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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re interested in practicing the philosophy of science in practice why not come along to an online workshop “the philosophy of science in practice - in practice”? #philsci

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 3d

Hirudinella is a genus of stomach flukes which are usually associated with the Wahoo. But species in this genus can be found in a wide range of pelagic fishes, including the Pacific bluefin tuna 🧪
#Invertebrate
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Top: A young Pacific bluefin tuna
Centre: The opened body cavity of a young bluefin showing the internal organs and a pink fluke.
Bottom: Two photos of a Hirudinella fluke, contracted (left) and extended (right),

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 4d

My friend who is studying in Germany gifted me this book. Thank you 🥺

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 13d

Crouching Parrot, Hidden Louse:
The Kyloring (Pezoporus flaviventris) is a critically endangered species of Australian parrot, and it is host to Forficuloecus pezopori - a species of louse which lives only on the Kyloring and nowhere else.
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/06/forf...

<i>Forficuloecus pezopori</i>

Parasites are a major part of biodiversity, but they spend most of their time hidden in plain sight. Even with some animals that have been k...

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 6d

There's a species of apicomplexan parasite called Siedleckia nematoides which looks like microscopic version of those soft plastic grub fishing lure🧪
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A Mister Twister Curly Tail Grub soft plastic fishing lure in chartreuse with red speckles

Composite micrograph showing the sequence of movement of a single detached Siedleckia nematoides parasite, shown as three separate individuals.
From Fig. 1H of the paper: Valigurova, A., Vaškovicová, N., Diakin, A., Paskerova, G. G., Simdyanov, T. G., & Kováčiková, M. (2017). Motility in blastogregarines (Apicomplexa): Native and drug-induced organisation of Siedleckia nematoides cytoskeletal elements. PLoS One, 12(6), e0179709.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179709

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 11d

This is my first time seeing alive lernanthropid copepod (possibly Lernanthropus latis)!

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 18d

Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 17d

#MolluscMonday Photographed at Hampton Court Palace last week, orthocone nautiloids in paving slabs of Swedish Ordovician limestone. A microfault crosses the chambered phragmocone of one. The other fossil may represent a siphuncular structure but comments would be welcomed.

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 22d

Some parasitic copepods and a gnathiid isopod that I found during fieldwork in Alor.

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 26d

Transit in Kupang

Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 26d

Stasiun Gambir

Gambir train station at night. The Monumen Nasional could be seen at the background on left top

Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · 29d

#WormWednesday
Two digeneans recovered from the GI-tract of a sciaenid host.

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Sep 5

A new addition to my collection 👀

Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking forward to see that pictures Dr Johnson!

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Talking about another true #invertefest: belemnite "battlefields" or "Schlachtfelder". Despite the name, they are generally used to refer to dense accumulations of #fossil #cephalopod rostra, which can be formed under various mechanisms. Irrespectively, they are a great way to obtain large samples.

A dense accumulation of fossil belemnite rostra (including also some encrusting bivalves) from the Pliensbachian-Toarcian GSSP of Peniche Portugal (see https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190494).

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Aug 29

Now, I am wondering about their parasites too...

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · Aug 29

#FossilFriday. Silurian tabulate coral Heliolites. From the cutting room floor of 'Fossils. The Essential Guide’, which used a lower magnification image of the same fossil.

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Aug 28

New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates orbit.dtu.dk/en/publicati...

#Protists #Microbes #FluidDynamics #Biophysics

simple models of various microbial cells with diverse configurations of flagella

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ichthyostracan Origins
#Invertebrate #SciArt #PalaeoArt

Top: Illustration of a Myllokunmingia with a speculative ancestor of branchiurans attached to its flank.
Bottom: Illustration of a Yunnanozoon with a pentastomid attached to its gill opening

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The Palaeoverse Community @palaeoverse.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Aug 16

True, but maybe hard to design, hence the chemical shells aren't realistic 🤣

Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Aug 16

As someone who previously played War Thunder, the fridge magnets tempt me aggh

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · Aug 10

The shark-sucker barnacle - Anelasma squalicola - is a barnacle with an unusual habit.

Instead of filter feeding on plankton, it has evolved to parasitise deep sea squaloid sharks such as lantern sharks and Greenland shark 🦈
#Invertebrate 🧪
dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2014/09/anel...

<i>Anelasma squalicola</i> (revisited)

A few months ago I wrote a Dispatch for Current Biology about a newly published study on Anelasma squalicola - a parasitic barnacle that...

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Erick Arrashy Rudianto @erickrudianto.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is such a cool project!

Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · Aug 12

Final days (Deadline: August 15) to apply for a 4-year #PhD position to work on inclusions in Permian-Triassic coprolites and how they can inform us on the impact of mass #extinction of parasite-host associations.

Reconstruction of Ascarites by @Franzanth - an egg attributed to Ascaridae known since the Triassic.

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our study explores how #parasite traits, life #cycles, and #host relationships shape shifts between #marine and #freshwater habitats: doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Evolutionary Transitions of Parasites between Freshwater and Marine Environments

Abstract. Evolutionary transitions of organisms between environments have long fascinated biologists, but attention has been focused almost exclusively on

doi.org

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