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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam

@djigr.bsky.social

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · Nov 12

I’ve noticed a bunch of newcomers, so welcome!
Let me introduce myself: I’m Djigr, PhD student at MNHN in Paris, working on the phylogeny of pollinating scarabs 🪲
Firm believer in the fact that science is fun, I have a thousand scicom projects which I’ll be posting about:

Cool girl in a Pokemon T-shirt, ammonite choker necklace, and flamboyant eyeliner - it’s Djigr!

Box of specimens of pinned black or orange scarabs, with the focus on a label reading "Pentodon idiota idiota (Herbst)", which is quite rude to the Pentodon who didn’t deserve to be called an idiot

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you so much 😭💓
I put a lot of thought into this list, and you have helped tremendously to feed the challenge this year with your educational posts, so thanking @amypteride.bsky.social for all of this!!

Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 1d

And this dear people is why you should join the awesome list made by the wonderful @djigr.bsky.social ❤️, come discover with us a new extinct organism each day until the end of the month !😃
(like, there's non-animal taxa in the list, that's the coolest thing ever in paleontology)

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 1d

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 12h

#paleoctober2025 day 15 : Plectronoceras !

Cephalopods were late bloomers compared to other major mollusk classes, only becoming really abundant during the Ordovician. Plectronoceras here is the oldest cephalopod, dating back to the Cambrian, and its anatomy has been much debated.

A drawing of Plectronoceras, the oldest cephalopod known. Due to conflicts of interpretation of its soft parts, the head is reconstructed as the typical cephalopod head.

Fossil fragments of Plectronoceras shell, showing the individual chambers.

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Situldis @situldis.bsky.social · 12h

#Paleoctober2025 Day 15
Plectronoceras

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 15h

#Paleoctober2025 day 13 and 14 paleoart sketches with the early stick grasshopper Eoproscopia and the strange shaped coelacanth Allenypterus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Eoproscopia #Allenypterus

The Early Cretaceous stick grasshopper perched on a giant horsetail. It has well developed wings.

The lobe-finned fish swimming in the Late Carboniferous tropical shallows.

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 12h

Tiens @amypteride.bsky.social , tu me demandais si mes furets à écailles faisaient la même chose que les furets à fourrure, aka partir avec la ressource pour en profiter en sécurité : Joanna finit quasi toutes ses chasses en faisant un petit sprint dans le terrarium avec la blatte, donc un peu !

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 12h

She had not eaten for a week (perceived by Joanna as 1 million years)

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 5d

shitpost stop-motion while taking photos for

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Chaotic Queer

Plush, Dice, Pins, and more in 12+ flags!

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Gay Breakfast @gaybreakfast.bsky.social · 5d

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Metanagon @metanagon.bsky.social · 1d

Jour 14 du #paleoctober2025

🦛 Kannemeyeria (~245 Ma)
Un grand herbivore du Trias, proche des mammifères par certains traits.

🐟 Allenypterus (~318 Ma)
Un poisson à nageoires lobées du Carbonifère, cousin des célèbres cœlacanthes.

#art #paleoart #science

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1d

Day 13 #Invertober2025 - Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 😬

holy hell this thing took the most time out of any other #invertober critter i have ever drawn, partially because there are NO GOOD REFS except for its face

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a bobbit worm, a very segmented deep sea worm with a massive jaw at the front and a very holographic sparkly body with two little leg like structures at each segment, on a black background.

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Quelques mois seulement, je suis virtuellement censée finir en février :) (j’ai pas rédigé mon premier article, wouhou envie de canner)
Pis j’ai pas besoin de supporter ma thèse, j’y suis très bien, j’en veux encore 2 ans de plus, j’ai juste besoin qu’on me laisse bosser dessus sans culpabiliser H24

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

She’s a Varanus acanthurus, the spiny/ridge-tailed monitor lizard, or simply ackie :D A common and small australian monitor lizard that can be found bred in captivity, excellent pets IMO. Very food motivated, will sleep on you, can be very tame, and not big enough to do much damage when biting :)

🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · Nov 30

Joanna said: "Stop booping me or I BITE" 🦎
(Varanus acanthurus)

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 1d

day 14 of #paleoctober2025 - allenypterus, a genus of coelacanth 🐟

#paleoart

a black and white sketch of a fish darting between some seaweed

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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 1d

#paleoctober2025 day 14 : Allenypterus montanus !

Coelacanths have a really rich evolutionnary history, with numerous freshwater species during the paleozoic, our two current species being relics. Allenypterus is known from the Carboniferous of Bear Gulch (Montana) from various specimens.

A drawing of Allenypterus montanus, a freshwater fish from the carboniferous and a member of the coelacanth family

One of the fossil specimens of Allenypterus montanus

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Situldis @situldis.bsky.social · 1d

#Paleoctober2025 Day 14
Allenypterus

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Sora Scribbles @sorascribbles.bsky.social · 1d

Cainotherium sp WIP #paleoctober2025

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 2d

day 13 of #paleoctober2025 , eoproscopia, a cretaceous insect from the grasshopper family. 🦗

a black and white sketch of an insect resembling a stick bug

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Merci beaucoup pour tes mots ❤️

🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Je devrais pas parler de tout ça en public mais j'ai plus les moyens de payer ma psy.

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Résultat je suis en train de foirer ma thèse ET j'en veux mortellement à mon mari de m'avoir détruite. Donc à tenter de préserver mon mariage en sacrifiant ma thèse, j'ai au final perdu sur tous les plans.

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Un peu fatiguant de s'entendre dire encore "Ah, la thèse, ça détruit des gens hein !" en parlant de ma situation alors que pendant 2 ans mes discussions avec ma psy ça a été sur mon mari qui m'empêchait de travailler parce qu'il pensait aussi que ma thèse allait me détruire.

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Joanna 🦎

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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese insect books are DOPE.
I bought a few when I was there and I regularly use them (it helps that I'm learning Japanese, but I mostly rely on Google Translate).
The ID keys?? So easy to follow, with illustrations of characters!
The photos?? Professional!
I wanna go back 🥹