Super interesting
Nice experimental setup too!
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Super interesting
Nice experimental setup too!
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👀 Just got to that part! :^)
The scene of painting the storefront windows made me gasp.
I’ve been listening to the Hey Jude episode and his depth of knowledge and insight is stunning.
When you zoom out from individual genes to consider the context of whole chromosomes across animal diversity, animal evolution takes on a different look. Oleg Simakov and I published a review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on topological approaches in comparative genomics. 🧬 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
I am always amazed by time-lapse animations showing the progression of a drawing.
👀 @jmacrander.bsky.social
San Francisco-area fans of ocean animals and flashy colors. 🦑🌊🧪
I'll be giving a presentation about our book The Radiant Sea at 1 pm on Saturday Feb 28 at the Book Passage shop in Corte Madera. (Preposition overload!) Swing by and say Hi.
www.bookpassage.com/event/steven...
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 We’re excited to announce that we are organizing a second ctenophore meeting — Ctenopalooza Ctwo — to be held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Monterey Bay, California, on August 23–25, 2026.
Registration is now open!
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
There is special support for the participation of artists and communicators, so get in touch if you have any interest.
CONGRATS!!@! That is such a milestone.
A photo of a large red comb jelly on a black background.
Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists!
Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.
Under cover of darkness, it's a race to eat before being eaten! Attention #teachers #librarians #ocean lovers! Win a copy of THE OCEAN'S HEART, illus. by Khoa Le! Releasing March 3!
📚👍 kathytemean.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/b... #kidlit #picturebook @pbspree.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social
Looks great! Sorry if this is in the documentation but can it do 3-D with two orthogonal cameras?
Asking for a friend, srsly.
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Orange+pink colored ostracod Gigantocypris, with pink eggs inside its carapace and large forward-facing reflectors. Diameter about 2cm. From The Radiant Sea. S.Haddock•MBARI.
Gigantocypris is always a crowd-pleaser, but I have never seen those black amphipods!
(Get your student a little glass photo tank?)
Related to high pressure, @ibudin.bsky.social and Jacob Winnikoff led a study which showed that a particular lipid headgroup (PPE) is more abundant in membranes of deep #ctenophores. 🧪🦑
What was amazing was when they put PPE into bacterial membranes, the bacteria became more pressure tolerant!
cc @amymaxmen.bsky.social
cc @blancobercial.bsky.social @dts.bsky.social
The re-analysis of this #sponge #ctenophore study made me realize how important it is to really *look* at your data.
Their filtering pipeline was meant to retain "strong" genes, but many of them had NO ctenophores and most had polyphyletic sponges.
Time to put down the pitchforks for a while.
Poster showing details for a talk entitled The Radiant Sea, Unveiled. To be held at 6pm on Friday January 16th at 35 Pacific Ave in Santa Cruz, CA
This is a limited, regionally relevant post, but… I’ll be giving a talk at the Sanctuary Exploration Center in Santa Cruz on Friday Jan 16th. Come say hi if you’re in town. 🦑🧪
(I’m presenting in San Francisco in early Feb as well)
Shelled
Garnish
‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart.
‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things.
…what?
A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’
And by “great” I mean terrible..!
Great example!!
Sorry Mike. There is no rhyme nor reason, so I’m not surprised they hacked your most popular activities. 😡
My least favorite words (one category at least) are ones like nonplussed, inflammable, shelled, which can either mean one thing…or the exact opposite.
Wow. No kidding!
Without looking I guess:
Tocsin: alternate spelling of toxin
Kopje: a small antelope; a coin; a pastry
?? 📕 🙃 @merriam-webster.com
I used to use a 3x5 card as a bookmark and write down the cool/unfamiliar words on it as I read. I remember palimpsest…
What are some examples?
Cuttlefish or seahorses…!
Hard to watch this happen. What are your thoughts about reported bounties for publishing in certain journals?