Christina Belanger, Ph.D
@belaforams.bsky.social
Paleoecologist using the past to understand the future. Forams are the best! Associate professor at Texas A&M in College Station teaching about fossils and Earth’s deep past.
Reposted by Christina Belanger, Ph.D
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
Cellphone, yes, by standing in doorway looking hopefully. Anything else I wait until passing period. Others do the same when I’m lecturing.
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cellphone, yes, by standing in doorway looking hopefully. Anything else I wait until passing period. Others do the same when I’m lecturing.