Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen! academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic... 🦀🦑🧪 - ThreadSky

jopabinia.bsky.social • 284 days ago

Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen!

https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/73/2/247/7370615

🦀🦑🧪

Comments

octopolis.bsky.social•83 days ago

Appropriate that the ‘Final form’ would be crab shaped!

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

😬

emilianocm.bsky.social•177 days ago

Its all crabs!!!!

compostwitch.bsky.social•284 days ago

PRAISE THE CRABWHEEL

timetravel.camp•248 days ago

swordznsorcery.bsky.social•284 days ago

Holy smoke, is that an image! 😎

americanbeetles.bsky.social•284 days ago

It’s beautiful

donadickinson.bsky.social•111 days ago

Saw this earlier and thought you might appreciate it:

https://bsky.app/profile/nantanreikan.bsky.social/post/3lg6huxgl7k2h

pamdapamduh.bsky.social•198 days ago

@themolluskk.bsky.social !!!

themolluskk.bsky.social•198 days ago

I wonder where ghost crabs fall on this 🤔

jopabinia.bsky.social•198 days ago

If you look at the section with the green outer circle, in the second from top (light blue second circle)

tomatojamsalad.bsky.social•159 days ago

so which colours are true crabs?

jopabinia.bsky.social•159 days ago

In this tree, all of them! Only the little uncolored bit at 12:00 is false crabs. We only focused on Brachyura in this study

tomatojamsalad.bsky.social•159 days ago

oh ok! assumed the paper was about carcinization but ig not

jopabinia.bsky.social•159 days ago

Good guess though because I wrote that too:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.202100020

steenyswank.bsky.social•83 days ago

This makes me want to write a fitting story.

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

Share to the crab feed if you do

steenyswank.bsky.social•82 days ago

omg😃❤️🦀

fluxandflow.bsky.social•276 days ago

That is an amazing image.

jopabinia.bsky.social•276 days ago

Thanks!

mazov.bsky.social•284 days ago

How long before we're all crabs?

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

sorry, won't happen! I got ratioed on this before, but it is true...

mazov.bsky.social•284 days ago

This is unforgiveable. You will not survive the crab jihad.

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

I mean I literally have them and their DNA, so they're my army now

vidmaster.net•284 days ago

Maybe *you* won’t become a crab, but my parents said I could be anything I wanted when I grow up and I’m not going to let pesky evolutionary biology get in the way of my crab dreams

dollyzoom.bsky.social•284 days ago

This is a really great, intuitive figure

karen-newcombe.bsky.social•283 days ago

I love it!! The blue land crabs were quite common in South Florida when I was a kid. You rarely see one in town anymore, but I’m sure they’ll be back in force eventually. 🦀

jopabinia.bsky.social•283 days ago

The photo of that species in Fig 1 is from FL but I'm not sure when it was taken

matt.giltaji.com•284 days ago

crab rave dot mp4

sammitch.bsky.social•277 days ago

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiircle of crabs,
And it moves us all [sideways]

eljnor.bsky.social•277 days ago

Oh, very cool!

katharinehayhoe.com•83 days ago

sharing because I also agree it Must Be Seen 🦀

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

AND I should add, this paper was almost entirely paid for by a sequence of NSF grants! (one author was a Marie Curie postdoc)

mirainthedark.bsky.social•83 days ago

Layman brought here by Katherine Hayhoe's repost: After seeing the post with the picture of the coconut crab next to the dog, I did not realize that crabs - true or false - get that big! 🤯 Is that as big as they get? Should I be afraid of them?

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you! Just had a zoom about how to top this figure in the next crab paper 🤣

sockynoob.bsky.social•284 days ago

CRAB WHEEL

drkmabrams.bsky.social•284 days ago

So pretty 😍

cluelessrebel.bsky.social•82 days ago

Holy crab! Unlike me you are not procrustaceanating your work.

64ordle.au•82 days ago

Oooh! A lovely picture of convergent evolution and carcinisation that I’m sure @charlottebenton.bsky.social will be very excited by.

dracoreth.bsky.social•159 days ago

I now have a favourite crab, thats on you.

tomatojamsalad.bsky.social•159 days ago

gummycrab

dracoreth.bsky.social•159 days ago

Tiny, angry gummy

jopabinia.bsky.social•159 days ago

good choice!

multiverserift.bsky.social•277 days ago

Oh god. Since I started crab jokes, those guys keep haunting me.

