#bobtail squids

[heartnosekid]

bobtail squid 🦑 | source

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Sepiola atlantica genome assembly, chromosome: 27 Common name: Atlantic Bobtail

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The year is 2030.

At the Cincinnati stop of her "world tour", Taylor Swift ends her set. As she walks off the stage, she leans into a nearby mic and says "oh by the way, I'm lesbian".

She's still milking a public relationship with a man named Chett Whitesman, so this is met with a combination of cheers and confusion. Immediately, the media mobilizes. They have to intercept her before she gets onto her private jet, and ambush her for an interview. Luckily, this has become much easier these days. Since the release of her 2027 album, "The Carbon Emissions of my Heart", T Swizzle has performed a ritual sacrifice of an endangered species on live camera every time she boards her jet, a #girlboss way of saying that her emotional pain can only be healed by the tortured screams of drowning polar bears.

(Since this practice started, a devoted faction of Swifties have started a carbon negative algae farming commune, with the express intent of negating taytay sweezie's contributions to climate change. Apparently "her tortured soul deserves to pollute without guilt". They haven't even come close to their goals.)

Taytor Twift is intercepted after this ritual, as she's walking up the steps of her plane. When asked what the lesbian statement was about, she nonchalantly says "oh, I thought it was clear that was a joke. Anyways, G T G!" , before biting into the still beating heart of an emperor penguin.

During her flight, discourse on the newly renamed twitter-X-ElonIsExtremelyVirile Corp goes nuclear like it never has been before.

There's a camp of swifties thoroughly convinced that her relationship with Chett is all a beard so that she can still keep touring in the New Christian Republic of Florida, and the interview at the plane was deepfaked.

A different camp of Swifties feels insulted and betrayed that she would be anything less than a paragon of allyship. To them, this is the worst slight the queer community has ever experienced.

A third camp of Swifties insists that she *is* dating Chett, and is also a lesbian. They get insulted that anyone would police Taylor's labels. Comparisons to the Boulder, Colorado shooter are made.

A group of non Swifties tries to point out that everyone is fucking insane and that 'ole taytay regularly tear gases pride rallies to make way for her promenade to stadium venues, and who the fuck cares about this shit and point out that what a billionaire celebrity does for five minutes of PR is not worth your attention or discourse, nor does it warrant harassing other people for the labels *they* use, and isn't it really fucked up that Taylor is making a joke of how people describe their identities? They are promptly doxxed, harassed, and banned.

Bi lesbian discourse is off the charts. Nothing Taylor said has anything to do with it, but it happens anyways.

A lone transsexual who actually goes outside once in a while tweets "hey guys isn't it kinda fucked up that 2.4 billion people have been displaced by mega storms this year that her jet contributes to and is also specifically designed to fly over" and is promptly doxxed and harassed off the platform.

After an exhausting 9 minute plane ride, Tailing Swiffer lands in Columbus for the next performance of her world tour. She unveils a new single that contains the line "ride my horse after dumping him, stepping up onto my SAD dle".

All is forgotten. All is quiet. The Swifties continue as usual, moving on to the next discourse about these lyrics.

[hellsitegenetics]

Hello hellsitegenetics. I have discovered that I did absolute shit on my Genetics unit so far. If you were to BLAST this ask I will start praying to the creature that appears for them to aid me in the final exam so that I can have a GPA that is closer to what I wanted

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Closest match: Eumandya parva genome assembly, chromosome: 44 Common name: Spotty Bobtail Squid

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[herpsandbirds]

tricker treat

GET TRICKED YOU TREAT!!!

Pacific Bobtail Squid aka Stubby Squid (Rossia pacifica), family Sepiolidae, found in the North Pacific

photograph by Sara Thiebau

[sarahmackattack]

Do you like Squid Facts? 🔲Yes 🔲No

This valentines day, we thought you might need a little help from cephalopods to celebrate. Get a pack of 20 cards for your classroom, your coworkers, your neighborhood, frankly anyone who needs both a valentine AND a little bit of science to boot.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

Proceeds benefit science education nonprofit Skype a Scientist AND the graduate student who designed these cards who is studying octopuses (Meg Mindlin @invertebabe!). Meg is trying to afford to get to a cephalopod neuroscience conference later this year and these cards will help her get there 🫡

They, of course, come with the classic heart stickers, a range of shades of pink and purple included.

[beautyunderthewaves]

Bobtail Squid Appreciation 💙

[dailycephalopods]

Daily Cephalopod #155

[mynameismad]

A bobtail squid! My patrons voted for this little guy as February’s sticker design, and it went through QUITE a journey from concept to completion. In the end I thought the blue/green was too close to a blue coelacanth sticker I’d already made, so I fiddled around with the colors and landed on orange! 

