Ever wondered where Nemo lives? 🐠 In the Indo-Pacific, clownfish live with Entacmaea quadricolor (bubble-tip anemones). The anemones shelter the fish, & the fish provide the anemones nutrients and defend them from predators & parasites. Nature’s teamwork—mutualistic symbiosis!

Naomi Rodriguez @nhm.org uses integrative taxonomy to better ID marine isopods—tiny but vital players in marine ecosystems—tackling the challenge of consistent species IDs for this group. She also made a zine to bring isopods to life! peracarida.org/about/research #WednesdayWisdom

#R you ready to level-up your data skills 🙌📈 Participants like Moira Wiedebusch undertook courses in R, Tidyverse and Data visualization through the GBIF and DataCamp partnership last year. 🦉

🔦 Spotlight on the Catalogue of Life (COL)! Through its co-developed data infrastructure with GBIF — ChecklistBank — COL acts as a global index of known species, enabling users to integrate all openly available data linked to a species’ scientific name.🌏 🔗www.catalogueoflife....

#FridayFunFact Sea urchins have no eyes, bones, heart, or brain — yet they can still sense light! Their whole body acts like one big eye as they use their tube feet & spines to detect changes in light & navigate their surroundings.👁️ Heliocidaris australiae, found off Australia.

Are you passionate about ocean biodiversity data and its global impact? Do you want to play a key role in shaping how marine biodiversity information is mobilised, standardised, and enhanced?

🦎 Are you a master's or PhD student ? 🎓 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025

🌎 This #EarthDay, share your love for our planet by staying informed. Scripps Oceanography researchers work to understand & protect our planet while training the next generation of scientific & environmental leaders. Dive into evidence-based FAQs, research & climate change resources from Scripps. ⬇️

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How Scripps Oceanography is studying earth's changing climate and educating the next generation of environmental researchers and leaders.

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City Nature Challenge 2025! 🌱📸 Apr 25–28, join a global effort to protect biodiversity—just by taking pics of nature near you. 🦋 1️⃣ Download the @inaturalist.bsky.social app 2️⃣ Take photos 3️⃣ Upload sightings 4️⃣ Learn as your observations get ID’d! Photos: @vijaybarve.bsky.social

NATURE NERDS UNITE. It's global competition time. The City Nature Challenge goes from April 25- 28, and you can help scientists by adding sightings of plants, animals & fungi using @inaturalist.bsky.social. Follow @lilahiggins.bsky.social & @nhm.org to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8g...

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Biodiversity is more than just a vocab word — it’s essentially the sum of all life on Earth and we rely on it everyday. 🌎

Happy #EarthDay and welcome to our Biodiversity 101 course! 🤓 🌎

This year marks the 10th anniversary of this #CommunityScience campaign. It is organized by community science teams at Cal Academy and @nhm.org.

Keep up the energy all weekend: The observation period runs from Friday, April 25 through Monday, April 28. Head to bit.ly/citnat25 for a map of California events & participants!

This one’s for the nature nerds and the outdoor-curious among us: City Nature Challenge starts TOMORROW and we want you to participate. Swipe through for an easy guide on how to find, photograph, and upload observations of your local wildlife—all weekend long! 🦌🌿🐟🦅🪻🐌🌈🌳🦆

🌍 Earth Day @nhm.org! 🌿 #EarthDay2025 We’re still buzzing from Saturday's @nhm.org Earth Day Festival! A highlight? The MBC’s “All Things Isopods” table that had: 🔎 Live sorting 🎨 Sketching 🫙 Exploring museum collections Let’s keep the Earth Day energy going! ✨

Are you a student eager to explore museum collections research?🔬✨Apply for the @nhm.org HMLA Collections Study Award by April 1. Connect with curators & collections managers first to discuss your project. 👉 nhm.org/student-coll... #MuseumStudies #CollectionsResearch #NaturalHistory

This incredible sea creature shares some surprising similarities with us. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🔍 #WhatIsItWednesday #MarineBiology #Invertebrates #diginverts

Check out the stunning bioluminescent waves lighting up Southern California! 📷 @vijaybarve.bsky.social #bioluminescence #glowingocean #oceanmagic #underwatermysteries

Most sea urchin genetic research focuses on globe-shaped species, but thanks to Matthew Stephenson in the Greg Rouse lab @scrippsocean.bsky.social, we have the 1st mitochondrial genome for an “irregular” species, Echinocrepis rostrata, the pyramid-shaped urchin🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2380...

Recently, @sbnature.bsky.social finished cataloging their Bryozoa collection—one of the world's largest! 🌎 They digitized 20K lots, including over 1K type specimens. Many are mounted on glass histology slides for SEM, requiring specialized curation techniques. t.co/kH6GuLD2YE

Pensoft Publishers issued a new journal to showcase the significance of taxonomy and natural history collections. 🦋 cetaf.org/elementor-10...

Pensoft launches a new journal to highlight the importance of taxonomy and natural history collections - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities - CETAF

Great news for the taxonomic community! Pensoft Publishers – an independent, open-access publisher and technology provider,...

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What creature is this? Meet the zoanthids, a group of mostly colonial, filter-feeding cnidarians that settle on other marine fauna (here, a glass rope sponge). While they resemble coral polyps or sea anemones, they actually belong to their own order, Zoantharia.

Bathysciadium pacificum is an ultra-rare deep-sea snail. This tiny marvel, only the 2nd specimen ever found, showcases an incredible range extension from Peru to Oregon — over 7,000 km! Its unique fuzzy rays are made of periostracum proteins. @sbnature.bsky.social

What is this organism? A plant?🌱No. An animal?🐮 Yes. A coral?🪸Not even close! This is a moss animal, a colonial marine invertebrate related to lamp shells (Brachiopoda) and horseshoe worms (Phoronida). @sbnature.bsky.social