Rebecca R Helm

Omg those are the little dudes!!!

Fun fact: Apache jumping spiders (Phidippus apacheanus) are completely harmless, but evolved to mimic velvet ants from the genus Dasymutilla so predators wouldn't mess with them.

I relate @beetlemoses.bsky.social, I relate

I'm not joking, this is not me being cleaver, I genuinely do not know: Is this real, or is this a parody? I can't tell anymore. Someone help.

This, this is what I’m here for..🙌

For a little bit of intrigue and learnin’

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Omg you make it sound like it’s been ages 🤣😂🤣 we only got the final piece (genetics) last fall. It has been a long time coming and I’m glad it’s in the world now.

There's something that feels a bit dead about the world right now, but tens of thousands of people just came together to help us solve a 100 year old mystery about a little blue jelly, and I find that heartbreakingly hopeful:

...well this just closed my throat and turned my stomach.

This kind of stuff makes the rest of the crap tolerable

Check out our latest preprint!

In our last thread, we left the jelly-enjoyers of Bluesky with a cliff hanger ending, in what one eager onlooker described as soap opera science 😜 ... wait no more, we are back! Grab your popcorn shrimp and come with us on a journey spanning more than...

bsky.app/profile/iwan...

Congratulations!

(Also yes! Keep academia free!)

Read this as 7 of 9 have now said no to the compact and wonder d what Star Trek reference I was missing

"If you just look at the x-axis right here, yes, see this axis?? Ok, so you'll notice how the value of PCA1 goes from -5 to positive 5, and how......NO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE AXIS!!"

So cool!

was randomly browsing r/megalophobia earlier only to see an image of stygiomedusa with a snorkeler at the surface, which is bonkers since it's a deep sea jelly. 🦑🧪

after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198...

about this observation:
www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y

Bolinopsis microptera comb jelly (ctenophore) swimming horizonally.

Let's do another #ctenophore survey.
You are scuba divining and see this lobate comb jelly cruising in search of prey. Is it swimming to the LEFT or RIGHT?
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A spherical comb jelly floating against a dark background, with its tentacles deployed, tentilla (side branches) fanned out. There is a number 1 above the body and number 2 below the body. Photo by S. Haddock taken around 1990.

For CTENOPHORE DAY, a little survey:
Which end of this fishing Pleurobrachia is the mouth on? Please just "vote" in the comments — no definitive answers. 🦑🧪🌊

P.S. this is one of my earliest #ctenophore photos, shot on film in a home-built kreisel.

P.P.S. Legit data-gathering for a future paper.

So true haha

Ok folks, time to help with actual science while scrolling social media!

Marine biologist Dr. Steve Haddock is conducting a study on public perception of this critter down below. He needs replies!

Please go talk to Steve and re-skeet far and wide!

Oooh so cool! I want to see it. Did you see it in theaters?

Yesssss!!! Our lab has a new paper out, and it comes with an awesome story:

Hey author friends! Please help! I do freelance writing, and I’m trying to find my DC pro and semi-pro writer friends.

How do I find them? Are there Bluesky starter packs, meetup group, professional societies?

How do writers find each other?

Happy Friday afternoon folks. Here be some leaf sheep wishing you a lovely day 🌊

I’m jelly. I’d love to go on one of their cruises

Soo coooool!!!!

Haha exactly 😂

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Aww this makes me happy! I’ve got your back! Real ocean only 💪