The Introvertebrates

@introvertebrates

Cambridge (UK) based science arts and crafts created by @fionatel.bsky.social‬ and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social‬ always AI free!

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The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 15d

what we learned from #DinoCon - people like invertebrate weirdos, MORE INVERTEBRATE WEIRDOS! - MEDIEVAL WEIRDOS - if the t-shirt is stupid, double the amount (we are completely out of DON'T DO IT GRAMPA t-shirts) - we support women's rights and wrongs and will make a DON'T DO IT GRANDMA version

digital painting of a bright orange stripey tiktaalik coming out of the water stepping on a sandy shore, with a theoretical first flying insect and some theoretical first land plants to the side, the text above on a white background says DON'T DO IT, GRAMPA...

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 16d

so nice of the shiny metal pins to arrive... JUST AS WE ARE BACK FROM #DinoCon well they will be on our Etsy once we rest and start sorting everything out thanks to everyone that stopped by for a chat, bought some art, complimented our art, or was just confused at our placement of Charlie 💚

Cardboard with swveral metal pins in it, a green microraptor sitting on a no-AI sign (says AIn't interested), a nautilus, cerstops skull on white, mosquito in amber, red shape white skeleton ichtyosauruses

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 16d

on our way back from #DinoCon to Cam and gemini had the audacity to try and talk over the google maps robot lady, got shut off real quick

Photo of a car display showing 1hr 29min 91mi 20:45 with a transceibed line below saying "nothing you can f*** off"

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 17d

day one of #DinoCon was so successfull we almost ran out of "don't do it grampa..." t-shirts! (a single XS and 2XL left) no time for photos, but managed to snap the mammooth duo before Caramel left for their new home 🦣 Mocha is still waiting for theirs!

Two fluffy crochet planters of mammooths, one is cream and the other dark brown, with two little plants in them, sitting on top of a crosstitch pattern, with some blurry other crosstitch patterns in the background

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 17d

just in case the person has bluesky, you left a bag of 4 stickers at our #DinoCon table today! we are keeping it safe for you please come back for it :(

Photo of a little black and white striped paper bag with 4 stickers on top of it, a tea sipping orange thylacine spelled TEacine, a tiktaalik in a spilled cup with a choco chip cookie apelled TEAktaalik, two anti AI stickers one saying "AIn't interested" the other saying "NO GenAI images, all human made!"

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· 27d

SHIMERRRRYYYYyyyy with a ceratops skull ready for #DinoCon #SciArt

photo of a page with holographic stickers of a semi-realistic drawing of a ceratops skull

page of holographic stickers of a weevil doodle wearing a witch hat and riding a witch broom

page of holographic stickers of a weevil grub with a little witch hat and star wand coming out of a bright green acorn

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jul 11

YOU WANT BIRBS WE GOT BIRBS! dodos and great auk planters ready for #DinoCon #SciArt #crochet

photo of three crochet planters on wooden disks, sitting on a wooden table. there are two dodos in grey and light brown threads and one great auk, an extinct penguin from the British Isles, colored in black and white. all three have little plants in them

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jul 6

two new t-shirt designs coming to #DinoCon! "bad choices man" and a pile of dinosaur cookies (as well as our previous t-shirt designs, people really liked the invertebrate fossil one at Lyme Regis!) #SciArt

semi-realistic digital drawing of four gingerbread cookies in the shape of dinosaurs, with white frosting showing their skeletons. t-rex with a bit butt, ichthyosaurus, stegosaurus, triceratops, on a dark green background

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jul 5

see you in 3 weeks for @dinoconuk.bsky.social, find us at table 56 for some dinosaur, dinosaur adjacent and extinct invert goodies!

a map of light green tables on a dark green background, table 56 is highlighted in yellow and a mosquito wearing a paleontologist hat is pointing at it saying "find The Introvertebrates HERE!"

a collage of four images, from top left
four stickers with various puns on extinct organism names (TEAktaalik, sTEAgosaurus, TEA-rex, TEAlacine)
a deep red purple tshirt with four extinct invertebrates, the text in white says Fossilt are more than dinosaurs! with names and years of fossil found to the side, black ink sketches with white
a series of little wooden stud earrings on carboard of various extinct invertebrates and a ceratops skull
a very dopey looking dodo crochet planter with a purple african violet inside

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 24

two more two more! ready for #DinoCon

photo of two crochet dodo planters in browns and greys, they both have long snoots and smiley faces like a borzoi, both are sitting on wooden disks on a beige blanket

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 19

and here is the final version (because I could easily spend way more than 20 hours on it so I must STOP) now to find a nice place to make sticker sheets with them cookies, the other thing we will have at #DinoCon is cookie t-shirts!

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 16

still need to get back home to get the correct DMC thread IDs* because why be organized and have that knowledge easily accessible before you even start! * everyone welcome to choose their own colors! make the raptor purple, make the sign black, make the text white! get creative!

screenshot of a grey background with white text next to color and symbol squares
Description
white - No stitch
Black with diagonal line - DMC 310 - Black
Red with diamond - Anchor 29 - Dark Carnation
Yellow with crossed box - Anchor 305 - Light Topaz
cream with tilda - Anchor 276 - Pearl
green with infinity sign - Blue
green with diagonal line - Purple
white with X - DMC 01 - White Tin
cream with circle - Anchor 397 - Light Gray
dark cream with a diagonal line with a dot - DMC 642 - Dark Beige Gray

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 15

since quite a few people inquired at Lyme Regis #FossilFestival, started working on the crosstitch pattern so people can make their own lil judging microraptor in any color of choice!

photo of a digital crosstitch pattern, a white grid with vertical and horizontal lines has pixels in black, cream, yellow, dark and light grean, grey, and a white with an X, the design isn't fully done yet

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 14

what a great Lyme Regis #FossilFestival event! pins left coming to #DinoCon, new t-shirt designs, already spoke to many lovely people that we will see again in a month there!

photo of a table with a white tablecloth on it, upper left corner is a bunch of ammonite sparkly christmas charms on red thread, upper right is a wooden container, in the front are rows and rows of various wooden pins, some of extinct dinosaur skeletons, some of little drawing of extinct invertebrates.

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 13

what we saw for day 1 behind our merch lovely venue, more chill than last year, nice chats, lots of coasters sold lol seems that is the most popular item this year see you tomorrow for day 2 of Lyme Regis #FossilFestival

photo of our stall from behind, shirts on the left, fans, coloring books, 3D printed hexagons, various colored dinosaur crochet planters, a spinning tower of charms and keychains, in front of us two tablecloths, one blue the other white

photo straight from behind a small shelf and various crochet dinosaur butts looking at me, iced coffee on the left and two hexagons with stuff pinned on them from behind, t-shirts hanging on a wall to the left

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 13

yesterday's set-up with a few more bits and bobs to do this morning, see all you Lyme Regis #FossilFestival goers at The Malthouse!

photo of Fiona wearing a leafy shirt and sweater standing behing a table full of colourful coasters, stickers, planter, and behind her on all the walls are our various t-shirt designs hanging, the t-shirt colors ranging from black, dark green, dark blue, oat, light green, purple.

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· Jun 5

we are a duo of geneticists with a love of all things science-y and fossil-y, if you visited our stall last year we now have new t-shirt designs, new planters designs, and even coasters! #FossilFriday #SciArt #DinoCon

A hall full of people setting up tables, two people are sitting down onr with a light blue ammonite blouse the other dark blue cartoony ammonite, the table has multicolor dinosaur crochet planters, paleonthology tshirts, a rack with jewelry, an anti ai sign.

A red purple t-shirt with white and black #SciArt doodles of four extinct invertebrates, the text above says "Fossils are more than dinosaurs!" with their names by them:
Opabinia (505 mya)
Jaekelopterus (410 mya)
Pseudopulex jurassicus (165 mya)
Callichmaera perplexa (95 mya)

crochet stegosaurus in bright yellow, red, blue and green thread, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

four white coasters with drawings on a wooden table, all with tea-puns on them. from top left:
sTEAgosaurus, green with yellow spikes, sitting in a fancy pink teacup with roses and a little custard cream cookie
a thylacine in bright orange with black stripes sipping out of a glass cup with chamomile flowers at the bottom and a jammie cookie on the side, the text above says TEAlacine
TEAktaalik, brown and shiny coming out of a teal camping mug with LIVE WILD written on it, next to the mug is a teabag and a chocolate chip cookie
TEA-rex, bright feathery and red, peeking out of a brown blue office cup, with a scone covered in clotted cream and strawberry jam next to the cup

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 30

since we are basically done ordering all the Lyme Regis #FossilFestival stock, here is a sneaky preview of something that will be available ONLY @dinoconuk.bsky.social 🍪 #SciArt

screenshot of procreate with a small reference of a gingerbread cookie with white frosting that got bitten, and the open procreate canvas shows a zoomed in t-rex cookie with white frosting in the shape of the skeleton, me slowly adding the gingerbread cookie pattern to it.

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 27

love how perplexed this guy is turning out to be you could have this beautiful visage as a Christmas tree decoration!

screenshot of a charm design of a very perplexed looking ichthyosaurus skeleton in blue with the outline of the organism in red and a red charm fixture on top, two size lines on the y and x axis

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 26

@fionatel.bsky.social is hard at work making more amazing little guys* for Lyme Regis #FossilFestival and @dinoconuk.bsky.social * crochet dino planters for those tiny nursery plants you never know where to put * plant not sold #SciArt #crochet

crochet diplodocus in a black sparkly thread, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

crochet diplodocus in a gradient thread of pink, purple and blue, glued to a wooden disk, with a tiny little asparagus plant in it, sitting on a wooden table.

