Check out this piece, which combines laboratory observations on within-species variation with simulated traits in the global Darwin model - w/ @nekton4plankton.bsky.social, @skshapiro.bsky.social and several others not on 🦋. By far my favorite research article so far & excited to build on it!

Up close and personal with a megalops 🦀🐙🔬🧪🌊🦑 #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Ocean #Zooplankton #Microscopy

Got reminded by @jopabinia.bsky.social that this is the 1st anniversary of my poster showing the diversity of fossil crabs. True crabs, false crabs, cute crab, long crab, pointy crab, crab in ammonite, we have it all. 🦀 🎨 🐡 Poster available from: www.redbubble.com/people/franz...

For raptor day, here's some of my shots from the first time seeing the California Condors at the Grand Canyon!! They were so awesome 😍🪶

Fun with phytoplankton 🦑 Have been doing single-cell isolations from water collected near the Gulf of Maine! Very proud of my plankton children 🥹

My first ever co-authored paper just got published in Fisheries Oceanography!! I specifically worked on the in-lab portion of postlarval lobster care, photographing them, and figuring out/performing all the color analysis. Super cool project overall 🦞 #MarineLife doi.org/10.1111/fog....

#PortfolioDay Hi 🪶 feed! I'm a marine biologist/oceanographer by trade, but am also an avid birder! Here are some of my favorite shots - hope y'all enjoy (:

Pics always make a good first post! Brooding octopus from Cozumel, Mexico.