Dan Killam
@dantheclamman.blog
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Eclamgelist. He/him If you like
#clamFacts
check out my blog (profile name)
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One like, one clam fact
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These are my snails. They are good boys. And excellent comic relief. Pomacea bridgesii
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about 11 hours ago
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Baran Karapunar
about 12 hours ago
Here are some fossil pleurotomariids, which have lived in Earth’s oceans for over 450 million years.This is a kind of snail you won’t find in your garden or on a seashore. You’d have to dive 400 meters to see a living one.If you could beachcomb in the Jurassic, you’d probably find one on the coast🐚
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I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
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Matt
4 days ago
Lunule and umbo are both going on the list of words I have to remember to use to annoy people when playing Scrabble :)
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Iykyk
6 days ago
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Moment of silence for all the cat owners who didn't survive the time change today
7 days ago
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Dave Rodland
9 days ago
Happy Halloween and spooky Samhain, butterflies! We're back with
#FossilFriday
and it's another meme on deck. 🧪⚒️🦪🦪 Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve! Someone tag
@dantheclamman.blog
, I feel like he has relevant interests.
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Dustin Mulvaney
18 days ago
The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.
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felinecannonball
11 days ago
trump take science
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josh (oldfriend99)
about 1 month ago
They should create a living man out of the body parts of various corpses
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Genuinely torn...
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12 days ago
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Michael E. Mann
12 days ago
At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane
#Melissa
is now just 7 mph shy of what
@michaelfwehner.bsky.social
r.bsky.social
& Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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All I see here is a very everyday leaf (the leaf is doing a great job).
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13 days ago
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Val Syverson 🕷️
13 days ago
Holy shit, echinoderm gang, are you seeing this video?
@echinoblog.bsky.social
@daveyfwright.bsky.social
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Python Software Foundation
14 days ago
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
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Andrew Middleton
14 days ago
Despite all my rage I am still just a bug in a cage.
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Sexy Amorphophallus konjac
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15 days ago
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Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
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Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
http://dantheclamman.blog/2025/10/23/concurring-with-the-onion-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/
17 days ago
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Stella Sacco
19 days ago
Share if you agree
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On 11/12 at 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag
@baynature.org
for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! Thinkin on the salt of the Bay, wasting time.🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 otherwise, with the fee going to a great cause!
baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
18 days ago
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Erika
19 days ago
This is DISASTROUS
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It's impossible to doom scroll if you're scrolling through a feed of hundreds of clam facts.
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19 days ago
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Premeditated murder of the American research community. None of this had to happen.
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19 days ago
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Dr. Brendan Anderson
19 days ago
Mollusks. Together. Strong. (And I'll dabble in clams so that's fair) Infinite diversity in invertebrate combinations🖖
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This is the ideal male body. Interestingly, it's also the ideal female body. And it is both at the same time, in circular orgies called mating chains.
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20 days ago
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Chris Mah
21 days ago
Japanese Urchin POOP! Wow. SO ROUND! via @Crinoidea_hk on the other place
#echinoday
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Francine Fox
21 days ago
My second nautilus is much closer to done after today’s session at the easel. Next weekend, the allonautilus!
#nautilus
#allonautilus
#marinelife
#deepseacreatures
#mollusks
#cephalopods
#oilpainting
#wildlifeart
#animalart
🐡 🦑
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Michael E. Mann
24 days ago
"a kind of celebration of ignorance"
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What? Me? Worry? MalcomJ🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦
24 days ago
They live 100s of years, change sex, and can filter a case of beer in 15 minutes.
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Dave Rodland
24 days ago
Obviously The Onion has been infiltrated and taken over by brachiopodologists. Nice work!
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Katie Collins
24 days ago
I feel like me and
@dantheclamman.blog
vs The Onion is the plucky underdog story that the world needs
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True
theonion.com/biologists-a...
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Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams
WOODS HOLE, MA—Saying they saw no conceivable reason to bother with the bivalve mollusks, biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced Thursday that there was absolutely nothing to...
https://theonion.com/biologists-announce-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/
24 days ago
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Geology Johnson
25 days ago
Oxidised (left) and unoxidised 3.2 billion year old banded iron formation. These samples are from drill core and were only a couple of meters apart.
#geology
#paleontology
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Dave O’Hara
26 days ago
Looking for recommendations on where to buy good mussel shirts. That’s not a typo.
#malacology
is good ecology.
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The genetic lore of X-men regarding a single X gene is a disaster, and the supposed mutant species name of "Homo superior" shows a misunderstanding of evolution as directed towards a final form
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26 days ago
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Hannah R Snyder
26 days ago
Submitting a grant at this particular moment feels a bit like tossing a rock into the abyss, but hey, at least I am no longer carrying the rock.
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Rob Cruickshank
27 days ago
In 13 years time, though, people *would* be convinced to do a dance about shellfish.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QS...
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸
28 days ago
A lot of Republicans down the Jersey Shore turned out to be great friends of the whales when there was a chance that some offshore wind farms might get built. Looking forward to hearing about how they react to this news...
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Scott Jenkins
28 days ago
Do The Clam was co-written by Dolores Fuller, paramour of director Ed Wood.
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Alberto Perez-Huerta
28 days ago
The comment about the brachiopods has touched my heart! Their biology is quite complex for marine benthic invertebrates...only the brain is missing!!
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Meera
29 days ago
Fuck Bruce Harrell. Anyway, here's a clam!
#InsertAnInvert2024
in 2025
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Petra Korlević
29 days ago
Day 12
#Invertober2025
- Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula) 🐚
#SciArt
#invertebrates
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My kingdom for some floss!
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...
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King Richard III's oral microbiome hints he had severe gum disease
The skeleton of King Richard III, which was found beneath a car park more than a decade ago, has well-preserved teeth, allowing scientists to sequence his oral microbiome
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2498947-king-richard-iiis-oral-microbiome-hints-he-had-severe-gum-disease/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5AExn1LVHV4ZYBXrZGT4MOwf61Qpa8jAboKTdozB2_NlvRUZoa_1SaGIZZIg_aem_GTGCYHF1hQduDT-dPaciMw
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Between SCOBYs, hummingbirds, and yeast in my aquarium CO2 reactor, I feel like a sugar delivery system these days
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MisanthropeLovesBirds𓄿𓄿
about 1 month ago
Vermiculite (must be labelled as “pure”) or diatomite are other alternatives. Centuries of burning and draining of peat by humans has released a significant amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, contributing to anthropogenic climate change. Harvesting peat destroys carbon sinks
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David Syzdek
about 1 month ago
I think the only economically important species is the species in New Zealand that has bioluminescent fungus gnat larvae that people do boat tours to see the “glowworms” in caves!
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David Syzdek
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Fun fact, I used to work for one of the only living fungus gnat experts. He researched gnats that lived in the wild and basically had zero impact on humans. I collected some in Latin America for him and hoped to have a fungus gnat species named for me but I don’t think he will ever describe it.
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I could go on a long rant about how commercial potting mixes are including too much organic material and not enough conditioners like perlite. Peat (a surprisingly scarce resource) is being wasted. Plants are dying of root rot. It creates perfect conditions for gnats.
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