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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 7d

Some Tropical Indonesian #wormwednesday today! WHOA. now THAT is a heck of a worm! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Order Phyllodocida

Phyllodocida from Bitung, Sulawesi du Nord, Indonésie on July 26, 2024 at 09:34 PM by Mélodie Caussat

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Mollusc_Lab @naturaearchive.bsky.social · Oct 31

ガードレールを見ると巻貝アート発見！
これはカタツムリが這い回った証拠。カタツムリには歯舌（しぜつ）と呼ばれるヤスリのような歯を持っています
Spotted some snail art on a guardrail! These are the trails left by land snails as they move around. Snails have a radula, a tongue-like organ covered in tiny teeth, which they use to scrape moss and algae.
#無脊椎動物 #巻貝アート#貝#陸産貝類

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Aug 26

Good news! 🐍

The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been spotted again! It had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.🌏🧪

Read more in @mongabay.com

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

“I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO Re:wild, recalled. “I just had a feeling, but I couldn’t be sure because we turned over a lot of rocks before that and we saw nothing.” Springer’s intuition proved correct when his […]

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Rannyele P. Ribeiro, PhD @rannypribeiro.bsky.social · Apr 18

Celebrating my recent paper published in Development with a new art from my #sci-art project Wormly Speaking. “With Maturity”
#annelid #worm #art #comics #love #resilience #peace #polychaete
#WormWednesday
Visit Wormly Speaking: rannypribeiro.github.io/sci-art/comi...

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WoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · Mar 19

(3/10) Is it a nudibranch? No, it is a syllid worm mimicking a nudibranch (left on the image)!

marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

@alciopidae.bsky.social

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

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WoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · Mar 19

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024!

Do you have a favorite?

marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

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Chloé Fourreau @chaoticchloeia.bsky.social · Mar 14

Wow I didn’t know that!!! That’s so fascinating. This is inspiration for some goofy horror movies

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Denis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · Mar 7

My worms have been wamling today too

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Mar 6

Are you looking for a new way to describe the wonderful movement of eels? May I suggest the old Scottish word "wamle"? It means to roll about, wriggle, or writhe.

As the poet Walter Watson wrote, in 1808: "He fell a wamling like an eel."

Who do you know who wamles?
🗃️🧪

Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater, looking at the camera. The eel is yellow, or possibly green. It's hard to tell what's color and what's light. As if color weren't light. The eel -- we'll call her Samathrax -- has her eye fixed on you with all the intensity of a traffic stop in Cabrini Green, but with the kindness of your grandmother's cookies. Samanthrax seems to be smiling, and you feel the warmth of acceptance in her gaze. She's happy to welcome you into her company.

You trust this Samanthrax implicitly, though you can't explain why. You feel ready to leave whatever you're doing and follow her. Surely she will lead you on amazing adventures, or to fabulous parties. Unimagined possibilities await. Falling headlong into the water, you let the eel guide you into an amazing future.

Meme text reads:
"We eels wamle
but we don't fall down"

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · Mar 7

Notes I write my coworkers

A note on an upturned white tray that says
"Worms
pls
don't
touch
RH"

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Dave Jones | GeoCollaborate @geocollaborate.bsky.social · Mar 3

Crowds are massive in Silver Spring, Maryland…the home of NOAA. People chanting, “Save NOAA Now!” and “We will not weather the storm.” Make your voices heard and keep it up. #NOAA #NWS Severe Weather is on its Way. And so is hurricane season. 🌀 🧪

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Anja Jessen @anjajessen.bsky.social · Feb 27

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInside #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Inverts 🦑🦞 #DiverLife #Maldives

Spearing Mantis Shrimp checking you out

A big shrimp in its hole in the white sand, looking out at you.

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Jason Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thank you to the scientists at @mbarinews.bsky.social for working tirelessly to understand this world. Also to @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social for her infectious wonder.

Team Pigbutt Worm Forever. 🧪🦑

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Behold the pigbutt worm, mystery of the deep

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Feb 27

New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes.

If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME.

🦀🧪🦑⚒️

Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution

Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...

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MISE Lab @miselab.bsky.social · Feb 14

In the next round of thesis season, super MISE master students were defending today! Ayaka Umeda on acidified bay community in Palau and Kairi Takahashi on the diet of zoantharians with different symbiotic regimes! Both of them rocked!!! #thisishowMISErolls

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Chloé Fourreau @chaoticchloeia.bsky.social · Feb 14

It’s not #WormWednesday but check out those beautiful drawings of echiurians and sipunculans drawn by Ikeda, from 1904!! Also just saying « I don’t know » was done so elegantly. Reading old taxonomy papers is so so cool!!

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Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social · Feb 13

#WormWednesday repost cos I too want to bask in the reflected weird glory of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus. No additional science since 2007 it seems. However, still the only @inaturalist.bsky.social observation was identified by yrs truly in 2018.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Feb 13

One fun thing about working on #ctenophores (comb jellies) is that you get to see animals nobody has depicted for more than a century. I haven't found any images of Deiopea from the time between Chun's 1880 drawing and my 1990s photo. Even shallow SCUBA exploration can yield surprises 🌊🦑🧪

Left image is a line drawing of a comb jelly from Carl Chun's 1880 masterpiece based on a specimen from the Mediterranean Sea. On the right is a photo of the same species (or at least the same genus) collected with blue-water scuba diving off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA. The photo shows thin bluish-white canals outlining the body against a black backdrop. The widely spaced comb plates are a diagnostic feature of this lobate ctenophore.
The image from Chun has been rotated 180° to align with our modern understanding of these animals. Historically, they have been interpreted like medusa jellyfish, with the mouth down, but we know they encounter their environment oral end first.

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · Feb 13

If you ever looked at a microscopic anatomy figure and assumed the author was just really good at drawing...Let me introduce the Camera Lucida. It's a microscope attachment that allows you to see the page and the specimen at once ensuring accurate scale and perspective!

A photo of the view through a microscope eyepiece showing a semi opaque image of a segmented worm displayed over a sketchbook and pencil

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Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social · Feb 12

Diversity of zooplankton.

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MISE Lab @miselab.bsky.social · Feb 11

It’s International day of Women in Science! Showcasing the incredible lineup of women in MISE, all doing as much incrediblly cool research!

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Chloé Fourreau @chaoticchloeia.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is dystopic 🥲

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Chloé Fourreau @chaoticchloeia.bsky.social · Feb 10

So Switzerland put on a referendum and asked its population “should we have a responsible economy that is within the limits that the planet earth can support? And put this in our constitution?”
And more than 70% people voted no ???
www.francetvinfo.fr/environnemen...

Référendum en Suisse : la population vote massivement contre l'idée d'"une économie responsable dans les limites de la planète"

Le texte, initié par les écologistes et soutenu par la gauche, ancrait ses propositions dans le concept de "limites planétaires" comme moyen de lutte contre les crises environnementales.

www.francetvinfo.fr

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