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
#MeettheTeam #NHM

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.

Now we're making it even easier to burst whales!! Technology was a mistake

Oh man I would love to see that

😂 I hope we're not about to be treated to a performance of moby dick ....

They're inflating a sperm whale in my town, which is a strong contender for the oddest sentence I've ever typed

Zachsia zenkewitschi is an extremely cool and strange shipworm that bores into the rhizome of seagrass. The females are ~1 cm long and do the burrowing. The males stay larval sized and the female keeps a "harem" of them tucked in a little pouch of her mantle. The anglerfish of bivalves! (275)

"Because taxa in classifications are still frequently used as clade proxies in macroevolutionary studies, it is necessary to obtain and compare the most robust hypotheses of relationship among named taxa in order to evaluate both character homology...& taxonomic fidelity to hypotheses of evolution"

We are delighted to announce that this year's Founders' Lecture will be delivered by Prof. @emmateeling.bsky.social, University College Dublin!

TITLE: Bats: Genomes, phylogenies, fossils and cures?

WHEN: Friday, October 24th at 6PM

WHERE: Burlington House, London

JOIN US: tinyurl.com/28u2u2z8

I am so sick of being told we have to accelerate science where accelerate is code for "ingest your work into the machine they use to argue that your job is unnecessary"