I once attended a local conference where talks were in Thai, but most showed key info in English on slides, enough for me (non-Thai) to follow along. As my experience is not shared by most non-native English speakers at international conferences, I'm glad that Amano et al. are reversing this trend.

New IUCN Red List update today includes a comprehensive assessment of ALL hydrothermal vent endemic molluscs… and 125/201 (62%) species are THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION from DEEP-SEA MINING! 72 (37%) are Endangered / Critically Endangered. More: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... @sscmarine.bsky.social

🐌 Want to publish with us? You can find journal's scope, aims, and instruction to authors on our website: molluscanhorizons.org Link also available in our bio.

🔬 A new behavior in Scaphopoda was documented: Paradentalium disparile autotomizes a tangled mass of captacula in response to disturbance, a phenomenon that could represent a physiological stress response more common than previously recognized. 🐌 Learn more: bit.ly/scaphopoda

Tan ZW, Naiyanetr P, Yeo DCJ (2026) Six new species of terrestrial crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae) from Thailand. ZooKeys 1284: 49-86. doi.org/10.3897/zook...

A couple of articles on rocky shore #invertebrates in #Brunei: 1. D.J. Marshall, G. Yong, Satish Choy, D.J.W. Lane (2026) Natural and Artificial Rocky Shores of Brunei, Including a Preliminary Checklist of Invertebrate Species. 🔓 via Scientia Bruneiana 🪸🪱🐚🦀🌏🧪 doi.org/10.46537/sci...

Ho SCL, Chan JCF, Lee WH, Sung Y-H, Liew JH (2026) Species diversity, pricing trends and conservation concerns in a major ornamental fish hub. 🌏🧪🐟 🔓via @oryxthejournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Pootanon, P., Kongrit, C., Inkhavilay, K. et al. Genetic diversity of the freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea from its native range in the mainland Southeast Asia. Hydrobiologia (2026). 🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s107...

That tiny blue octopus 💙🐙 Voight, J.R., Smith, S.M., Buglass, S. & Ziegler, A. (2026) A new species of Microeledone from Galápagos Islands and an amended diagnosis of the Megaleledonidae (Octopoda: Incirrata). Zootaxa, 5814 (4), 533–549. 🔓https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5814.4.5

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 I've spent most of the last decade thinking about how carbon markets could support biodiversity conservation. While I still think they are important, it is also now clear that fundamental misalignments that make them ill-suited to support conservation. rdcu.be/e9DvY

Also known as tembiluk and eaten by different coastal communities throughout Borneo. #Mollusca

🪸 DNA mini barcoding has been successfully utilised to acquire molecular data from historical octocoral specimens in a zoological collection, overcoming the challenges of severe DNA degradation associated with older samples. ➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.188052 #zoology

Missed out that it was #InternationalMuseumDay when posting this yesterday.

📢New paper: with NH Hasan, P Jimbau, BH Kueh, SQ Ong, M Pimid, H Rahman, M Suleiman, ESH Quah (2026) Towards making Bornean biodiversity material and data available to all: The BORNEENSIS #Collection of the Universiti #Malaysia Sabah. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 🔓 doi.org/10.26107/RBZ... 🐜🐚🌿🏛️🌏🧪 1/3

Very excited to share about using macrophytes for cyanobacterial bloom management in Singapore! We learnt many lessons, basically #scalematters check out our publications here! 1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 2) link.springer.com/article/10.1... 3) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are actively recruiting members for our Asian Tropical Inland waters working Group! Please drop me a msg if you want to join! Calling all my Southeast Asian friends 🥳🥳. Come by 520D for my talk in Singapore’s reservoirs and bloom mitigation (4.30pm)

Very happy to share about my instagram assignment in my Plankton ecology class 🥳🥳 thanks all for the great questions! I have so many ideas of how to expand this assignment to high school students! #aslosil26 #pedagogy #teaching #sciencecommunication

Lukehurst, S.S., Tan, S.K., Tan, K.S., Dehm, J., Hewavitharane, C. & Wells, F.E. (2026) Clarifying the identities of Saccostrea scyphophilla (Péron & Lesueur, 1807) and S. mordax (Gould, 1850) (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) from the Indo-Pacific #Mollusca #Taxonomy 🦪 🧪 🔓 via Zootaxa doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

WY Wang, BB Blaimer, W Jaitrong, S Hosoishi, S Yamane (2026) Ultraconserved elements, DNA barcoding & morphology unravel the diversity & evolution of the Hypoponera pruinosa group (#Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Indochina and the Indo-Australian region. 🔓Insect Syst Divers 🐜 doi.org/10.1093/isd/...

