Chloé Fourreau
@chaoticchloeia.bsky.social
PhD Student at MISE Lab, Univ. of the Ryukyus👩💻Also a chaotic evil bard 🎲 underwater brunette Barbie 💅🌊 and polychaete detector🧐🪱
The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger. People know this, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🧪🦑🌎
An Army Corps project could wipe out one of Florida’s last thriving coral reefs
The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades.
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Bad Bunny understands the value of the humanities, history and academia. #academicsky
Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 6mo agoNot at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
We present: The Art of #InverteFest - December 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1JCXz... #Art #SciArt
J aime bien ce tableau car le peintre a fait figurer la légende de la bataille navale dans cette feuille peinte dans un coin du tableau
I’m super happy to share that our paper is out! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #thisishowMISErolls #WormWednesday
Host specific camouflage in a holothurian-ectoparasitic scale worm: testing the host-race hypothesis using COI and genome-wide SNP data - Marine Biology
Marine Biology - Gastrolepidia clavigera (Annelida: Polynoidae) is an ectoparasitic scale worm living on the body surface of holothuroid sea cucumbers in warm shallow seas. This species exhibits...
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#Nudivember Day 18 I love how this little one looks like the photographer woke them up! (Acrylic gouache and gelato crayon on black paper)
It is finally #WormWednesday again! 🪱 The perfect time to post my photo of this 40 cm long beast! :D Scientific name: Phyllodoce lineata ↓ thread with more info ↓ #marinelife #polychaetes #invertebrates
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
New York City was visited by nine different whales in one day and the photos are incredible - Upworthy
New York City was visited by nine different whales in one day and the photos are incredible
Cleaner waters mean the whales don't just pass through, they stay and put on a show.
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New Nature paper! Vaga et al. (2025) reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny of stony (scleractinian) corals, which suggests that some could be resilient to climate change. Congrats @claudiavaga.bsky.social Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
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Some Tropical Indonesian #wormwednesday today! WHOA. now THAT is a heck of a worm! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Order Phyllodocida
Phyllodocida from Bitung, Sulawesi du Nord, Indonésie on July 26, 2024 at 09:34 PM by Mélodie Caussat
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ガードレールを見ると巻貝アート発見！ これはカタツムリが這い回った証拠。カタツムリには歯舌（しぜつ）と呼ばれるヤスリのような歯を持っています Spotted some snail art on a guardrail! These are the trails left by land snails as they move around. Snails have a radula, a tongue-like organ covered in tiny teeth, which they use to scrape moss and algae. #無脊椎動物 #巻貝アート#貝#陸産貝類
Good news! 🐍 The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been spotted again! It had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.🌏🧪 Read more in @mongabay.com
World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence
“I was making a joke and in my head I said, ‘I smell a threadsnake,'” Justin Springer, Caribbean program officer for the NGO Re:wild, recalled. “I just had a feeling, but I couldn’t be sure because we turned over a lot of rocks before that and we saw nothing.” Springer’s intuition proved correct when his […]
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Celebrating my recent paper published in Development with a new art from my #sci-art project Wormly Speaking. “With Maturity” #annelid #worm #art #comics #love #resilience #peace #polychaete #WormWednesday Visit Wormly Speaking: rannypribeiro.github.io/sci-art/comi...
(3/10) Is it a nudibranch? No, it is a syllid worm mimicking a nudibranch (left on the image)! marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @alciopidae.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies
So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024! Do you have a favorite? marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInside #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Inverts 🦑🦞 #DiverLife #Maldives Spearing Mantis Shrimp checking you out
Thank you to the scientists at @mbarinews.bsky.social for working tirelessly to understand this world. Also to @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social for her infectious wonder. Team Pigbutt Worm Forever. 🧪🦑 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Behold the pigbutt worm, mystery of the deep
They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.
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New writing! For @sciam.bsky.social, I talk about misleading memes. If you understand evolution enough to know this already, great! But memes/youtubes/etc reach folks with no biology background. Science has been twisted to justify bad things, such as eugenics, before. NOT IN CRABS' NAME. 🦀🧪🦑⚒️
Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution
Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...
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In the next round of thesis season, super MISE master students were defending today! Ayaka Umeda on acidified bay community in Palau and Kairi Takahashi on the diet of zoantharians with different symbiotic regimes! Both of them rocked!!! #thisishowMISErolls
It’s not #WormWednesday but check out those beautiful drawings of echiurians and sipunculans drawn by Ikeda, from 1904!! Also just saying « I don’t know » was done so elegantly. Reading old taxonomy papers is so so cool!!
#WormWednesday repost cos I too want to bask in the reflected weird glory of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus. No additional science since 2007 it seems. However, still the only @inaturalist.bsky.social observation was identified by yrs truly in 2018. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus from Monterey Bay, CA, USA on July 25, 2018 at 08:31 PM by Warren R. Francis. collected at depth with permit photographed in the lab
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Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 2y agoScientists first collected a pig butt worm from the dark ocean depths near Monterey, California. The size of marbles, pigbutts are a near complete mystery. Officially described in 2007, scientists aren’t even sure if the pigbutt form is an adult, or just a very very awkward adolescent stage.