I'M SORRY ABOUT THE CRAB JOKES, I NEVER MEANT TO BE SO SHELLFISH

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•284 days ago

LOVE that figure.

dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social•83 days ago

That's gorgeous! (And congratulations!)

himboblacksmith.bsky.social•279 days ago

I don't think I commented last time I saw this picture, but I just want to say it's genuinely one of the most wonderful things I've seen all year. It's really, truly gorgeous

jopabinia.bsky.social•279 days ago

thank you!

freetailed.bsky.social•83 days ago

Hopefully someone from #WildGreenMemes finds this because it is gold

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

I still had fb when it came out - might have posted to crustacean memes for crabby fiends (honestly don't remember now)

islandofreil.bsky.social•177 days ago

@crabspromenade.bsky.social

ladyaranea.bsky.social•82 days ago

I wanted to be sure you saw this. https://bsky.app/profile/profbeeman.bsky.social/post/3lik4rreues2a

eveninghawk.bsky.social•124 days ago

Um poster? I want this in my museum collection

jopabinia.bsky.social•124 days ago

Sorry I don't have the ability to produce prints

jopabinia.bsky.social•277 days ago

goldstein.bsky.social•252 days ago

Is that final final form a crab?

truenorthherbals.bsky.social•178 days ago

It’s gorgeous!!!! Congrats!

ashleyreynolds.ca•83 days ago

There is no Dana, only Crab

mackayim.bsky.social•284 days ago

Gorgeous image!

dennish.bsky.social•284 days ago

A gorgeous re-crab of your paper! 🦀😍

pseudandry.bsky.social•283 days ago

Time to spin the
Wheel
Of
CRAAAAAABS

heywhoopiecat.bsky.social•103 days ago

jopabinia.bsky.social•103 days ago

That's a different paper, this one

godhammer6.bsky.social•284 days ago

It's crabs, crabs all the way down.

nickfortunato.bsky.social•283 days ago

Very interesting stuff.

jopabinia.bsky.social•283 days ago

Thank you!

nickfortunato.bsky.social•283 days ago

Thanks for sharing! This place is a treasure trove of good people and imformation.

frostyplum.bsky.social•277 days ago

crabs. crabs. crabs. CRABS. CRABS. CRABS CRABS CRABS CRABS CRABSCRABSCRABS

becca.gomezfarrell.com•282 days ago

Very nice!

gloverg.bsky.social•178 days ago

This is so cool!

knut.dundasmora.no•284 days ago

The new zodiac looks really good!

bushbark.bsky.social•164 days ago

Fabulous image 🦀

williamskumar.bsky.social•131 days ago

Awesome graph! 📈

tiffanytroia.bsky.social•82 days ago

I used to do illustrations and graphics for education in healthcare and I must say this is a sweet graphic and it's a shame they didn't use it!

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

Thank you so much! A labeled version of it is Figure 2 in the paper though, so it is still published. Just not on the cover, which really only matters for bragging rights haha.

A few years ago I got the cover of Proceedings B, which always uses nature photos:

tiffanytroia.bsky.social•82 days ago

I'm so glad they still used it! It looks like it took a LOT of work and it's so well executed! Thank you for the link to the study! I'll check it out 😁

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

Well they would not be able to publish the paper without the figures obviously! And yes it was a ridiculous amount of work - I think we had about 6 zooms just to plan the figure 🤣

tiffanytroia.bsky.social•82 days ago

wow that is a lot of work!! Y'all did such an amazing job! It has so much information on it, yet it's clean and easy to read and reference. That's so difficult to do with a lot of info to put on a graph, but y'all seriously knocked it out of the park & still looks beautiful & interesting!

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

We've started planning v2 now, which has more than 2x the species 🤣

amsutter.com•160 days ago

I can't tell you how much I love this

laminda.bsky.social•284 days ago

Congratulations! Also, alas that our own final final form will never be crab-shaped

leppeppel.bsky.social•82 days ago

The Crabs Cycle

exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social•284 days ago

Just beautiful, Dr. Wolfe! ✨

xopherx.bsky.social•55 days ago

This is beautiful.

prynnford.bsky.social•282 days ago

It’s beautiful! Can you put your signage on it so I can post it with your permission and giving proper credit?

jopabinia.bsky.social•282 days ago

Um it's Saturday and I'm on my phone, not inkscape. Where is it that you want to post that text credit and a link to my paper is insufficient?

prynnford.bsky.social•282 days ago

I really wanted the pic to post to fellow veterinary groups but I can create an image with the ref.

jopabinia.bsky.social•282 days ago

BTW is there such a thing as a crab veterinarian? I've read a bit about their diseases but I'm not sure there's much known in the way of treatments?

prynnford.bsky.social•282 days ago

I am an pet exotics vet and there is some limited care of creatures-with-exoskeletons. The most common and therefore more advanced medicine is for tarantulas. Otherwise mostly husbandry advice. There are fish/aquaria vets. more advanced vet knowledge is in zoo/aquaria and lab animal vet med.

jopabinia.bsky.social•282 days ago

That's really cool, def earns a follow!

jopabinia.bsky.social•282 days ago

Yeah I guess I'm not familiar with websites that don't allow links

kandoh.bsky.social•284 days ago

I wonder if we ever discover an alien life on another world, would they be crabs?

I know, apparently, that if we ever find an alien with a vertebrae it would mean we were related.

But would would a crab indicate?

