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It should be. And yet, we're all just gonna have to manually check refs for every review. Sigh.

Ephippodonta lunata At barely 1 centimeter long, Ephippodonta lunata looks nothing like a typical clam. Most clams survive by snapping their shells tightly shut for protection, but the mysterious moon clam remodeled its....

Have you voted Ephippodonta lunata yet? A vote for Ephippodonta is a vote for the small, beautiful things in life. A vote for Ephippodonta is a vote for exploring new frontiers of biology that aren't beholden to "oooh look how big its teeth are" www.unitasmalacologica.org/ephippodonta...

"Why is everyone obsessed with the golden ratio when they COULD be obsessed with PARALLEL LINES??" <- I'm completely hinged in meetings I don't know what you mean

How reliable is the skeleton for identifying cyclostome bryozoans?

Taylor et al. (2015) used DNA data from New Zealand species to show that early colony development may be far more informative for cyclostome taxonomy than adult skeletal traits.

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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

This is why I keep banging on about the importance of trained humans in the loop for data analyses. You *cannot* just take a dataset and run, especially not unattributed data from kaggle. You *must* do the due diligence to look for artifacts, outliers, and edge cases with your actual human eyes.

Pinna nobilis catches another one! 🥰 what a legendary clam it is

Thanks Shan! Doing my best to use it to further the galeo cause 😂

They're both such good choices but man a blanket octopus would be SO magnificent

I endorse this plan STRONGLY 👍👍👍👍👍🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

This is how I feel about my shell sleeve/shoulder octopus the second it's warm enough to wear sleeveless tops 😂

As described, my linocut shows two blue mussel shells in blue and black ink on 8” x 8” Japanese paper. Numbered 9/12. Titled ‘Blue Mussels.’ Signed Ele Willoughby

My linocut shows 2 blue mussel. The blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), or common mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. They are aptly called common mussels and are found on temperate beaches worldwide. 🧵

Thank you! 😁

Thanks! 😊

It was my birthday yesterday, I hope everyone celebrated by voting Ephippodonta and giving hope to future studies of the diversity of tiny critters 💕 it's not too late! Vote moon clam!! Vote beauty and mystery and absolutely bonkers morphologies!!

#FossilFriday Space, the final frontier. Branching cyclostome bryozoan battling it out for living space with two cheilostome bryozoans on a shell from the Early Pleistocene Nukumaru Limestone, Whanganui Basin, New Zealand.

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I did wonder if it was a rugose coral

@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social any idea what this might be?

A pale yellow forget-me-not flower just 1 mm across. The floral tube is filled by the five anthers and large stigma, all at the same height. Tiny cellular papillae cover the surfaces of the corolla lobes. The surrounding leaves and bracts have tapering hairs about half a millimetre long. Myosotis brevis is a spring annual found on both main islands of New Zealand, in coastal turf and inland frost flats and tarn margins.

@botsocamerica.bsky.social International Plant Appresiation Day comes in the fall in New Zealand, but here's the world's smallest forget-me-not Myosotis brevis #IPAD2026 #PlantingScience #IamaBotanist #FutureBotanists #STEM

Vote Ephippodonta and help us understand how galeommatoids fit into the bivalve family tree and how they got to be so specialised and fancy and wonderful

Because their shells are so small and often almost vestigial, shell-focused taxonomy doesn't capture the variety, but because they're so small and often hidden inside the rear end of echinoderms or in the burrows of the hardest-punching animal in the world, we struggle to study them whole or alive

Galeommatoids are one of the most diverse and yet least known groups of clams. They can be free-living, commensal or parasitic, they can filter feed and some are carnivores that suck the bodily fluids of their prey! Many are brightly coloured and very active, like little nudibranchs

Ephippodonta lunata At barely 1 centimeter long, Ephippodonta lunata looks nothing like a typical clam. Most clams survive by snapping their shells tightly shut for protection, but the mysterious moon clam remodeled its....

Hey folks! Mollusc of the Year just opened up! I'm part of a working group from around the world studying the mysterious and beautiful galeommatoids, and one of our beasties is up for the MOTY! Help us out and VOTE EPHIPPODONTA!! @oceanspecies.bsky.social www.unitasmalacologica.org/ephippodonta...

Close up of London Underground train destination sign saying "This is arove"

The tube is either inventing new conjugations of "to arrive", or has decided it needs a new abbreviation for "Arnos Grove". Either way, we've just left Uxbridge so neither is necessary, but I salute this linguistic advancement

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

A devastating read. Some of the personal stories behind the Conservative and Labour government's haphazard pivots between encouraging universities to attract international students and making Britain a less appealing place for them.

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If you can't hit the high notes in the song and you can't figure out how to transpose it down, why have you picked this song to busk with? This question sponsored by the person outside my building hammering Disney hits as flat as a pancake, with the aid of a PA and apparently boundless confidence

Bivalves are often thought of as herbivores, but this is a misconception, as most species eat a fair number of tiny animals called zooplankton, including sometimes the larvae of other bivalves! Some carnivorous bivalves have even evolved to vacuum up larger prey! (332)

Happy #molluscmonday
#Noetia ponderosa and friends from Tampa FL
Let's see, we have some #polydorid borings, worm tubes, maybe an oyster cemented on the inside

My family talk to me the way movie families talk to the one child who decides to be An Artist: of course we *support* your choices but it was your own decision to go into such a poorly paid and unstable field, tut tut, you only have yourself to blame for your unstable housing situation