Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist

I live at the top of the South Island in New Zealand. There are eels everywhere here.

Lots of eels in a shallow river.

An abundance of eels at the bottom of my road!

I love how marine mammal sightings are always slightly disappointing but if you see a nudibranch it's genuinely the shit 🥹
Inverts will never be beat for sheer beauty.

Being anti vaccines for babies is one of the surest signs of a declining civilisation. There could be no clearer evidence on childhood vaccination saving lives and preserving health and yet we’re being distracted by debating this issue.

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I feel this. Sending strength!

I strongly second this! 👏🏾

When talking about science communication, I also always stress that *all* forms and forums of communication matter 🔄

Whether it’s a big, factually correct but details-lite TV show or movie…or just chatting to granny or your mates in a pub 🗣️

Although minute in size, they represent remarkable taxonomic and ecological diversity.
Some species are widespread, while others may be highly localized or even undescribed.
For malacologists, such micro-snails offer valuable insight into biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation.

From a handful of forest leaf litter, a hidden world emerges.
These tiny land snails — each only a few millimeters across — were sorted from decomposed leaves and soil under the microscope.

#陸産貝類 #軟体動物 #貝類 #巻貝 #カタツムリ #無脊椎動物 #photography #mollusk #landsnail #invertebrate #マイマイ #Diplommatina

Day 19 - Depths. blood belly comb jelly (Ctenophora), helmet jellyfish (Cnidaria). Animals in the deep sea are some of the most beautiful, particularly the jellies with bodies like abstract portraits that move ethereally in the abyss. Here are two drawings of jellies you can find in the deep sea.

ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa Phylum Annelida are ubiquitous metazoans found in almost every terrestrial and aquatic habitat on Earth. Historically, taxonomic studies on the phylum have been focused largely on its majorgroups, pol...

#WormWednesday
ANNiKEY Linear – diagnoses, descriptions, and a single-access identification key to Annelida family-level taxa in @zookeys.pensoft.net by Glasby et al.

A great resource!

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1376...

Yeesh

It's not jellyfish mode?

"As empiricists, we can take encouragement from the fact that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself recognises, with ‘high confidence’, that “collective action as part of social or lifestyle movements underpins system change”."

"These movements provide vital opportunities to push for change and we argue there are myriad ways for the science community to support them."

How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...

"In response to the systemic failure of governments to act on the scientific evidence, over the past 5 yrs a new wave of environmental social movements has been actively challenging the balance of power & elevating these crises up the public, media & political agenda."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

I'm less fussy. Especially if it's tasty

Surely there is enough cheese and other food products for all of us?! I'll share!

I created a BioBlitz project on iNaturalist folks can join to celebrate:

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

A retweet quoted with "it hurts to see people living your dream (being sponsored by Parmesan cheese) (not an Olympic silver medal)". The quoted post shows two pictures of an athlete with a large cheese wheel and a slice of Parmesan and is captioned "I need the people to know that Olympic silver medalist Georgia Villa is sponsored by Parmesan cheese and regularly posts pics of herself with giant wheels of cheese"

Science needs this kind of sponsorship. I am 100% open to posing with cheese or really most foods in exchange for social media posts, large logos on conferences presentations, and copiously talking about said food.

Call me anytime. DMs are open.

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis

If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word!
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I'm using this

More isopods, more happiness

Worm regards!

I saw a local politician texting and driving. I didn't vote for them. You'd be disappointed....

Shirtless von Ponytail 😂

Sabellaria cementarium apparently so a v close relative!

We love a crustacean frend

Lol yeah that could be an issue 😂