What a sensational science story about an almost mythical beast from @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

Scientists monitor the loss of vital eelgrass plants in Salish Sea www.cascadepbs.org/environment/...

Here is the story in our words of the experiments Melanie and Alyssa @rhizalyssa.bsky.social and Grace ran to discover the Vibrio bacterium causing sea star wasting. And Amy Chan's work to get it in culture, so we essentially fulfilled Koch's postulates... theconversation.com/the-bacteria...

We don't get color photos and articles in Newsweek very often; we sure appreciate this good science coverage. www.newsweek.com/starfish-sea...

great article in NYT about our discovery of the bacterium causing sea star wasting. This is also a chapter in my new book The Oceans Menagerie. @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Delighted that Nature included #OceansMenagerie in their Top 5 Science picks. The #OceansMenagerie Drew Harvell Viking (2025). #Marinelife #intertidal #scuba #nudibranchs #octopus #seastars @vikingbooks.bsky.social To the Moon and quack: Books in brief www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Delighted that #OceansMenagerie @vikingbooks.bsky.social made the top 25. Takes corals, starfish and octopus to the beach with you! sustainability.stanford.edu/news/25-book...

Meet the Ocean’s cutest assassin, the shag rug sea slug or Aeolidia Papillosa. Known for their bunny like appearance, the slug actually preys upon sea anemone. But not only as a food source, they also absorb their stinging nematocysts and use them as a method of defense! @drewharvell.bsky.social

Chapter one of “Ocean’s Menagerie: How Earth’s Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life” is now available on our substack! Chapter one explores all of the amazing abilities of sea slugs! @drewharvell.bsky.social

Loved this trivia game around our upcoming @bigbiology.bsky.social podcast. I'll add some of these trivia questions to the ones in my talks... yep, got 'em all right...

Next week my podcast with @bigbiology.bsky.social airs about my new book The #OceansMenagerie. This clip is about my hobbies and Cornell University #Blaschka #glass #invertebrate. #marinelife #SciCom #artandscience Meet the scientist: Drew Harvell (bonus) open.substack.com/pub/bigbiolo...

Exciting talking about #Spineless Superpowers and #Ocean'sMenagerie on Airwaves Podcast today. with @vikingbooks.bsky.social #marinelife #sponges #intertidal #aquanaut #saturationdiving #coralreefs archive.org/details/drew...

It's an honor to be part of the @bigbiology.bsky.social. I listen to all their episodes (including the key current one #SaveNSF, link below)and excited to be up next week in a 50 minute podcast chatting about #Ocean'sMenagerie.

Have you listened to our episode on National Science Foundation funding and the future of science? Tune into our #SaveNSF episode to get learn the importance of NSF funding and the detrimental impacts of recent budget cuts. #science #scicomm #sciencecommunication #biology #sciencepodcast

My friends love the audible version of The Ocean's Menagerie as podcasts when they are hiking, cooking or enjoying #marinelife at the #beach. try this sample chapter, The Sea Slug's Sting soundcloud.com/penguin-audi...

Spineless in Seattle! What a great lineup to be part of for @seattleaquarium.bsky.social Lightening Talks with @vikingbooks.bsky.social. #spineless, #invertebrates, #nudibranchs, #crabs, #seastars, #sponges, #marinelife, #tidepools, #aquanaut www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVAp...

Hear @drewharvell.bsky.social talk about her new book The Ocean's Menagerie. Inverts are sooooo amazing!!! www.npr.org/2025/04/28/1...

Can't wait to join the panel for Spineless!

SPINELESS! Looking forward to Spineless lightening talks panel with @seattleaquarium.bsky.social. Its an online evening, so all are welcome! There will be nudibranchs and seastars and octopus! #marinelife #invertebrates #nudibranchs #seastars #octopus #spineless

“...with very long-lived, slow-growing sharks, you can decimate 100 years of conservation in 15 minutes of fishing because it takes so long for those sharks to rebound and regrow their populations,” McCauley said. #marinelife #MPA #PacificIslands #KIngmanReef www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Come join my son and I on a dive to look for sponges on Yucatan Reefs, at our old seafan ecology site. drewharvell.com/2025/04/23/f... #marinelife #sponges #coralreefs #mexico #yucatan #scuba #invertebrates

Love the write up for Ocean's Menagerie in Yale Climate Connections Top 12 Earth Month Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/12-b...

SO excited The #OceansMenagerie is included in 12 books to commemorate the diverse legacy of Earth Month #marinelife #octopus #seastars #nudibranchs #coral #ocean #scuba #scicom #tidepool yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/12-b...

Thanks LitHub for publishing an extract of The #Octopus's Shape Shift from The #OceansMenagerie, just released on Earthday! See event schedule at DrewHarvell.com #marinelife #cephalopod #scuba @vikingbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lite...

Happy #EarthDay and Release Day! #BookTalk tonight and The Times London Book of the Week! “The #OceansMenagerie a marine smorgasbord of the spineless. "...she has discovered is magic and bewildering, astonishing creatures that challenge our idea of animalhood" www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Fully protected #Calif #MPAs significantly enhance #kelp forests' resistance to and recovery from marine #heatwaves in Southern California. kudos Joy Kumagai, Giulio De Leo, @nurad.bsky.social @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MarineLife #ocean #fishery

LitHub voted my book in their top-10 non-fiction! "The strange creatures of the deep ocean are endlessly fascinating, and Drew Harvell’s fascinating exploration of the depths of their wondrousness is as gripping as you’d hope." lithub.com/from-the-nig... #marinelife #invertebrates #nudibranch

#Nudibranch superpowers! I'm updating the blog on my website with tidepool meanderings, starting with nudibranchs. Here is my Monterey #tidepool favorite, Hopkin's Rose. It uptakes its color from its prey, Rosy Bryozoan. drewharvell.com/2025/03/22/f... #marinelife #invertebrates #nudivember

The #CaliforniaMPA system of reserves has been a model globally for design and implementation of Marine Reserves. Check out this world-leading report through @ucsb-nceas.bsky.social on how Marine Protected Areas are designed and succeed to boost fish. #MarineLife #MPA #MarineBiodiversity #fisheries

Loved doing this interview about captive breeding and conservation of #sunflowerstars with the sunflower star aquarist @montereyaq.bsky.social and a chat about my upcoming book, The Ocean's Menagerie. www.instagram.com/p/DGv7c5ayP7Q #marinelife #sunflowerstar #conservation #ocean #invertebrate

Embracing Darkness on the Isle of Rum Dark Sky sanctuaries are places where people can gaze at the deep, ancient light of the universe. The whole community works together to reduce light and stargaze in a magic act admired by the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

The firings and upheaval (including protest resignations by principled, eithical program directors)at our premier US Science Funding Agency, #NSF, directly undermine US science capability and is a direct attack on Academic Institutions. Kudos @jonlambert.bsky.social

Grazing by small #herbivores associated with a 29% increase in eelgrass #disease, contributing to huge losses in meadow areas from San Diego to Alaska.Nice story from @cornellcals.bsky.social summarizing our #eelgrass double-header in Ecology; Dr Graham cover photo! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Great low tide at #HopkinsMarineStation shared with our Waves of Convergence #Stanford workshop. #Nudibranchs (Hermissenda and Doriopsilla), and Long-arm #brittlestar

#Herbivores facilitate disease spread in #eelgrass. So proud of Team Eelgrass lead by Dr Olivia J Graham. And cool cover photo! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #marinelife #seagrass #herbivores #vector #isopods #invertebrates #diseaseecology #disease

Galleys for The Ocean’s Menagerie! The #OceansMenagerie, about #SpinelessSuperpowers, releases Earthday 2025. #sponges, #corals, #nudibranchs, #seastars, #giantclams and #octopus! Andrea Dingeldein diagrams for coral chapters. #marinelife #invertebrates #tidepools #diving #scicom #artandscience

Seeing Red under Rocks on my #spineless meanders: #batstar rainbows, dwarf red sea cucumber (Lissothuria nutriens), red #sponge with purple sea urchins and Ophlitaspongia red sponge with red Rostanga pulchra #nudibranch and red egg mass (colored w sponge pigment) #marinelife #intertidal #invert

One of my big heros: Julie Packard, who created the fabulous Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereyaq.bsky.social‬. Thank you Julie! She Made Things Better Down Where It’s Wetter www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/s...

Low-tide at #GreatTidePool. #Ricketts and #Steinbeck were right about the richness of #invertebrates here! Lots today starting with a flat crab, a two-spot #octopus, brooding anemone and 4 #nudibranchs. #marinelife #invertebrate #GreatTidePool #octopus #Tidepool

A day for chitons on low tides near Ed Rickett’s Great Tide Pool in Pacific Grove. Here's a huge gumboot chiton chillin' with a bat star and lined and mossy chitons below. #marinelife #intertidal #chiton #invertebrates

A few of my favorite tidepool shots of 2024 from San Juan Island and Monterey, better late than never for #invertefest! #marinelife #tidepool #invert #nudibranch #seastar

My #Invertefest holiday attempt at Hopkins Rose watercolor. Like a flamingo, it uptakes color from its prey, a red/pink bryozoan. It was named by Frank Macfarland in 1905 after Timothy Hopkins, patron of Hopkins Marine Lab. #invertefest #marinelife #nudibranch #invert #GreatTidepool #Tidepool

The sky has been growing 10 per cent brighter each year, undermining conservation of some wildlife, making areas with star parks like Huu-ay-aht, near Bamfield, BC increasingly rare. thenarwhal.ca/bc-bamfield-...

For Invertefest day 1 and celebrating King Tides is my 5 Phylum intertidal cave. How many different Invert groups can you find from this Monterey tidepool cave? #Invertefest #marinelife #invert #tidepool

SeaGrass is good for algal farming. IceIce disease is lower on algal farms with seagrass in Indonesia. Congrats to our team JoleahLamb, EvanFiorenza, NurAbu, JamaluddinJompa pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ecosystemservices #plantdisease #oceanfarming #aquaculture #bluefoods #plantmicrobeinteractions

Full moon rising over Monterey Bay and the Stars are out on a King Tide. Such a brilliant diversity! Bat stars, ochre stars, baby blood stars, and brittle stars! #Marinelife #Invert #lowtide #tidepool #intertidal #seastar

Brittle star (maybe Ophiothrix sp) in tidepools on king-tide near batstar nursery on my spineless meanders. Those tubefeet! #marinelife #inverts #kingtide #intertidal #beach

Baby batstar nursery and brittlestar on kingtide near Ed Rickett's Giant Tidepool. Love all these happy batstars chillin' in big waves here. #tidepool #marinelife #invertebrates #seastar #inverts #ocean #beach #kingtide