Sara Santos

Prospective employers expect letters tailored to their institution and elaborate plans on how we will contribute to their mission, yet can’t even send an email saying “no” after you spend hours working on the application. A bit of humanity would go a long way.

If @utaustin.bsky.social had a marine mascot it would be the Temora Longicornis (image from iNaturalist)

Academics can have PhDs and publish groundbreaking work on the biomechanics of squid tentacles and still hit “Reply All” on a department-wide email… and then Reply All again to say “Recall.”

Brains: high-speed fiber
Email skills: dial-up

Going around the bend to understand the role of leg coalescence in metachronal swimming Summary: Shrimp swimming legs bend nearly horizontally and cluster together during metachronal propulsion to reduce drag and improve overall swimming performance.

“How do you do fellow propellers?” — Shrimp, never
They bend their appendages instead.
We explain why 🦐🦐 read our new JEB paper, with Nils Tack and @mmwilhelmus.bsky.social, at @brownengineering.bsky.social . 🧪🌊

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Mistakes were made.

We’re starting Queer in Fluid Dynamics (QFD)—a new LGBTQIA+ community of scientists, engineers, students & allies to connect, support each other & celebrate who we are.

We’ll meet at APS DFD in Houston—join now to help define our mission. DM me to be added!

#QueerInSTEM

One of my favorite things about living in the US is sending non-Europe bird pictures to my bird-aficionado parents who live in Europe. This yellow-crowned night heron is only found in the Americas, so I get to share it with my parents as a novelty!

Snooze fest…

My first stained glass project, in its final form! A wedding gift for my sister and her husband, with their initials. May be my first and last but I learned!

The face of a dog who knows I’m about to get up to grab the ball even though she knows very well she needs to give me the ball back if she wants to fetch

You can cancel the Super Bowl, all we need is the Beyoncé Bowl.

Nothing makes me feel more grounded than being in the middle of reading some papers and getting a call from my aunt saying I need to go over immediately because her dishwasher isn’t working and I need to fix it.

SKRIMP was such a better name, this is a travesty!! Awesome science though!

Joe, it’s now Tuesday where I am in Portugal, where is the pooooooscasssttttt??????

WHERE IS ITTTTTT. I NEED IT

European airports are like a mall with long distance costumer shuttles. Catching your flight is very much secondary. Miss your flight because you’re forced to meander through the mall to get to your gate? Excellent!, more time to shop.

He has said he does not want to return to the US and wants to go back to Damascus. He was in Syria for religious purposes.

The art and the artist. Formerly a fox head.

Sara Oliveira Santos - UT Institute for Geophysics Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Sara Oliveira Santos is a research scientist focused on ecological and environmental fluid mechanics. During her Ph.D. at Brown University, she used shrimp as a model...

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Our work on copepod migrations has the best figures you’ve ever seen. The science is great too, but look at that figure! 🦑🧪

For giving Tuesday, I am giving you all the gift of SHRIIIIIIIMPPPPPP 🦑🧪 Litopenaeus vannamei is one of the easiest shrimp to work with for experiments, if you ever find yourself in that position. You can grab them and place them where you’d like them to swim and they’ll do it gently

Black dog with its tongue out, in front of a wooden water tower, standing inside a doggy bathtub

Glad I gave her a bath this week, otherwise she wouldn’t have taken as much satisfaction from going in the mud and the doggy bathtub

I work on ecological fluid mechanics, studying shrimp swimming to inspire underwater robots. I’ve also recently started to look at sediment transport in reduced gravity. I do experiments with robots and live animals.

Thank you for saying this so clearly. Until then, I’ll continue sending some awkward emails calling people out

Do you feel like you need more shrimp in your life? The answer is always YES! If you’re at APS DFD in Salt Lake, I’ve got shrimp videos galore! Tuesday at 8:26 am in ballroom D! 🦐

I binged all of it today and cried through most of the episodes, so thank you and f*ck you Mike

The lack of shrimp in this feed is disturbing, and I’m taking it upon myself to fix this great error of human kind! All hail king pacific white, Litopenaeus vannamei 🦑

Both me and my dog looooove lobster

Cocoa beach, FL lost many feet of sand during hurricane Milton, but much less in planted areas. Vegetation is essential in the prevention of coastal erosion. Fungi are also suspicious… are they the glue that holds it all together? 🧪

Hey there, shell-shocked humans! It's me, the pacific white shrimp, taking over this Bluesky account to spread the word about #ShrimpWeek! We are the true pearls of the ocean! From the tiny brine shrimp to the majestic mantis shrimp, we will take over the world! Prepare for shrimpocalipse.