Kaden Muffett
@kadenmuffett.bsky.social
Cnidarian biology and microbe investigator 🔍 in the Sogin Lab @ UC Merced. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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🦀 Sally lightfoot crab
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🦀 Sally lightfoot crab
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A jawfish, cautiously peering out of its burrow in Anilao. This is far and away the most common way to see them; they tend to be rather shy. I think this one is a yellowbarred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli).
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A jawfish, cautiously peering out of its burrow in Anilao. This is far and away the most common way to see them; they tend to be rather shy. I think this one is a yellowbarred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli).
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
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Giant Australian cuttlefish are now hatching in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park. To mitigate the risk from the harmful algal bloom, the State and Federal governments installed a bubble curtain to protect more than 50,000 eggs.
Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews
Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Giant Australian cuttlefish are now hatching in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park. To mitigate the risk from the harmful algal bloom, the State and Federal governments installed a bubble curtain to protect more than 50,000 eggs.
Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews
Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews
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Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution
John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
October 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution
John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
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As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...
ヤシガニの歩き方。
YouTube video by satoshi ueda
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October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...
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Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files.
Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
February 29, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files.
Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
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We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
rdcu.be/eLbaZ
Articles like vvv really get me bc they suggest that the author has engaged uncritically on all of higher ed. Connections have always been a differentiator of education. We do not study a dictionary. If your class is ‘knowledge transfer only’ it was always a bad class. www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Articles like vvv really get me bc they suggest that the author has engaged uncritically on all of higher ed. Connections have always been a differentiator of education. We do not study a dictionary. If your class is ‘knowledge transfer only’ it was always a bad class. www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
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🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in the branching coral Acropora cervicornis
BackgroundAs coral reefs continue to decline across the globe there has been a rise in coral restoration efforts where a diversity of genets of different coral species are outplanted from nursery-grow...
www.researchsquare.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Day 11 of #inktober - the prompt is sting
Quick sketch of jellyfish
#inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch
Quick sketch of jellyfish
#inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Day 11 of #inktober - the prompt is sting
Quick sketch of jellyfish
#inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch
Quick sketch of jellyfish
#inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch
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Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉
Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)
Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉
Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)
Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)
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BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏
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It's #NautilusNight! The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's #NautilusNight! The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪
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🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!
Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
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Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
Please repost!
October 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!
Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
Please repost!
Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?
I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.
🔗: clarkelab.com/join/
Please repost!
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation
Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!
www.islandconservation.org
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)
Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her
September 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her
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Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!
Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!
A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed
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September 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!
Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!
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The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)
Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)
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The cutest lumpsuckers you'll ever see
YouTube video by RUNCL Fishing
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September 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
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September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.
Happy talk like a pirate day!
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It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!
🐙🦑🌿🧪
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...
🐙🦑🌿🧪
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...
September 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!
🐙🦑🌿🧪
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...
🐙🦑🌿🧪
www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...