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Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈
@jimmybernot.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UConn. Marine biology, parasitic copepod taxonomy and evolution, crustacean genomics
www.BernotLab.org
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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
Bookmarking this quote! Well said!
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It doesn’t spit frequently, just when it thinks it sees food outside the water. Right now Legolas is only like an inch and a half (4cm) so it’s just a few drops of water. Will report back when it’s larger. Might need to build some kind of extension for the lid or splash guard if he gets rowdy 🤣
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Hahahahaha
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’ve been waiting for years to play that is Scrabble ever since I took a parasitology class. Among other things, the term is used for how certain protists line up to mate. Unfortunately not in the Scrabble dictionary 😆
September 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I almost when with Haldir but I thought that was too much of a LotR deep cut
September 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I loled 🤣
September 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Haha! to be fair I was feeding him flightless fruit flies 🤣
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM