Folks, people who appreciated Siouxsie's work during the pandemic and/or who like free speech and academic freedom should help out here if they can. And that's all of us, one way or another, right? www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

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Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃 While we were scanning a larvacean with lasers to create a 3D model of the animal, we noticed a jack-o-lantern-like face appear for just a split second. We decided to nickname this the jack-o-larvacean as our underwater mascot for Halloween. 🌊🐙🧪🎮

Bit late for #SundayFishSketch (and not a sketch, and not finished), but it is (or will be, eventually) an Opah! But boy is it taking forever.

#nzpol For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter

It is also funded for those who do not have two documented measles vaccines - you don't have to be eligible for free healthcare (scroll down to funded vaccines: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...)

Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz

🙏 wouldn't it be so nice if we could turn it all around

CHONKY

My son was 1 when leaders pledged to keep warming below 1.5C. By his 11th birthday even 2C is dead. I’m lost for words at the scale of this betrayal.

Why can't we do better than this? What will be left for our kids? I don't want this to be my legacy. If there are still people even around to remember us at all. "Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024" wmo.int/news/media-c...

Crab

Not all skeletons are made of minerals or chitin #skeletober #inktober #skeleton #hydroskeleton #invertebrates #education #art #SciArt

#OAWeek will kick off on Monday, 13 Oct. at 7:00 UTC with a session led by the International CO2 Natural Analogues Network: “ICONA Research: From Understanding and Predicting to Action”. 🌊🐚🌍 Register for this free, virtual session today! tinyurl.com/ICONAOA25

🌊 GOA-ON is excited to invite you to OA Week 2025 — a virtual forum showcasing OA knowledge from around the world! 📅 13-17 October, 2025 🌏 Learn from over 50 international ocean acidification experts across 22 sessions! 🔗 View the schedule and register for sessions here: tinyurl.com/OAW2025

📢Ocean Acidification Week will highlight OA knowledge from around the world, ranging from co-development of research and OA Education to Technology Development in OA Research and mCDR 🌊🌏📝📚📡🫧 Find details on these and other sessions on our website: tinyurl.com/OAW2025

An abundance of eels at the bottom of my road!

I love how marine mammal sightings are always slightly disappointing but if you see a nudibranch it's genuinely the shit 🥹 Inverts will never be beat for sheer beauty.

Being anti vaccines for babies is one of the surest signs of a declining civilisation. There could be no clearer evidence on childhood vaccination saving lives and preserving health and yet we’re being distracted by debating this issue.

I strongly second this! 👏🏾 When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄 Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️

Although minute in size, they represent remarkable taxonomic and ecological diversity. Some species are widespread, while others may be highly localized or even undescribed. For malacologists, such micro-snails offer valuable insight into biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation.

From a handful of forest leaf litter, a hidden world emerges. These tiny land snails — each only a few millimeters across — were sorted from decomposed leaves and soil under the microscope. #陸産貝類 #軟体動物 #貝類 #巻貝 #カタツムリ #無脊椎動物 #photography #mollusk #landsnail #invertebrate #マイマイ #Diplommatina

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

#WormWednesday ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa in @zookeys.pensoft.net by Glasby et al. A great resource! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1376...

Yeesh

It's not jellyfish mode?

"In response to the systemic failure of governments to act on the scientific evidence, over the past 5 yrs a new wave of environmental social movements has been actively challenging the balance of power & elevating these crises up the public, media & political agenda." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊 otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

I created a BioBlitz project on iNaturalist folks can join to celebrate: www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...

Science needs this kind of sponsorship. I am 100% open to posing with cheese or really most foods in exchange for social media posts, large logos on conferences presentations, and copiously talking about said food. Call me anytime. DMs are open.

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

More isopods, more happiness

We love a crustacean frend

Ok, back to the worms! Meet Sabellaria alveolata. This beautiful polychaete worm has a golden crown. This worm is also know as the honeycomb worm for the honeycomb like tubes they create in aggregations. 📸Auguste La Roux, Catherine Boyen

#wormnews #wormwednesday ‘Giant’ worm seen eating invasive species in Chile in first-of-its-kind sighting www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

This anti-arts stance makes me so mad. I only did arts subjects in my last year at school (including art history!), and those are the skills I use everyday as a scientist. Critical thinking, writing skills, looking beneath the surface, all essential to scientific career.

And I made a new friend

Finished today and not sure what I'm supposed to do with myself now to be honest. Write papers I guess...

A reminder that from 7AM- 11:00PM NZT tomorrow, nurses in Aotearoa NZ are striking. Please give them your understanding and support, and thank you to the nurses who have been rostered on to ensure life-preserving services are being received.

🌍 Just launched: This is Geoscience—a global campaign from The Geological Society to celebrate the role of geoscience in society and inspire the next generation. #ThisIsGeoscience

This anemone is doing the most. Looking fabulous.

Wtffffffff

Spring is springing in Christchurch. And there's a worm (definitely a worm and not a snake) wrapped around a lamppost!

I'm squeezing a new panel of octopus pee worms into #InverteFest! (I'd hoped to finish two more panels after this one, but August wrecked me, so they'll have to wait for the next round) 🐙🦑🧪

Mixtopagurus are nearly symmetrical hermit crabs. But they don't use worm tubes or wood like others in their family. No, it's these weird Xenophora shells that stick stuff to themselves that have a whole exhibit: www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xen... 🦀🧪🦑 double? triple? #InverteFest

Hello fren! My experimental companion these last 3 months 🦀

“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”

That woke me up! #eqnz

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris