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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 4d

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏

Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation

Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!

www.islandconservation.org

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 7d

I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 10d

Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her

Slightly guilty looking fluffy black cat

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 12d

www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!

A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed

www.nikonsmallworld.com

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 12d

As you can probably guess, the AI image is way less cute than the actual winning video here: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed

www.nikonsmallworld.com

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 13d

The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)

Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’

www.nytimes.com

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 13d

And "fishies" refers to baby lumpfish

youtu.be/uxm-2CKmUZw?...

The cutest lumpsuckers you'll ever see

YouTube video by RUNCL Fishing

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 13d

Now to get reviewers to believe these same rules should apply to jellyfish/jellyfishes

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 13d

It looks a little Turritopsis- y but I’m no hydrozoa expert, will pass to my old lab tho :)

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 16d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20d

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?

You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.

Happy talk like a pirate day!

a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

media.tenor.com

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 23d

This came across my feed and I immediately bought 90$ of stickers to put on people’s cubicles

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 23d

Cubaris Isopods

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 23d

It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!

🐙🦑🌿🧪

www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...

An edited iNaturalist project page for ctenophore day 10/04/2025. In the about it says Celebrate ctenophore day by going out and finding ctenophores on October 4th, 2025! Can we get to 1004+ new ctenophore observations to celebrate? Are you ready for the Cteno Day Bioblitz? Join today! inaturalist.org.projects/ctenophore-day-2025

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 25d

Ok, back to the worms!
Meet Sabellaria alveolata. This beautiful polychaete worm has a golden crown.
This worm is also know as the honeycomb worm for the honeycomb like tubes they create in aggregations.
📸Auguste La Roux, Catherine Boyen

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 27d

Can I just say that whoever is making these unhinged images for IOB is making my life measurably better

SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 27d

Check out IOB co-author Kimberly Sheldon's lab
www.biogeographyresearch.org
This lab studies
#Biogeography, #physiological #ecology, #tropical ecology, #climate change, #conservation #biology, & natural history.

& read the latest paper from the lab
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

#science #PhD #insects

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28d

A stunning assortment of Japanese brittle stars, クモヒトデ via @Crinoidea_hk #echinoday

disks of about 100 different species of brittle stars varying in color and pattern

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Sep 4

New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation

Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them."

resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

Curatorial Associate

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...

careers.amnh.org

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wow what cute jellyfish I bet someone really really stubborn made this figure in 2021 and then did a whole project just so they could put this picture in the paper

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · Sep 2

IOB's latest
#Regeneration and #Musculature in Halved #Cassiopea xamachana #Ephyrae
K M Muffett , M Mammone , J Puckett , G Martino , Aditi , M P Miglietta
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Sep 2

Day 126 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) having some unicorn time with the type specimen of Terebra aclinica (USNM645154)

#SavePRI #snails #fossils #MolluskMonday #EarthScience 🦑⚒️🦄

John Oliver on the street with messy hair with a high spired gastropod shell tucked against his forehead under some strands of hair.

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · Aug 30

I had the unfortunate experience of finding that the other reviewer on a manuscript was using an unrefereed LLM to write their review. While the paper was fine, the clearly LLM feedback included such as questioning whether this journal was willing to publish null results and summarizing the paper😓 🧪

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