Jeff Shields
krabdr.bsky.social
Jeff Shields
@krabdr.bsky.social
Prof at VIMS. Marine parasites, pathogens, all things crustacean, disease ecology, marine invertebrates.
Crustacean eyes are things of beauty and they vary between taxa.
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 PM
As a former research scuba diver and someone who's worked with nets, I'd say underwater basket weaving could be a very difficult class. It could be sold as an applied science class if used to build a better fishtrap!
December 4, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I was considering having students write new lyrics for famous songs with the theme being marine biology or marine science. I'm a bit old school, so I was thinking "That's Choreography" from "White Christmas" with the lead in being "That's Oceanography!" Such fun!
December 4, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The work arising from the shrimp on a treadmill research has important implications to crustacean health, particularly with respect to incipient bacterial infections common in these animals.
December 3, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I've had 3 different species of Kalanchoe. The one you have gets messy. Mine only flowered in its second year, but reached about 6' in a small pot.
December 1, 2024 at 9:47 PM
NPR had a good review on it this week. That may stimulate a migration. It's certainly why I'm here.
November 22, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Thus even greater damage is done when scientists falsify their findings. Yes it may eventually be corrected, but in the interim, fake science is believed for a long time.
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
There are no reports of cancers in lobsters, but they do get neoplasms or harmatomas that are tumors induced by injury, with abnormal wound repair.
November 21, 2024 at 6:21 PM
This is likely a neoplasm or harmatoma. A metaplastic growth caused by injury. It's probably not a cancer, but it could be considered a tumor.
November 21, 2024 at 6:20 PM