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Saimi Hanma ⚔️
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Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND

(aka Kelly Brenner)

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@nudibranch.bsky.social

#InverteFest

website: www.metrofieldguide.com
webshop: https://www.metrofieldguide.com/shop/
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Jan 15
I am Saimi Hanma (formerly Kelly Brenner) and the author of The Naturalist at Home as well as Nature Obscura. I'm also an artist and photographer, focusing largely on invertebrates.

You can find my art, photos, writing, info and web shop on my website: www.metrofieldguide.com
the book cover for the naturalist at home: projects for discovering the hidden world around us by kelly brenner. the central image is a curiosity cabinet with various items like skulls, shells and lichens. the book cover for nature obscura: a city's hidden natural world by kelly brenner. it's a pencil illustration featuring a variety of nature such as a ladybug, crow, invertebrates, moss, slime molds and so on a charcoal illustration of a sea angel, which is a sea slug which looks like a winged sluggy devil a photo of a horned nudibranch from the front against a dark background. the sea slug is translucent with spiky cerata on the back which have brown lines and are tipped in orange
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Autumnal scenes from Seattle.
A dark path through alders with a few big yellow leaves on the path Two classic brown mushrooms from above, surrounded by yellow ginkgo leaves covered in drops of water
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Today's #Nudivember is the ocean version of the banana slug and manages to be way more banana.
A watercolor and sumi ink illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's bright yellow with black markings and a weird hood cover for the gills on the back
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Autumnal scenes from Seattle.
A dark path through alders with a few big yellow leaves on the path Two classic brown mushrooms from above, surrounded by yellow ginkgo leaves covered in drops of water
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Today's #Nudivember is the ocean version of the banana slug and manages to be way more banana.
A watercolor and sumi ink illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's bright yellow with black markings and a weird hood cover for the gills on the back
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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nudibranch.bsky.social
It's day 27 of #Nudivember and our species today is Notodoris minor

Info: www.seaslugforum.net/find/notomino
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/504909-...
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Today's #Nudivember is a little, glittery sea bunny.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's a round, orange ball of slug with white gills
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
Here are 5 more days of #Nudivember. Only 4 left to go!! I need a reward for getting through 30 full days.
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of nudibranchs
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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blueappaloosa.bsky.social
November's #InvertArtChallenge, a Tachinid Fly. Such neat little feets! So fuzzy! I should probably get better at sketching fur/fuzz/hair.

#SciArt
Sketch of a tachinid fly on some flowers. It's a very fuzzy, black fly with a lighter colored head. Watermark reads: Blue Appaloosa
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Here are 5 more days of #Nudivember. Only 4 left to go!! I need a reward for getting through 30 full days.
A collage of five watercolor illustrations of nudibranchs
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Today's #Nudivember is a little, glittery sea bunny.
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's a round, orange ball of slug with white gills
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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nudibranch.bsky.social
We're inching towards the end of #Nudivember, but don't pass by our little cutie for day 26, Acanthodoris lutea.

Info: www.seaslugforum.net/showall/acan...
Photos: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47472-A...
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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michellejonesart.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 25

(Acrylic paint, mixed media on layers of collaged paper)
A cream and tan nudibranch with little white spots on a textured reddish brown background.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm seriously debating taking my website down and starting over. My hosting renewal is coming up at the beginning of the year and I refuse to renew with my host. I've got more than a decade of writing, photos and art on my website, but if it's just going to be scraped for AI then what's the point.
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 25: Hallaxa cryptica, the forbidden rice pudding
#nudibranch #seaslug #camouflage #art
A pale nudibranch with white spots blending into the background
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 06- Diaphorodoris mitsuii

🐌🦑🐠🐡
White sea slug with bright orange and yellow piping around the edge of its body
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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michellejonesart.bsky.social
#Nudivember Day 20

Why, yes, I used Stickles glitter glue for this one! I'm an *artiste*
And it's sparkly
A nudibranch on a light brown background. The nudibranch is pale blue and purple sparkle, with black lines running over its back.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Can anyone recommend a good web host for a WordPress site? Even better if they offer a service to migrate my site for me.
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Getting closer to the end of #Nudivember, I'm going to make it!
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's dark purple with reddish orange markings around the body edge
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm pretty much at the point where I'm going to automatically start blocking accounts who share tiktok videos or screenshots of headlines or anything else without a link to the original source because far too many people work hard to create only to have people scrape it for their own clout.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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manyojo.bsky.social
#Nudivember XXIV: The big stretch
Comic strip showing a Mexichromis macropus sea slug counting its way into a big body stretch.
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social
#Nudivember day 24: Mexichromis macropus, the forbidden grape jelly (with orange sprinkles)
#nudibranch #seaslug #purple #art
A purple nudibranch sprinkled with darker purple papillae and orange streaks on the edge of its mantle
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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liminalitea.bsky.social
Today's #nudivember is Mexichromis macropus, which feels like one of the platonic ideals of a nudibranch.
A drawing of a white nudibranch with purple rhinophores and nodules along its body, and small orange triangular markings around its foot. Its gills have purple centres.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Getting closer to the end of #Nudivember, I'm going to make it!
A watercolor illustration of a nudibranch sea slug that's dark purple with reddish orange markings around the body edge
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM