Kaden Muffett

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏

Strobilating C. chesapeakei polyp

I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)

Slightly guilty looking fluffy black cat

Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her

A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed

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Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!

A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed

As you can probably guess, the AI image is way less cute than the actual winning video here: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’

The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)

YouTube video by RUNCL Fishing The cutest lumpsuckers you'll ever see

And "fishies" refers to baby lumpfish

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Now to get reviewers to believe these same rules should apply to jellyfish/jellyfishes

It looks a little Turritopsis- y but I’m no hydrozoa expert, will pass to my old lab tho :)

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language?

You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C.

Happy talk like a pirate day!

This came across my feed and I immediately bought 90$ of stickers to put on people’s cubicles

There are Cubaris isopods (family Armadillidae) with a variety of colors and patterns on a dark background. Panda King (Pink, Red), Crabby, Amber Panda, Bumblebee, White Shark, Lemon Blue, Pak Chong, Cherry Blossom, Jupiter, Ice Flower, Cappucino, Blonde Ducky, White Ducky, Rubber Ducky, Amber Ducky, Red Edge (Miyako), Caramel Cream, Murina (Anemone, Glacier, Papaya), Apricot, Firefly, Yellow Panda, Snow Bee, Giant Mandarin, Blue Pigeon, Opal, Green Laser, and Giant Raichu.

Cubaris Isopods

An edited iNaturalist project page for ctenophore day 10/04/2025. In the about it says Celebrate ctenophore day by going out and finding ctenophores on October 4th, 2025! Can we get to 1004+ new ctenophore observations to celebrate? Are you ready for the Cteno Day Bioblitz? Join today! inaturalist.org.projects/ctenophore-day-2025

It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!

🐙🦑🌿🧪

www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...

A close up of the head end of the worm.

Another close up of the head end.

Ok, back to the worms!
Meet Sabellaria alveolata. This beautiful polychaete worm has a golden crown.
This worm is also know as the honeycomb worm for the honeycomb like tubes they create in aggregations.
📸Auguste La Roux, Catherine Boyen

Can I just say that whoever is making these unhinged images for IOB is making my life measurably better

disks of about 100 different species of brittle stars varying in color and pattern

A stunning assortment of Japanese brittle stars, クモ ヒトデ via @Crinoidea_hk #echinoday

New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation

Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them."

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Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

Wow what cute jellyfish I bet someone really really stubborn made this figure in 2021 and then did a whole project just so they could put this picture in the paper

IOB's latest
#Regeneration and #Musculature in Halved #Cassiopea xamachana #Ephyrae
K M Muffett , M Mammone , J Puckett , G Martino , Aditi , M P Miglietta
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Day 126 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) having some unicorn time with the type specimen of Terebra aclinica (USNM645154)

#SavePRI #snails #fossils #MolluskMonday #EarthScience 🦑⚒️🦄

I had the unfortunate experience of finding that the other reviewer on a manuscript was using an unrefereed LLM to write their review. While the paper was fine, the clearly LLM feedback included such as questioning whether this journal was willing to publish null results and summarizing the paper😓 🧪

I don’t know if there are as good videos of it, but hydra can reassemble from dissociated cells as well I’m pretty sure. More fascinating than the presence of this in sponges to me is the way in which our rules of life are inherently defined by the things we see in vertebrates :)

Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

Regeneration and Musculature in Halved Cassiopea xamachana Ephyrae Synopsis. Adult Cassiopea medusae and their polyps have been known to regenerate tissue in uncontrolled and controlled conditions; however, the regeneratio

Another little article from my Texas days with Marta Mammone on Cassiopea regenerative capacity is out :)

Regeneration and Musculature in Halved Cassiopea xamachana Ephyrae url: academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

Aiptasia oral regeneration is host-controlled but supported by symbiont-derived photosynthates - Symbiosis The study of oral regeneration in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (commonly called Aiptasia) - a prominent model for the study of coral-algal symbiosis - offers the unique opportunity to investiga...

First publication with lpita.bsky.social looking at Aiptaisia oral regeneration!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While my metatranscriptome seqs are downloading, I have chosen to make little clay E. scolopes with tiny bows

A star plot demonstrating that the internal microbiome of Cassiopea has Pseudomonadales and Mycoplasmatales dominated regime across different sites

Relatedly, please appreciate my microbiome starplot!

In the top set of diamonds I show that the internal microbiome of Cassiopea has Pseudomonadales and Mycoplasmatales dominated regime across different sites, while the external microbiome only has Pseudo or no Pseudo.