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Chloé Fourreau
@chaoticchloeia.bsky.social
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PhD Student at MISE Lab, Univ. of the Ryukyus👩‍💻Also a chaotic evil bard 🎲 underwater brunette Barbie 💅🌊 and polychaete detector🧐🪱
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helenczerski.bsky.social
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.
Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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.
www.upworthy.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 22, sea angel

#invertober2025
symmetrical art of a sea angel on a dark blue background with a lined pattern contouring to the animal
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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corallab.bsky.social
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.
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
#invertober 14, bobbit worm! rainbow edition!!

#invertober2025
color block art of a bobbit worm with its long body looped and coiled across a vertically long canvas. its head, at the bottom, has its mandibles and antennae flared. it is colored in a bright rainbow gradient across its whole body, and there are lines of emanata coming from its mouth
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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hexerite.bsky.social
Day 14: Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)

[ #invertober #invertober2025 ]
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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echinoblog.bsky.social
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
www.inaturalist.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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naturaearchive.bsky.social
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
カタツムリ（陸産貝類）の這跡。非常に美しい自然の造形美。
October 31, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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ipbes.net
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 […]
news.mongabay.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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rannypribeiro.bsky.social
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...
April 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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marinespecies.bsky.social
(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
March 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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marinespecies.bsky.social
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
March 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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seafloorscience.bsky.social
My worms have been wamling today too
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Mar 6
Are you looking for a new way to describe the wonderful movement of eels? May I suggest the old Scottish word "wamle"? It means to roll about, wriggle, or writhe.

As the poet Walter Watson wrote, in 1808: "He fell a wamling like an eel."

Who do you know who wamles?
🗃️🧪
Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater, looking at the camera. The eel is yellow, or possibly green. It's hard to tell what's color and what's light. As if color weren't light. The eel -- we'll call her Samathrax -- has her eye fixed on you with all the intensity of a traffic stop in Cabrini Green, but with the kindness of your grandmother's cookies. Samanthrax seems to be smiling, and you feel the warmth of acceptance in her gaze. She's happy to welcome you into her company. You trust this Samanthrax implicitly, though you can't explain why. You feel ready to leave whatever you're doing and follow her. Surely she will lead you on amazing adventures, or to fabulous parties. Unimagined possibilities await. Falling headlong into the water, you let the eel guide you into an amazing future. Meme text reads: "We eels wamle but we don't fall down"
March 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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seafloorscience.bsky.social
Notes I write my coworkers
A note on an upturned white tray that says "Worms pls don't touch RH"
March 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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geocollaborate.bsky.social
Crowds are massive in Silver Spring, Maryland…the home of NOAA. People chanting, “Save NOAA Now!” and “We will not weather the storm.” Make your voices heard and keep it up. #NOAA #NWS Severe Weather is on its Way. And so is hurricane season. 🌀 🧪
March 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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anjajessen.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInside #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Inverts 🦑🦞 #DiverLife #Maldives

Spearing Mantis Shrimp checking you out
A big shrimp in its hole in the white sand, looking out at you.
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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bittelmethis.bsky.social
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.
www.nationalgeographic.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
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 ...
www.scientificamerican.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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miselab.bsky.social
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
February 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
chaoticchloeia.bsky.social
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!!
February 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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annelidsci.bsky.social
#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...
February 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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stevehaddock.bsky.social
One fun thing about working on #ctenophores (comb jellies) is that you get to see animals nobody has depicted for more than a century. I haven't found any images of Deiopea from the time between Chun's 1880 drawing and my 1990s photo. Even shallow SCUBA exploration can yield surprises 🌊🦑🧪
Left image is a line drawing of a comb jelly from Carl Chun's 1880 masterpiece based on a specimen from the Mediterranean Sea. On the right is a photo of the same species (or at least the same genus) collected with blue-water scuba diving off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA. The photo shows thin bluish-white canals outlining the body against a black backdrop. The widely spaced comb plates are a diagnostic feature of this lobate ctenophore. The image from Chun has been rotated 180° to align with our modern understanding of these animals. Historically, they have been interpreted like medusa jellyfish, with the mouth down, but we know they encounter their environment oral end first.
February 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM