three seabirds swimming in the ocean, occasionally diving below the surface. They have long beaks and are black and white.
A yellow warbler flies up a set of boardwalk stairs one step at time, until it just flies the rest of the way up and goes into a bush.
A close up on a smaller building behind the skyscrapers, its windows are reflecting the balcony pattern.
A photo of two skyscrapers in a city, they have artsy alternating white and black sections of balcony rails, giving them the appearance of big mottled white patches over the surface.
A cat in a fluffy bed on a desk. She is half rolled over and showing her naked belly
A screenshot of R code, where a bunch of random letters and numbers and symbols have been added to a line.
A view of a remotely operated vehicle livestream deep in the ocean, a pale octopus is visible in the distance, with two of the arms much longer than the others.
A cat at the top of a staircase, she is lit from below by a yellow light
The bad trade meme of a man with long hair and his hands steepled in front of him. Above it says "trade offer". On the left it says "I receive: no more thrips" and on the right it reads "you recieve: lots of thrips".
A view under the leaves, if you look closely you can see a tiny spider hanging down
A philodendron in a white pot on a table, the leaves are dark velvety green with much lighter green along the veins.
Another view of the harbour, showing the way out to the ocean between two arms of land. Lots of fog is coming in. A little shed sits on the end of the pier in the foreground.
A further back view of the same scene, but now we are behind two bronze dog statues, one is a Newfoundland and the other is a Labrador.
A view out into a harbour, showing a peninsula of steep land with colourful houses nestled into it. The water has a low layer of dense fog partially obscuring boats and houses.
A screenshot of inaturalist, it shows a species of lichen called Surprise Lichen, which looks like blobs of dark goop on a rough surface.
A path through evergreen woods, with a bright blue sky above. The path is completely snow and frozen
A snowy backyard, with snow still falling
A small table with way too many little plants in water or soil.
A counter with a huge pile of large, tropical-looking leaves that are green with red stalks and red veins. Chunks of stem are cut up and put into a takeout container full of dirt and moss.
A spider plant that is putting out many babies on long vines, they look like little spiders on the vine.
A photo of a small pot with two little green spider plant babies, labeled 1 and 2. A third plant in the pot is labeled ?
A house partially hidden by trees, in front is a luxurious green field with colourful wildflowers.
A woman in scuba gear in the same wall tank as above, though the lights are blue this time, with her arms and legs out like a starfish
The same image of the jellyfish wall tank, it has been drawn over to show how the water flow works. Two submerged spray bar at the top outer corners push water down, and a water supply in the middle pushes water up, with curved sides helping create that circular flow.
A woman in a wetsuit is sitting on the edge of a large aquarium tank, it is being refilled with water and is actually quite narrow in width despite how long and deep it looks.
A photo of a copepod seen through a microscope, with one eye in the middle of its head.
A microscope looking down at a tupperwater full of water, with a black plastic square inside that has a small jellyfish polyp on it.
A snowy yard with a big blue house, the trees have snow plastered to one side facing the camera
A diagram of the winds off of the east coast of Canada from Windy.com, showing a large storm system over most of the North Atlantic
A woman wearing a cardigan with oversized wing-like sleeves, it is patterned to look like a monarch butterfly
A fancy hot chocolate with whipped cream and strawberry and chocolate drizzle on top. A strawberry is split and topping the rim of the mug.
A zoomed-out spreadsheet that shows listed hot chocolates at different locations, with addresses, dietary restrictions that can be accommodated, and descriptions. There are also columns for if Sophie and a blocked out name want them or have already tried them
Wind blowing snow sideways down a city street
A long-sleeved tshirt that says "Consider MILLIPEDES" with lots of millipede drawings. It also says "Crawly by birth, creepy by the grace of god" on each arm, and "I feel the need, the need for 'pede".
A tshirt that says "They would never dream of doing capitalism" and a bunch of misnamed isopod diagrams, with names like Big Calculus.
A toy isopod RC car thing, it says RACE, CURL, & ROLL!
A crop of the original image, just the forward-facing ostracod.
A fancy handled knife at a wooden table, it has a big-eyed fly or moth on the top.
A photo of a takeout box full of poutine with someone taking a forkful out, but there is a tuxedo cat whose whole head is in frame inspecting the poutine and surely about to take a bite.
A snowy trail through an evergreen forest, the sky is clear and it looks cold.
The wint meme tweet about overspending on candles but instead of $3600 on candles it is 25% off live xmas beetles
An ad for Live Beetles Canada for a boxing week sale on live beetles, from coleopterra dot com with code HOLIDAY25.
A photo of a bumper sticker on a car, it reads "follow me to... A cursed bog! Where the moss will consume your bones!"
A screenshot of the Windy app, showing a very powerful low with strong winds north of the island of Newfoundland.
A screenshot of an email inbox, the email title is "Can I have your article?" And the preview of the body text is "Dear. Professor".
A woman with big glasses and bangs is taking a selfie while holding one of the trail signs up to her face. It is very large and obscures her shoulders and torso entirely.
A view over a cliff down to a turquoise ocean, greenery on top of the cliffs as it curves around in front to a point, and the layers in the rock very visible.
A worn trail head sign hand carved and painted with the words Mickeleens Path, and distances below to Witless Bay, South Head, and Island Cove. It also says Hikers Only.
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