Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves 🪶

It's like an inverted biomass pyramid

Folks, Unitas Malacologica is running their 'mollusk of the year' contest and they've got some real bangers in there, check it out and vote! www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t...

It’s good that we all have something to cheer for that involves a positive aspirational vision of humanity.

Let’s toast those astronauts. Then let’s wake up tomorrow and remind every American of what we all stand to lose to this regime. 🧪🔭

CTDs be like:

Today in marine invertebrates www.fisheries.noaa.gov/infographic/...

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

Winning an election isn't enough. Impeachment isn't enough.

Sign posted at a beach on Whidbey Island, Washington. How do they determine if the vehicles belong to clam diggers? @dantheclamman.blog #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

The power of molluscans in everyday life, always making a place feel more classy.

Wow - such a cool image from Artemis II. I love seeing the atmosphere on these sorts of images - such a fragile looking layer of gas but so important to all life on our planet

My first meeting of the day is just titled "Clams". It's gonna be a good day

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

"The program's interruption is the latest in a series of setbacks for Arctic researchers." www.eenews.net/articles/noa...

MECO confirmed. Oh my. So good. And… holy stage separation! #ArtemisII

Republicans are really going to try to cut your health care to pay for a war that's increasing your energy bill. Good luck having 150 House members after that www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...

The more you know!! 🌠

The meme that "clams are insentient and you can literally be vegan and still eat them" is growing. If you want to be bivalvitarian, that can be a healthy and eco-friendly decision! But as someone who has grown clams and carnivorous plants, bivalves are NOT PLANTS dantheclamman.blog/2019/06/02/t...

This absolutely sucks. So much good in the East Bay is under threat or dying

I've been watching Ken Burns' The American Revolution, and it really seems like we declared independence from England over less than what our federal government is currently doing to us

We shouldn't have heat advisories in March - change my mind

Happy Monday, everyone. If you were thinking how much you were wanting to read an article about mixotrophy, boy do I have exciting news for you! dantheclamman.blog/2026/03/16/w...

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

The Ordovician gastropod (aka sea snail) Trochonema, paleoart I made as part of an internship reconstructing Ordovician invertebrates with Paul Mayer, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History. #sciart #paleoart

You wouldn't torrent a duck

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

This would fund the US Forest Service research branch for 36 years

Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets. The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is… theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...

It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Collecting different Editorial Manager logins like the world's lamest Pokémon cards

Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! 🤢🤮

Some people do drugs. I live for the massive shot of dopamine I feel when I see some traffic from a teacher's website to my clam blog.

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science" Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

TIL of "snail fur," a hydroid adapted to live on snail shells occupied by hermit crabs. Life is just a turducken (hydrosnailcrab?) of symbiosis all the way down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydract...

New paper out @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social ! We used toxin measurements in mussels to identify a threshold of abundance for a harmful plankton, Alexandrium. We then used that threshold to look at other harmful algae in SF Bay and what seasons they grow! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you want fossil "teeth" horror shows, you want Conodonts. This somehow fit into a mouth, about 400 million years ago. It's unclear, but something very much like this thing is probably ancestral to all vertebrates--this is our great-great-...-great grandma. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Every once in a while I look this cat and have a moment of disbelief. It seems so unlikely to have this mercurial, impossibly cute little animatronic-looking creature like out of a Jim Henson movie, lounging around my house, bossing me around

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

My colleagues at the Nutrient Management Strategy at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social have published for the first time our moored station dataset, with 15-min biogeochemical data from 11 stations surrounding SF Bay, some of them going back to 2013! www.sfei.org/data/san-fra...

When a new species shows up in my yard to post to iNat

I want to apologize to the other Dan Killams of the world for Google bombing them with clam content

The premeditated murder of American leadership in basic research

They will be sued and the documentation will make clear that this is capricious and corrupt

[New Paper] @currentbiology.bsky.social presents our population genomics study of the iconic Scaly-foot Snail: 125 genomes from 8 Indian Ocean hot vents! Deep currents drive South→North gene flow, while transform faults act as dispersal barriers. READ FOR FREE: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW73QW8S...

A recent paper I was a part of in partnership with SFEI and USGS partners came out last month, telling the story of the ecological and environmental factors behind the enormous 2022 harmful algal bloom that forever changed our understanding of SF Bay. mavensnotebook.com/2026/02/05/u...

"There is greater acceptance now that there is a detectable acceleration of warming". Great article by John Muyskens and Shannon Osaka in today's Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.c...