Dan Killam
@dantheclamman.blog
Eclamgelist. He/him
If you like #clamFacts check out my blog (profile name)
If you like #clamFacts check out my blog (profile name)
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Dan Killam
@dantheclamman.blog
· Jul 22
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
1 like, 1 housing opinion
One like, one clam fact
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Join our Clean Water program scientist Dan Killam for a salty lunch hour webinar this Wednesday!
Reminder: Wednesday @ 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag @baynature.org for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! 🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 for nonmembers ! baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Join our Clean Water program scientist Dan Killam for a salty lunch hour webinar this Wednesday!
Reminder: Wednesday @ 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag @baynature.org for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! 🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 for nonmembers ! baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reminder: Wednesday @ 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag @baynature.org for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! 🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 for nonmembers ! baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
These are my snails. They are good boys. And excellent comic relief. Pomacea bridgesii
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
These are my snails. They are good boys. And excellent comic relief. Pomacea bridgesii
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Here are some fossil pleurotomariids, which have lived in Earth’s oceans for over 450 million years.This is a kind of snail you won’t find in your garden or on a seashore. You’d have to dive 400 meters to see a living one.If you could beachcomb in the Jurassic, you’d probably find one on the coast🐚
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here are some fossil pleurotomariids, which have lived in Earth’s oceans for over 450 million years.This is a kind of snail you won’t find in your garden or on a seashore. You’d have to dive 400 meters to see a living one.If you could beachcomb in the Jurassic, you’d probably find one on the coast🐚
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
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Lunule and umbo are both going on the list of words I have to remember to use to annoy people when playing Scrabble :)
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Lunule and umbo are both going on the list of words I have to remember to use to annoy people when playing Scrabble :)
Moment of silence for all the cat owners who didn't survive the time change today
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Moment of silence for all the cat owners who didn't survive the time change today
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Happy Halloween and spooky Samhain, butterflies! We're back with #FossilFriday and it's another meme on deck.
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Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve!
Someone tag @dantheclamman.blog , I feel like he has relevant interests.
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Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve!
Someone tag @dantheclamman.blog , I feel like he has relevant interests.
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy Halloween and spooky Samhain, butterflies! We're back with #FossilFriday and it's another meme on deck.
🧪⚒️🦪🦪
Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve!
Someone tag @dantheclamman.blog , I feel like he has relevant interests.
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Yo, dawg! I heard you like bivalves, so we put clams in your clam so you can bivalve while you bivalve!
Someone tag @dantheclamman.blog , I feel like he has relevant interests.
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The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.
October 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.
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trump take science
Construction of the 40-m China-Argentina Radio Telescope (CART) has halted, when already 90% complete.
The facility is caught up in Argentine president Javier Milei's attempt to secure an economic aid package from the US, which objects to China's involvement. 🔭
www.science.org/content/arti...
The facility is caught up in Argentine president Javier Milei's attempt to secure an economic aid package from the US, which objects to China's involvement. 🔭
www.science.org/content/arti...
Argentina’s move to woo Trump has derailed South America’s largest radio telescope
U.S.-Chinese tensions have left nearly complete observatory in limbo, jeopardizing research into pulsars and other celestial objects
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
trump take science
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They should create a living man out of the body parts of various corpses
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
They should create a living man out of the body parts of various corpses
Genuinely torn...
In a wild turn of events, mollusks and Seth Finnegan are tied for first place!
Don't forget to cast your vote! Look for the QR code on previous posts or the link below to vote today! 🐝🪱🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🪰🪲🦂🐢🦖🐋🐊🦐🦑🐠🐫
paleo.memberclicks.net/Clades
#paleosociety #paleontology #invertebrates #vertebrateevolution
Don't forget to cast your vote! Look for the QR code on previous posts or the link below to vote today! 🐝🪱🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🪰🪲🦂🐢🦖🐋🐊🦐🦑🐠🐫
paleo.memberclicks.net/Clades
#paleosociety #paleontology #invertebrates #vertebrateevolution
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Genuinely torn...
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At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
All I see here is a very everyday leaf (the leaf is doing a great job).
👻 Boo! Meet the ghost mantis. This species’ leaf-like appearance helps it disappear among foliage, concealing it from predators and prey. When tasty critters—like grasshoppers and moths—wander too close, it uses its powerful forelimbs to snatch them up!
Photo: Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: Wynand Uys, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
All I see here is a very everyday leaf (the leaf is doing a great job).
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Holy shit, echinoderm gang, are you seeing this video? @echinoblog.bsky.social @daveyfwright.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Holy shit, echinoderm gang, are you seeing this video? @echinoblog.bsky.social @daveyfwright.bsky.social
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Despite all my rage I am still just a bug in a cage.
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Despite all my rage I am still just a bug in a cage.
Sexy Amorphophallus konjac
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sexy Amorphophallus konjac
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Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
dantheclamman.blog
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
I wrote an article concurring with the recent Onion article: "Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams"
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On 11/12 at 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag @baynature.org for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! Thinkin on the salt of the Bay, wasting time.🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 otherwise, with the fee going to a great cause! baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On 11/12 at 12 Pacific time I'll be joining my fave mag @baynature.org for a talk about salinity in SF Bay! Thinkin on the salt of the Bay, wasting time.🧂🌊 Register at this link: free for members or $5 otherwise, with the fee going to a great cause! baynature.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
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This is DISASTROUS
"The Great Lakes Science Center in Michigan would lose 108 of 137 positions."
via @eenews.bsky.social
via @eenews.bsky.social
E&E News: USGS science centers face Trump’s chopping block
Interior has indicated that it plans to lay off employees in science centers across the country, including deep cuts at some offices.
subscriber.politicopro.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is DISASTROUS