Lasaea rubra are fun intertidal clams. Like some other Galeommatoidea, they are very mobile with a snail-like foot. They brood their young in their shell, and can do parthenogensis, so neighbors are often a mother and her lil clones living alongside her (342) www.inaturalist.org/observations...

The Big Bee!!!!

Some nights you just gotta reread the wiki page on Megachile pluto and be glad you live at the same time as the Big Glorious Bee 🥰

Bathymodiolus mussels can be found at deep ocean geothermal vents, cold methane seeps, decomposing whalefalls, and other spots which other life might find toxic. But because their gills are packed with sulfur-oxidizing and methane-eating bacteria, they use these compounds as food! (338)

The 12yo has declared it Scaly-foot Gastropod Awareness Day! #InverteFest Also called sea pangolin or volcano snail, these Indian Ocean hydrothermal vent snails are literally metal! 🤘 They incorporate iron sulphides (like pyrite or fool’s gold) in their shells & iron-mineralised sclerites on foot!

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What specimens could possibly be MISUNDERSTOOD? Let’s find out! With the amazing @spissatella.bsky.social! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1h... Please enjoy the real Megalodon! 🦇 🪰 🦟🐚

I'm not allowed to post much about politics bc of Job but I will say; if you send out photocopies of a handwritten letter purporting to be from a local teacher begging us to vote for you bc you're the party of "unity against hatred", and you are the party that's in govt rn? Shame on you.

Well this is nice news to wake up to! 💕 #IrritatorBelongstoBR

Also “once immigration is fixed” when’s that then? When there’s not a single one entering or when you never have to see a brown face on the high street again? Disgusting racist pandering that you can never even satisfy

It's "get on the tube in a tshirt with an iced coffee" season already. You think this is me bragging about my glamorous London lifestyle but it is APRIL. April. At 51 degrees north. The fuck are we doing. This is a scream of despair more than a brag.

Need a little sparkle in your life? Try this! European fireflies!

New badger alert!!

Sometimesin the intertidal, the only evidence of clams will be their siphons poking out of the substrate like snorkels. Fortunately they often can still be identified by their siphons, which can be fused or separate depending on species ecology.wa.gov/blog/july-20... (336)

It's your last day to vote! The moon clam needs you!

Moon clams are really, really weird. They live with their shell permanently open on their back like a snail, and move around on their foot. Their soft mantle extends over their shell, so they end up looking a lot like cowry snails. Just weird little guys! (335) www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

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We are pleased to introduce Molluscan Horizons, a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal born from a joint effort of Latin American malacological societies, led and funded by the Brazilian Society of Malacology. To learn more, please visit our website: www.molluscanhorizons.org

We invite the submission of original research articles for forthcoming issues of Molluscan Horizons. We particularly welcome studies presenting novel data or regional perspectives that have historically been underrepresented in the literature. Learn more👉 www.molluscanhorizons.org/mh/about

Big #FossilFriday thanks to our curatorial colleagues @nhm-london.bsky.social who have been helping our project curate and register #chalk specimens! This week dealing with hundreds of cidaroid spines - these were originally attached to echinoids (sea urchins) which lived on the chalk seafloor.

You should all vote for Ephippodonta lunata. How can you not vote for a MOON CLAM!? MOOOON CLAAAMMMM! (vote now)

If you feel the need to reuse the same specific epithet more in a monograph, i DESPAIR of you, particularly if you use it for multiple closely related things.

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Have you voted Ephippodonta lunata yet? A vote for Ephippodonta is a vote for the small, beautiful things in life. A vote for Ephippodonta is a vote for exploring new frontiers of biology that aren't beholden to "oooh look how big its teeth are" www.unitasmalacologica.org/ephippodonta...

"Why is everyone obsessed with the golden ratio when they COULD be obsessed with PARALLEL LINES??" <- I'm completely hinged in meetings I don't know what you mean

How reliable is the skeleton for identifying cyclostome bryozoans? Taylor et al. (2015) used DNA data from New Zealand species to show that early colony development may be far more informative for cyclostome taxonomy than adult skeletal traits. Read here: buff.ly/CuZvX1F #TaxonomyTuesday

This is why I keep banging on about the importance of trained humans in the loop for data analyses. You *cannot* just take a dataset and run, especially not unattributed data from kaggle. You *must* do the due diligence to look for artifacts, outliers, and edge cases with your actual human eyes.

Pinna nobilis catches another one! 🥰 what a legendary clam it is

My linocut shows 2 blue mussel. The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), or common mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. They are aptly called common mussels and are found on temperate beaches worldwide. 🧵

It was my birthday yesterday, I hope everyone celebrated by voting Ephippodonta and giving hope to future studies of the diversity of tiny critters 💕 it's not too late! Vote moon clam!! Vote beauty and mystery and absolutely bonkers morphologies!!

#FossilFriday Space, the final frontier. Branching cyclostome bryozoan battling it out for living space with two cheilostome bryozoans on a shell from the Early Pleistocene Nukumaru Limestone, Whanganui Basin, New Zealand.

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@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social any idea what this might be?

@botsocamerica.bsky.social International Plant Appresiation Day comes in the fall in New Zealand, but here's the world's smallest forget-me-not Myosotis brevis #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #FutureBotanists #STEM

Galeommatoids are one of the most diverse and yet least known groups of clams. They can be free-living, commensal or parasitic, they can filter feed and some are carnivores that suck the bodily fluids of their prey! Many are brightly coloured and very active, like little nudibranchs

Hey folks! Mollusc of the Year just opened up! I'm part of a working group from around the world studying the mysterious and beautiful galeommatoids, and one of our beasties is up for the MOTY! Help us out and VOTE EPHIPPODONTA!! @oceanspecies.bsky.social www.unitasmalacologica.org/ephippodonta...

The tube is either inventing new conjugations of "to arrive", or has decided it needs a new abbreviation for "Arnos Grove". Either way, we've just left Uxbridge so neither is necessary, but I salute this linguistic advancement

A devastating read. Some of the personal stories behind the Conservative and Labour government's haphazard pivots between encouraging universities to attract international students and making Britain a less appealing place for them. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

If you can't hit the high notes in the song and you can't figure out how to transpose it down, why have you picked this song to busk with? This question sponsored by the person outside my building hammering Disney hits as flat as a pancake, with the aid of a PA and apparently boundless confidence

Bivalves are often thought of as herbivores, but this is a misconception, as most species eat a fair number of tiny animals called zooplankton, including sometimes the larvae of other bivalves! Some carnivorous bivalves have even evolved to vacuum up larger prey! (332)

Happy #molluscmonday #Noetia ponderosa and friends from Tampa FL Let's see, we have some #polydorid borings, worm tubes, maybe an oyster cemented on the inside

Me now that I have a macro lens for my camera: gee I hope more bugs get into my flat this summer 😊

Yes ok timezones are a pain but consider: the joy of getting messaged a picture of a pileated woodpecker at 10.45pm

Reposting this excellent piece by palaeoiris for trans day of visibility.

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...

I'm sorry but if you leave it til the last day before a grant deadline to join the society you need to be a member of before you can apply for said grant, you don't get to then be mad at someone for y'know, not processing your application bc they're asleep.

And remember that if you pay before the deadline you WILL be counted even if I take a bit to process it - I'm travelling right now but I will process all applications tonight and tomorrow night, as soon as I have internet!

Today is Purple Day! 💜 Founded in 2008 to raise awareness about #epilepsy. Something that is much misunderstood and far more common than people think. If you do one thing today have a click and a read.. purpleday.org

Man some people really will just be rude to you one day and then beg favours the next 🙄