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Douglas Fudge's lab at Chapman University: Marine Biology, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biophysics, Hagfishes, Slime, 1st-gen; opinions my own.
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Happy to be joining the conversation on Bluesky! I’ll be posting about our research on the biology of hagfishes, marine biology, bio-inspired design, and reposting all things slimy and fishy.
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We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of.

Cape Crozier remains magical!
🌍🧪🦑🦉
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶
This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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In my #ENVSCOMM25-2 class today, we looked at a story on @storycollider.bsky.social to learn how to start a science-centered story. Then introduced the concept that simple ≠ simplistic, opening with this example by @edyong209.bsky.social & using the Up-Goer Five editing tool. splasho.com/upgoer5/ 🧪✍️
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🌋Did you know that there's more volcanic activity under the waves than on land?

Find out how underwater explosions impact our planet at the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub, a free resource that's perfect for educators, students, and the ocean-curious:
go.whoi.edu/volcano

📸 via ROV Jason 2009 © #WHOI
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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With the gift-giving season upon us, how about an autographed book? You can order one (or more!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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One of our striped bass tags just turned up in a bluefin tuna caught in Maine! Those tags and their data helps us protect the fish we love and ecosystems that sustain them. Join the Fish Tagging Program and learn where your fish go! Will yours be our 1 millionth tag? www.instagram.com/p/DQmVAGYCVHy/
littoralsociety on Instagram: "Every fish tag tells a story ... and one of our NY striper tags just turned up in the stomach of a bluefin tuna caught in Maine! Si…"
Every fish tag tells a story ... and one of our NY striper tags just turned up in the stomach of a bluefin tuna caught in Maine! Since 1961, the American Littoral Society has worked with anglers to study and protect our fisheries. Our volunteer Fish Tagging Program turns everyday anglers into fisheries scientists, tagging and releasing fish from striped bass to fluke to track their movements along the coast. Those tags and the data logged helps us protect the fish we love to catch and the ecosystems that sustain them. Join the Fish Tagging Program today to get a tagging kit and learn where your fish go! Will yours be our 1 millionth fish tag?🎣 Learn more about our Fish Tagging Program at LittoralSociety.org. Want to get your kids hooked on conservation? Check out our Youth Surf Fishing Clinics at Sandy Hook this fall. 👉 Link in bio....#StripedBass #BluefinTuna #TagAndRelease #CitizenScience #LittoralSociety #Conservation #MarineScience #SandyHook #AnglersForTheEnvironment #FishTagging #MarineConservation #CoastalScience #CitizenScience #CatchAndRelease #OceanStewardship #AnglersForConservation #universityofmaine Pictures courtesy of the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab @pelagicfisherieslab
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November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15

Please share far and wide 🚀

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬

This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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As those of us in the northern hemisphere adjust to the end of daylight savings, keep in mind that a majority of the ocean is eternally pitch black—and life thrives even in ocean trenches 36,000 feet deep! ⁠🔦

🤿 Explore the #oceanzones: go.whoi.edu/oz
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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New species of Physalia-the "samurai Man o war" described by colleague Dr. Cheryl Ames & lab!! Congrats! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Japan’s new “samurai jellyfish” is simply stunning
Scientists in Japan have discovered Physalia mikazuki, a previously unknown species of Portuguese man-of-war, in northern waters for the first time. DNA and anatomical analysis confirmed it as distinc...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🌊 A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualised the inner workings of hundreds of marine species for the first time

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
A new microscopy breakthrough is revealing the oceans’ invisible life
A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of mari...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Night dives reveal hidden alliances between young fish and larval anemones
Night dives reveal hidden alliances between young fish and larval anemones
Since 2016, Rich Collins has been plunging into the pitch-black waters off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida, at night, camera in hand, in pursuit of blackwater photography. These nighttime dives have…
news.mongabay.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Nanotyrannus is real.

For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.

But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.

Isn’t science fun?!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Certainly resolves the debate. I love how paleontology knows so much, while knowing so little. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @paleontologizing.bsky.social I think your next twitch is spoken for....lol
T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles
New evidence answers the question about whether some fossils are Tyrannosaurus rex juveniles or a different species, with implications for decades of published science.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:

Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I’ll be speaking about the mechanical development of crocodile and tortoise head scales next Wednesday at 4pm for the @tlmcambridge.bsky.social seminar series. Subscribe to the mailing list to hear more about my work, and that of @maltemederacke.bsky.social!

lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights

Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species.

Brilliant #beeflies
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM