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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 9d

Very proud of my former student and longtime collaborator and friend Cheryl Lewis Ames. www.tohoku.ac.jp/romance/en/0...

An Ocean of Possibilities - The Romance of Research - TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

There’s no hierarchy in my lab. If you need to learn something, you just find the person who knows how to do it best.” - Cheryl Ames - Professor, WPI-AIMEC & Graduate School of Agricultural Science, T...

www.tohoku.ac.jp

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 16d

A Caitlin Bailey special

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 18d

NOAA #OceanExploration created a nice write up of research led by Javier Montenegro on the jellyfish Botrynema. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/jellyfi... Demonstrating the value of exploring and collecting for understanding #MarineLife

Jellyfish Found by Team Aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Shatters Range Assumptions - NOAA Ocean Exploration

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 22d

"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath." --Kahlil Gilbran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zK5...
#MarineLife #SciArt

Deep Dive: Face Value

YouTube video by Global Foundation For Ocean Exploration

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 23d

Great write up on how NOAA and Smithsonian scientists work together to build resources supporting marine research.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

NOAA Fisheries Partners with Smithsonian to Archive Marine Specimens for Genetic Research

Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to preserve fish and squid specimens that will expand the genetic reference libraries needed for ongoing and future ...

www.fisheries.noaa.gov

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 30

Arizona. Parker Dam.
n2t.net/ark:/65665/3...

Invertebrate Zoology Collections Search

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yes. One

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 29

Good luck! Please let me know. And you can reach me at [email protected].

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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is great - we a huge need in the #eDNA community to have data-informed standards for eDNA identity cutoffs, not just the bog-standard 97%
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
For Chordata there is no cutoff that leads to 0% error when assigning species!! (Table S4)

Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding

The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Matthieu Leray, PhD @mattleray.bsky.social · Aug 29

🗣NEW PAPER: Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding - Pappalardo et al. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding

The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

I cannot wait to own a copy of this!!

Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wow. So cool to see so many associates!

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 6

nautiluslive.org Dive going on at this moment.
Predatory tunicate.

Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 6

... shifts in biodiversity from mesopelagic to bathyal depths, which will inevitably cause redistribution of ecosystem functions and services ....climate change impacts at the ecosystem level are not restricted to shallow depths..." Rakka, Metaxas & Nizinski onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Climate Change Drives Bathymetric Shifts in Taxonomic and Trait Diversity of Deep‐Sea Benthic Communities

This study uses modeling techniques to predict the characteristics of deep-water coral communities under climate scenarios. It reveals that climate change will drive shifts of many deep-water corals ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Record your sightings! ⭐📋

Citizen science is a huge part of marine conservation and one of the most fun ways of helping our seabeds. Whether you’re out snorkelling or rock pooling, you can record your findings by submitting them to the iNaturalist app.

#NationalMarineWeek

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is the best write up of the recent observation of a species of stalked medusa that hadn’t been seen in 50 years. www.britishwildlife.com/lost-and-fou... Some of the press is reporting this with the narrative “rediscovery of an extinct species”, which is not the case. It is positive news though.

Lost and found: the mystery of Depastrum cyathiforme - British Wildlife

Lost and found: the mystery of Depastrum cyathiforme The first photographs of the stalked jellyfish Depastrum cyathiforme, taken at Pollachar, South Uist, in June 2023. © Neil Roberts In June 2023, na...

www.britishwildlife.com

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 5

Check out this gorgeous video of some spectacular #MarineLife, posted via IG. Halicytus salpinx, we thinks… www.instagram.com/reel/DM8VuGR...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Aug 1

JellyCamp2025. Coming up in October, hosted at Mystic Aquarium!! www.maritimeaquarium.org/jelly-camp-2...

Jelly Camp 2025

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Nov 21

Sponges are called ecosystem engineers because they provide habitat for MANY types of OTHER animals! Including these "creeping" or bottom comb jellies-note the two white strings coming off them? feeding tentacles! #spongeThursday #Okeanos 2015 Bank 9 North

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Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social · Nov 20

Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪

A photograph of the head end of a velvet worm, a soft-bodied invertebrate covered in beautiful orange and blue patterns.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m so excited to have finally found one of these copepods! This is from the family Corycaeidae - I’ll be IDing it to genus (hopefully) later on, but I wanted to share it straight away because I’m so thrilled! LOOK AT THE EYES!! Aren’t they super cool?! 🦑

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · May 3

I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.

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Samuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · Jun 19

Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌

Physalia megalista, a cnidiran with a gas filled float, raised sail, and long blue tentacles hanging below. Image credit: Dalila Destanović

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Jun 21

This is great work!!

Samuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · Jun 19

Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · May 9

"In our region of study, OBIS has 26 records of ctenophores representing six families over the course of nearly 140 years; our single set of samples yielded 67 ctenophore ASVs representing 11 families."

Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · May 9

Our latest collaborative paper, led by NMNH intern Annemarie Wood, reports on a new tool for understanding ctenophore and medusozoan diversity. "Anthozoan eDNA primer set characterizes Ctenophora and Medusozoa ..." Characterizing #MarineLife

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Picture of Beroe abyssicola from the northern Gulf of Alaska. This species is not part of the study. It is just meant to represent Ctenophore (comb jellies).

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · May 9

🌳 Nature visits can improve wellbeing

A study of 3,500 residents in Tokyo & Osaka finds both visiting nature and feeling connected to it linked to better health – especially in deprived, urban areas.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Nature #Wellbeing #SciComm 🧪

Association between objective and subjective relatedness to nature and human well-being: Key factors for residents and possible measures for inequality in Japan’s megacities

Enhancing human well-being based on relatedness to nature requires a clear understanding of the associations between nature relatedness and well-being…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · Apr 18

I think so!!

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Apr 8

The twin ships that will succeed #Okeanos Explorer! Discoverer and Oceanographer! www.omao.noaa.gov/omao/news-me...

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