The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
I recently picked up a Helicoplacus for my collection. One of the earliest and strangest echinoderms.
Tiny millipede portrait #watercolors
I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life
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Here's Pseudoceros with a sea star friend! (Fromia indica) #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
COLOR BARF! aka Pseudoceros laingensis #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Pseudoceros MAXIMUS! hahal love that one! plus SWIMMY SWIM! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Ripping up $387 million worth of ocean-monitoring equipment? Tearing apart an elite atmospheric science hub?
For the Trump administration, as with the cruelty, the ignorance is the point
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Some of my favorite slugs I saw while teaching my Coral Reefs course last month on the Great Barrier Reef.
#invertebrate #sluglife #nudibranch
Recently while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpba...
Pseudoceros maximus from Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES on February 27, 2020 at 09:59 PM by Dennis Rabeling. GIF image. Night dive.
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Shutting down scientific inquiry because it discovers things you don’t like is a bit like turning off all the instruments on your plane because they warn you there’s a mountain ahead. It may satisfy y...
Waterfalls and More by Brook (my pics…carefully edited…no AI)
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Haley Grunloh
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Chris Mah
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Interesting reconstruction of the enigmatic Cambrian echinoderm Helicocystis, which is one of the oldest stalked echinoderms with radial symmetry. Fossils like Helicocystis are important because they help us understand how echinoderms evolved from bilateral to pentaradial body plans