For a brief break from the world, please enjoy a tale of two slugs. #MarineLife #inverts 🧪🦑🐙 Nudibranch Jorunna pantherina (I think!) and not-nudibranch Elysia coodgeensis in a tidepool, about 1cm and 5mm long respectively. And with a few bonus microscopic epifauna video-bombing.

I got paid, so I've just donated another $50 to @chelseaherps.bsky.social. She deserves to finish her Masters, she's worked SO HARD and she's SO CLOSE. Just over $1k to go 🧪 feed!! gofund.me/e48b7927

I am, defo. Oh I've got a #MondayMollusc too. Here's a lovely sea hare from the weekend. Look at that face! #MarineLife #invertebrates 🦑🐙🧪

Howdy all! Chelsea only needs 2, 193$ to pay down her tuition! She needs to make this payment ASAP to be able to graduate with her MSc this semester! Please donate, share, and RT! #MutualAid #gofundme gofund.me/5ccde1af

@chelseaherps.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to her goal! Please help her finish her PhD, she's so fantastic and the world will only be better with her scientific contributions in it. 🧪

Get ready for #ValenCtenes #InvertValentines! Encouraging folks to add their marine invertebrate themed Valentine's to this feed using either #. Scribbles and puns encouraged. Artists selling cards also welcome to promo. bsky.app/profile/did:... cc: 🐡🧪🦑🐙 Here's a few of mine from past years:

Many people are going to feel the need to defend trans care for adults using the libraries of published evidence supporting its safety and efficacy--which is fine, but the actual standard to uphold is "it's my body and I fucking said so"

Check out this great new review on SCTLD: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

It’s amazing how evergreen this is. The pattern is followed like clockwork.

Please continue to boost! We have already raised 2K and only need to raise 3K more to get Chelsea to her goal! #MutualAid

I post a lot of nudis and crabs, but my favourites will always be cephalopods. Was lucky enough to hang out with this little lump of wonderfulness at the weekend, a small and perfect reaper cuttle 🥲 #MarineLife #invertebrates 🐙🦑🧪

I bought this tomato as a seedling 🌱 in October and now it's a monster 😅 it still hasn't produced any ripe tomatoes, it just keeps growing!!! Any hints on how to convince it to stop taking over the garden and give me some tasty snacks?

@chelseaherps.bsky.social is an amazing researcher and scicommer and she needs our help 🧪 feed! Please donate if you can, and spread the word if you can't. gofund.me/e48b7927

@chelseaherps.bsky.social is an amazing researcher and scicommer and she needs our help 🧪 feed! Please donate if you can, and spread the word if you can't. gofund.me/e48b7927

Hello all! I am re-upping this fundraiser to raise tuition funds for my friend! My friend needs to pay her tuition bill by the end of this month in order to graduate! Please donate if you can. Also please boost if you can't donate! gofund.me/1d1d9146

Hammer coral close-ups from the Coral Morphologic lab / studio

To all non scientists - please feel free to chat with scientists, reply to their posts, ask them questions etc. This is a resource for everyone, we just want to make sure we aren't putting out misinformation for you all :)

Anyone else out there love microbes, where they live, and what influences the species you find? 🧪 This article is super interesting - it gives us baseline information to start using germs to rehabilitate contaminated groundwater. phys.org/news/2024-01...

#InsertAnInvert2024 Bugs Among Us - In Leaf Litter Garden symphylans (Scutigerella immaculata) are common animals that live worldwide. Despite this, they're smol, scuttly, and like to hide in moist soil, so most people don't even know these critters exist under their plants. 🎨 🐡

Any seahorse fans? #MarineLife #ScubaDiving #UnderwaterPhotography

Regular nudi drop. These little beans are so abundant and thriving in my favourite snorking spot I take a ridiculous amount of photos of them. Dorisprismatica, aka black-margined nudibranch, or as we prefer to call them, tuxedo formalwear penguin cheesecake bb. #MarineLife #invertebrates 🧪🐙🦑

My pink feather boa millipede for #InsertAnInvert2024 has a home! The log itself is based off a manzanita, the leaves are from an Engelmann oak, and there is also a slime mold, a fungus, and lichen on the log.

New year, same lab work. Who else in back in lab already? 🧪 I'm sorting the junk that got scraped off pylons in a tropical marina, it's actually really cool!

It's begun #InsertAnInvert2024

#InsertAnInvert2024 Bugs Among Us - At Home Firebrats (Thermobia domestica) are wingless insects related to silverfish that often find shelter in our warm homes. Though harmless, like any friend that shows up uninvited, they might eat food that isn't theirs & leave behind unwanted "gifts". 🎨 🐡

Did this make it over to the #SciArt feed? I can't remember. Draw some bugs*! *Used as an inclusive, shortened, term of endearment, for any and all invertebrates.

Nu year, nu-di (sorry) #invertebrates #MarineLife 🧪🐙🦑

January's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme is "Bugs Among Us" You don't need to do the animals we listed, feel free to pick your own species. If you need refs, you can ask @derekhennen.bsky.social millipede questions or visit: Bug guide bugguide.net/node/view/15... iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/home

Hey 🌱, a reminder to clean up sticky stuff right away! This was the label to a new plant pot that I left outside for an hour and this poor lizard got stuck to it. They came off easily with some olive oil, but be careful out there!

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...

Have you ever heard of Lollipop crab? Sea walnut? Spricket? Godzillius? Headless chicken monster? 14 people showed me hundreds of the weirdest animals living today and I'm picking 52 of them to illustrate this year. Art along with me and post your creations with the hashtag #InsertAnInvert2024!

Dracunculus graviditatis is a specialized parasite of the uterus. Ingested larvae pass the intestine and migrate to the uterine wall, releasing anandamide and hCG analogues. This tricks the body into a false pregnancy state, which the nematode uses to grow to lengths of up to 2m.

We're into our final two days of #InverteFest! Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. Keep sharing your observations, art, facts and everything else spineless. It all counts! Please promote your own invertebrate creative work too.

🌱 I'm so happy with how my succulent corner is coming along! Most of these are found bits that I've propagated, and now they're so big!

Today for #InverteFest I present the harlequin red bug, Dindymus versicolor, eating a fry by the beach. These cuties are true bugs, like stink bugs and squash bugs, and therefore have piercing and sucking mouth parts to help them eat fries. #invertebrate 🧪

Come hang with us and post #invertebrates for #InverteFest! As an offering, here is an adorable jumping spider in the plant department of my local hardware store. Invertebrates are the best because in a single group, like spiders, you have everything from adorable puppy to terror monster 🤣

Here are some Eubranchus rupium nudibranchs I also saw yesterday. These are incredibly challenging to photograph because they are literally the size of a grain of rice. And that's the larger ones. Shoutout to the photobombing skeleton shrimp ウミウシ

They say Triops is a "living fossil" since the Triassic, but it never stopped evolving. Key papers (next skeet) show molecular evolution & speciation over time, expected with stasis. 4th paper shows subtle morphological change over time, too! *these fossils are Triops relatives #Crustmas 🧪 1/3

🦑🪸 Coral microfragmentation to speed regrowth; click through for more details.

Was shoving my face under a rock when a piece of barnacle rubble near my nose started rearing up. Turtle Crab! Just what the doctor ordered. They've got the same gig as umbrella crabs but with a few key differences. Stick around and I'll compare the two species side by side. 🦀

Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates

A quick photo from Sawmillers Reserve, where I got to help @dayanithaangela.bsky.social with fieldwork yesterday. Tiring but fun! Dayanitha is setting up experiments with mussels, investigating settlement and heat 🧪 #MarineLife

Postdoc opportunity for recent PhD grads with interest in tropical ecology incl. fish and fisheries postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/programs/ewe...

Post fieldwork ✨fashion✨ 🧪🐙

In my marine science formals to do fieldwork with @dayanithaangela.bsky.social 😁

Are you a marine research postgrad looking at PhD opportunities? Are you interested in seascape ecology, marine conservation and restoration? We are looking for passionate students who’ll be joining us in answering key questions to protect and restore the endangered seagrass meadows in NSW. Info 👇🏼

I may have found the most amazing pair of earrings for an aquarium enthusiast. I'm absolutely in love 😍 and only $10!

A #crustmas crab. Love how grumpy this one looks. unimpressed at me lighting it up. Also! Relevant to science, note the artificial light at night (ALAN) shinding down into the bay in the background 😅 #MarineLife #invertebrates 🦀🦑🦑🧪

@dayanithaangela.bsky.social is here! You should defo follow Dayanitha for awesome marine science, good vibes, and fieldwork volunteering so profound that you'll laugh, cry, and your life will be forever changed.