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 26

coasters for every occasion! feeling more punny or more minimalist? but don't worry, they can be mixed and matched! we will also be offering single ones at Lyme Regis #FossilFestival and @dinoconuk.bsky.social #SciArt

a set of four white coasters with black and white drawings on a wooden table, from top left:
silly drawing of an Opabinia, an extinct tube organism with flappy arms, 5 eyes, and a long proboscis with a claw.
silly drawing of a perplexa crab, an extinct crab with absolutely ridiculous anime eyes.
silly drawing of a Jaekelopterus, an extinct half scorpion half shrimp.
a semi-realistic pen drawing of a ceratops skull

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 24

I hope the experiment turns out good! printing only the white bones on darker grain wood #SciArt

digital vectorized drawings of four extinct organism skeletons in white frosting with a brown border making them look like gingerbread cookies. There is a triceratops, stegosaurus, ichthyosaurus, and t-rex

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 24

we have flying and sea invert wooden pins! working on having more in the future! eg weevil witch and weevil apprentice charms/wooden pins theintrovertebrates.carrd.co

screenshot of a procreate window in dark mode with two little characters on a white background, left is a brown weevil wearing a black and purple witch hat standing on a broom, right is a green acorn with a teeny weevil grub in cream and orange with a teeny purple witch hat and teeny star wand popping out of the acorn.

an embroidery hoop with a white cloth with 20 small pins, most wood some metal, the designs are cartoony ammonite, mosquito in amber, party tardigrade, simple black line extinct sea inverts, and a bunch of semi-realistic sea inverts (slugs, cephalopods, starfish), spiders, insects (mosquitoes, beeflies, beetles), nautilus, ceratops skull

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 22

debating some... gingerbread cookie with dinosaur skeleton wooden pins 🤔 on dark wood it could just be the white paint and give the illusion of cookie? disclaimer: please do not eat any of our wooden pins, they are in fact not edible (unless you are a termite) #SciArt

screenshot of inkscape, with a #wip #SciArt triceratops skeleton, below is the sketch on brown background, above is the white vector with a brown border making it look like a gingerbread cookie with white frosting

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 22

and here are all the designs! can be mixed and matched to whatever you want #SciArt

a photo of 8 yellow jewelry cards with 8 pairs of different wooden stud earrings. some are of black trillobites, some are pen sketches of extinct invertebrates, one is a ceratops skull, one is a yellow pink ammonite, and one is mosquitoes in amber

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 19

we have been testing... stud earrings! ever wanted to wear an extinct crab with anime eyes on your head? we got you covered! (Petra here, I wore a pair all day, very comfy, didn't fall apart so glue is good)

photo of a yellow jewelry card with two tiny stud earrings of an extinct half crab half scorpion and a bit of shrimp creature

photo of a yellow jewelry card with two tiny stud earrings of two missmatched tiny trillobites

photo of a yellow jewelry card with two tiny stud earrings of two cartoony yellow and pink ammonites

photo of a yellow jewelry card with two tiny stud earrings of an extinct crab with giant anime eyes

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 19

itty bitty transparent border stickers! because we are waiting for another sale on wooden charms to order those lol #HumanMade #noAI #SciArt

photo of two tiny vinyl stickers on a brown cloth surface, left is a dead mosquito in amber, right is a little green feathery microraptor sitting on a chomped sign saying AIn't interested with the AI being crossed with a red sign

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 16

and in the meantime... stickers! #SciArt

four stickers of extinct critters in teacups in a square pattern:
TEAktaalik, brown and shiny coming out of a teal camping mug with LIVE WILD written on it, next to the mug is a teabag and a chocolate chip cookie
sTEAgosaurus, green with yellow spikes, sitting in a fancy pink teacup with roses and a little custard cream cookie
TEA-rex, bright feathery and red, peeking out of a brown blue office cup, with a scone covered in clotted cream and strawberry jam next to the cup
a thylacine in bright orange with black stripes sipping out of a glass cup with chamomile flowers at the bottom and a jammie cookie on the side, the text above says TEAlacine

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 13

wooden pins and maybe stickers, coming to a fossil festival near you this summer! now with improved grammar #noGenAI #SciArt

digital drawing of a teeny green microraptor on a purple red background, looking suspicious, sitting on a white sign with the upper left corner bitten off, inside the sign there is an AI crossed with red and the text reads AIn't interested

The Introvertebrates@introvertebrates· May 13

one year later we are still in this slopstream, thinking of making pins/new stickers microraptor says: