Bringing home a SERIOUS library upgrade from #CIAC2018 it’s nerd Christmas 😍🦑😍
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Stephanie Cancellare is talking about Eustress vs. Distress and how to assess culture animals stress state. I know this talk is about cephalopods but it's hitting A LITTLE CLOSE TO HOME HERE.
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Gretta Pecl @GrettaPecl is studying shifts in squid populations. This is super important for food security, livelihoods of people up and down coastlines and ecosystem shifts!
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“We found a blob and that blob turned out to be a dumbo octopus” - Alexander Ziegler
Their research group put that dumbo octopus into an MRI to reconstruct their internal anatomy. There’s so much cool stuff at this conference I can’t even.
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Chengyi Xu wants to use cephalopod skin as inspiration to engineer dynamic camouflage, especially with infrared camouflage 🤯 SO COOL!
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Kathleen Ritterbush is giving us a crash course on ammonites. She is trying to understand what the energetic cost of having these huge sometimes wacky looking shells was!
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Yo, #CIAC2018, other cephalopod/ocean lovers, and #EntSoc18!
The Science Comm. program @SkypeScientist has EXTREMELY DOPE SHIRTS that we're selling to raise some $ to run the program
We match scientists + classrooms for Q&As sessions!
Check it...
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Carrie Albertin @CarrieOcto is up next at #CIAC2018!
She’s the lead author on the octopus genome paper for those who don’t yet know her. She’s amazing.
She’s talking about protocadherins, proteins that we think you need a lot of to make a complex brain!
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Ummm literally what is cooler than using DNA technology to SEARCH FOR GIANT SQUID?!
Nothing. There is nothing cooler. Inge Winkelmann is goals.
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Ummmm can all conferences have bars with an old school Nintendo please?!
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Amy Healey works on cuttlefish mitochondrial and nuclear genomes and has found evidence for “mitochondrial capture” in the cuttlefish that live in Angola, suggesting that the cuttlefish from West Africa and South Africa hybridized at some point!
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Using a mic @ conferences (incl. questions at the end of talks) is essential.
You may be loud enough 4 ppl w/avg. hearing 2 hear, but not 4 ppl w/lower-than-average hearing! Use the mic.
I'm a loud person and only learned this recently thx 2 @gserratomarks!
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Lígia Haselmann Apostólico is discussing sneaker males and "bullies" in cephalopod mating!
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TOPICS I'M SO EXCITED
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Holy crap. Uwe Piatkowski’s talk on sperm whale consumption of squid is absolutely shocking.
They looked at 12 or 13 sperm whales and found OVER 100,000 SQUID BEAKS 🤯
...and not shocking but def sad, plastic 😞
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“We’ve all seen dumbo octopus before, but they never get old”-Kat Bolstad from @ALCESonline
TRUE.
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TIL that Polynesian people described the layout of the islands in the pacific as being in the shape of an octopus!
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Squid are 80% of the global catch of cephalopods!
How many tons of squid do you think are caught a year?
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🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑
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TFW you really need that second cup of coffee
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James Peyla is talking about a super cool type of squid, Lolliguncula, which can survive in brackish water!
This is super weird for cephalopods. One species was found in 15ppt- LESS than half strength seawater!
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Catalina Perales-Raya is using giant squid beaks and statoliths to figure out how old giant squid get. Based on her work and the consensus in others in the room, it’s looking like about 3 years!
Imagine the amount of food an animal needs to eat to grow so quickly!
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Tsunemi Kubodera showed #CIAC2018 the wildest shit I’ve ever seen.
Male S. elostrata (Japanese cuttlefish) do this bonkers pattern w/their arms when mating, approach the female, then FLASH white, stretch out and go into a strobe light flashing pattern.
Crowd. Went. Wild.
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“When @MBARI_News or @oceanexplorer see Cranhids , they’re beautiful, captivating, STUNNING creatures. When I get them, they look like...this.”-Aaron Evans
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Oh snap! @DrShmoo just suggested that we’re going to have to change the genus name of the Flamboyant cuttlefish (metasepia pfefferi), based on her student’s molecular systematics work of the cuttlefish 🤯
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“I don’t need to tell this audience, but squid are weird. [...] the eye of Chiroteuthis is 1/3 the size of its body. Imagine a terrestrial animal with an eye that big” -Alison Sweeney (UPenn)
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Signs you’re at a cephalopod conference. @CaseyZakroff and I converged upon the kitchen in our respective cephalopod shirts & simultaneously pointed at eachother & said “you look great” in unison.
I usually wear dresses to conferences but this is #CIAC2018, so 🦑 shirts it is 😎
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Cephalopod biologists are easy to please, just give us an octopus cookie and the crowd goes wild #CIAC2018
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By the way this is all learned from a talk by Inger Winkelmann at #CIAC2018, I missed how to spell her name at the beginning of her talk. It was VERY COOL.
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eDNA is totally cool. Basically it’s dna floating around in the environment.
Applications?
Want to know if if a giant squid is in a given area? You can look for a sequence you know is associated with a giant squid in water and check to see if it’s there with PCR.
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When it comes to cephalopods, there’s a LOT we don’t know. Like what the deal is with genetic sex determination with them?! In humans & many other animals it’s XX for females and XY for males (broadly speaking of course, generalization), but for cephalopods? No clue. #CIAC2018
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