Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea!

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

"The next time you hover over [a scallop] on a dive, remember you’re not just looking at a shell with eyes. You’re looking at an animal that’s also looking at you." Lovely quote by Dan Speiser

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

The ‘Surprisingly Sophisticated’ Way Scallops See This mollusk might be a lot more complicated than you think www.scubadiving.com/marinelife/s...

do students still even use these??? i feel like an archeologist

Creatures of the Marinara Trench 🦀🐟🐙🪼🍅 #octopus #crab #siphonophore #jellyfish #tuna #tomato #artsky

Breaking News! y-axis alert! Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures are now more than 3 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean, forcing an extension of the y-axis up to 3.5σ. And that line way at the bottom? That's 1988.

if you do go to www.sc.edu i hope you know that the face of pure joy on my face is not because of the school, but because i was holding a crab 🦀

University of South Carolina

From all-star academics to A-list student experiences, the University of South Carolina is the place to launch your next chapter.

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who is this mysterious pride moth

Word on the reef is, shrimp are SO in this season. A crab told me. And bonus? These shirts fund our fall Philly Bug mural series. 3 Murals, 3 Artists, 3 Neighborhoods, All bugs baby. Don't get caught without a crustacean. Tell your friends. Get a shrimp shirt. At SquidFacts.net (pls RT)

I cannot recommend this book enough, amazing facts paired with human experience. i'm sad i finished it!!

So proud of the Toebiter team Tanner @tannermierow.bsky.social, Kate @drkatefeller.bsky.social, Jess, and Rick for our paper out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Check out how we learned about the optics and performance of the eyes of amphibious insects: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes

Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio

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looking for a biology post doc at my dream school (NYADA) #glee

2026 basically

sometimes i love the whimsy of living in an apartment. like my neighbor practices guitar most nights and every sunday another neighbor makes the same roast. Right now, however ...my neighbor is absolutely burning their cookies

New paper in Royal Society Interface! With fantastic engineering colleagues, we’re learning more and more about how snapping shrimp are protected from shock waves! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Structural and mechanical properties facilitate shock wave damping by helmet-like orbital hoods in snapping shrimp

Abstract:. Snapping shrimp damp the shock waves they produce and use as weapons with a helmet-like structure termed the orbital hood. Here, we ask how stru

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Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

The 12yo has declared Porcelain Crab Awareness Day! I’m especially fond of the red and white polka dotted ones. Are they crabs if they have crab in their name? Nope. These are decapod crustaceans evolving ever crab-wards!

Porcelain crab - Wikipedia

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i finally ordered new glasses (everyone clap and cheer for me now)

i can't believe Noah Kahan is waiting to release his new album until AFTER my defense :( Help a girl write her dissertation 🙏

a little late in this (i got sick) but thank you to @sicb-dab.bsky.social Portland 2026. had lots of fun seeing great talks and talking about crabs! 🦀

"Fatigue" by artist John Brosio #crustmas

i follow Kesha's mom (Pebe Sebert) online and she added me to her private tiktok bulletin and she's releasing a new song. i love her and i would like to be one of her top listeners this year so i can get her message on spotify

🚨 Using polarization vision to stabilize gaze 👀 would theoretically be helpful for animals living in visually noisy environments, but it seems two decapod crustaceans use achromatic cues instead. 🚨 From @maddy-janakis.bsky.social Check it out! 🦀 academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light

Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen

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Did you know that when crabs molt they also molt their outer cornea giving them a pretty scary zombie look

got all the grad students to dress as our advisor! I had to do it once before I defend!

Had a great day collecting yesterday at Baruch Marine Field Lab in SC. We got 42 porcelain crabs and 40 mud crabs 🦀 🦀🦀

IOB "In shallow #aquatic #environments, such as tidal creeks, the motion of the water's surface can create dynamic #spatiotemporal fluctuations in illumination referred to as “caustic flicker..." @maddy-janakis.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #crustacean #biology #science

IOB "Using #optomotor behavioral assays, we found that both porcelain & mud #crabs use #achromatic cues for gaze stabilization..." @maddy-janakis.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Jane opened up my eyes to a lot as a kid - she was a female scientist and she was known for devoting her life to it. not to her family or children, but to her passion. i remember thinking that was so cool and it was probably the first time I realized women can be known in that way.

IOB from the www.speiserlab.com -Two #Decapod #Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic #Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light by M Janakis et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #biology #science #organisms