IT IS TIME! To kick off our spring #InverteFest, I'm very proud to present our first ever #InverteFest Anthology. This was a collaboration between artists and writers and inside you'll find 17 absolutely wonderful submissions. Please enjoy! Download here: saimihanma.com/wp-content/u...

Kos, M., Torkar, G., Prezelj, T., Bačič, T., Tunnicliffe, S. D., Rožman, H., & Klofutar, Š. (2026). The potential of a #fantasy story picture book for learning #biology in early years. 🔓 via Journal of #Biological #Education @rsb.org.uk doi.org/10.1080/0021... #EduSky #bookSky

Machado FM, RB Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social, IC Miyahira et al. (2026) Non-native mollusc species in #Brazil: a first national inventory and distributional overview. @biolinvasions.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s105... #BioInvasions #Mollusca 🧪🌎

Museum Resource 🐚 #MolluskMonday Who doesn't love a dichotomous key? The aquatic snail fauna of the southeastern United States has long been recognized for its richness and diversity. Check out our 👇 Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/resources...

Cowx IG, Lai QT, Vu AV, Tao J, Sukumasavin N, Phouthavong K, Ngor PB @cefass-ruacambodia.bsky.social, Hughes K (2026). Accounting for #Non-native #Freshwater #Fish in the #Mekong River: Towards a Better Understanding for Management 🔓 Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture doi.org/10.1080/2330...

Chan Bunyeth, ZS Hogan, S Chea, K Heng, P Thach, PB Ngor @cefass-ruacambodia.bsky.social, GB Baker, SB, DCJ Yeo (2026) Bycatch Reveals Patterns of Occurrence & Post-Release Mortality of the Critically Endangered #Mekong Giant Catfish 🔓 via Global Ecology & Conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... 🧪🌏🌐

5th Int'l Congress on Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution (SAGE 2026) 3 - 7 Aug 2026 Phuket Thailand Symposia on #freshwater #invertebrates, #mekong, #herpetofauna , #subterranean, #insects, #vertebrates, #nBs Early 🐦 closes 31 Mar www.sagethailand2026.com 🧪🌏 #conference #biodiversity #biogeography

Marcela Pimid, David Newsome 2026. The role of an endangered vine parasite in promoting agritourism mediated conservation in #Sabah, #Malaysia. #Rafflesia 🌱🌏 🔓 via #Biodiversity and #Conservation doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Liew TS, Nurinsiyah AS, Marzuki ME, Fletcher WK, @jkfni.bsky.social, Bian NA, Chen Y, Khalik MZ, Vermeulen JJ, @schilthuizen.bsky.social 2026. Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma ( #Mollusca, #Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems. Front Biogeogr 🔓 doi.org/10.21425/fob... 🧪🌏🐌

Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma H. Adams, 1865 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... If you are interested in land snails [and if not, why not?], here's a paper well worth a read, on a highly diverse region

Pichsinee Sapparojpattana et al. (2026) Five #newSpecies of the pill #millipede genus Rhopalomeris Verhoeff, 1906 (Diplopoda, Glomerida) from #Thailand Contributions to Zoology 🧪🌏 🔓 brill.com/view/journal...

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right? The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬 But how does this even work? Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

#newSpecies in Java Pseudodon cokelatus Zieritz, Sumaedi & Marwoto, 2026 #Mollusca

🙏Please share🙏 🐌Applications are open for MSL travel grants!🐌 ⭐Deadline = 1st March (for travel between 1st June and 30th November) ⭐£500 available for members ⭐£300 available for non-members malacsoc.org.uk/awards-and-g...

