marine ecology 🌊🐌 | invertebrate nerd, cephalopods, crabs & nudibranchs 🦑🤿📷 | PhD at UNSW | Impacts of artificial light at night on coastal marine ecosystems 🦀🧐| https://lnk.bio/nikihubbard | Australia & Wales | He/him
Niki Hubbard 🐙🦀
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the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting
On this World Oceans Day we are proud to unveil the latest extension of the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1, 2023, and running for three years through May 1, 2026 🪸🌎🪸
We like to imagine that voters make decisions on the basis of accountability and attribution. But they never have, and never will. It's time to drop the myths and build our politics on things that work, such as inspiration and transformation. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.
But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅
First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.
#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates
The fibre community on Bluesky need to see this 🧶
Another Haeckel plate for World Ocean Day. This one depicts a variety of marine annelid worm species labeled Chaetopoda, an obsolete taxonomical term. A favorite that I’ve posted before, it looks even more striking in person.
Coin for scale.
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Just noticed that City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social is 99p on Kobo today. It's one hell of a book, full of fascinating characters struggling with power & oppression.
I haven't checked, but the ebook might be cheap in other places right now too.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus
🎥 by me during field work :)
In these strange and uncertain times, this is our guiding account philosophy ✨🪼✨
🧵 Click on this thread for regularly updating ocean posts 🧵
You’d expect the public face of Brexit to be punished by voters. But history shows that such leaders often profit from the chaos they sow, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Read "City of Last Chances Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Series 2025" by Adrian Tchaikovsky available from Rakuten Kobo. 2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2022 BRIT...
Your plots and figures deserve some sea slug style! The nudibranch colour palette package is up on CRAN! 🎨
Can now be found and installed without even needing to tab away from R Studio.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates
Rebecca R Helm
Rebecca R Helm
Happy World Ocean Day!
Unlike free-swimming jellyfish, Stauromedusa are sessile cnidarians that attach to surfaces like seaweed or rocks & are the sole living members of the class Staurozoa.
Illustration from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel.
Coin for scale.
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