Peter Girguis

@pgirguis.bsky.social

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🌊 Marine scientist and co-founder of the Girguis Flying Circus™️. Aspiring blacksmith, father of sea monsters, and occasional yapper. “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean”. -Arthur C. Clarke

two visitors viewing an exhibit about sea monsters at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. They are looking at a panel about sea monsters on medieval and renaissance maps.
Painting by Jerry LoFaro depicting a white whale attacking a small whaling boat, crushing the boat in its jaws. One of the whalers is clearly in its mouth while the other whaler appears to be setting up to spear the whale again.
A picture of a goat that paid the Girguis lab a visit in the midst of the pandemic.
Jared Richards giving his dissertation talk on paleo-ecology at Harvard University.
Stray hypodermic needle packaging found behind a small centrifuge
An old lug nut. That’s all.
A very boring picture of a soffit vent in the eaves of a boring house.
Knuckle tattoos saying “hold fast”
A reflection in the window of a Starbucks store. The reflection is unclear but bears a faint resemblance to a fast food advertisement.
This is a screenshot of an exchange between my brother and me. It sums up every brothers’ interactions since the beginning of time.
Our family Christmas tree
A picture showing increasingly aggressive ways of loosening a bolt, starting with a small socket wrench and ending with a blow torch
A comic with one great white shark named Kevin telling another great white shark named Ben that it doesn't feel great, just good. Ben tells him he is, indeed, a great white shark. @thelifeofsharks.com
Poster of Superman taking about fighting racism and keeping America “all American”
Han Solo and chewy tying a Christmas tree to the Millennium Falcon.
A picture of a person via the iPhones new interface