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by Allen G. Collins

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Very proud of my former student and longtime collaborator and friend Cheryl Lewis Ames. www.tohoku.ac.jp/romance/en/0...
An Ocean of Possibilities - The Romance of Research - TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
There’s no hierarchy in my lab. If you need to learn something, you just find the person who knows how to do it best.” - Cheryl Ames - Professor, WPI-AIMEC & Graduate School of Agricultural Science, T...
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by Allen G. Collins

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A Caitlin Bailey special
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by Allen G. Collins

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NOAA #OceanExploration created a nice write up of research led by Javier Montenegro on the jellyfish Botrynema. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/jellyfi... Demonstrating the value of exploring and collecting for understanding #MarineLife
Jellyfish Found by Team Aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Shatters Range Assumptions - NOAA Ocean Exploration
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by Allen G. Collins

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"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath." --Kahlil Gilbran
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#MarineLife #SciArt
Deep Dive: Face Value
YouTube video by Global Foundation For Ocean Exploration
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by Allen G. Collins

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Great write up on how NOAA and Smithsonian scientists work together to build resources supporting marine research.
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NOAA Fisheries Partners with Smithsonian to Archive Marine Specimens for Genetic Research
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to preserve fish and squid specimens that will expand the genetic reference libraries needed for ongoing and future ...
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by Allen G. Collins

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Arizona. Parker Dam.
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Invertebrate Zoology Collections Search
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by Allen G. Collins

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by Allen G. Collins

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Good luck! Please let me know. And you can reach me at [email protected].
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins, Julie L. Lockwood

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This is great - we a huge need in the #eDNA community to have data-informed standards for eDNA identity cutoffs, not just the bog-standard 97%
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For Chordata there is no cutoff that leads to 0% error when assigning species!! (Table S4)
Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding
The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins, Julie L. Lockwood

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🗣NEW PAPER: Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding - Pappalardo et al. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding
The identification of organisms in environmental samples using metabarcoding relies on factors such as taxonomic assignment methods, genetic markers, reference databases and confidence thresholds ...
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by Allen G. Collins

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I cannot wait to own a copy of this!!
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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · Aug 28
Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins, Elliott L. Hazen, Trevor A. Branch

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Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
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by Allen G. Collins

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Wow. So cool to see so many associates!
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by Allen G. Collins

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nautiluslive.org Dive going on at this moment.
Predatory tunicate.

by Allen G. Collins

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... shifts in biodiversity from mesopelagic to bathyal depths, which will inevitably cause redistribution of ecosystem functions and services ....climate change impacts at the ecosystem level are not restricted to shallow depths..." Rakka, Metaxas & Nizinski onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Climate Change Drives Bathymetric Shifts in Taxonomic and Trait Diversity of Deep‐Sea Benthic Communities
This study uses modeling techniques to predict the characteristics of deep-water coral communities under climate scenarios. It reveals that climate change will drive shifts of many deep-water corals ...
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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Record your sightings! ⭐📋

Citizen science is a huge part of marine conservation and one of the most fun ways of helping our seabeds. Whether you’re out snorkelling or rock pooling, you can record your findings by submitting them to the iNaturalist app.

#NationalMarineWeek
A starfish and snail in a rockpool.
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by Allen G. Collins

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This is the best write up of the recent observation of a species of stalked medusa that hadn’t been seen in 50 years. www.britishwildlife.com/lost-and-fou... Some of the press is reporting this with the narrative “rediscovery of an extinct species”, which is not the case. It is positive news though.
Lost and found: the mystery of Depastrum cyathiforme - British Wildlife
Lost and found: the mystery of Depastrum cyathiforme The first photographs of the stalked jellyfish Depastrum cyathiforme, taken at Pollachar, South Uist, in June 2023. © Neil Roberts In June 2023, na...
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by Allen G. Collins

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Check out this gorgeous video of some spectacular #MarineLife, posted via IG. Halicytus salpinx, we thinks… www.instagram.com/reel/DM8VuGR...
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by Allen G. Collins

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JellyCamp2025. Coming up in October, hosted at Mystic Aquarium!! www.maritimeaquarium.org/jelly-camp-2...
Jelly Camp 2025
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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Sponges are called ecosystem engineers because they provide habitat for MANY types of OTHER animals! Including these "creeping" or bottom comb jellies-note the two white strings coming off them? feeding tentacles! #spongeThursday #Okeanos 2015 Bank 9 North
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane!

This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth!

Mind. Blown. 🧪
A photograph of the head end of a velvet worm, a soft-bodied invertebrate covered in beautiful orange and blue patterns.
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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I’m so excited to have finally found one of these copepods! This is from the family Corycaeidae - I’ll be IDing it to genus (hopefully) later on, but I wanted to share it straight away because I’m so thrilled! LOOK AT THE EYES!! Aren’t they super cool?! 🦑
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌
Physalia megalista, a cnidiran with a gas filled float, raised sail, and long blue tentacles hanging below. Image credit: Dalila Destanović
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by Allen G. Collins

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This is great work!!
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Samuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · Jun 19
Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌
Physalia megalista, a cnidiran with a gas filled float, raised sail, and long blue tentacles hanging below. Image credit: Dalila Destanović
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by Allen G. Collins

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"In our region of study, OBIS has 26 records of ctenophores representing six families over the course of nearly 140 years; our single set of samples yielded 67 ctenophore ASVs representing 11 families."

by Allen G. Collins

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Our latest collaborative paper, led by NMNH intern Annemarie Wood, reports on a new tool for understanding ctenophore and medusozoan diversity. "Anthozoan eDNA primer set characterizes Ctenophora and Medusozoa ..." Characterizing #MarineLife

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Picture of Beroe abyssicola from the northern Gulf of Alaska. This species is not part of the study. It is just meant to represent Ctenophore (comb jellies).
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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🌳 Nature visits can improve wellbeing

A study of 3,500 residents in Tokyo & Osaka finds both visiting nature and feeling connected to it linked to better health – especially in deprived, urban areas.

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#Nature #Wellbeing #SciComm 🧪
Association between objective and subjective relatedness to nature and human well-being: Key factors for residents and possible measures for inequality in Japan’s megacities
Enhancing human well-being based on relatedness to nature requires a clear understanding of the associations between nature relatedness and well-being…
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by Allen G. Collins

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I think so!!
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Reposted by: Allen G. Collins

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The twin ships that will succeed #Okeanos Explorer! Discoverer and Oceanographer! www.omao.noaa.gov/omao/news-me...
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