Me if I was an ARGO float

Usually, I'm outside a tank looking in at snails. Today, the snails were outside the lab, looking in at me

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dissertation chapter 1 with @drcraigmc.bsky.social ✅️ Here is a first look at the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon as artificial hard substrate, which hosts a unique community of organisms compared to two other shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. doi.org/10.3354/meps...

breaking news, white steam emerges from the Autoclave

In honor of #invertefest, here are four of my whiteboard drawings from the invertebrate zoology lab this semester

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

I love #SkypeAScientist!!! Nothing brings me more joy than showing a bunch of high schoolers a giant isopod and seeing them lose it over how big they get

In the immortal words of Sabrina Carpenter: I can do a lot in 15 minutes. Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the Benthic Ecology Meeting!

People are so ready to help you when they think you're opening a metaphorical can of worms, but when I show up with annelid specimens for class that I can't get open suddenly I'm the weird one

🌳➡️🌊 Deep-sea wood falls aren’t just debris—they’re entire ecosystems! Endemic species, weird food webs, and nutrient cycling all depend on them. But natural observations are rare. What’s hiding in the abyss? Our new paper dives in. #DeepSea #MarineBiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Party tip: When throwing a deep sea tea party, it's generally recommended that you invite the colossal squid.

Trying to write a lab practical for my class without thinking about current events lest the existential dread make my questions unnecessarily mean/difficult

As someone who loves cool mollusks, I'm very excited to teach gastropods and cephalopods tomorrow. However, as someone with an EXTENSIVE earring collection that includes at least 15 pairs of gastropod/cephalopod earrings... I'm stressed

I highly recommend judging a science fair. These kids with their enthusiasm and trifold boards made being a scientist under the current administration SO much more bearable today

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

Do you think people can tell that I'm teaching #cnidarians today

how your email finds me

Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Lesson planning, aka making sure I have earrings for every phylum I will be teaching in my invertebrate zoology lab this semester

The aromatherapy candle I bought because it promised peace and relaxation just exploded at midnight the night before the new semester begins. An omen of only good things, I'm sure.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Deeply enamored with the sea turtles on Kauai

Here’s my post about public misunderstanding of the deep sea 🦑🧪🌎 www.southernfriedscience.com/the-wrongest...

How to translate the most common 30 words used in scientific names for fish (expanded, corrected) (Data: rfishbase)

Had to look up “sleeze of sponges”… “Like a crash of rhinos or a gaggle of geese, an aggregation of sponges has its own collective name: a sleeze. About one person in the world knows of this term: the student who coined it in 1978.” deepseanews.com/2009/05/slee...

Conversations my parents probably didn't anticipate having with me at both age 5 and age 25: "What do you have?" "A CRAB!" Anyways, Merry #Crustmas to those who celebrate

I introduced a non-science friend to #inaturalist and she just asked about all the cool observations I must be making on vacation. How do I tell her I have only made one and it's this

Everyone is excited to have the marine biologist along on a family beach vacation until they remember that I don't know much about marine mammals, and I keep trying to show them the cool worms I find 😔

I changed my mind, checkbot chatgpt replies are actually a thing of beauty

40 WAYS TO DIE IN THE PREHISTORIC. Enjoy! These illustrations were made as scale drawing for a book about prehistoric creatures. Thought it would be fun to have a bit more interaction between the animals and human figures

No males, no problems: The marbled crayfish is one of a handful of crustaceans that reproduces by parthenogenesis, a type of asexual reproduction without males. As a result, every single marbled crayfish is a female and clone of her mother #25DaysofFishmas #Crustmas

It's Worm Wednesday! This is my favorite worm to find in the wood fall samples

What can government scientists do now to minimize the damage that’s coming over the next four years, and what can we do to help them? I spoke to several experts to write this story for The Revelator Please share widely. 🧪🌎 therevelator.org/scientists-m...

I hear a lot about people being scared or creeped out by the giant sea spiders....my normal response is a) they don't bite, and b) they are SLOW! Here's some proof....Colossendeis robusta and an Ammothea sp. walking in a tank on our research cruise in 2020 (NBP20-10). 🧪🐧🦑🌎🇦🇶🧬

Fun fact: if you accidentally fall down an embankment next to a nest of baby alligators, they will make adorable noises to summon their mom. A second fun fact: the mom will be SO much faster than you anticipate, and you will have to sprint back up the embankment. Don't ask me how I know this.

To help get a sense of scale here, Craig has large hands. Picture Craig's hands. WRONG. They're bigger than that.

Recognizing and celebrating the many contributions, achievements, and inherent value of LGBTQIA+ community members today and every day! 🧵 of a few papers describing how we can better support 🏳️‍🌈 and 🏳️‍⚧️ individuals in STEM. #QueerInSTEM #LGBTQStemDay

At depths over 6,000 meters, researchers have discovered “faceless” fish with no visible eyes or nose, relying on unique sensory adaptations to navigate in complete darkness. #marinelife

The pink meanie jellyfish was only described in the year 2000 (they even got their own new family!) and we’re totally here for it. The pink meanie hunts the moon jellyfish and helps keep their blooms in check! #coralcitycamera

Hello 👋 🌈 rainbowR is a community that connects, supports, and promotes LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues. We run monthly online meet-ups, a Slack group, a buddy scheme, a book club and a repo of LGBTQ+ datasets. rainbowr.org

A few weeks ago I hid 100 tiny ducks around the lab because @drcraigmc.bsky.social left me unsupervised. He finally found one he's been walking past every day.

You ever make something that turns out so cute you don't actually want to eat it

Always remember to put the important things in your calendar app

Preparing for a conference aka dying my hair to match my poster