Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at UCSB and Harvard (she/her)
My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social marine biologist, boomer not doomer, solutionista, 💗Maine💗
Member Natl. Acad. Sci., Darwin Medal
#EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries
Author-Citizens of the Sea https://www.amazon.com/Citizens-Sea-Wondrous-Creatures-Census/dp/1426206437
MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social An oceanographic research institute focused on advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean
Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations
Prof. Anna Metaxas @annamet.bsky.social Born at 320 ppm CO2
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social Marine biology, ctenophores, bioluminescence, deep-sea, genomics, computing for biologists.
The Radiant Sea. Photo book.
Cello? Views my own.
bit.ly/arms-deep bit.ly/radsea
Emily Lau, PhD @emilylau.bsky.social Postdoc @ UChicago studying the molecular evolution of bioluminescence in the Thornton Lab. Fan of convergent evolution, cats, the em dash, and Avenir.
Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist at Yale University. https://dunnlab.org
Andreas Hejnol @hejnol.bsky.social #science #antifa
Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social Scientist, Evolutionary Biologist & Entomologist / Ants / Genomes to Microbiomes / Professor & Curator at @Cornell / @CornellCALS / She/Her
Monterey Aquarium PR @montereyaqpr.bsky.social The Monterey Bay Aquarium media relations staff sharing news & information from Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey County, and the ocean world at large. Press inquiries and latest news at montereybayaquarium.org/newsroom
Lodewijk van Walraven @lodewijkw.bsky.social Marine ecologist at Rijkswaterstaat Hydro biological lab,
jellyfish expert, diver, photographer. Plankton enthusiast.
Sites: http://zooplankton.nl, http://plankton.photography
Thomas Dahlgren @mucofloris.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Invertebrate taxonomist. Environmental impact from offshore wind farms. Swedish representative at CCAMLR science committee.
Foraminifera.eu @foram.bsky.social The foraminifera.eu lab wants to foster the interest in forams. We are non-profit and post only about our activities. Michael Hesemann
The Deep-Sea Podcast @deepseapod.com A punk take on a science podcast about everything deep sea.
New episodes every month!
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Everywhere else
Dr Thom can be found at @thomaslinley.com
https://linktr.ee/deepsea_podcast
Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez @cefafalopodo.bsky.social Cephalopod systematics, phylogenomics, trophic ecology, microbiome and other topics. Father of Mango and Ommastrephes (cats).
Dominique Anderson @dmjanderson.bsky.social PhD, deep sea ecology, ecotoxicology, anthropogenic impacts. Currently working on 🐸 and multiple stressors. co-lead @MASTS deep sea forum 🇨🇦🏴🏳️🌈🇪🇺
*views my own
Freya G. @claynerd.bsky.social Nerd who loves the ocean, invertebrates, symbiosis, diving, playing in the mud (ceramics) and biking
Jasmine L. Mah @jlmah.bsky.social Current: postdoc, Juliano Lab @UCDavis. Stem cells and multicellularity.
PhD, Dunn Lab @Yale. Cell phylogenies.
Tricia Goulding @tcgoulding.bsky.social Systematics, taxonomy, phylogenomics and biogeography of marine invertebrates. Former Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Fulbright Scholar at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna
Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️🌈 @jimmybernot.bsky.social Assistant professor at UConn. Marine biology, parasitic copepod taxonomy and evolution, crustacean genomics
www.BernotLab.org
Bugz n Slugz @moistmacro.bsky.social Nudibranch obsessive, underwater photographer, citizen scientist, bug photographer and thalassophile.
Now in the Abu Dhabi. ♾️🧩🦑
All photos by me.
Dr. Colleen Bove (she/her) @drseabove.bsky.social New Assist. Prof. at Ursinus College interested in global change ecophysiology of marine and freshwater invertebrates 🏳️🌈
Dr. Claudia Pogoreutz @cpogoreutz.bsky.social Coral scientist, microbiologist, bacteria, fungi, and algae aficionada, mother of Endozoicomonas 🧫 🧬🍄🪸laureate of ANR-CPJ professorship’a connected underwater world’ at CRIOBE #womeninstem #newPI 🇦🇹
Isabelle Côté @redlipblenny.bsky.social Professor of Marine Ecology at Simon Fraser University. I love the ocean, diving, fish-watching, open-water swimming and rowing.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social Understanding and protecting the planet since 1903.
