New paper in Royal Society Interface! With fantastic engineering colleagues, we’re learning more and more about how snapping shrimp are protected from shock waves! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Like professional football players, snapping shrimp shield their brains and eyes from concussive forces with protective headgear, according to a new study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4quFGG6

Heard from Tanner Mierow at #SICB2026 about the mutualisms between snapping shrimp and gobies. Gobies need shrimp to dig holes. Shrimp need gobies to keep a lookout. But who asks who out here? Gobies initiate- they’re *desperate* for a shrimp. But once initiated, shrimp maintain the relationship.

www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/... check out this cool piece out of our and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social lab!

First post! New paper published in JEB! Really fun snapping shrimp work with folks from my lab at TU and Dan Speiser's lab at USC! Always great working with JEB! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... @jexpbiol.bsky.social @utulsa.bsky.social @sc.edu