It's my favourite Tridacna!! Yay T. crocea!!!

Have been so impressed with our colleagues in malacology @mnhn.fr - despite cyber difficulties they have been so welcoming, helpful and knowledgeable about everything from obscure literature to good forceps to the best couscous in town 🩷

Time off from galeofest yesterday afternoon (several new species found in the morning tho) to see the type of what is in my professional opinion the weirdest crassatellid, and today to go visiting the Galerie de Paléontologie!

Also we have IDed things in existing named taxa so it's not just that we're ubersplitty lmao I promise

Day 2 of galeoblitz, you don't wanna KNOW how many new species and genera we've described but let me tell you. It's certainly a number. Like. We all know galeommatoids are wildly diverse but LORDY

I don't get to do it as often as I want either - this is such a treat! Hope you get the opportunity to do some soon too!

Love to spend a day in an attic having good times describing tiny bivalves with a fun crew of folks 😊

But you reported back! We appreciate that!

Off to Paris to look at very tiny clams with the international galeommatoid crew! We just spent two days in London to look at types and accidentally found a couple new species lurking in echinoderm digestive tracts

Do you like bats, phylogenetics, comparative genomics?

Then join us in-person 6 PM Friday, OCT 25 at the @linneansociety.bsky.social for our annual Founders' Lecture!

Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social will be speaking to us on all things bat! 🦇

Register here: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Richie Howard is the Curator of Fossil Arthropods at NHM UK 🦀 specialising in British fossil arthropods, the evolution and diversity of arachnids and early ecdysozoans 🕷️

Read his research here: buff.ly/vVQucPF @arthropoda-curator
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Lmao I would love to - it would be 90% "why is that pearl there?" with a side of "the eyes aren't on top of the shell oh my god go away"

It was one of those creeping realisations 😂 also the "evil" squid is pretty accurate to the limits of the art style but the octopus has human teeth iirc

Me watching finding dory with the ongoing creeping horror that every single snail shell in this underwater/aquarium-set movie contains a hermit crab. No snails. What snail cataclysm happened in that universe????

Nope. Getting to the point where additional "reporting" spreadsheets send me into a spiral before I've even opened them /o\

Giant clams "walk" by pulling themselves along with a flexible foot, and opening/closing their valves to kind of wobble their way around! In this iconic talk from Mei Lin Neo, perhaps the world's foremost expert on their biology, she shows an awesome timelapse of it! (285) youtu.be/vGX3FA_rQq4?...

2x ibuprofen + a pistachio latte is a millennial's potion of healing

Some bivalves like to snuggle! Resting back to back provides safety in numbers: they can feel each other move in response to predators. Researchers put giant clams in arrays and found they quickly move into clumps. Scallops are more likely to cluster when threatened by predators! (284)

Don't forget to register for our (free) upcoming Founder's Lecture on Friday, Oct 24 6PM at Burlington House, London.

Prof @emmateeling.bsky.social, University College Dublin, will be talking to us about all things bats! 🦇

Registration: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

Details: systass.org/founders-lec...

And we are grateful for your wonderful work every day! 🩷📚

Humans: guys look! if I glue together wood sheets with opposing grains, it makes plywood, stronger than the sum of its parts!
Mollusks: cool story bro! we figured that out with cross-lamellar aragonite for our shells, in the Cambrian. and you still can't really replicate how we make it! (282)

Join us Nov 14th for #YSF2025, a completely free, online conference where postgraduate students (and other early career researchers) present their work on systematics, taxonomy and/or phylogenetics.

Abstract submission closes Oct 25th!

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We’re not a puzzle to work out. It’s not my obligation to prove I’m not a threat. I don’t have to ask for the space where I stand.

The picking apart of how we fit into a world no one is happy with, that we could all change if you took in our wisdom… I should get paid if it’s going to go like this.

Because paying tens of thousands of pounds for visas and the "NHS surcharge", being ineligible for ANY benefits for 10 years, and therefore working tax-paying jobs constantly, and daring to want a better life is not enough.