📍UC San Diego
Helena Wiklund @hwiklund.bsky.social taxonomist working with deep-sea fauna using morphology and DNA
Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social Professor of molluscan weirdness
Senckenberg / Queen's Marine Lab
chair IUCN MIRLA
🐚 surveying the sea in the time domain 🐚
Download my book! http://bit.ly/whatspeciesmean
Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com
Kara Layton @molluscular.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto interested in molluscan systematics, evolution & genomics
laytonlab.com
Geoff Read @annelidsci.bsky.social Marine annelid taxonomist, Aotearoa
C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist / Malacologist @JAMSTEC and @Senckenberg. Chemosynthesis-based ecosystems. 海洋生物学者・深海・軟体動物・化学合成生態系。
Website: https://squamiferum.net
See the collection: https://www.conchology.be/?t=92
Torsten Dikow @tdikow.bsky.social biodiversity researcher - discovering fly species - deciphering their evolutionary history - natural history collections + digitization + data - #asiloidflies - deserts - photography - views mine
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
Tammy Horton @tammyhorton.bsky.social Deep-sea taxonomist & Manager of the Discovery Collections. I ❤️ Crustaceans
Dr. Wormy McWormface @drwormymcwormface.bsky.social Principal Scientist @INSPIREenviron, Adj Prof @DukeU. Studies human disturbance of the seafloor. Blogger @SFriedScience. It's the n's that Justify the Means!
Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social Entomologist & Myriapodologist: leaf litter critter enthusiast.
Author of Ohio Millipede Field Guide.
"Scientist & avowed Swiftie" -Rolling Stone
Richmond, VA
www.derekhennen.com
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social I'd rather be crinoid hunting.
Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative @deepstewardship.bsky.social The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative: Uniting experts to inform policy for our global ocean.
https://www.dosi-project.org/
Andrew (Drew) Villeneuve, PhD @villesci.bsky.social I study marine heatwaves and their impacts on marine invertebrate population dynamics. Playing in the outdoors and bluegrass music enthusiast. villesci.github.io | https://linktr.ee/villesci
Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social Professor for Animal Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Goettingen, and Scientific Director of the Forum Wissen Goettingen
Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social i like weird deep sea shit, particularly cephalopods. also metal, parasitic fungi, horror, etc.
he/him, ace, adhd (maybe autistic?)
opinions are mine and not my employer’s
Kevin Kocot @kmkocot.bsky.social Assoc. prof. in Biological Sciences at Alabama & Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the ALMNH. #invertebrates #aplacophora #systematics #genomics #blacktshirts #beer #faceblindness. He/him/his. 🏳️🌈
Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social Entomologist. Educator. Writer. NERD.
I am a bug AND a Feature. She/Her
https://gwenpearson.com
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social Twin, entomologist, evolutionary biologist 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social No-longer-a-professional arachnologist/behavioural ecologist/natural historian; current research-admin type & luddite. I also knit, sew, & have strong opinions. Pronouns: she or they
Dr. Pascale Guiton @pguiton.bsky.social Assistant Professor
Biology - Works on Toxoplasma gondii
Santa Clara University
Clare Harding @clarehardinglab.bsky.social Sir Henry Dale Fellow at #WCIP at the University of Glasgow. Interested in how Toxoplasma gondii uses iron.
Martina Paoletta @mpaoletta.bsky.social Molecular parasitologist, host-parasite interactions of Apicomplexan parasites. Researcher @iabimo @intaargentina🇦🇷
Former Postdoc @Bushell_Lab @mims_ume🇸🇪
Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social Evolution of neurons and nervous systems / choanoflagellates / sponges / ctenophores. Deputy Director & Group leader at the Michael Sars Centre, University of Bergen. Webpage: https://www.uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/114773/burkhardt-group
Elena Kochanova @elenakochanova.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Museum of Natural History. Evolution, speciation, diversification, phylogeography, and bioinformatics.
🧬🔬💧🦋🦐👩💻
Zoë Hughes @zehughes.bsky.social Lover of Molluscs (especially Cephalopods) and Brachiopods, Senior Curator in Charge Invertebrate and Plant Palaeobiology at the Natural History Museum, London. I like cats.
