Excellent write up by @geosociety.bsky.social describing grant funded research by former post-doc Claudia Nunez-Penichet now @vt-invasivespecies.bsky.social on impending #marine #extinction threat www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/... @kubiology.bsky.social @researchatku.bsky.social @kunhm.bsky.social

How much stress would a wood beetle get if the wood beetle was filled with worms? Horned passalus beetles can have dozens to thousands of worms squirming inside them - and these worms can affect how their host responds to stress #invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/06/chon...

This particular lutjanid individual was co-infected by three ectoparasitic groups, lernanthropid copepods, gnathiid isopods, and monogeneans

Apply for RGGS Postdoctoral Fellowships at the American Museum of Natural History. Open to Ph.D. graduates in various research areas. Deadline: 11/15/2025. More info: https://www.amnh.org/research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/fellowships #postdoc

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice: I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪 #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

Hirudinella is a genus of stomach flukes which are usually associated with the Wahoo. But species in this genus can be found in a wide range of pelagic fishes, including the Pacific bluefin tuna 🧪 #Invertebrate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

My friend who is studying in Germany gifted me this book. Thank you 🥺

Crouching Parrot, Hidden Louse: The Kyloring (Pezoporus flaviventris) is a critically endangered species of Australian parrot, and it is host to Forficuloecus pezopori - a species of louse which lives only on the Kyloring and nowhere else. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/06/forf...

There's a species of apicomplexan parasite called Siedleckia nematoides which looks like microscopic version of those soft plastic grub fishing lure🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This is my first time seeing alive lernanthropid copepod (possibly Lernanthropus latis)!

Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky

#MolluscMonday Photographed at Hampton Court Palace last week, orthocone nautiloids in paving slabs of Swedish Ordovician limestone. A microfault crosses the chambered phragmocone of one. The other fossil may represent a siphuncular structure but comments would be welcomed.

Some parasitic copepods and a gnathiid isopod that I found during fieldwork in Alor.

Transit in Kupang

Stasiun Gambir

#WormWednesday Two digeneans recovered from the GI-tract of a sciaenid host.

A new addition to my collection 👀

Talking about another true #invertefest: belemnite "battlefields" or "Schlachtfelder". Despite the name, they are generally used to refer to dense accumulations of #fossil #cephalopod rostra, which can be formed under various mechanisms. Irrespectively, they are a great way to obtain large samples.

#FossilFriday. Silurian tabulate coral Heliolites. From the cutting room floor of 'Fossils. The Essential Guide’, which used a lower magnification image of the same fossil.

New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates orbit.dtu.dk/en/publicati... #Protists #Microbes #FluidDynamics #Biophysics

Ichthyostracan Origins #Invertebrate #SciArt #PalaeoArt

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

The shark-sucker barnacle - Anelasma squalicola - is a barnacle with an unusual habit. Instead of filter feeding on plankton, it has evolved to parasitise deep sea squaloid sharks such as lantern sharks and Greenland shark 🦈 #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2014/09/anel...

This is such a cool project!

Our study explores how #parasite traits, life #cycles, and #host relationships shape shifts between #marine and #freshwater habitats: doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

I've written a post about Myxobolus medusae - a myxozoan parasite that lives in the eyes of red-bellied piranhas. Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but this microscopic medusa is in the eye of a piranha #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/08/myxo...

I have to hand it to Ruri Rocks for nailing how a grad student's workstation looks like

Honeyguides are natural-born killers - like cuckoos, they are brood parasites, and the first thing going through the mind of a honeyguide chick when it hatches from its egg is: MURDER royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧪

From a lecture I'm currently writing about the history of #Invertebrate taxonomy. Those myxozoans do be tricky 🧪

Hello my friend, good to see you again. You are right on time (according to my ~4 years of monitoring data). #protistsonsky #radiolaria

That's me there 😂

Just completed the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda in Malaysia! Gained hands-on skills in copepod taxonomy, field collection, specimen dissection, and parasite data analysis plus presented my Lepeophtheirus ID key project.

I learned today that not ONLY are there cases of "two headed" sea cucumbers? but there are also sea cucumbers with TWO ASSES! HA! beat that! #NAEC2025 North American Echinoderm Conference! #echinoday

Finally done with my research proposal seminar. I would like to express gratitude to Dr Storm Blas Martin who kindly agreed to be my co-supervisor and also Prof. Ambariyanto acted as the internal examination. Now, it's time to write the progress report...

Nutrient acquisition by intracellular parasitic #protists --- #symbiosis #protistsonsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🦎🔬 Amphibians are under threat—and so are their parasites. By screening snails in NRW, we uncovered trematode diversity using microscopy & genetics. 🐌 Trematodes tell stories. We’re learning to read them. @rueckertlab.bsky.social 📄 rdcu.be/ewnHb #eDNA #Trematodes #AquaticParasitology

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looks like Onix

Peeking at some local marine sediments today I came across this striking benthic foraminiferan shell. #protists

Leucochloridium paradoxum, also known as the "green-banded broodsac", is an immediately recognisable parasite with its colourful, pulsating sacs. But L. paradoxum is just one out of ten known Leucochloridium species found all over the world. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/01/leuc...

I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org

I have a fully funded open #position for a PhD student/postdoc in marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are seeking someone to study seafloor fluxes and their interactions with microbial communities in biodiversity hotspots. 🧪⚒️🌊 Contact me if you want more details.

Day 1 of short course on micropaleontology with focus on Foraminifera by kak Sinatrya Diko Prayudi

My ms word is keep crashing when I'm writing revision to my research proposal, and my paper draft. This is a torture...

Imagine being this delicate and beautiful even though you're over 3 billion years old. Vesicle is 110 microns wide. #geology #paleontology

Cheat day (I, unfortunately never exercise for the past month), martabak 😋

#FossilFriday When visiting this ice-cream parlour in Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (Charente, France) be sure to look at the building stones which are full of Cretaceous (Campanian) fossils, including diverse bryozoans.

Last week, the UNE Zoology Society organised a discussion panel about de-extinction which (inevitably) turned into a debate where I asked Andrew Pask about his attempt to "de-extinct" the Thylacine. Here is the recording of it if you want to watch the drama 🧪 echo360.net.au/media/8ccd63...