Scientists carved out some time to celebrate Halloween and shared their creations using the Twitter hashtag #sciolantern. The photo above is from the NASA- Jet Propulsion Lab at Caltech’s annual contest.
"Everyone gets so excited about this competition that has no prize other than bragging rights," said Brockie, who also helped build the cow-abduction pumpkin. "It's fun to see everybody bring the same kind of crazy energy that they do to making the flight projects to something as simple as a pumpkin carving contest."
Occasionally, the sciolantern becomes habitat
Or a fantastic creature
Perhaps a normal critter with a Halloween-appropriate name — potoo
Carvers can send a conservation message with their design
Or an educational message
they might reveal something living on your face you’d rather not acknowledge
Sciolantern gives the scary little critters a chance to shine (bonus points for clever use of celery)
but Not all scary sciolanterns are from the squash family
some, like the first photo above and this one below, are other worldly
some symbolize mountains — Others are Halloween icons
oceans also represent
and scary nerdy