Our paper is out in @Science! The Atlantic silverside spans Earth's steepest latitudinal gradient in coastal sea-surface temperature. Despite high gene flow, populations show clinal genetic variation in multiple locally adapted traits. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Euglandina rosea, the Rosy Wolfsnail, aka cannibal snail, has chemical receptors that allow it to stalk other snails by following their slime trails. And i didn’t notice until looking at this picture that this guy was in HOT PURSUIT
A crow says "I just want to"
"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down
Larval axolotl almost ready to hatch in a clear egg
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late february is the late november of the spring semester and i will not be elaborating
Great review on marine apicomplexans! Well done @ambonacolta.bsky.social et al. 🙌🏻👏🏼
i will be blowing up your inbox this week, apologies in advance 👩💻😂
me writing words: pained, struggling, tortured, unmotivated
me writing code/analyzing data: locked in, forgets to eat, move, blink or check phone, hours fly by like minutes, living my best life
This delicate sponge has a remarkably clever survival strategy.🪝✨️
Most sponges filter small plankton and bacteria from the water and pump them through their bodies. But the harp sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) uses small hooks along its vertical branches to trap and eat larger prey.
Forskalia from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 651. So perfectly designed to catch prey. I love them. #sepacificseamounts #MarineLife
Closing 2025 with a bang! Great experience working on this collaborative project.
MetaZooGene Intercalibration Experiment (MZG‐ICE): Metabarcoding Marine Zooplankton Diversity of the Global Ocean - Blanco‐Bercial - 2026 -
@blancobercial.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of:
A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids.
A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
#ProtistsOnSky
A busy little Harpacticoida copepod.
#marineplankton 🦑
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Meet the veliger larva - a tiny ocean drifter with a delicate shell and two ciliated “velums” that look like fluttering ears. These velums help it swim through plankton and capture food.
🎥 Video by @elizabethbeston.bsky.social
#MarineBiology
this is amazing! would love to see the other plates 😍
Anyone good with marine flagellates? I thought this was quite a distinctive-looking chap with a reasonable chance of an ID? Any ideas?
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
gilbert
I didn't figure it out but I did find an article from 1960 where someone wrote about making their own! Not very detailed though. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4...
Cutie baby sea snails hanging out.
#marineplankton 🦑
THIS IS AWESOME
Conserved genetic markers reveal widespread diatom sexual reproduction in the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
A lovely look at the antennules of a Cirripedia cyprid larva (barnacle). They use the antennules almost like legs, walking across the substrate and exploring (chemically) for a place to settle. They also secrete the ‘cement’ that they use to attach themselves to their chosen spot!
#marineplankton 🦑
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tracing the contribution of dust origins on deposition and phytoplankton carbon uptake in global oceans bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... #jcampubs 🌊
i got one too! lol
This spermy-looking tadpole dude is the larva of a sea squirt, and it’s rare for me to find one so active! Enjoy! P.S. on my other platforms I coupled this with ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’ by Monty Python. Here, you’ll have to sing it yourselves!
#marineplankton 🦑
The last time I saw this diatom species in plankton samples from Cromer Pier was back in the autumn of 2022, so I’ve been very delighted to see several over the last few weeks. Neocalyptrella robusta. This one is asexually reproducing.
#marineplankton 🦑
