What a huge victory for trans rights!

When you have both science and love on your side, you win 🧬 💖

Flamboyant Cuttlefish need you to know their true story. #LetsChangeThat

I made another one of these talking about this, it is in my drafts 🤣

Thylacoplethus novacambria sp. nov. Micro-CT images of externae arising from female Munidopsis arietina Alcock & Anderson, 1894 (MV J72896); host in grey, rhizocephalan externae in red. Dorsal (A), lateral (B), ventral (C), and en-face (D) views. Scale bars = 5 mm.

Extremely cool new paper by @paularodflo.bsky.social! 🦀🦑🧪

A barnacle parasitizing a squat lobster, as seen here (the parasite is the "red" blobby stuff). They made a molecular phylogeny of the barnacles, a step towards understanding how they choose hosts

academic.oup.com/jcb/article/...

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students.

75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development.

Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

This one may be a little ugly, but we still love it: Asian Sheepshead Wrasse! #LetsChangeThat

Three panel comic. Panel 1: at a house party, a guy is standing next to his buddy, a human-size horseshoe crab. They’re both holding red solo cups. The guy is looking to the other side of the room and excitedly says to the crab, “hey, there’s another horseshoe crab here!” The crab replies, “ugh.” Panel 2: the guy says, “what’s wrong?” The crab says, “he’s one of those guys who flaunts it too much.” Panel 3: we see the other horseshoe crab in question, engaged in conversation with a group of smiling people standing around him. This second horseshoe crab is wearing a cap with a horseshoe on it, and a novelty t-shirt that reads: I SURVIVED 5 MASS EXTINCTIONS. IS IT FRIDAY YET?

silly digital #SciArt doodle of the underbelly of two horseshoe crabs wearing t-shirt, the left one is completely covered in a black t-shirt that says "WOMEN WANT ME MOLLUSKS FEAR ME" and the other one has 8 little hand holes for 8 little legs in a red t-shirt that says "CLAMS <3", at the bottom is the side view of both t-shirts. on the top the text says :how would a horseshoe crab wear a t-shirt?"

consider

Show them Spy Kids 3D you cowards

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses. They look cool as fuck. Their arms are reaching out and they have a sandy striped pattern

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses swimming just above the ground. They look very cool. They have a yellow sandy beige colour.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses sitting on the ground. Their two centre arms are raised and reaching back while the other limbs rest on the ground. They have a grey colour with brown spots. They look extremely cool.

A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses reaching for a projection of a shrimp. They look pretty cool. They have a sandy brown colour.

In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)

Fingers crossed everything works out, you deserve this!!!!! 🫂❤️

I feel like I believe in humanity again.

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too.

All those things are within our reach, together.

YAAAAY CONGRATS!!!!

"Time Go Fishing" finished directly as the crew checked back in after the blackout.

Listening to the #ProjectHailMary score while watching the #ArtemisII landing, this is everything.

Hi!

I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section.

(Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!)
badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

Also please don’t hesitate to reach out if you are thinking of incorporating anything related to DNA, RNA, or protein into your story. It’s okay to ask for help!

Putting myself out there to say that if any movie/tv production or game studio needs a consultant in marine biology, ecology, animal behavior, or being a graduate student/PhD, I am available and would LOVE to work with your team!

HIGHLY Requested: Thresher Sharks! #LetsChangeThat

#wormwednesday is the perfect opportunity to show off one of my favorite marine worms, Alitta williami. Simply because they are BEAUTIFUL

green worm with overlapping scales

Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!

The most unrealistic part of Project Hail Mary is that someone actually read his dissertation.

And the Streets Dept Podcast 2.0 is launched! Listen to our first new episode now with one of our country’s best science communicators, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social!

Available wherever you get your podcasts, including Spotify:

open.spotify.com/episode/2kSr...

Without these long-term research programs, there is no #2026MMM

Can confirm, as an asexual who is married and now is a parent. The way humans can experience attraction, romance, love, and ways of connection are infinite (and valuable in all ways)

This makes me so incredibly angry, I am so sorry people have said this to you.

the number of times i've had to explain that yes i'm asexual, but no i'm not aromantic is staggering.

The first person I ever had a crush on who liked me back is ace and is getting married to their long time girlfriend this fall.

There are so many different ways to be and it’s all ok.