[aeriona]

This is literally the coolest thing i,ve ever done eever Uni sucks sometimes but asjorfkfkdowso I’m foaming at the mouth it’s a SQUIDD!!! I GOT TO STUDY A REAL SQUID!!!!!!!!!!!

the specimen wasn’t labelled, but given the fin length & shape combined with the fact that he was caught in the south indicated to me that he’s probably sepioteuthis australis? His lowermost arms were even hectocotylized, meaning the squid’s male!

I could even see all the sucker teeth and the chromatophores and AAHHHJFFGGKGKG SO COOLLLL

[cephalopodyuri]

ADOPTABLES!!! WOOHOO (SOLD OUT)

i did all of these for fun, all names are placeholders and you can change their names after taking them. theyre a $1 each but i take tips if you think they are worth more

octolings: SOLD Callisto (atlantic spotted octopus), SOLD Bianca (blanket octopus), SOLD Mima (mimic octopus)

inklings: SOLD Margaret (magnapinna squid), SOLD PJ (striped pyjama bobtail squid), SOLD Holly (humboldt squid)

theyre all girls bc like ummmm this is cephalopodyuri, go to cephalopodyaoi for dudes

if these are successful i will make more adoptables

[heartnosekid]

the hummingbird bobtail squid (euprymna berryi) | source

[todropscience]

Vessel sound is temporarily causing hearing loss in squids

Globally, anthropogenic sounds have become louder and more persistent, however, little is known about how invertebrates detect and respond to human-made sound. Now, new research shown noise associated with boats causes  causes temporal hearing loss in squids across different stages of their life cycle.

The hummingbird bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi) has a short lifespan of at least 6 months, which make them a convenient animal for lab studies. Hearing and behavioural observations were made by researchers before, during and after 15 minutes of vessel sound playback, to test how these squids react to noise pollution, and noted that these squids decrease their hearing sensitivity after exposure to noise, and particularly noise affected juveniles. Juvenile squids experienced an important hearing loss sensitivity after noise exposure between 400 and 800 Hz, while adult and mature squids decreased their sensibility after 200 to 600 Hz exposure, showing more resistence. All squids recovered auditory sensitivity within two hours.

Researchers aim the inclusion of cephalopods within management and policy, because anthropogenic activities and associated sound levels in the ocean are increasing, while the role sound plays in cephalopod life history is only just beginning to be understood.

Photo by Pascal Girard

Reference ()  Putland et al. 2023. Vessel sound causes hearing loss for hummingbird bobtail squid (Euprymna berryi). Frontiers in Marine Science 

[piratedllama-art]

Marinetober day 24: stubby squid

markers & acrylic pen

[yourfellowhuman07]

Ok so I just learned about an animal called the Bobtail Squid and it is the best thing to ever have been created!

It’s a cephalopod that lives in the shallow waters of the Indo-West Pacific, East Atlantic, and Mediterranean oceans/seas. It is about the size of a golf ball with about 68 different species.

During the day they hide themselves in the sand that sticks to the surface of their skin.

Then during the night they come out to feed. They also use a special light organ along with the help of bacteria in their mantle to glow, match the moon and starlight; thus, camouflaging them from predators.

I would say I want twelve of these things, but it would be wrong to take them out of their environments. I’ll love them from a distance.

[ocean-sunfish-hater]

Bobtail squid onions. Opinonions. Opinions…?

They're super cool! Firstly, love how round they are. Their giant eyes make them look like they are on the verge of tears at all times. I also love that they glow.

ID: a Hawaiian Bobtail Squid. It is close to the sea floor. Its skin is mottled and has an irridescent quality to it. It has large eyes and its body is tilted so it is looking at a slight upwards angle.

Interestingly they do not produce their own bioluminescence, but instead rely on a bacterium in its mantle called Aliivibrio fischeri, with which they have a symbiotic relationship. The squid provides nutrients and shelter in their crypt organ, and in return the bacteria provide camouflage. They do this by emitting light that matches the light coming from above the squid, a strategy called counter-illumination, essentially blurring the squid's sillhouette when seen from below.

The bacteria are also not passed on from parent to child, but instead must be caught by the baby squid soon after its birth. They do this by secreting a mucus net to capture free-floating A.fischeri and take them into their new cephalopdy home.

There's also a cool evolutionary mechanism that garuantees that their light-emitting crypt organs are only colonised by the correct bacteria, which I could go into more detail about if you want.

[eddieintheocean]

is anyone gonna match my freak (housing bacteria in my skin to make it glow)