SNAILS! A cool essay about their study and evolution by Melissa Betters! A Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at @invertebratesdc.bsky.social !! #molluscmonday #nationalsnailday www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...
The History of the World in Seven Snails
For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature
www.smithsonianmag.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SNAILS! A cool essay about their study and evolution by Melissa Betters! A Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at @invertebratesdc.bsky.social !! #molluscmonday #nationalsnailday www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...
📣 New paper: Organ-specific microbiomes of Biomphalaria snails
📋 Snails, vector of blood flukes, have specific microbe communities associated with their organs. Whole snail microbiome is not the true composite of these microbiomes. 🧵👇
Go get it: doi.org/10.1186/s425...
A late #NationalSnailDay 🧪
📋 Snails, vector of blood flukes, have specific microbe communities associated with their organs. Whole snail microbiome is not the true composite of these microbiomes. 🧵👇
Go get it: doi.org/10.1186/s425...
A late #NationalSnailDay 🧪
Organ-specific microbiomes of Biomphalaria snails - Animal Microbiome
Background The microbiome is increasingly recognized to shape many aspects of its host biology and is a key determinant of health and disease. The microbiome may influence transmission of pathogens by...
doi.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
📣 New paper: Organ-specific microbiomes of Biomphalaria snails
📋 Snails, vector of blood flukes, have specific microbe communities associated with their organs. Whole snail microbiome is not the true composite of these microbiomes. 🧵👇
Go get it: doi.org/10.1186/s425...
A late #NationalSnailDay 🧪
📋 Snails, vector of blood flukes, have specific microbe communities associated with their organs. Whole snail microbiome is not the true composite of these microbiomes. 🧵👇
Go get it: doi.org/10.1186/s425...
A late #NationalSnailDay 🧪
Reshare for #nationalsnailday
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Gastropod art
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May 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reshare for #nationalsnailday
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If you liked #NationalSnailDay posts, you may also like:
My effort to get John Oliver to help save my former museum, a top 10 fossil collection in the US, which is in a financial crisis because a major donor failed to keep pledge for a mortgage-
Please tag LWT and share
bsky.app/profile/foss...
My effort to get John Oliver to help save my former museum, a top 10 fossil collection in the US, which is in a financial crisis because a major donor failed to keep pledge for a mortgage-
Please tag LWT and share
bsky.app/profile/foss...
Day32 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
For #NationalSnailDay, John(H. sapiens) searching for something (Hope? Joy? Whimsy?) inside of PRI's logo snail, Ecphora
#SavePRI 🦑 #invertebrates
For #NationalSnailDay, John(H. sapiens) searching for something (Hope? Joy? Whimsy?) inside of PRI's logo snail, Ecphora
#SavePRI 🦑 #invertebrates
May 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If you liked #NationalSnailDay posts, you may also like:
My effort to get John Oliver to help save my former museum, a top 10 fossil collection in the US, which is in a financial crisis because a major donor failed to keep pledge for a mortgage-
Please tag LWT and share
bsky.app/profile/foss...
My effort to get John Oliver to help save my former museum, a top 10 fossil collection in the US, which is in a financial crisis because a major donor failed to keep pledge for a mortgage-
Please tag LWT and share
bsky.app/profile/foss...
Happy #NationalSnailDay 🐌
Here’s a photo I took of a snail couple that needs to chill out with the PDA
Here’s a photo I took of a snail couple that needs to chill out with the PDA
May 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Happy #NationalSnailDay 🐌
Here’s a photo I took of a snail couple that needs to chill out with the PDA
Here’s a photo I took of a snail couple that needs to chill out with the PDA
If it’s #NationalSnailDay then I have to share this drawing of a couple of land snails recording for a podcast. #SciArt
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If it’s #NationalSnailDay then I have to share this drawing of a couple of land snails recording for a podcast. #SciArt
Happy #NationalSnailDay 🐌
Celebrate with the Snail & Stump series!
-HOW TO PARTY LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO STAYCATION LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO BE BRAVE LIKE A SNAIL (Coming this October!)
#Books #SpringBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #BookRecs #KidLit #OwlkidsBooks
Celebrate with the Snail & Stump series!
-HOW TO PARTY LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO STAYCATION LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO BE BRAVE LIKE A SNAIL (Coming this October!)
#Books #SpringBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #BookRecs #KidLit #OwlkidsBooks
May 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Happy #NationalSnailDay 🐌
Celebrate with the Snail & Stump series!
-HOW TO PARTY LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO STAYCATION LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO BE BRAVE LIKE A SNAIL (Coming this October!)
#Books #SpringBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #BookRecs #KidLit #OwlkidsBooks
Celebrate with the Snail & Stump series!
-HOW TO PARTY LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO STAYCATION LIKE A SNAIL
-HOW TO BE BRAVE LIKE A SNAIL (Coming this October!)
#Books #SpringBooks #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #BookRecs #KidLit #OwlkidsBooks
From my archives—a snail closeup for #nationalsnailday ! #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography #snails
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From my archives—a snail closeup for #nationalsnailday ! #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography #snails
🐊🐌 Did you know that today is both #NationalAlligatorDay AND #NationalSnailDay?
From our own #SpecialCollections, we’re honoring the occasion by featuring this alligator canoe by Catawba potter Caroleen Sanders (1994, Thomas J. Blumer Collection)...
From our own #SpecialCollections, we’re honoring the occasion by featuring this alligator canoe by Catawba potter Caroleen Sanders (1994, Thomas J. Blumer Collection)...
May 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🐊🐌 Did you know that today is both #NationalAlligatorDay AND #NationalSnailDay?
From our own #SpecialCollections, we’re honoring the occasion by featuring this alligator canoe by Catawba potter Caroleen Sanders (1994, Thomas J. Blumer Collection)...
From our own #SpecialCollections, we’re honoring the occasion by featuring this alligator canoe by Catawba potter Caroleen Sanders (1994, Thomas J. Blumer Collection)...
I missed mention of #nationalSnailDay ...
Reminded - just reading of author Patricia Highsmith who became so enamored of snails she would reportedly carry a 100 in her purse (with lettuce) to gatherings, and bypassed import restrictions, Engl>France, by smuggling 6-7 at a time under each breast
Reminded - just reading of author Patricia Highsmith who became so enamored of snails she would reportedly carry a 100 in her purse (with lettuce) to gatherings, and bypassed import restrictions, Engl>France, by smuggling 6-7 at a time under each breast
May 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I missed mention of #nationalSnailDay ...
Reminded - just reading of author Patricia Highsmith who became so enamored of snails she would reportedly carry a 100 in her purse (with lettuce) to gatherings, and bypassed import restrictions, Engl>France, by smuggling 6-7 at a time under each breast
Reminded - just reading of author Patricia Highsmith who became so enamored of snails she would reportedly carry a 100 in her purse (with lettuce) to gatherings, and bypassed import restrictions, Engl>France, by smuggling 6-7 at a time under each breast
So many snails on my timeline! Happy #NationalSnailDay indeed!
May 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So many snails on my timeline! Happy #NationalSnailDay indeed!
Whilst 'Snail Fight! and other Tudor Shenanigans' at the Quay Theatre in Sudbury on Sunday 22nd June will feature a staging of the play Thersites. In fact, we're about to run the play now, as part of our prep! #snail #NationalSnailDay #IsThisStuffMadeUp? quaysudbury.com/events/enter...
Entertaining Henry : Show 3 - Snail Fight! And Other Tudor Shenanegans - Sudbury Quay Theatre
Expert early theatre troupe Beyond will take you on a whistle-stop tour of the entertainment world from Henry’s reign: from […]
quaysudbury.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Whilst 'Snail Fight! and other Tudor Shenanigans' at the Quay Theatre in Sudbury on Sunday 22nd June will feature a staging of the play Thersites. In fact, we're about to run the play now, as part of our prep! #snail #NationalSnailDay #IsThisStuffMadeUp? quaysudbury.com/events/enter...
