Haven't plantpdated because heat wave and wildfires. Today was better (in n95) 🌱 No poop lettuce here: 2nd round bok choy about to harvest (miraculously unbolted, but 3rd round died). A cute leafhopper (Acericerus sp?) on one of my chards. Lemongrass is the one plant improved by the heat it seems

That's a new 🦀 for me. I don't recognize it at all. Fantastic face finger action @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 950 part 2 #deepwonders #MarineLife

Not positive that this was my first R, but first nudity. Nightwatch, full frontal Ewan McGregor. Age 12-13. At the same friend's house where we went on chatrooms populated by creepy adult men, lol

A Sound of Thunder, 2005 Ben Kingsley version. Worst movie, but maybe the best time, since I was with two of my good college friends and we were the only people in the theater...

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I gave a presentation about the weird and wonderful world of parasitic crustaceans for the Malibu Divers. I talked about parasitic barnacles, tongue-biter parasites, monstrous copepods, and more! 🧪 You can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FTf...

Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

"Tentacles are fascinating, multifunctional organs..." ah yes a very strong opening line for an article, definitely worth reading

As part of the celebration events in Crystal Palace Park this weekend, the Dinosaurs will be illuminated each evening. We got a preview tonight..

One more example of why AI is so awful for *everyone else*.

Scientific fashions, perfectionisms, and the value of traditional morphological taxonomy. #evolbio #philsci 🧪 waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/s...

Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑

So many photos of the hazy orange sky in Toronto being shared on social media. Reminder: "It is estimated that First Nations communities make up 42% of evacuations due to wildfires but only make up 5% of people living in Canada." www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Good thing Mark Carney decided climate change isn't worth addressing.

My lettuce is basically bolted but yeah I ate one last harvest today *smugly indeed* Got plenty of poop free kale, chard, bok choy, and many herbs continuing 🌱

Tiny but essential. The spotted cleaner #shrimp sets up shop on #Caribbean reefs, cleaning parasites and dead skin from fish—even inside their mouths. One of the reef's smallest creatures plays one of its biggest roles. 🦐🌊 scubahanknyc.com/2026/06/03/s...

CHONK! Any day I spot a *Cryptochiton* is a good day. #MolluskMonday #MolluscMonday #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑

Southern Ontario is covered in smoke today from the devastating wildfires that have already destroyed multiple towns up by Thunder Bay 😰

I stand by those words 13 years later. To scientists, I say: it is NOT hopeless! You can learn to harness the powers that everyday language. But it will take some practice, and it will take more than a thousand words. Here are some further suggestions: carlzimmer.com/science-writ... 10/10

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

have just seen a monkey photo so haunting that I cannot be alone with it and therefore must share with you all news.mongabay.com/2024/06/came...

AQI today in toronto during fires: 175 AQI today in Delhi on a normal day with no fires: 139

Seals have a superpower: they are the only mammals with amphibious hearing! They hear well both in-air and underwater. My collagues and I have a new study in Proceedings B on the origins and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds 🦭🔊🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

A collection of knobby-kneed arrow crabs in different environments. If you look closely, you can see their tiny blue claws and little red and white striped eyes. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

For the first time in five years, a living white abalone was spotted in the wild, and one of our own staff members was there for it. https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/news/story/aquarium_staff_member_discovers_an_endangered_white_abalone_in_the_channel_islands_national_marine_sanctuary

Gus the T. rex fetched $50.1 million at auction, a new record price for a dinosaur If this is how much dinosaurs cost now, how can museums afford them? Where does that leave science & education? Will the public still have opportunities to be inspired? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Eating watermelon and don't want watery bottom? I don't know if this works because I already ate the watery watermelon 🫠. Learn from my mistakes

New York ... London Paris Sydney Vancouver

ew this happened again

"The next time you hover over [a scallop] on a dive, remember you’re not just looking at a shell with eyes. You’re looking at an animal that’s also looking at you." Lovely quote by Dan Speiser

A not-so-big, 'giant' springtail. This is a member of the new population I recently discovered up in the Port Hills in Christchurch, NZ. They seem smaller than others of their species, possibly due to island dwarfism from living in small, fragmented areas of native bush. #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪

@jopabinia.bsky.social does a fairytale crab count? 🦀🧚 en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hin...

A large uncommon larvacean I refer to as the barrel oik. Most larvaceans live in a spherical mucous 'house' for filtering plankton. This one's house (almost totally invisible here) is barrel-shaped with a clear directionality of movement and even 'intakes' in the front like a biological jet engine.

Evening Dreams Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe c. 2021

Green Hairstreak on Lilac Watercolour on vintage J. Whatman paper from 1940, approximately 134 x 178 mm. Referenced from a photograph by Debbie Anne Hope. Original available in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Bugs & Beasties 6' auction this week: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v... 1/

Laura Dern probably had as big an impact—especially for inspiring female scientists outside of paleontology as well.

I’d guess a full 1/4 of active paleontologists today wanted to be Alan Grant when they grew up. I don’t know if another actor has had such a tangible impact on science. I hope Sam Neill knew that at least a little. Rest easy.

fear not, dr. grant is with the triceratops now 💗

SUCCESS: first blue whale fluke of not actually blue whale season because they're about 60 miles off shore 2026.🦑

Holothuroid or Sea cucumbers on a giant barrel sponge #gili #giliislands #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #weekend #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #reef #holothuroid

Thresher shark & Moon jelly sticker www.patreon.com/pikaole/post...

For those inclined to suggest this is artificially enhanced...it is a real thing. Here's an explanation of the aragonite structure from a reputed source. peabody.yale.edu/article/the-... What I do want to know is why the music is the horny 90s song Butterfly by Crazy Town?

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be blocked immediately.

round and profound 🦭 #art #seals

Every state in the US contains fossils from ancient seas. The Smithsonian exhibit "From These Lands" highlights a few of them, an invitation to consider our connections to prehistoric waters. My latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🧪

do we have blastoid people on bsky?