Given that smith island is n the backyard of the @washingtonpost.com a bit weird they didn’t get the real story of what’s transpiring.

Me waking up this morning: Ugh, I have so much work, I'm definitely going into my office. Me stepping out the house into gorgeous weather: Yup, I'm definitely going to the beach. 🤣😜🙃😎

Sadly, blue bird died a while ago. What we are witnessing now is it’s death song.

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Can we not post gifs on here yet?

Praise be to Bobbit, our worm and savior! 🙏🏾

For polychaete day, meet some ancient predatory marine worms that lived 20 million years ago. They hunted on the sea floor, ambushing prey from tunnels fortified with layers of mucus 🧪 https://www.livescience.com/extinct-giant-sea-worm-fossils.html

On occasion we capture interesting sediment profile images (SPI). I’ll be sharing those semi-regularly as well. SPIchop 🧪 Two inverts share a Polaroid moment (1st image). A diopatra worm in its burrow (2nd image). The surface tube of the worm is being investigated by a gastropod (3rd image).

If you wrote a fantasy novel where all a country's big decisions were left to the wizened, ancient, black-robed "council of nine" your editor would tell you to put more thought into it.

More wormy facts 🧪: Polychaetes have survived five mass extinctions. the earliest known polychaetes were discovered n the Burgess Shale, dating ~505 million yrs ago (Cambrian period). In the yrs 2 come, Earth witnessed 5 mass extinction, one of which killed ~96% of all marine species.

Ladies and gentlemen, taking a brief respite from my honeymoon to alert everyone we have @jimacosta.bsky.social approval!!

This now the mission. @jimacosta.bsky.social on to you… 👀

Welcome! Skeet to your hearts content. Screw the blue bird!

Let’s preserve this beautiful thing that’s being curated

Always

It’s my wedding weekend. And me and my roll dog are R-E-A-D-Y

I'm realizing that it's almost 10 years to the day that we launched the OpenCTD, and, in a lot of ways, this little oceanographic instrument project has grown bigger than anything @drwormymcwormface.bsky.social and I ever imagined. My workspace still looks exactly like this, though.

The world needed to see this

When I was a kid and ppl wld ask what animal u wanted to be I wld always say cheetah, but second place was always an anteater. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Imagine living out your days with half your body in a pot of boiling water. That’s essentially the lifestyle of the Pompeii worm 🧪 🙃

More wormy facts 🧪: One of the world's most heat-resistant animals is a deep-sea polychaete called the Pompeii worm (Alvinella pompejana). These tubeworms live at hydrothermal vents deep on the ocean floor, where their tails rest in hot water at temperatures of over 140 oF.

Ahh academic science. 🧪 #lovehate

One of my favorite things on Bluesky is discovering some of my faves from the blue bird. Skeet skeet skeet!

Okay so as you know I don't really pay much attention to US news but...I would like to know *why* he took the documents? Like...what did he gain from having a bathroom full of documents!?!!?!

By sharing this, I’m practicing kleptoskeeting. 😏

Ok, maybe now I’ll listen to your arguments that these critters are aliens 👂🏾👂🏾👂🏾

This is still my all time favorite shark graphic.

What the actual fuck 👀

The ocean covers ~ 70% of our planet has ~ 95% of our biosphere produce ~ 50% of the oxygen we breathe And has changed 100% of my life Proud #MarineBiologist Happy #WorldOceanDay

I’ve always viewed this as a shockingly ridiculous thing

The scale of #offshorewind construction is about to become more clear to RI and MA citizens. It is possible to coexist in the ocean space. That tiny thing in the background is the Newport bridge. #sailing #fishing #renewableenergy

Happy #WormWednesday! A diopatra worm [blue] in its burrow (2nd image). The worm’s surface tube [yellow] is being investigated by a gastropod [red] (3rd image). These worms adorn/armor with shells the portion of their tubes that stick out of the sediment.

Bryozoans encrusting a clam partially imbedded in coarse sand. These bryozoans are basically like that friend of yours who pops in unannounced for a brief stay saying they'll be no trouble, but won't ever leave. 🤣😂 Erm... 👀

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More wormy facts: Polychaetes that live in tubes use their parapodia to circulate oxygenated water into tight spaces, and some have feathery external gills. Since there is an exception to every rule, some polychaetes have no parapodia at all. #themoreyouknow

😂🤣 This hit home so hard I legit laughed out loud.

Big facts

I’m here for all of this. #pettyAF

Anything in the pursuit of SCIENCE!!

Please tell me the seller is named Jabba 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I was really really really really hoping Bluesky would have an edit button. B/c… ya know… sometimes you accidentally skeet 😏

As a millennial I’m attracted to anything avocado related. I don’t want to live this way. But I’m a victim of my circumstance. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Live wild. Live free.

Parapodia can be paddle-like for swimming, leg-like for walking across the seafloor or scoop-like for burrowing in the mud. The hard bristles make the worms difficult to swallow, and in some species the bristles contain venom.

Just popping in to remind you that the beautiful Squidworm exists. And they eat 'marine snow' - particles that sink from the upper layers of the ocean. Scientific name: Teuthidodrilus samae 📸L.P Madin

It's these spiny bristles that give the worms their name: polychaete is greek for "with much hair."

The known species of marine worms (polychaetes) share only a few characteristics: a head, a tail and a segmented body (and typically each body segment has a pair of leg-like parapodia with spiny bristles sticking out).

It’s amazing to think THIS is happening while ppl futz around on the site that shall not be named. #skeet

Grown up… but never grow up. ;)

I love how my first three followers on here are literally The Squaddddd!