Screen grab of a dog catching a frisbee in slow motion from the Caribou video of You Can Do It CARIBOU 'You Can Do It'. Listen : https://caribou.lnk.to/youcandoit Video directed by Richard Kenworthy of Shynola.

Today is the last class of #ZOO2700 and so a chance to play one of my absolute favourite videos ever while everyone arrives!

#caribou #youcandoit

So many good good dogs!

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New #deep-sea #Amphipoda species from the Clarion Clipperton Zone #CCZ with accessible data!!

New plots and deep-sea projects for #ZOO3700 and #ZOO2700!

Thank you @zookeys.pensoft.net , @tammyhorton.bsky.social , @evastewart.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk , and I'm sure many many others!

#Termites in #Guelph are "back".

Discontinued monitoring doesn't mean the problem is gone.

It means you don't know where, & how large, new populations are.

#ZOO2700 students learned this last year.

Hiring a former city employee back as a contractor is not a good look.

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We're talking glass sponges in #ZOO2700 and spending a lot of time talking about the incredible legacy of Henry Reiswig

We overlapped briefly when I started my PhD at McGill and my main takeaways were his kindness and enthusiasm.

This week in #ZOO2700 - I notice, I wonder… Sketching and observing damselfly and planaria.
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo DaVinci

I’m going to LOVE adding this next part of the story to #ZOO2700 in January!

Robert Macfarlane’s new book asks a question he couldn’t ignore: Is a river alive? The author and naturalist visited three rivers (including one in Canada) to explore what it means to give the waterways the same rights as people

Really enjoyed this article by Emily Donaldson in the @theglobeandmail.com and I can’t wait to read #IsARiverAlive by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social . I use his #TheLostWords in #ZOO2700

🎁 link

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SUCH an AMAZING resource that @drcraigmc.bsky.social and colleagues have released! 🎉

Excited for the public release of body size data for so many marine taxa - can't wait to see all the creative applications!

I'm immediately making questions for #ZOO2700 & #ZOO3700!

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I LOVE this SO MUCH

Adding this video to the moment from dive 802 into future #ZOO2700 classes

Thank you @schmidtocean.bsky.social, @oceancensus.bsky.social & collaborators 4 sharing and archiving these important moments of discovery showing how open & collaborative discoveries r made!

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Another example of sharing discovery was this first view of the #monoplacophoran Neopilina galatheae 
made by @schmidtocean.bsky.social

One #ZOO2700 student made this meme during the final exam to commemorate, "It's a monoplac! It's a monoplac!"

🥰 love it! 🥰

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Minke Seamount | SOI Divestream 802 YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean

We used the live @schmidtocean.bsky.social feeds so often this year in #ZOO2700 -

Thanks to them again for archiving the live dives so students can share in the excitement of the exact moments of discovery!!

e.g. here's the #ColossalSquid moment from March 09

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Animal phylogeny where tips are phyla. Histogram on right hand side (log-scale) of the number of named species in that phylum (blue) and whether that phylum contained a student's favourite species at the start (red) or end of the term (yellow). Sponges grabbed people's imagination this year and likely the start of term enthusiasm for "cephalochordata" was misplaced enthusiasm for Cephalopods. Phylogeny produced in R by adapting code from Casey Dunn's https://bitbucket.org/caseywdunn/animal-genomes/src/master/

To track hoped-for shifts in engagement towards previously under-appreciated taxa, we ask the #ZOO2700 students at the start and the end of their intro to #invertebrate morphology & evolution term about their favorite #species of invertebrate and to which phylum it belongs. @sherihincks.bsky.social

a man in an orange shirt is standing with his hands on his hips and says who 's awesome ? you are . Alt: Canadian Colin Mochrie in an orange shirt is standing with his hands on his hips and says w ho 's awesome ? you are . from the sketch improv show: Who's Line is it Anyway.

Good luck to all the #ZOO2700 invertebrate enthusiasts who are writing their final lecture exam today!

You've got this!

image of Demodex folliculorum (top left) through light microscope, a map of the haplotype frequency of Demodex based on mothers heritage, a frequency histogram of who has mites (we all do!), images of the two mitochondrial regions we sequenced (COI and COIII) and an SEM of a face mite from ZOO*2700 in years past.

Today in #ZOO2700 we're talking about #FacialMites as we add the 6th years worth of collection data to our ongoing exploration of the abundance and diversity of #Demodex #HigherEd 🧪

Many thanks from the #invertebrate enthusiasts of #ZOO2700 to @schmidtocean.bsky.social and all of the #taxonomist team for their live streams of marine discovery and excitement on this

#TaxonomistAppreciationDay

@sherihincks.bsky.social

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Music, word find and art!

Good pre-class vibes last week in #ZOO2700 accentuated by a visit from Dr @shoshanahjacobs.bsky.social .

