Very kind of them to gather all of my interests into one collection 🦑

Squid collection: a reddish and purple quilted squid with yellow eye

Squid Collection Virtual Gallery: visit.virtualartgallery.com/abysschallen...

Graphic with red, purple, and gold tentacles overlain on blue and teal illuminated striped that look like you're underwater. Text reads: ABYSS Creatures from the Deep Cherrywood Challenge 2025 Nature's creativity is rivaled only by your own. Join us on a deep dive into the ABYSS.

Check this out - a Cherrywood Fabrics had a quilting challenge last year with a set color palette and the theme "Abyss."

Hundreds of quilts were entered and they are *incredible.* Check out this amazing handiwork!

cherrywoodfabrics.com/pages/the-ab...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

Galaxy siphonophore (side view) on the ROV feed bin the SuBastian control room.

Galaxy siphonophore from an oblique view (partially above) in the pilot sit camera feed.

The ROV pilots’ view of multiple feeds, including the galaxy siphonophore.

This perspective of a galaxy siphonophore is incredible!!! Look at the spiral!! 🤩 🦑 @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social #Designingthefuture3

This is some extremely anti-invertebrate behavior!!!

Nooooooooooo that is devastating 😭😭😭 I’m so sorry Meg

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

This program transformed my career! Please apply.

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Our REU renewal was funded!

We found out today so we are accepting applications now! Like right now!

Application review is going to happen swiftly as we know we’re are late in the typical cycle.

pa.msu.edu/undergraduat...

#reu #physics #astronomy #research

The mighty Red-winged Blacksaur!

Yeah, that totally checks out

#birds 🌿

On this Tax Day, you can no longer use the IRS’s Direct File. Why not? Corporate interference.

Let’s stop this wanton destruction of state capacity. SamForNJ.org

Join me online today at 1pm ET to hear how the @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social Public Programs team built our Teacher Institute for Neuroscience and Society program for NYC middle school teachers: cnlm.uci.edu/connect

Thank you to @danafoundation.bsky.social for making this program possible!

🧪🧠

The image is a promotional flyer for the 2025-26 CONNECT Seminar Series by UC Irvine, featuring a session titled "Dana Education: Enriching Neuroscience Education Through Innovative Approaches" on April 15, 2026, at 10:00 AM PST via Zoom. It includes photos of Kathleen Roina and Diana Li, Ph.D., who are associated respectively with the Dana Education Program at Dana Foundation and the Public Programs Team at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. The flyer is colorful, incorporating blue and yellow design elements.

Join @ucirvine.bsky.social Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory on April 15 at 1pm ET for the next CONNECT session that will highlight the work of the Dana Foundation Education Program.

Register here: cnlm.uci.edu/connect

#neurosociety #neuroscience #neuroscienceeducation

Don't miss tonight's amazing storytellers Vyshnavi Vennelakanti, @kpc.bsky.social, Kevin McNulty, Ricky Ortiz and @weijima.bsky.social ! 🧪

We have an AMAZING lineup for tonight's @storycollider.bsky.social show at @caveatnyc.bsky.social!

Couldn't have said it better than my co-host @paulacroxson.bsky.social. Come hear from Vyshnavi, @kpc.bsky.social, Kevin, Ricky, and @weijima.bsky.social! 🧪

NYC & livestream tix: ow.ly/8iG250YtAsk

Two presenters stand side by side on a dark stage, smiling and laughing, in front of microphones on stands.

A poster with the word "Acceptance" at the top in white lettering on a bright orange box. Below, there are details: "Caveat, New York, NY, April 13, 7:00pm ET, The Story Collider," and the Story Collider logo. Smaller text says "Tickets at storycollider.org"

A white and orange poster with five circles, each with a photo of a smiling face in it - they are headshots of our storytellers, each with their name by them: Ricky Ortiz, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Vyshnavi Vennelakanti, Kevin McNulty and Weiji Ma.

Join us at @caveatnyc.bsky.social TONIGHT for a night of true stories about acceptance - and science, of course! 🧪 🫶
Hosted by me and @dianateuthis.bsky.social
In person + livestream
Grab tickets here now! ow.ly/8iG250YtAsk

#NYCEvents @storycollider.bsky.social

Three red gummy lobsters, one clutching a fish (seahorse) and two clutching a dolphin in their claws. #Fish 🐟 #arthropod #invertebrate #invertfest #invertefest #oceanlife 🦑

Aquatic invertebrates eating aquatic vertebrates.
My 📸

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

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-...

question from me and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social for the audience:

how did paleozoic invertebrates insult each other before grass existed?

Recalled weight pockets.

#Recall: SCUBAPRO Monorail Weight Pockets for Buoyancy Compensator Devices (BCDs). The D-ring handle that unlocks the weight pocket can detach. User will not be able to remove the weight pocket in an emergency in order to rise to the surface; drowning hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

hahahahaha OH NO

and I am once again thinking of that police sketch-artist scene from Mermaid (you know exactly what I'm talking about!)

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

a pretty iconic, if i may brag a little, shot of a rusty patched bumblebee. Yellow back, thumbtack black spot, spread clear-smoky wings, then a crisp rusty patch between their two yellow abdomen stripes. Sitting on a monarda fistulosa

Need some photos of Bombus affinis aka the federally endangered rusty-patched bumblebee? I just uploaded a ton of high res photos of some recent observations I've made. Under CC license, use for non-commercial with credit!

www.flickr.com/photos/19985...

Hey y'all. Love all the love for the program (we're pretty proud of it too). But the fact that the solicitation is archived does NOT mean that the program is shutting down. We're hanging in there, struggling through the uncertainty with everyone else.

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions:

🔬 Postdoc
🧪 Research associate

We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms.

Come join us!

Details and application links 👇

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In 2019, I got to meet a real live Vampire squid thanks to @kakanikatija.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social!!! 🤩🦑🧪
I was surprised by two things:
1. how small they are! the famous Planet Earth footage made it seem giant (and scary)
2. they are SO soft. Like touching the smoooothest velvet jelly!