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spissatella.bsky.social
Taxamorphologist, mollusc-botherer (they/them).
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I promised a bonus #CrabsAZ. There were no fossils before, so how about 7 true (above) and 7 false crabs (below) illustrated by @franzanth.bsky.social, helped by me and @javiluque.bsky.social? 🦀🧪🦑 Buy it here (from Franz): www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1292...

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⭐Our Broadening Access Membership Scheme (BAMS) is open ⭐ It aims to help support postgraduate students from developing economies in their malacological studies. We are offering ⭐⭐free membership⭐⭐ to 10 postgraduate students. More details on the website: malacsoc.org.uk/developing-e...

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Hey! I’m Meghan, a lifelong artist; painter and drawer. The deep ocean has my heart and I adore painting unusual critters you don’t usually hear about ❤️ I’m contracted for writing and illustrating a deep ocean children’s book releasing in 2026. I also use deep ocean images in my personal work.

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"The land requirements of renewable energy projects are often criticized in public debates.. the study shows that in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, far more land is allocated to golf courses than to renewable energy facilities." well well well 🙃 phys.org/news/2025-02...

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"Is your name "[my full legal name]" <- very normal and not unsettling texts to get from your sister at 8.30am

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This this this!!! THIS!!!

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It's been about a year since I last got a tattoo and so obvs I'm thinking wistfully again about the octopus collarbone/neckpiece that's lived in my head rent-free since I started getting ink

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Additionally don't give me a lecture about being kind and accommodating when I email you to clarify what's going on. I spent my Sunday on the unsolicited proposal ok that's pretty accommodating

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Happy #MolluscMonday Check out this beautiful venerid, #Globivenus toreuma from Sri Lanka #veneridae #molluscsofsrilanka

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#MolluscMonday Limpets on the shoreline near the Espegrend Marine Station in Bergen where the weather looks set to be fine for this week’s workshop on bryozoans.

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*aggressively bringing you flowers* #Art #SciArt

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

If you're going to get your student to cold-email someone and ask for feedback on a proposal with a short turnaround, the least you could do is copy edit the thing for them first?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Deep sea mystery: does anyone know what this weblike structure is that we say on the deep sea corals today during the ROV dive? What forms it? 🌊🪸🐟🦀🦑

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Hello, internet! Things are bad for our trans & queer friends in the US, so I teamed up with bsky's nature artists to create this pack containing 80 wallpapers and growing. 1. Donate to one of the two orgs below 2. DM me your receipt 3. I'll give you a download link Valid til the end of the month

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

submitted 21 days ago • 96 comments

Speaking as an agender: So weird for cis people to be like “I don’t get it” when you guys are like also very attached to your internal sense of sex and gender Like what’s not to get? Not being an asshole, is what it looks like

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Yes! Most larval bivalves have byssus, and adults often do in the Pteriomorphia which is one of the oldest groups of molluscs. You can find direct evidence of byssus in some groups because they literally have a byssal notch or a byssal gape - a gap in the shell where byssus can come out!

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Got a bunch of viviparid snail fossils in chunky rocks that were donated to us inside an enamel saucepan? That's my vote for weirdest! I'll see if I can pull a photo out of my phone of it, i'm sure I've got one!

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

One small good thing: I was at a day of talks fostering collabs between NHM and UoR (whose TVSP site were moving collections to in a few yrs) and the session chair introduced me with my correct pronouns without me even needing to say anything. Also the day was v useful and productive!

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