All we were missing was a visit from Caramel the 🐈

A fun week with the molluscs in #ZOO2700 ! The GALS were out and about, Gavin H drawing a squid on his lab coat(with squid ink), and I received a fantastic crocheted nudibranch from Mikayla J! @alexsmithants.bsky.social @integrativebiology.bsky.social

Don't mind me - just updating the #ZOO2700 chelicerate lecture(s) with some AMAZING footage of sea spiders #Pycnogonida from the #SouthSandwichIslands by @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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Don't mind me - just updating the #ZOO2700 chelicerate lecture(s) with some AMAZING footage of sea spiders #Pycnogonida from the #SouthSandwichIslands by @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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Sea spider seen by the Schmidt Ocean dive on March 4th 2025, " Streamed live on Mar 4, 2025 #SouthSandwichIslands After a day of mapping, we are diving on Montagu Bank. This is a multi-disciplinary dive on the south-eastern end of the Montagu Bank, focusing on a depth range of 2300m to 1900m."

Sea spider collected by Schmidt Oceans on March 2nd 2025 on their dive of the South Sandwich Islands expedition with Ocean Census. "We are currently off of the East side of Montagu Island, one of the of the most remote volcanic island chains in the world. We intend to drop into a site that is around 620m deep at the bottom of an incline with potential steep walls towards the end of the dive. We will survey the geology of the features on the side of the island before proceeding up the “hill” collecting specimens as we go. "

Don't mind me - just updating the #ZOO2700 chelicerate lecture(s) with some AMAZING footage of sea spiders #Pycnogonida from the #SouthSandwichIslands by @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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Image of the ROV SuBastian flipping lava shelfs to expose the sub-sea floor cavities (and their live). Gif made from Schmidt Ocean SOI Divestream 556 | Experiment 3 Collection that was streamed live on Jul 17, 2023 #VentUnderworld Dive at Fava Flow Suburbs where they took geological, hydrological, and biological samples. https://www.youtube.com/live/UIRSktyAxeE?si=moqEOJwSJvDcRNzN&t=18350

Today in #ZOO2700, was deep-sea hydrothermal vent #annelids!

One highlight was this paper on animal under the seafloor doi.org/10.1038/s414...

AND to then be able share the footage of the exact moment of discovery via @schmidtocean.bsky.social ! WOW!

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this is what happens when a facist government filled with the illiterate lickspittles and sycophants want to take resources away from the people that they are nominally supposed to represent. Do not look away. screen grab on a failed NCBI nucleotide search that reads, in part Error encountered in retrieving sequence. Some NLM-NCBI services and products are experiencing heavy traffic, which may affect performance and availability. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience. For assistance, please contact our Help Desk at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. An official website of the United States government Here's how you know

Preparing to talk about #Osedax bone-eating #worms next week in #ZOO2700 and checking a link I'd created in previous years that allowed for students to access all the public COI sequences in NIH’s #NCBI nucleotide database.....

This is the view today.

Neither transparent nor reproducible.

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Invertebrate playlist? Yes please!

#ZOO2700

screen grab of the siphonophore viewed by the ROV as it descended pas 717 m

gorgeous shrimp on the way down

on the way down, they've already seen a #siphonophore and a #ctenophore and a #

#ZOO2700

Hi #ZOO2700 #invertebrate enthusiasts! the @schmidtocean.bsky.social ROV dive is descending to the bottom of the now - exploring between 960 m up a slope to a depth of around 650m

what will they see!!

Love this lab that @sherihincks.bsky.social does with #ZOO2700 SO much! importance of observation, of place, of being slow..of "listening".

This week in #ZOO2700 - I notice, I wonder… Sketching and observing damselfly and planaria.
“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo DaVinci
@alexsmithants.bsky.social

Two children sit at a small kitchen table with their backs to the camera watching the livestream of the Schmidt Ocean expedition at Spaatz Island, Antarctica sampling an ornate polycheate annelid worm while eating their breakfast.

screen grap from the Schimdt Oceans sampling at Spaatz Island Antarctica of an ornate, polycheate annelid worm before it was sampled. Might be from the family Aphroditidae. Long shiny copper-coloured spiny-hairs line the sides of the body. beautiful! at ~640 m deep.

REALLY happy to see @schmidtocean.bsky.social on @bsky.app!

Added to the pinning list & #StarterPack for #ZOO2700

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& this morning we watched their live feed of an #Antarctic #Polycheate #Annelid worm be slurp-sampled while we slurp-ate our breakfast!

4-year timelapse of a sneezing sponge? Great way to start #porifera in #ZOO2700!

Belinda the sea #sponge & fantastic work by #UVIC grad student Dominica Harrison.

Listen to the #CBC As It Happens #AIH interview too!

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Opens up lecture about naming species and adds new slide....

#ZOO2700

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