Dayanitha Damodaran
@dayanithaangela.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Research Associate at IMET / UMBC researching parasites in oysters 🦪
Ph.D. from Macquarie University, Sydney
Born in 🇳🇿 living in 🇺🇲
Interested in all things shellfish 🌊
Ph.D. from Macquarie University, Sydney
Born in 🇳🇿 living in 🇺🇲
Interested in all things shellfish 🌊
I love a competition that highlights a less charismatic species. I'm a velvet worm girl myself 🌿
IT'S TIME TO VOTE FOR NEW ZEALAND'S BUG OF THE YEAR 2024!!
There's fierce competition, but only one correct choice. Vote for the most adorable & ecologically important creature on the list/planet - the Globular Springtail. 🧪
Join #TeamGlob2024 & vote here:
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...
There's fierce competition, but only one correct choice. Vote for the most adorable & ecologically important creature on the list/planet - the Globular Springtail. 🧪
Join #TeamGlob2024 & vote here:
bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...
January 14, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I love a competition that highlights a less charismatic species. I'm a velvet worm girl myself 🌿
Reposted by Dayanitha Damodaran
Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates
December 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM
Smol nudibranch friend almost looks... pleased with itself? And so it should, very beautiful, would admire again. 🧪🦑🐙#MarineLife #Invertebrates
I had so much fun setting this up and special thanks to the local resident who lent me her secateurs to cut rope when I forgot mine 😂🫣
If you want to hear more about this experiment in detail pop over to @riskybyssus on Instagram for a full debreif 🦑🐙🧪
If you want to hear more about this experiment in detail pop over to @riskybyssus on Instagram for a full debreif 🦑🐙🧪
A quick photo from Sawmillers Reserve, where I got to help @dayanithaangela.bsky.social with fieldwork yesterday. Tiring but fun! Dayanitha is setting up experiments with mussels, investigating settlement and heat 🧪 #MarineLife
December 16, 2023 at 8:53 AM
I had so much fun setting this up and special thanks to the local resident who lent me her secateurs to cut rope when I forgot mine 😂🫣
If you want to hear more about this experiment in detail pop over to @riskybyssus on Instagram for a full debreif 🦑🐙🧪
If you want to hear more about this experiment in detail pop over to @riskybyssus on Instagram for a full debreif 🦑🐙🧪
Any ideas whose eggs these are? Found at Balmain east, Sydney, AU
#invertID #Marinelife #invertfest #whelk 🐙🦑🧪
#invertID #Marinelife #invertfest #whelk 🐙🦑🧪
December 14, 2023 at 12:06 PM
Any ideas whose eggs these are? Found at Balmain east, Sydney, AU
#invertID #Marinelife #invertfest #whelk 🐙🦑🧪
#invertID #Marinelife #invertfest #whelk 🐙🦑🧪
Reposted by Dayanitha Damodaran
I feel pretty lucky to work on some of the most picturesque cityscapes around and have some great company to boot!!!
Not pictured: the smell and photographs of many dissected shellfish 🧪🐙🦑 #marinelife #womeninSTEM #phdlife
Not pictured: the smell and photographs of many dissected shellfish 🧪🐙🦑 #marinelife #womeninSTEM #phdlife
December 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM
I feel pretty lucky to work on some of the most picturesque cityscapes around and have some great company to boot!!!
Not pictured: the smell and photographs of many dissected shellfish 🧪🐙🦑 #marinelife #womeninSTEM #phdlife
Not pictured: the smell and photographs of many dissected shellfish 🧪🐙🦑 #marinelife #womeninSTEM #phdlife
Here I am bluesky, another Marine biology Ph.D. student out here loving underrated creatures and trying to understand them better 🧪🐙🦑 #MarineLife
December 5, 2023 at 3:16 AM
Here I am bluesky, another Marine biology Ph.D. student out here loving underrated creatures and trying to understand them better 🧪🐙🦑 #MarineLife