Now for some local fieldwork - summer undergrads in the Layton Lab are characterizing Cepaea 🐌 morphs in our own backyard @utmbiology.bsky.social

Another fantastic field expedition with @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social, this time collecting slugs, snails and micros in Guadeloupe. Thanks very much to Seaslugs Guadeloupe for their support, we look forward to visiting again next year! 🐚 🧬

The Layton Lab is *almost* ready for #CSEE2026 but first these freshwater mussel swab kits need to go out to collaborators! Then, you can find us in the Gastropod session on Tuesday @ 1:30pm and the Marine Science session on Wednesday @ 8:30am! 🧬 🐌 🐚 🦪

CONGRATS 🎉 to Dr. @vicgillman.bsky.social on passing her viva with no corrections! I’m so proud of you and so lucky to have been part of your journey! Special thank you to co-supervisors @lancasterlt.bsky.social & Vicky Pritchard and examiners @gretabocedi.bsky.social & @fishyomics.bsky.social!

Loved seeing one of my favourite invert groups pop up in this morning’s #BES2025 lecture from Joe Roman. Lots of incredible whale ecology with some Osedax thrown in there 🪱

Kicking off #BES2025 with the Georgina Mace Lecture from Sandra Diaz about 🌱 functional traits & their interaction with people & climate

Congrats to Dr. @ethan-ross.bsky.social on the successful completion of his viva! I’m so lucky to have been part of your journey - the future is so bright for you. Very special thanks to co-supervisors @sigwartae.bsky.social & Stu Piertney and examiners @marianilab.bsky.social & Beth Scott!

I’m so thrilled to share @vicgillman.bsky.social first first-author paper just published in Conservation Genetics 🎉🧬🦪 (not a FW mussel). This is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come from Victoria - stay tuned! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Incredible PhD opportunity working with an even more incredible team!

We’re so excited to welcome you all to CSEE 2026 in Toronto!

Very excited to share this paper from PhD student Ethan Ross demonstrating the utility of ONT for generating barcode reference libraries in seagrass invertebrates. A second congratulations to Ethan for submitting his PhD thesis today! 🎉🧬🐚

Victoria Gillman's talk on "Local adaptation and forecasting response in the endangered Scottish freshwater pearl mussel" was really insightful! 🤩 #ESEB2025

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

I am beyond sad to be missing #ESEB2025 but please check out this talk by my brilliant PhD student @vicgillman.bsky.social this afternoon!

Visiting the collections at the Museu de Zoologia was a highlight of the trip, topped off with a visit to a street named after a nudibranch legend

The #WCM2025 meeting was a huge success! Thanks to the LOC in São Paulo and all of our fantastic presenters in the heterobranch symposium 🙌

Excellent start to day 2 of #WCM2025 with a killer plenary by @sigwartae.bsky.social - 📣taxonomy is key for conservation!

Arrived in São Paulo for the World Congress of Malacology - all things mollusc for the next four days. What a dream! 🐌 🐚 🦪 🧬

More bad news for butterflies. Our new paper led by Wendy Leuenberger shows common species are declining even more rapidly than rare ones. @ZipkinLab Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501340122

Come join us!

Back to my roots on the Thames River yesterday! We participated in some FW mussel sampling with DFO in a beautiful spot in Ontario 🌿

It’s been such a pleasure to meet and work with this wonderful group of people. I’ve learned so much from them and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be involved! Led by the amazing @cristinaruedau.bsky.social

A huge win for Northern Arizona University! @chamberea.bsky.social is one of the most talented and lovely academics I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. Congrats Anne 🎉🥂

I've been waiting for this, an update on the beautiful slug #caterpillars (Limacodidae) academic.oup.com/isd/article-...

Check out our recent paper “Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs”! 🧬🐌 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... Nudibranchs are a fascinating and diverse group of molluscs, unique and interesting systems in ecology and evolutionary biology. @molluscular.bsky.social

It’s been one hell of an awful week but I’m sailing into the long weekend with this guy 💙

Summer fieldwork mode has begun 💪 Just returned from a super productive trip w/ @mollusksatamnh.bsky.social & our stellar PhD students Anahy Garza & Lina Raubold. Lots of colour pattern analysis & sequencing to come on these Felimida nudibranchs & flamingo tongues (Cyphoma) 🎨🧬

And always will

Home 💙

A fantastic few days at the museum collections in Bergen 🐚 (with a trail or two snuck in there)

A great few days in Bodø with some beautiful views (thanks again to @joostraeymaekers.bsky.social for the trip to Saltstraumen!) Now off to Bergen ✈️

What a difference a week makes: Southern Florida -> Northern Norway

I’m very sad to miss the #MolluscanForum this year, but excited that @brack1sh.bsky.social will talk about her wonderful mussel work!

I'm at the American Malacological Society meeting in LA this week. So far it's been an amazing conference! We started with a workshop on kleptoplasty and it's just kept going from there. #Invertebrate

Join us Monday at noon Eastern for the next talk in our GREG Seminar Series! SSE student grant recipient Fabian Salgado Roa will present “What is causing the presence of multiple color variants in spiders?” Zoom link and full schedule here: www.evolutionsociety.org/meetings/gre...

Thrilled to see this piece published this week, representing several years of fruitful discussion in our #ICES working group. Thanks to all members of #WGAGFA for their helpful insights! t.co/OKcgN1Nnfc

Thrilled to see this work published in Ecol Evol with Nerida Wilson. We derive divergence rates for chromodorids and we describe Chromolaichma hemera sp. nov. from the western Atlantic & Caribbean. This is just the tip of the iceberg- watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

For this #molluscmonday I give you what appears to be a rather simple snail. But what if I told you that these tiny eulimids parasitize sea cucumbers- cool, right? I fell in love with these during my PhD and Chris Mah's blog will make you love them too: echinoblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/p-is...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark is looking for new professors! Come and join our amazing team, and contribute to our world-class science! Our professors are also curators, responsible for amazing collections in one of Europe's oldest natural history museums. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

I’m absolutely thrilled to have started my new position at @UTMBiology @eebtoronto this week! Stay tuned for exciting work from our group in molluscan systematics & genomics 🧬🐚 Do get in touch if you’re interested in collaborating! See our updated lab website here: laytonlab.com

Hope everyone is enjoying #SICB2024! One nudibranch zippered pouch left (nudibranch tea towels, urban and regular totes all sold out today!) Missed out? They will back on the Etsy shop later this January BlueBeehiveStudio.etsy.com

📢 Check out our molluscan genomics workshop running next May! We’ve got a stellar line-up of talks in a stunning location. Registration is limited so don’t miss the December 15th deadline! 🐚🧬 meetings.embo.org/event/24-mol...

Want to use landscape genomics for conservation? Curious about how to apply these methods to individual-based sampling? Not to worry– use algatr! Our new paper w/ co-first author @anushabishop.bsky.social and coauthor Ian Wang is out in MER! More below ⬇️ #OA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...