The lab getting ready for the March for Science this Saturday March 7. See you all there!! 🌎🧪🪸🌿🦑

Creatures of the Cambrian period!

I’m pushing a question out into the broader universe because Illumina said “sowwy trade secret” — does anyone know what ensures that Illumina DNA prep/Nextera results in P5/P7 ligated DNA instead of P5/P5 and P7/P7? #MolBiol 🧬 & 🖥️

🦀 Sally lightfoot crab

A jawfish, cautiously peering out of its burrow in Anilao. This is far and away the most common way to see them; they tend to be rather shy. I think this one is a yellowbarred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli). #MarineLife 🌿🐟

Giant Australian cuttlefish are now hatching in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park. To mitigate the risk from the harmful algal bloom, the State and Federal governments installed a bubble curtain to protect more than 50,000 eggs. Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews

Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️

As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social rdcu.be/eLbaZ

Articles like vvv really get me bc they suggest that the author has engaged uncritically on all of higher ed. Connections have always been a differentiator of education. We do not study a dictionary. If your class is ‘knowledge transfer only’ it was always a bad class. www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...

🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Day 11 of #inktober - the prompt is sting Quick sketch of jellyfish #inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch

Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉 Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)

BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏

It's #NautilusNight!⁣ The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

"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