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

I answered that a couple of years ago:

kandoh.bsky.social•284 days ago

Interesting, I'm surprised there is nothing unique to crabs on earth on the level of the vertebrae. They're all stock parts, no dlc

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

I mean, there are 11,000 species of crab and they diverged 300 million years ago (before dinosaurs).
There are >60,000 vertebrate species and they diverged 500 million years ago. So it's a much bigger group you're comparing to.

fernandogros.com•284 days ago

This would make a wonderful poster.

jopabinia.bsky.social•283 days ago

Yeah I don't have a real website so unfortunately I don't have anywhere to host a high res version

orpach.bsky.social•283 days ago

Alright, who's everyone got in crab march madness?

I'm all in on snow crab.

jopabinia.bsky.social•283 days ago

There actually was a #FiddlerCrabBracket made by @mrosenberg.bsky.social !

This was the winning species:

mrosenberg.bsky.social•283 days ago

Someone else can run a crab bracket next year. I did my duty

jopabinia.bsky.social•283 days ago

It was epic!

zreyas.bsky.social•159 days ago

It's awesome!

yooberz.postes.club•82 days ago

It's crab o clock

isaac32767.picknit.com•275 days ago

What's your sign? Mine is Coconut Crab.

jopabinia.bsky.social•275 days ago

Ya look at my profile pic!

But coconut crabs aren't true crabs (Brachyura) so they aren't in this tree

isaac32767.picknit.com•275 days ago

Oh darn. I was anxious to make a funny, so I googled "list of land crab species" and picked one that sounded good. Oh well.

plesiomorphy.bsky.social•275 days ago

Ahhh I dream of seeing a coconut crab! I also love horseshoe crabs (also not crabs)

queensissy.bsky.social•248 days ago

full back tattoo you can do it jo!

jopabinia.bsky.social•248 days ago

Haha I am terrified of needles!*

*but I still get vaccines because unlike a tattoo, it's perilous not to

plesiomorphy.bsky.social•284 days ago

So much morphological diversity but they’re all shaped like friends! Love the photo of Calappa calappa in the paper, it’s so cute!

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

if you enjoy Calappa, it was also one of the most popular when the paper "came out" before and I made this thread! should be several facts about it in there

mragsac.com•177 days ago

This figure is GORGEOUS 🎨 Truly something that I imagine seeing as a poster 🤩✨

jopabinia.bsky.social•177 days ago

Thanks!

The science version looks like this:

clownfish16.bsky.social•169 days ago

Hey is it okay if a ask you a few questions about cyno bacteria I have seen it in my tank and I want to learn more about it?

jopabinia.bsky.social•169 days ago

I probably won't know, because I haven't had a fishtank in about 18 years. But there is a feed for that:

jopabinia.bsky.social•169 days ago

Oh and I looked at your profile, I have never had a marine fishtank at all. So I wouldn't be much help unfortunately

clownfish16.bsky.social•169 days ago

That's okay but thank you for responding.

jopabinia.bsky.social•169 days ago

Sorry!

clownfish16.bsky.social•169 days ago

It's okay!

kentonagbone.bsky.social•82 days ago

When we find advanced alien life will it be crab?

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

I did this interview a few years ago (spoiler: prob no)

markscherz.bsky.social•83 days ago

this tree is *gorgeous* 🦀
I tried to get a similar image for the cover some years ago with some cichlid fish; I am getting the impression they just don't like radial trees on the cover (or get them too often).

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

yeah I think it's a too often thing...I was sort of watching the ones that showed up before (but of course can't predict how long it will take).

anyway the view/altmetric stats on this are so good I bet they're regretting it. AND all the reskeets of this skeet don't even count!

markscherz.bsky.social•83 days ago

Definitely! Their loss!

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

was yours this paper? I've read it before!

https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/71/3/741/6524649?login=false

markscherz.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes!

jopabinia.bsky.social•83 days ago

killer title honestly

rebeccaaweber.bsky.social•82 days ago

This is very cool as what it actually is, but hear me out:

Tournament bracket

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

haha check out #FiddlerCrabBracket from last year

ratwife42069.bsky.social•115 days ago

This figure is incredible!!!!

unlabeledelder.bsky.social•284 days ago

📌

anthropologal.bsky.social•83 days ago

Ok now I want an all crab zodiac after reading the alt text. “What’s your sign?”
“I’m just a lil guy with long buff claws.”

nagle.bsky.social•82 days ago

@dannastaaf.bsky.social - this image made me think of you

dannastaaf.bsky.social•82 days ago

Ahhh thank you! You are so right--it's one of my favorite figures ever 😍🦀

jopabinia.bsky.social•82 days ago

😍😭

nagle.bsky.social•81 days ago

yeah it's really good!!

whetstone.bsky.social•284 days ago

This is the most beautiful depiction of carcinization I've ever seen. Absolutely magical. The crab truly is the most perfect animal form.

rabagast.bsky.social•284 days ago

now i wanna be a crab
now i wanna be a crab
now i wanna be a crab

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

Almost all of the species here are already carcinized, as the are true crabs (but check in the purples). The main figure from my carcinization paper is this:

jopabinia.bsky.social•284 days ago

Also one of the dark green ones at the left. They do lose carcinization a few times in true crabs