Much fun filming with Vic Gill, camera crew somehow made my office look quite nice and not full of dead snails and multiple pairs of old trainers.

Update: illegally traded shells have now disappeared from Etsy. 3/3

For snail Friday, new image of Polymita picta from Tetas de Santa*, Cuba #cuba #snail #snailfriday #alliterationfail #polymita *try translating that 😭, I am going with Santa's tits although that might not be exactly correct

Very excited and delighted for new paper by my #UoN colleague Tom Reader, exploring the mechanisms behind Batesian mimicry using 3D printed insects: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... There's a N&V, a podcast and a blog to accompany it!
#mimicry #batesian #UoN #hoverfly #wasp

Garden snails 🐌 try to stab each other with 'love darts' prior to mating. We finally got it on video!

We could hear a 'ding' as the dart pierced through the body and hit the glass on the other side. Ouch!

#snails #lovedarts #bbcspringwatch #UoN

Jack and Evelyn mocked up the "exterior" shots in the studio, mostly by raiding courtyards and vegetation around the Life Sciences building. The "moon" in the baby snail shot is of course also not the real moon. #behindthescenes

Our snails 🐌 featured on #BBCSpringwatch last night. A lot of work for five minutes of film - but quite pleased overall. Mostly shot in studio in Life Sciences, rest on campus.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002 (14 minutes into program, UK only or VPN)
instagram.com/reel/DK0DmMntmMZ #BBC #snails #UoN

Snails seeking a nicotine high 🚬, after recent rain #snails #recycling 🚬🐌🚬

Probably the most complete snail genome yet, a chromosome-Level assembly for the aptly-named, invasive 'Asian Tramp Snail' Bradybaena similaris. This particular one was not difficult - but it has been a long road to get to this point. #genomics #snails #HiFi #PacBio academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Snails of Cuba! We found 5 species, including the most endangered and most beautiful, Polymita sulphurosa. Project on evolution/conservation of these snails, led by Cuba, me @ #UoN, and working with London zoo, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

#snails #cuba #fieldwork

First day of field work in eastern Cuba. 5 am depart, 8 pm return. No snails, no breakfast, no lunch, 35°C, ran out of water, no food or drink in shops!

But we did see a dude cow-surfing (?)
#Cuba #fieldwork #snails

Jeremy, the snail that launches books! Snail story #4 out February 4th, pre-order here: mimshousebooks.com/products/jer... #snaillove #LeftySnail

Lab trip to Molluscan forum @ Natural History Museum, London. BBSRC student Alec Lewis presenting our new work on Cuban Polymita.
#BBSRC #Polymita #NHM #Malacsoc #Mollusc #Snail

🐌 Woo hoo 🐌, just heard I got ODA funding to work on Cuban Polymita snails .... in Cuba. Fantástico! Picture credit: Dr Bernardo Reyes-Tur, collaborator
#snails #Cuba #polymita #science

Japanese snail stretching to the limits at #UoN open day today. Species is sinistral Euhadra quaesita.
#snail #japan #science #chirality

Real-time diagnosis of CNS tumours using nanopore sequencing. What used to take weeks can be done while surgeon is still operating. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #genomics #medicine #UoN #nanopore 🧬 & 🖥️