🐌Happy #NationalSnailDay everyone! Two snail based events coming up next month - a chat about snail fighter extraordinary Thersites free to catch online, and a staging of the play Thersites at an in person show. Details below - but till then, here's one we prepared earlier!
youtu.be/vqAgXc1_6jM?...
youtu.be/vqAgXc1_6jM?...
Thersites | Second Look Performance (Beyond Shakespeare Exploring Session)
YouTube video by Beyond Shakespeare
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May 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🐌Happy #NationalSnailDay everyone! Two snail based events coming up next month - a chat about snail fighter extraordinary Thersites free to catch online, and a staging of the play Thersites at an in person show. Details below - but till then, here's one we prepared earlier!
youtu.be/vqAgXc1_6jM?...
youtu.be/vqAgXc1_6jM?...
May 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
May 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Reposting for #NationalSnailDay. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of snails, for some reason.
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Reposting for #NationalSnailDay. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of snails, for some reason.
Its Thursday, you know what that means. Thats right its National Snail Day. Did you know snails whose shells curve left are rare and can only mate with other "lefty" snails? Jeremy, a lefty snail studied by the University of Nottingham, had 226 offspring - all were "righty" snails. #NationalSnailDay
May 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Its Thursday, you know what that means. Thats right its National Snail Day. Did you know snails whose shells curve left are rare and can only mate with other "lefty" snails? Jeremy, a lefty snail studied by the University of Nottingham, had 226 offspring - all were "righty" snails. #NationalSnailDay
On #Nationalsnailday, we need more snailzz.🐌🐌This is for me one of the nice things on @bsky.app: I regularly discover a lot of beautiful nature art, often from artists of which I had never heard before like here.
bsky.app/profile/arth...
bsky.app/profile/arth...
For a belated #InternationalLandSnailDay:
Pair of boxes with covers in the form of #snails, c.1750
German, Hanover Münden
Tin-glazed earthenware
3 × 4 1/4 in. (7.6 × 10.8 cm) each
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1974.356.265a, b, .266a, b
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Pair of boxes with covers in the form of #snails, c.1750
German, Hanover Münden
Tin-glazed earthenware
3 × 4 1/4 in. (7.6 × 10.8 cm) each
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1974.356.265a, b, .266a, b
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
May 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
On #Nationalsnailday, we need more snailzz.🐌🐌This is for me one of the nice things on @bsky.app: I regularly discover a lot of beautiful nature art, often from artists of which I had never heard before like here.
bsky.app/profile/arth...
bsky.app/profile/arth...
#NationalSnailDay 🐌:
Fabergé Workshop, Russia
#Snail c.1907
1.9x2.0x0.9cm
parti-colored cream & brown agate, “unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, w/ the different stone strata used to define the snail’s tentacle tips & distinguish shell from body."
www.rct.uk/collection/s...
Fabergé Workshop, Russia
#Snail c.1907
1.9x2.0x0.9cm
parti-colored cream & brown agate, “unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, w/ the different stone strata used to define the snail’s tentacle tips & distinguish shell from body."
www.rct.uk/collection/s...
May 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#NationalSnailDay 🐌:
Fabergé Workshop, Russia
#Snail c.1907
1.9x2.0x0.9cm
parti-colored cream & brown agate, “unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, w/ the different stone strata used to define the snail’s tentacle tips & distinguish shell from body."
www.rct.uk/collection/s...
Fabergé Workshop, Russia
#Snail c.1907
1.9x2.0x0.9cm
parti-colored cream & brown agate, “unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, w/ the different stone strata used to define the snail’s tentacle tips & distinguish shell from body."
www.rct.uk/collection/s...
May 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM