Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️🌈
@jimmybernot.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UConn. Marine biology, parasitic copepod taxonomy and evolution, crustacean genomics
www.BernotLab.org
www.BernotLab.org
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Hi I’m Jimmy 👋
I’m a professor at the University of Connecticut where I study crustaceans & parasites. I specialize on parasitic copepods which imo r the strangest animals on earth. I post about science, invertebrates, & ocean life, with a side of house plants 🪴. I love talking about science so AMA
I’m a professor at the University of Connecticut where I study crustaceans & parasites. I specialize on parasitic copepods which imo r the strangest animals on earth. I post about science, invertebrates, & ocean life, with a side of house plants 🪴. I love talking about science so AMA
ULINE having this product image in 2025 made my day
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ULINE having this product image in 2025 made my day
A lady slipper orchid (Phragmipedium) blooming to brighten your day 🪴
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A lady slipper orchid (Phragmipedium) blooming to brighten your day 🪴
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Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
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STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM
WAC is offering up to three student research grants per year in accordance with the availability of WAC funds, with each award covering up to $1,000 maximum to support copepod research (including but ...
www.monoculus.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Submissions for the WAC Student Grant program are open now until Dec 1. We anticipate making up to three $1,000 awards to support student (graduate or undergraduate) research on copepods. See details👇
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
www.monoculus.org/student-gran...
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New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum
An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
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I do so love a good ramble through a museum collection! They reek of science, mystery and discovery and though mostly comprised of the long deceased, they live on as some of the most important players in the battle to understand and conserve this majestic Earth.
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I do so love a good ramble through a museum collection! They reek of science, mystery and discovery and though mostly comprised of the long deceased, they live on as some of the most important players in the battle to understand and conserve this majestic Earth.
Beautiful photos and fun stories about the UConn research collections. Check out the one about the exploding whale or the moose skeleton transported on the roof of a Volkswagen beetle 🧪
today.uconn.edu/2025/10/tale...
today.uconn.edu/2025/10/tale...
Tales From the Collections - UConn Today
Collecting, skinning, and skeletonizing – for science!
today.uconn.edu
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Beautiful photos and fun stories about the UConn research collections. Check out the one about the exploding whale or the moose skeleton transported on the roof of a Volkswagen beetle 🧪
today.uconn.edu/2025/10/tale...
today.uconn.edu/2025/10/tale...
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This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hello bluesky! We are an LGBTQ+ Biology Journal Club at Uni of Oxford 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. We are interested in topics relevant to queer ecology and amplifying queer voices in academia 🪲🌱.
For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳
For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hello bluesky! We are an LGBTQ+ Biology Journal Club at Uni of Oxford 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. We are interested in topics relevant to queer ecology and amplifying queer voices in academia 🪲🌱.
For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳
For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳
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Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.
May 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪
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Not every day that you get to describe something from a Megamouth 🦈 🧪
This species of parasitic copepod was first described in 1978 from a Megamouth off Hawaii and has only been collected a couple of times. Here we describe the male for the first time www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/...
This species of parasitic copepod was first described in 1978 from a Megamouth off Hawaii and has only been collected a couple of times. Here we describe the male for the first time www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/...
The male of Dinemoleus indeprensus Cressey & Boyle, 1978 with a brief overview of sexual dimorphism in the family Pandaridae (Copepoda: Siphonostomato …
The male of Dinemoleus indeprensus reported, to date, only on the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is described in detail. It has a 2-segmented a …
www.jstage.jst.go.jp
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Not every day that you get to describe something from a Megamouth 🦈 🧪
This species of parasitic copepod was first described in 1978 from a Megamouth off Hawaii and has only been collected a couple of times. Here we describe the male for the first time www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/...
This species of parasitic copepod was first described in 1978 from a Megamouth off Hawaii and has only been collected a couple of times. Here we describe the male for the first time www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/...
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The Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Copepoda has just been published! Very diverse research topics reflective of our diverse membership. Check it out: 🦐🧪
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pbr/2...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pbr/2...
