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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 8h

I interpreted from the newsletter. I came for today in crabs, stayed for ...tabs 🤣

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 8h

I think he might be on the Appalachian trail or something like that. No crabs, but there are crayfish!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20h

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 10h

World octopus day, you say? Very well, then... here is an octopus (possibly a male argonaut). No clue what the jellyfish is. The jellyfish is swimming down to try and get away from the bright flashing lights.
Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao.

🦑🌿 #Invertebrates

A jellyfish, upside down because it's swimming downwards. On top of its bell is an octopus; it is translucent/white with some visible brown organs.

#Nature #Wildlife #Macro #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 12h

Objectively incorrect

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 12h

Aware this automatically loses but it needed to be said nonetheless

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 12h

MONTREAL bagel sorry not sorry. Ideal scenario is hot straight out of the paper bag. If no, toasted with scallion cream cheese

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 16h

idk them's fighting words (crabs wouldn't stoop to the level of SKELETON INSIDE)

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

mammals do get mentioned!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

probably well before I get the chance to visit!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

a cartoon of a red crab with a heart shaped claw holding a broken piece of paper

Alt: pikaole crabby crab shutting a laptop and smashing it

media.tenor.com

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

We didn't even get cc'd onto an email together (BBC is way too professional for that), so I don't even have his contact info unfortunately!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19h

oh no, that's a lot going on! best wishes for his recovery

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19h

Here's some large cuttlefish/CUTElfish for this wonderful day!

Two quite large (person sized) cuttlefish jetting over a beautiful reef. You can tell how big they are as divers are in the background. The colors are dancing grey and dark mottling on the one in front, dark striations on the one behind who has tentacles extended. Photo by Andrea Ramos

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20h

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.

A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19h

I still don't know why anyone wants that, they are adorable and cool but moulting is an extreme body horror

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20h

What you hear is almost exactly what we discussed! (We guests didn't hear the intro until it was made public, I guess it was recorded separately)

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20h

Stanford affiliation is the BBC's typo...

But UCSB is real, I'm joining their Marine Science Institute! I never announced it because my job there is soft money (depends on grants for salary) so I don't know when/if I can move to CA.

Replies off as this doesn't invite political commentary

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20h

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20h

I'm on the BBC talking about (how we won't be) evolving into crabs 🧪🦀

Also features Matt Wills (my academic older brother) and Ned Suesat-Williams (of the crab museum!). Unfortunately they were in London and I on zoom, so there was no time to tell Ned to join here

BBC Audio | The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry | To Crab, or Not to Crab?

Hannah and Dara investigate why nature has evolved the humble crabs so many times.

www.bbc.com

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 21h

Like how it's Reveah

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I have not heard Beverly said out loud somehow? Weird because I've passed through it on the commuter rail. How do you say it?

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

There's a few in MA. Worcester in the same vein. 9 years and I still never learned to pronounce Sciutate

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 1d

#invertober 9, flamboyant cuttlefish!

#invertober2025

color block art of a flamboyant cuttlefish on a blue background with blocky flower textures

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Here's inspi

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Feb 11

And it's obligatory to share this playlist of actual yeti crabs dancing to delightful 80s songs and crab rave, by @doctorzen.net @jebyrnes.bsky.social @brackenlab.bsky.social

Dancing yeti crabs - YouTube

youtube.com

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

99/100 😍. (Needs Kiwa because doesn't everyone)

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