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skshapiro.bsky.social
Marine Biologist and Oceanographer 🦑🐠🦞 Scientific Illustrator and Artist (open to collab!) Nature & Underwater Photographer 🏞️ SCUBA Diver (PADI Dive Master) 🤿 Research Assistant and WHOI
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Check out this piece, which combines laboratory observations on within-species variation with simulated traits in the global Darwin model - w/ @nekton4plankton.bsky.social, @skshapiro.bsky.social and several others not on 🦋. By far my favorite research article so far & excited to build on it!

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Up close and personal with a megalops 🦀🐙🔬🧪🌊🦑 #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Ocean #Zooplankton #Microscopy

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Got reminded by @jopabinia.bsky.social that this is the 1st anniversary of my poster showing the diversity of fossil crabs. True crabs, false crabs, cute crab, long crab, pointy crab, crab in ammonite, we have it all. 🦀 🎨 🐡 Poster available from: www.redbubble.com/people/franz...

submitted 475 days ago • 3 comments

For raptor day, here's some of my shots from the first time seeing the California Condors at the Grand Canyon!! They were so awesome 😍🪶

submitted 480 days ago • 1 comment

Fun with phytoplankton 🦑 Have been doing single-cell isolations from water collected near the Gulf of Maine! Very proud of my plankton children 🥹

submitted 496 days ago • 1 comment

My first ever co-authored paper just got published in Fisheries Oceanography!! I specifically worked on the in-lab portion of postlarval lobster care, photographing them, and figuring out/performing all the color analysis. Super cool project overall 🦞 #MarineLife doi.org/10.1111/fog....

submitted 502 days ago • 0 comments

#PortfolioDay Hi 🪶 feed! I'm a marine biologist/oceanographer by trade, but am also an avid birder! Here are some of my favorite shots - hope y'all enjoy (:

submitted 504 days ago • 3 comments

Pics always make a good first post! Brooding octopus from Cozumel, Mexico.

submitted 504 days ago • 0 comments