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Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸
@rosieriots.bsky.social
330 followers 170 following 270 posts
Postdoc at Macquarie University, Sydney studying sediment microbes. Previous and future coral ecologist 🪸 dog, fish, and plant enthusiast
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nikihubbard.bsky.social
For a brief break from the world, please enjoy a tale of two slugs.

#MarineLife #inverts 🧪🦑🐙

Nudibranch Jorunna pantherina (I think!) and not-nudibranch Elysia coodgeensis in a tidepool, about 1cm and 5mm long respectively. And with a few bonus microscopic epifauna video-bombing.
April 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
rosieriots.bsky.social
I got paid, so I've just donated another $50 to @chelseaherps.bsky.social. She deserves to finish her Masters, she's worked SO HARD and she's SO CLOSE. Just over $1k to go 🧪 feed!!

gofund.me/e48b7927
February 7, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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nikihubbard.bsky.social
I am, defo. Oh I've got a #MondayMollusc too. Here's a lovely sea hare from the weekend. Look at that face! #MarineLife #invertebrates 🦑🐙🧪
Up close with an Aspylia sea hare on a rocky reef. This lovely sea slug is front and side on, bunny ears tall and raised, emerging over the edge of algal turf covered rock. It is superbly camouflaged with mottled pale greeny brown and is lit up by the sunlight shining down into the shallow water
January 29, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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itativcs.bsky.social
Howdy all! Chelsea only needs 2, 193$ to pay down her tuition! She needs to make this payment ASAP to be able to graduate with her MSc this semester! Please donate, share, and RT! #MutualAid #gofundme
gofund.me/5ccde1af
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organised by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
gofund.me
January 29, 2024 at 9:06 PM
rosieriots.bsky.social
@chelseaherps.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to her goal! Please help her finish her PhD, she's so fantastic and the world will only be better with her scientific contributions in it. 🧪
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
www.gofundme.com
January 31, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Reposted by Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸
noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
Get ready for #ValenCtenes #InvertValentines!

Encouraging folks to add their marine invertebrate themed Valentine's to this feed using either #. Scribbles and puns encouraged. Artists selling cards also welcome to promo.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

cc: 🐡🧪🦑🐙

Here's a few of mine from past years:
Pink Valentine with little heart Mnemiopsis leidyi and one photograph of the pink lobate ctenophore. It says I've been independently developing the nerve to ask you to be my Valentine with a To and From field. You're my jam, Valentine surrounded by pink heart ctenophore doodles and a jar of jam labelled with one. You're my jam, Valentine written in purple over a Pleurobrachia bachei ctenophore. Stick with me, Valentine and we'll have a colloblast to: from: A ctenophore with pink tentacles swoops across the Valentine.
January 27, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Many people are going to feel the need to defend trans care for adults using the libraries of published evidence supporting its safety and efficacy--which is fine, but the actual standard to uphold is "it's my body and I fucking said so"
January 27, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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emilyyeager9.bsky.social
Check out this great new review on SCTLD:

www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and interven...
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD has impacted over 22 st...
www.frontiersin.org
January 27, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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marspidermonkey.bsky.social
It’s amazing how evergreen this is. The pattern is followed like clockwork.
Title: The “problem” of women of colour in the workplace, from www.coco-net.org The image shows a series of steps where a woman of colour enters of workplace, leadership initially welcomes her, and then tokenizes her. The woman of color points out the issues, and tried to work within existing structures and policies. The response is repetitive injury and microaggressions, denial of racism, and an organizational response of ignoring and blaming. The responsibility of fixing the problem is placed on the woman of colour, POC are pitted against each other, targeted, and attacked. The women of color experienced retaliation as the problem is blamed on her, and the organization labels the conflict as a “communication problem” and claims age is unqualified or not a good fit. The woman of colour then exits the organization.
January 24, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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itativcs.bsky.social
Please continue to boost! We have already raised 2K and only need to raise 3K more to get Chelsea to her goal! #MutualAid
itativcs.bsky.social flor de cereza|bacon boy @itativcs.bsky.social · Jan 18
Hello all! I am re-upping this fundraiser to raise tuition funds for my friend! My friend needs to pay her tuition bill by the end of this month in order to graduate! Please donate if you can. Also please boost if you can't donate!
gofund.me/1d1d9146
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
gofund.me
January 23, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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nikihubbard.bsky.social
I post a lot of nudis and crabs, but my favourites will always be cephalopods. Was lucky enough to hang out with this little lump of wonderfulness at the weekend, a small and perfect reaper cuttle 🥲

#MarineLife #invertebrates 🐙🦑🧪
A small cuttlefish against a dark backdrop of rocky reef. The cuttle is side on, hovering in shallow water. Small, cute, and perfect. Mottled light brown pattern. Beneath its eye (and trademark W-shaped pupil) is a colourful line of yellow and orange, a feature that helps ID this as a reaper cuttle.
January 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
rosieriots.bsky.social
I bought this tomato as a seedling 🌱 in October and now it's a monster 😅 it still hasn't produced any ripe tomatoes, it just keeps growing!!! Any hints on how to convince it to stop taking over the garden and give me some tasty snacks?
A built in concrete planter in a small apartment yard. 3/4 of the planter is a massive tomato plant that is just poking over the top of a wall that's well over 2m (~6.5) feet tall. The tomato is being supported by a series of homemade bamboo scaffolds and looks a bit like it could have elves living in it. There are some pretty multicoloured flowers being completely overshadowed by the massive monster tomato tree. The same tomato with me, a chubby blonde woman, standing under it. I'm reaching over my head and holding a branch. I look extremely pleased with myself for growing this ridiculous thing.
January 21, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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rosieriots.bsky.social
@chelseaherps.bsky.social is an amazing researcher and scicommer and she needs our help 🧪 feed! Please donate if you can, and spread the word if you can't.

gofund.me/e48b7927
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
gofund.me
January 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
rosieriots.bsky.social
@chelseaherps.bsky.social is an amazing researcher and scicommer and she needs our help 🧪 feed! Please donate if you can, and spread the word if you can't.

gofund.me/e48b7927
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
gofund.me
January 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by Rosie Steinberg, PhD 🪸
itativcs.bsky.social
Hello all! I am re-upping this fundraiser to raise tuition funds for my friend! My friend needs to pay her tuition bill by the end of this month in order to graduate! Please donate if you can. Also please boost if you can't donate!
gofund.me/1d1d9146
Help Chelsea finish her degree!, organized by Tayler SantaMaria
Hello! I'm Toby, but many of you know me as @itatiVCS on Twitter. I'm asking for he… Tayler SantaMaria needs your support for Help Chelsea finish her degree!
gofund.me
January 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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coralmorphologic.bsky.social
Hammer coral close-ups from the Coral Morphologic lab / studio
January 18, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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danirabaiotti.bsky.social
To all non scientists - please feel free to chat with scientists, reply to their posts, ask them questions etc. This is a resource for everyone, we just want to make sure we aren't putting out misinformation for you all :)
January 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
rosieriots.bsky.social
Anyone else out there love microbes, where they live, and what influences the species you find? 🧪

This article is super interesting - it gives us baseline information to start using germs to rehabilitate contaminated groundwater.

phys.org/news/2024-01...
Translating nuclear waste site data into microbial ecosystem insights
A flagship seven-year study led by the University of Oklahoma that explores how environmental stresses influence different ecological processes shaping the composition and structure of microbial commu...
phys.org
January 18, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert2024
Bugs Among Us - In Leaf Litter

Garden symphylans (Scutigerella immaculata) are common animals that live worldwide.

Despite this, they're smol, scuttly, and like to hide in moist soil, so most people don't even know these critters exist under their plants. 🎨 🐡
a pile of brown leaves with ghostly white, smol millipede-like animals on them. illustration.
January 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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remymac.bsky.social
Any seahorse fans?

#MarineLife
#ScubaDiving
#UnderwaterPhotography
A white and red pygmy sea horse is wrapped onto a sea fan. The picture has a low light dark out style with a visible white and red coral pattern in the background. A yellow thorny seahorse is backlit to show through the skin texture. Green ocean background. A black sea horse super close up. It is covered in yellow sand particles and hairs that make it appear much brighter than it is. A miniscule Lembeh Sea Dragon sticks out of some coral. The lower half of the image is pitch black with the upper half showing a deep magenta coloring.
January 16, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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nikihubbard.bsky.social
Regular nudi drop. These little beans are so abundant and thriving in my favourite snorking spot I take a ridiculous amount of photos of them. Dorisprismatica, aka black-margined nudibranch, or as we prefer to call them, tuxedo formalwear penguin cheesecake bb.

#MarineLife #invertebrates 🧪🐙🦑
so smol, so perfect. Close-up with one of the nudibranchs. bright white, black frilly margins, black rhinophores, and magnificent black and white butt-gills in the background Full side profile of a nudibranch as it stretches out and travels along a bed of pale pink coraline algae A nudibranch from above, stretching between two algal fronds.
January 15, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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freeflowergirl.bsky.social
My pink feather boa millipede for #InsertAnInvert2024 has a home! The log itself is based off a manzanita, the leaves are from an Engelmann oak, and there is also a slime mold, a fungus, and lichen on the log.
Crochet log coved with crochet leaves, lichen, slime mold, and fungi. A pink crochet millipede peaks its head out of the log. Close-up of pink crochet millipede sitting on a log.
January 16, 2024 at 12:09 AM
rosieriots.bsky.social
New year, same lab work. Who else in back in lab already? 🧪

I'm sorting the junk that got scraped off pylons in a tropical marina, it's actually really cool!
A selfie of a blonde woman (me) wearing glasses, cauliflower earrings, and a lab coat. From the angle you can see into a white tub that's next to me, which contains a plastic zip top bag full of brown crud.
January 11, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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saimihanma.bsky.social
It's begun #InsertAnInvert2024
a watercolor illustration of a brown firebrat in a journal
January 6, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InsertAnInvert2024
Bugs Among Us - At Home

Firebrats (Thermobia domestica) are wingless insects related to silverfish that often find shelter in our warm homes.

Though harmless, like any friend that shows up uninvited, they might eat food that isn't theirs & leave behind unwanted "gifts". 🎨 🐡
three firebrats on a cracked wall, illustration. firebrats are teardrop-shaped bugs with two long antennae in the front and three protrusions from the back, almost as long as the antennae.
January 5, 2024 at 10:12 PM