The OctoPost: My Next Book, and Octopus (Sw)arms
I’m delighted to announce my next book, Tentacle Mysteries: Octopuses, Squid, and the Scientists Who Dig Up Their Secrets! It’s a nonfiction time-travel...
The OctoPost: Brains, Cowboys, and OCTOPUNCH!
Cephalopod News The final winner of Squidtember’s #BestSquid bracket was the big-finned, elbow-armed, beauty-slash-horror of the deep: Magnapinna. As if to...
The OctoPost: Squidtember!
Cephalopod News Happy Squidtember! Started in 2022 by OceanX, this month-long celebration shines a (bioluminescent) light on all the ten-limbed cephalopods...
The OctoPost: "Keep Octopuses Wild"
Dear friends, I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking so the newsletter is late & short. This classical octopus (a product of my attempt to practice more...
The OctoPost: Whale Ink and Giant Eggs
Cephalopod News June brought another fabulous Cephalopod Week, this year with extra ink! Science Friday interviewed an ink expert, and I gave a talk about...
The OctoPost: Cephalobooks (Bookalopods?) Past, Present and Future
Cephalopod Books Past Richard Ellis, author and artist of abundant works about marine life, passed away on May 21st. Ellis’s were some of the first books...
The OctoPost: Octopus Secrets and Paperback Flamingos
Cephalopod News Have you seen Secrets of the Octopus, National Geographic’s new cephalopod show? My kids and I loved it, not only for profiling some of our...
The OctoPost: Making Friends & Squirting Ink
It seems like everyone has an octopus friend these days . . . Cephalopod News Shortly after reading the novel Remarkably Bright Creatures, in which the human...
The OctoPost: A "Golden Age of Octopus Research" and a Quest
I love finding out I was wrong. Cephalopod News Last year in Nautilus I wrote: "Octopuses seem to be missing sex chromosomes in any form as we know them. In...
The OctoPost: Robots, Jiu Jitsu Squids, and DIY Cephalopods
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to my first Buttondown newsletter! (TinyLetter, the platform I used previously, will be discontinued at the end of the...