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The Introvertebrates
@introvertebrates.bsky.social
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Cambridge (UK) based science arts and crafts

created by @fionatel.bsky.social‬ and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social‬

https://theintrovertebrates.carrd.co/
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EXCELLENT choice, much fashion!
the worst photoshop ever of Dragons of Wales PFP of a brown dinosaur munching a blue surgical facemask, but it is on a dark green t-shirt of a fluffy yellow t-rex with a christmas hat unable to open their present because of small arms, then some stickfigure hands and a tail
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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we got Christmas T-rexes! and molecular biology t-shirts! and a flamingo!

we don't have an active sail as both of us are swamped with our actual genomics jobs before the holidays, but we are going to have a stall at two local science campus Christmas Markets!

www.etsy.com/shop/theintr...
screenshot of the etsy page for theintrovertebrates (logo is a little mosquito in a labcoat on an orange background) Cambridge, England 5.0 stars (9), 314 sales, 1 year on etsy items reviews about shop policies all 44 crochet patterns 1 t-shirts 18 crochet planters 14 christmas decorations 2 stickers 3 request custom order contact shop owner 314 sales 49 admirers all items a crochet owl planter a crochet flamingo pattern child with a dark blue tshirt with a cartoony ammonite guy with a dark green tshirt with a sad t-rex ceratops skull green tshirt cream and green CMYK molecular biology themed tshirts ammonite sticker tapping the sign NO ONE HOME!
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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done and dusted! #SciArt #MolBio t-shirts available in light and dark (with blacks and whites on top of the CMY)

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
a cream and navy t-shirts, with a cyan magenta yellow design with either black or white details of various molecular biology themes (tube, pipette, human cells, microbes)
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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look at this baby, she could be yours and NOT make your plants extinct... hopefully

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#SciArt #Handmade
a silly little dodo crochet planter, with a dark beak, white face and wing tip, brown body, and a silly little yellow eye, with a purple african violet, sitting on a round slice of wood on a wooden table. same dodo crochet planter, but now shown facing forward, looks like a silly borzoi dog, with a purple african violet inside, sitting on a wood slice with little feet poking underneath, on a wooden table.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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now listed on our Etsy!

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
screenshot from our etsy of the dog and cat scientist keychains with little extra charms, black dog and ginger cat, the text on the right says: Low in stock, only 2 left Price:£6.00+ Local taxes included (where applicable), plus postage Dog and cat scientist keychains theintrovertebrates 5 out of 5 stars Dispatched from United Kingdom Arrives soon! Get it by 29 Oct-03 Nov if you order today Type small charms Quantity 3 payments at 0% interest with Klarna Must be 18+, credit subject to status. T&Cs apply. Star Seller. This seller consistently earned 5-star reviews, dispatched on time, and replied quickly to any messages they received.
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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here we have it folks! both extra small gel and pipette charms version and "simple" version, showing off both front and back for each cat and dog! 🐕🐈🥼

#SciArt #HumanMade
a grid of 5x2 photos, top row is dogs in light blue labcoats labcoats charms, bottom is cats in labcoats charms, dogs are holding a tablet, cats are holding a lab flask, each photo has the charm front and back, with one having additional little charms on an agarose gel and pipette. from top left: black dog with white snout, beagle, doberman, golden lab, dalmatian, tuxedo cat, ginger tabby, grey cat, burmese, calico
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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coming to our etsy store soon! cat chemist and dogtor keychains, with little pipettes and agarose gels!

#SciArt
two keychains on a wooden table, left is a black dog in a blue labcoat holding an ipad with a DNA strain, the right is an orange tabby cat holding a flask with pink liquid wearing a blue labcoat, both have a little blue pipette and an orange gel with DNA bands on it as smaller charms on the same keychain.
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Keychains will still happen, but for now Dogtor and ChemCat stickers have happened!

#SciArt
10 stickers on a cream thread blanket, all of cats holding a pink liquid chemistry flash and dogs holding a folder with a pink DNA on it. cats are bengal, grey, orange tabby, calico, tuxedo, dogs are golden retriever, rotweiler, black with grey snoot, dalmatian, beagle.
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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slightly less blurry photo! in the Etsy shop soon

#paleonthology #SciArt #invertebrates
three little wooden pins on a wooden table, of an opabinia a jaekelopterus and a perplexa, all extinct invertebrates.
September 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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oh my god what in the world
we def need to think of something with this balloon
a creature from the cambrian, looks like a balloon with a beak and a comical tail upper corner has the copyright 3D dinopedia Copyright Digital Patron studio
September 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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new wooden pins of some extinct weirdos!
extra silly, extra cute

#paleonthology #SciArt #invertebrates
fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of a Jaekelopterus, an extinct half scorpion half shrimp fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of an Opabinia, an extinct tube organism with flappy arms, 5 eyes, and a long proboscis with a claw. fingers holding a wooden pin with a black line drawing of a perplexa crab, an extinct crab with absolutely ridiculous anime eyes.
September 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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inspiration struck during @dinoconuk.bsky.social and now we have mammoth planters!

friend shaped, will keep your plants warm 🦣🪴
photo of a crochet mammoth planter, made with a very fuzzy brown yarn, big beady eyes, and large white tusks. a small purple grey plant sits in it. photo of a crochet mammoth planter, now in a side view, made with a very fuzzy brown yarn, big beady eyes, and large white tusks. a small purple grey plant sits in it.
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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we might be trying some more silly extinct invertebrate wooden pin designs, let's see how they turn out!

Callichimaera perplexa aka UwU anime crab
Jaekelopterus aka shrompion
Opabinia aka "Cambrian what are you doing again"
three pins in black lines with a red line around them (cut line) and a red dot in the middle (pin placement) of three extinct invertebrates (Callichimaera perplexa, Jaekelopterus, Opabinia) with their respective measurements on the side 25.147mm 25.172mm 25.325mm 24.966mm 23.649mm 25.163mm
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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an extremely successful #DinoConUK

met a lot of wonderful people and thank you for everyone that stopped at our shop to grab a little something silly

posing with the velocinator 🤖
photo of petra in a grey t-shirt, holding a skeleton structure model but made from moveable metal and 3D printed parts of a velociraptor on a stand, but it is only one glasses eye while the other is behind the raptor's torso. photo of fiona in a light blue ammonite shirt holding a 3D and metal printed velociraptor model where you can move each join in a specific way, she is looking at it lovingly like a baby.
August 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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and last one for now!

these were all done as examples for people interested in our coloring book, watercolor pens and pencils, work great on the thicker paper the coloring book is printed on!

check them in person this weekend @dinoconuk.bsky.social and get your own!

#SciArt #paleontology
coloring page of a cartoony mosquito wearing an indiana jones like brown hat, holding a giant amber bead containing a dead orange mosquito.
August 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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new planter design for @dinoconuk.bsky.social just dropped, a little crystal seas colored thread Plesiosaur!
photo of a crochet plesiosaur planter, an extinct sea reptile with a long neck, long tail, and stubby fins. the planter is sitting on a cream line blanket and has a purple plant pot on the inside.
August 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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more new bling for @dinoconuk.bsky.social
little wooden ammonite earings, regular and CHRISTMAS edition 🧑‍🎄
two wooden earrings of little yellow/orange and pink ammonites, stuck through a piece of paper with a stamp of a mosquito in a labcoat holding pipettes and the text "The Introvertebrates, science arts & crafts, by Fiona & Petra". a bit of a blury photo, two wooden earrings of little yellow/orange and pink ammonites with christmas red/white hats, stuck through a piece of paper with a stamp of a mosquito in a labcoat holding pipettes and the text "The Introvertebrates, science arts & crafts, by Fiona & Petra".
August 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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yessss yessss yessssssssssss 🎄🦖

now you too can have a fluffy upset t-rex on your Christmas tree!... for some reason...

(bit of a tail paint chip, we're keeping this one)
sparkly gold christmas charm with a bright yellow fluffy feathery t-rex, wearing a sparkly christmas hat, their teeny hands can't reach a bright sparkly red and green present with the label saying "TO: T-REX"
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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the color combinations are becoming more unhinged as my watercolor pens die, but then again who can prove t-rexes were not dark purple!?

Might finish one more as our stall example of the coloring book for @dinoconuk.bsky.social, but this could all be you with your own color combos!
coloring book open on a page of an iguanadon and t-rex with decorative circles in the background, iguanadon is jumping happy giving thumbs up, in yellows and blues, the t-rex is like a fat dark purple and red chicken sitting on their butt with a big gold crown with jewels. coloring book open on a Quetzalcoatlus and Allosaurus, with blue and green wavy shapes behing them. the Quetzalcoatlus is pink and red, screaming into the void, the Allosaurus has a yellow head, orange body with red higlights.
August 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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so we ordered this poor lad and the Christmas ammonites as sparkly tree decorations and they still haven't arrived... they better make it on time for @dinoconuk.bsky.social !!
two charm designs, one of a pink ammonite in a yellow/orange shell wearing an oversized christmas hat, the other is a bright yellow fluffy feathery t-rex, wearing a sparkly christmas hat, their teeny hands can't reach a bright sparkly red and green present with the label saying "TO: T-REX" the sizes next to each are 1.8321in 2.0103in 2.07in 1.9988in
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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we also have matching night sky triceratopses ready for Exeter ✨🔭
photo of two crocheted triceratops planters, both have dark blue thread and a gradient light to dark blue thread, but on different parts of the body.
August 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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also have a variety of light wooden pins, and they are looking so nice (not that the metals weren't nice, but we are a bit obsessed with wood now)
a wooden pin with a drawing of a mosquito in ember. a wooden pin with a ceratops skull, black lines and darker shading.
August 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"con table setup is my passion"

*slaps a grandma squared tablecloth on it*
photo of a tablecloth with white and red squares on a white background.
August 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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thank you! we do have some non-paleontology themed ones, but we need to find the right festivals/conventions for those!

clearly need to partner with some garden centers lol 🌱🐝
light blue grey t-shirt with a plethora of little gardening themes in a circle, in black, red, yellow, mint green. bees, sunflower, snail, gloves, a satched of tomato seeds, flies, a bag of dirt with a shovel, garden shears, a potted seedling, a robin. a brown t-shirt with a series of entomological themes in a circle, in light and dark green, yellow, pink and white. a rolly polly, a millipede, a dragonfly, an entomological label, a ladybug in a jar that says BUG, a caterpillar munching on a leaf, a bug under a magnifying glass, a bug net.
August 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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better photos coming but ooooh the dark wooden pin tests are here and they look FABULOUS

#invertebrates
small wooden pin with a rainbow tardigrade with a martini glass and alcohol bottle wearing sunglasses with the text PARTYGRADE above. small wooden pin of a ladybug fly, a fly with bright red eyes, green yellow wings, and a dark orange abdomen with three black dots making it look like a ladybug. a friend shaped wooden pin of a light orange ladybug with huge black eyes and white dots over an orange carapace. small wooden pin of our mascot extinct invertebrate, a yellow and orange shelled ammonite with pink tentacles.
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM