"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏

I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)

Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her

www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!

The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)

And "fishies" refers to baby lumpfish youtu.be/uxm-2CKmUZw?...

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!

Cubaris Isopods

It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos! 🐙🦑🌿🧪 www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...

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

Can I just say that whoever is making these unhinged images for IOB is making my life measurably better

A stunning assortment of Japanese brittle stars, クモ ヒトデ via @Crinoidea_hk #echinoday

New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them." resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

IOB's latest #Regeneration and #Musculature in Halved #Cassiopea xamachana #Ephyrae K M Muffett , M Mammone , J Puckett , G Martino , Aditi , M P Miglietta doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Day 126 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) having some unicorn time with the type specimen of Terebra aclinica (USNM645154) #SavePRI #snails #fossils #MolluskMonday #EarthScience 🦑⚒️🦄

I had the unfortunate experience of finding that the other reviewer on a manuscript was using an unrefereed LLM to write their review. While the paper was fine, the clearly LLM feedback included such as questioning whether this journal was willing to publish null results and summarizing the paper😓 🧪

Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

Another little article from my Texas days with Marta Mammone on Cassiopea regenerative capacity is out :) Regeneration and Musculature in Halved Cassiopea xamachana Ephyrae url: academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

First publication with lpita.bsky.social looking at Aiptaisia oral regeneration! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While my metatranscriptome seqs are downloading, I have chosen to make little clay E. scolopes with tiny bows

After many months and tears, my final thesis chap is in print! I found two really distinct pictures of a cnidarian microbiome, one from the body cavity and one from the external mucus layer :D journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝘅𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆! Yesterday I posted about how we don’t really know our biodiversity. There are an estimated 8–11 million species on Earth. Less than 15% are named and described. Without names, their stories may never be told. #NameItToSaveIt 🌐 🦑 🐙 🧪

Day 23 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Today John has found his way through a naticid snail drill hole in the subfossil clam Mulinia modesta. Comedian is H. sapiens (very not to scale) #savePRI 🦑

I feel like being an academic paid on an NSF grant right now is like being the cabin boy on the dread pirate Roberts’ ship

Stand up for Science 🧪💪

Made little octopuses yesterday and will probably make more today, at the bar where we were making them we did some accidental community outreach to those who were interested in our clay sculptures :) #AcademicSky

My reward to myself for sending an incomplete draft *only* 3 months late is a tiny coffee in a tiny coffee cup this morning #AcademicSky

The removal of Whitman-Walker’s information about gender care is deeply upsetting to me. Many primary care physicians remain hesitant to prescribe hormones, even for those already on them. I commuted 40 min each way to Whitman to get care when I was between PCPs. #trans substack.com/home/post/p-...

funky crustaceans! #marinelife

Planet NOAA podcast on corals and coral restoration. www.noaa.gov/podcasts/pla...

Sometimes those in the aquaria are just really interested in what’s up outside

There’s not much I can say about how bad things are right now, but I hope that everyone on #Science and #AcademicSky sees this courtyard cat from UFMT and feels better for a second

The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors

At the end of last year, I released The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock, a D&D 5e Campaign built for adventure and for education. I'm starting to get feedback trickling in from teachers, and, not surprising for this moment, having a storytelling tool to explore fire and forest ecology is a hit.

Once again, UC Libraries are collaborating on a UC-wide “Love Data Week” series of talks, presentations, and workshops during February 10-14, 2025. All events are free to attend and open to any member of the UC community. #OpenData #AcademicSky #LoveData25

It is on days like today that I wish I could just be a little helpful brain in a lab jar, doing work with no particular needs and without a body that had to interact with the wider world. Disembodied jar brain feels like a preferable way to go through this

In case you, like me, are in need of a doomscrolling break, my lab slack is finding out what kind of veggies we’d be: sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/