I am actually staying home for several weeks, and it feels so good and relaxing. So this is kind of a self-portrait, I think. (via)
Category Archive: Cephalopods
Dec 21 2012
Friday Cephalopod: NOM NOM NOM, on the soft shell
See last week’s cephalopod for context. (via r/aww)
Dec 11 2012
Giant squid attempt beachhead at Santa Cruz
As part of our ongoing campaign here to make you doublecheck to see which one of the bloggers here wrote a post, I offer this story about a mass stranding of Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas, near Santa Cruz, California. Hundreds of the poor things have washed up on the beaches around Santa Cruz in the …
Dec 07 2012
Friday Cephalopod: Self portrait
It’s the last day of classes, after a very long and agonizing semester, and this guy looks how I feel: stressed, with gnashy tentacles and a livid complexion. I feel for any students who come to my office with questions about the final — I’m straining to be nice and helpful, but what I really …
Nov 23 2012
Friday Cephalopod: Truckin’
I’m just making my way through this weekend, taking care of business. (via Wired)
Nov 16 2012
Friday Cephalopod: Giddyup, my great pink steed!
WHO IS YOUR MASTER NOOOOOOW? (via the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Nov 09 2012
Learn your neuroanatomy lingo
Go study this and master the vocabulary. Everyone is so familiar with our brains with their parietal lobes and sulci and ganglia, but do people ever stop to contemplate the cephalopod brain? Nooooo. And it’s pretty cool. Possibly the most obvious difference is that the nervous system of most invertebrates develops ventrally, rather than dorsally, …
Nov 09 2012
Friday Cephalopod: Looking haughty
Probably because he’s already at Skepticon, and I’m not. (via Arthropoda)
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