Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A cartoon of 2 rhinocerous beetles clashing. One beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you!" and the other beetle is saying "I'm just trying to kiss you too!". Above them is text reading LGBTQ+ Journal Club in the colours of the progress pride flag.

Hello bluesky! We are an LGBTQ+ Biology Journal Club at Uni of Oxford 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. We are interested in topics relevant to queer ecology and amplifying queer voices in academia 🪲🌱.

For those in Oxford, we meet every 2 weeks - get in touch for more details! 🥳

A dead weevil with a fungus fruiting body growing out of it

Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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 🤣

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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 😆

I almost when with Haldir but I thought that was too much of a LotR deep cut

I loled 🤣

Haha! to be fair I was feeding him flightless fruit flies 🤣

This is my 1st time catching my pet archer fish, Legolas, spitting on camera. Archerfish use modified jaw and tongue bones to fire a jet of water to knock down bugs from over hanging vegetation. Here Legolas is shooting down a fruit fly 🪰 🐠🧪

POKEMON ‎🤍

The male of Dinemoleus indeprensus Cressey & Boyle, 1978 with a brief overview of sexual dimorphism in the family Pandaridae (Copepoda: Siphonostomato … The male of Dinemoleus indeprensus reported, to date, only on the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is described in detail. It has a 2-segmented a …

Not every day that you get to describe something from a Megamouth 🦈 🧪
This species of parasitic copepod was first described in 1978 from a Megamouth off Hawaii and has only been collected a couple of times. Here we describe the male for the first time www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/...

Plankton and Benthos Research, Volume 20, Issue Spec Published by The Plankton Society of Japan, The Japanese Association of Benthology. FREE ACCESS

The Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Copepoda has just been published! Very diverse research topics reflective of our diverse membership. Check it out: 🦐🧪
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/pbr/2...

New paper out in the WAC PeerJ hub:
Imaging analysis on two oceanic copepods peerj.com/articles/199... via @peerj.bsky.social

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

New study on #BlueSky for #SciComm.

“Bluesky posts demonstrate substantially higher levels of interaction (likes, reposts, replies, and quotes) and greater textual originality than previously reported for X, suggesting both stronger interactive and more interpretive engagement.”

🦋🦫🌱🐋🧪 #philsci

YouTube video by TED-Ed Is this the grossest parasite? - Niko Zlotnik

Fun TED-Ed video opening with a surprise quote from yours truly. Happy to have been included
youtu.be/7u98x3_r4_A?...

My Psychopsis mendenhall orchid is blooming and is so dramatic! (in the best way possible) 🪴

The 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda was undoubtably a major success! We couldn’t have asked for better hosts at CEMACS, Malaysia. We miss you already!

Presentations from our lab group at the International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda

Just completed the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda in Malaysia! Gained hands-on skills in copepod taxonomy, field collection, specimen dissection, and parasite data analysis plus presented my Lepeophtheirus ID key project.

Productive day of collecting at the 5th International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda (IWOSC) here in Penang, Malaysia 🇲🇾🧪

Selecting fish at a local fish market in Malaysia

Scientist dissecting an oyster to look for copepods

Scientist using a microscope to examine parasitic copepods from a fish

Scientist using a microscope to look at copepods

The lab in action collecting parasitic copepods in Malaysia!
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Thrilled for me and my students to be part of this!

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I like that you made it look like a hissing snake. Cool take

Starting the International Workshop on Symbiotic Copepoda at the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies in Malaysia

This is so fricking bad. Also, there goes the funding we were counting on for the stickleback stock center. Hopefully we'll find something else by May of next year

Flier for Mega Mammal Day Museum event free and open to the public at UConn Storrs. See taxidermy animals, skulls, antlers, and more! Lots of activities for kids and adults including a scavenger hunt

Tomorrow at UConn Storrs! Stop by! Lots of activities for adults and kids. I’ll be at a table talking about horns and antlers 🧪

I hope this is a start to a regular thing for my plant too! Stunning photo btw!