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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7763972... Carabidae, Mormolyce, violin beetle, ground beetle, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ, Otago Museum.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7763937... Palaemonidae, Macrobrachium, freshwater prawn, prawn, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7763646... Otago Museum, Dunedin, Daldorfia, elbow crab, rubble crab, Parthenopidae, Dunedin NZ.

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7762958... Jacquinotia, Majidae, spider crab, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ, giant crab.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7762921... Homarus, Nephropidae, lobster, european lobster, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7762378... Otago Museum, Dunedin, Raninia, Raninidae, spanner crab, frog crab, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7762341... Birgus, Coenobitidae, coconut crab, robber crab, george gross, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ, pre-linnaean binomial.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7762015... Epialtidae, moss crab, loxorhynchus, decorator crab, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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Not since Moo Deng have I seen an animal captivate, move and inspire artists like this lost #anglerfish has

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7761109... Otago Museum, Dunedin, argonaut, paper nautilus, argonauta, Argonautidae, pelagic mollusc, pelagic octopus, octopus.

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I just saw a drongo on another social media platform demand that superhero movies should turn the clock back 20 years to when ‘the scripts were good’. So I googled ‘superhero movies 2005’…

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A quite exciting (I won't deny a certain amount of squee-ing) find in Rockingham yesterday - a Parastephanellus sp. Crown Wasp (Fam. Stephanidae).

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7760529... Patella, Scutellastra, patellidae, giant limpet, Kermadec Islands, Rangitāhua Archipelago, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ. Also, piggybacking as described in a scientific paper

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7760602... Camaenidae, Papuina, Papustyla, green snail, papuan mollusc, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7760385... Astraea, circular sawshell, sunburst star turban, Turbinidae, new zealand mollusc, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7760022... Calliostomatidae, Calliostoma, Maurea, new zealand mollusc, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7759588... Xenophoridae, Xenophora, carrier shell, new zealand mollusc, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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I will never divorce this tweet.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7758898... Epitonium, Epitoniidae, wentletrap, otago museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7758790... Malleus, Malleidae, hammer oyster, oyster, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7758573... Pteriidae, Pteria, oyster, pearl oyster, pearl production, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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😀😆🤣

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7758102... Pholadidae, Piddock, Parapholas, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7757992... Penicillidae, Clavagellidae, Clavagelloidea, Verpa, watering pot shell, weird molluscs, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7757848... Hyalonema, glass rope sponge, glass sponge, Hexactinellida, Hyalonematidae, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7757268... glass sponge, venus' glass sponge, Euplectellidae, Euplectella, Hexactinellida, sponge, glass sponge shrimp, Spongicolidae, sponge reef, silica biomaterials, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7756724... sumatran rhino, rhinoceras, Rhinocerotidae, Dicerorhinus, Otago Museum, endangered species, critically endangered species, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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And now the eighth drabble, thanks to the very generous feelieking.bsky.social! The Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield in "Nuns".

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And here's the sixth drabble, thanks to the very generous drhoz.bsky.social! The Fifteenth Doctor and Mel in "Cats".

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7755022... lion, Panthera, Felidae, escaped lion, apex predator, circus animals, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7754369... Mustela, Mustelidae, ferret, introduced species, pest, domesticated species, feral mammal, Otago Museum, Dunedin, Dunedin NZ.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7754260... Otago Museum, Dunedin, Phascolarctos, Phascolarctidae, koala, marsupial, koala bear, bad taxidermy, Dunedin NZ.

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Oh man, I almost forgot these!

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animal valentines

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just two more species to write about from the NZ trip, and put into the queue - the Otago Shag and the Northern Royal Albatross. That's a total of just over 1250 observations and almost 650 species, in less than a month, and it's taken me over a year to ID and write them up.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/7753245... Otago Museum, Dunedin, Sarcophilus, tasmanian devil, Dasyuridae, marsupial, carnivorous marsupial, bad taxidermy, Dunedin NZ.

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