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀! Check out Ze Frank’s newest True Facts video and drop your name suggestion for this new chiton in the comments: youtu.be/G7HkBBJO7ZU?... @sgn.one @bdj.pensoft.net

David Dudgeon & Jia Huan Liew (2026) Welcome to the Homogenocene? Trajectories of change in global #freshwater #fish biodiversity during the Anthropocene: evidence from tropical East Asia 🔓 via Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci @royalsocietypublishing.org doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #BioInvasions 🧪🌏🐟

In 2018, a fire destroyed irreplaceable collections housed at the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. This timely paper tells the histoy of the Museum and the effort to rescue it from the ashes. url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Shabrani, Adi, Suzika Juiling, Lok Jinn Wong, Robecca Jumin, Gerald Jetony, Henry Bernard, Glyn Davies (2026) #Wildlife Atlas of #Sabah: A Long View between 1980 and 2020. 🔓 via @oryxthejournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003... 🧪🌏🐂 #malaysia

Mollusc-related Academic Grant alert Deadline: February 28, 2026 For:malacological topic, usually within biology or paleontology, with any molluscan taxon or taxa as the focus. All scientific disciplines in studying mollusks eligible Please see : www.conchologistsofamerica.org/grants/ 🦑 #snails

Fok, Amy W.L., Liew, Jia Huan & Sung, Yik Hei (2026) Antipredator behaviour of the #freshwater #snail (Sulcospira hainanensis) in response to the critically endangered big-headed #turtle (Platysternon megacephalum). Discover Animals 🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s443... 🧪🌏

Dunlop JA, Friederichs A (2026) Mapping the #collection: visualising locality data for myriapods in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin @zse.pensoft.net 🔓 doi.org/10.3897/zse.... 🧪🌏 #myriapoda

Chew, Zi-Qi, Hsieh, Ellen & Lin, Chien-Hsiang (2025) Broad-spectrum fishing and small #fish use in Late #Neolithic #Taiwan: New insights from #otolith -based analysis. 🔓via J. Archaeological Science doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... 🧪🎣🌊 #zooarchaeology

Ridwan, M., Kadri S, M., Reza Sese, M., Iqram, M., & Priawandiputra, W. (2025) Composition of #Freshwater Gastropods ( #Mollusca) in the Midstream of the Cisadane River, West Java, #Indonesia. 🔓 via Jurnal Riset Biologi Dan Aplikasinya journal.unesa.ac.id/index.php/ri... 🌏🧪

Hanuninda, Dewi, Ambarwati, Reni, Isnaningsih, Nur Rohmatin (2025) Morphological and Morphometric Study of Pila celebensis ( #Gastropoda : Ampullariidae) from Madura Island, #Indonesia. 🔓 via Jurnal Riset Biologi Dan Aplikasinya journal.unesa.ac.id/index.php/ri... #freshwater #snails🍎🐌🌏🧪

Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐

Abreo NA, Kouba A, Sy EY, Yeo DCJ, Vallejo Jr BM, Tanalgo KC, Gamalo LE, Raganas AF, Sabanal B, To DAL, Vilizzi L, Soto I, Haubrock PJ (2026) #BiologicalInvasions in the Philippines: Challenges and priorities in a megadiverse country. Biological Conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... 🧪🌏🇵🇭 #bioInvasions

Matthias Glaubrecht, Nina Kaiser, Duangduen Krailas, Wivichuta Dechraksa, Nuanpan Veeravechsukij, France Gimnich, Marco T Neiber (2025) Evolutionary Systematics of 2 Co-Occurring Paludomid #Freshwater Gastropods in #Thailand (Cerithioidea: #Paludomidae) Zoologica Scripta 🔓 doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... 🧪🌏

Chan YQ, Liang BJY, Ang Y, Morse JC, Cai Y, Yeo DCJ (2025) Diversity, abundance and distribution of caddisfly (Insecta, #Trichoptera) families in relation to environmental parameters across #freshwater streams in #Singapore 🔓via @zookeys.pensoft.net doi.org/10.3897/zook... 🧪🌏 🇸🇬

How to write a constructive peer review - see our new editorial, led by @biolumijeffence.bsky.social With some of the team from @conphysjournal.bsky.social

🔵 Aquaculture is one of the most important pathways for the introduction of non-native species. Since 1950, one third of species used in aquaculture have been farmed outside of their native ranges. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/raq.... 🔗 issuu.com/aquaculturem...