Plankton and Benthos Research, Volume 20, Issue Spec
Published by The Plankton Society of Japan, The Japanese Association of Benthology. FREE ACCESS
www.jstage.jst.go.jp
September 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Copepoda has just been published! Very diverse research topics reflective of our diverse membership. Check it out: 🦐🧪
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pbr/2...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pbr/2...
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New paper out in the WAC PeerJ hub:
Imaging analysis on two oceanic copepods peerj.com/articles/199... via @peerj.bsky.social
Imaging analysis on two oceanic copepods peerj.com/articles/199... via @peerj.bsky.social
Analysis of imaging data on seasonal changes in the population structure and vertical distribution of two dominant planktonic copepod species in the western subarctic Pacific
Traditionally, zooplankton analyses have relied on stereomicroscopes, but recent advancements in imaging analysis have offered significant advantages, including the simultaneous collection of abundanc...
peerj.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
New paper out in the WAC PeerJ hub:
Imaging analysis on two oceanic copepods peerj.com/articles/199... via @peerj.bsky.social
Imaging analysis on two oceanic copepods peerj.com/articles/199... via @peerj.bsky.social
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New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm.
“Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.”
🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci
“Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.”
🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
www.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fun TED-Ed video opening with a surprise quote from yours truly. Happy to have been included
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Is this the grossest parasite? - Niko Zlotnik
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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August 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Fun TED-Ed video opening with a surprise quote from yours truly. Happy to have been included
youtu.be/7u98x3_r4_A?...
youtu.be/7u98x3_r4_A?...
My Psychopsis mendenhall orchid is blooming and is so dramatic! (in the best way possible) 🪴
August 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My Psychopsis mendenhall orchid is blooming and is so dramatic! (in the best way possible) 🪴
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The 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda was undoubtably a major success! We couldn’t have asked for better hosts at CEMACS, Malaysia. We miss you already!
August 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda was undoubtably a major success! We couldn’t have asked for better hosts at CEMACS, Malaysia. We miss you already!
Presentations from our lab group at the International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda
August 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Presentations from our lab group at the International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda
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Just completed the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda in Malaysia! Gained hands-on skills in copepod taxonomy, field collection, specimen dissection, and parasite data analysis plus presented my Lepeophtheirus ID key project.
August 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just completed the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda in Malaysia! Gained hands-on skills in copepod taxonomy, field collection, specimen dissection, and parasite data analysis plus presented my Lepeophtheirus ID key project.
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Productive day of collecting at the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda (IWOSC) here in Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾🧪
August 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Productive day of collecting at the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda (IWOSC) here in Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾🧪
The lab in action collecting parasitic copepods in Malaysia!
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August 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The lab in action collecting parasitic copepods in Malaysia!
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Thrilled for me and my students to be part of this!
Tutors and organizers of the current International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepods (IWOSC). Official photo of the whole group to be taken on Friday. Stay tuned for more!
August 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thrilled for me and my students to be part of this!
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Do you have a dive bar, gay bar, freaky yoga studio, burlesque establishment, or otherwise appropriate venue for these? Wanna put some there for me? Text your name, address, and venue to the OG Squid Facts Hotline 9-RUNG-SQUID, & I'll mail 'em to you. I'll delete this when I hit my mailing limit.
I went into goblin mode last night and completed what is for sure the most unhinged zine I have produced to date.
I'll fold some up tonight and put them around and see how people react lol
If anyone is interested in printing one for your own enjoyment, here ya go drive.google.com/file/d/1eVEW...
I'll fold some up tonight and put them around and see how people react lol
If anyone is interested in printing one for your own enjoyment, here ya go drive.google.com/file/d/1eVEW...
August 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Do you have a dive bar, gay bar, freaky yoga studio, burlesque establishment, or otherwise appropriate venue for these? Wanna put some there for me? Text your name, address, and venue to the OG Squid Facts Hotline 9-RUNG-SQUID, & I'll mail 'em to you. I'll delete this when I hit my mailing limit.