Keiron Derek Brown @earthwormuk.bsky.social 🪱 Worm nerd and naturalist | Biological Recording Company | Earthworm Society | London Natural History Society 🧪
🇬🇧 Cumbrian living in London 🏳️🌈
Richard Wilson @ecology-digest.bsky.social #Invertebrate ecologist; CIEEM & RoyEntSoc member.
British Arachnological Society & Yorks. Naturalists' Union & NE England #spider recorder.
Occasional tweets on biodiversity policy.
Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social "Taxamorphologist", mollusc-botherer (they/them).
Agnieszka Anna Pierwola @agnieszkaanna.bsky.social 🪰🦋🏛️ Museum Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History for Diptera, Lepidoptera, minor Holometabolous orders, amber and other fossil insects. Immigrant, single mom.
Also: mountains, books, art, disability justice, long covid, science edu.
Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me 🪲 Professor 🪰 University of Northern British Columbia 🕷️ Insect ecologist 🐝 conservation, biodiversity, natural history 🐛 Opinions are my own 🐞 https://linktr.ee/dezene 🦋
Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social Invertebrate zoology prof. Curator of Cole Museum of Zoology, Uni of Reading. Posts NH museums, Cole stuff, natural world, my garden and my research.
www.reading.ac.uk/ecology/staff/amanda-callaghan
https://collections.reading.ac.uk/cole-museum/
Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social Biologist at Lund University, Sweden. Interested in the evolution and function of vision in invertebrates. Middling photographer.
Dr. Allyson DeMerlis @ademerlis.bsky.social Postdoc at UMiami | PhD from UMiami Rosenstiel and NOAA AOML | Coral resilience and coral restoration in Florida!
allysondemerlis.com
Maria Ruggeri, PhD @maria-ruggeri.bsky.social Postdoc in Virginia Weis’ lab at OSU 🌊 ecology, evolution, and cell biology of symbioses 🪸
Blue Action Fund @blueactionfund.org Conserving marine biodiversity for future generations while improving lives of local people today. #30x30 - Funded by German, Sweden, Norway, Ireland & France
Iliana Baums @ibaums.bsky.social Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Conservation - Corals; Professor of Marine Conservation at the Helmholtz Institute for functional marine biodiversity
Valentin Greigert @parasitophilia.bsky.social MD, PhD – Infectious Diseases & Parasites – Up & coming banjo player.
Université de Reims, Unistra & WashU alumnus.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentin-Greigert
Dr. Caleb C. Butler 🦠🪸 @calebcbutler.com Marine ecologist, leftist, cat parent | Postdoc at Texas State University in the Fuess & González-Pech Labs | LaJeunesse Lab PhD Alum |
they/he 🏳️🌈🧪🦠🪸
tags: coral, ecology, psu, algae, phycology, enby
AI art spam = block
sumie-dh @sumie-dh.bsky.social Work, worms, weather, repeat. Planarian distribution and taxonomy. Keeper of microscope herd. IT rat at day, lab rat at night. brmlab.s0c4.net/bioosm
Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social Appreciator of comb jellies, medusan jellies, medusan polyps, medusan other stages, sponges (particularly the glass ones). I speak for myself.
Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social Benthic ecologist & polychaete taxonomist at the Uni of Patras, Greece.
Also sci-arting and loving R.
Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social Deep-sea molecular ecology and evolution. Biological Oceanography. eDNA. Diversity. Exploration.
🌊🪸🐙🧬
Lehigh Oceans Research Center
https://www.lehighoceans.org/deepseabio
Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social 🐙 | Everything you don’t know about Cephalopods
🧬 | Molecular Biologist & Artist
💌 | mmindlinart@gmail.com
⬇️ | Join my sticker club!
bio.site/invertebabe
Marcelo V. Fukuda @mvfukuda.bsky.social Biologist, professor and curator of Marine Invertebrates (except Crustacea and Mollusca) - Zoology Museum / USP. Mostly Human.
Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider. He/him.
Blog and book links: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
🪱Ekin Tilic @etilic.bsky.social curator of all things wormy and spiny at Senckenberg. #polychaetes #echinoderms
I 💖 bristles and biodiversity. 🧬🪱
🏳️🌈he/him
Trond Oskars @trondoskars.bsky.social Marine biologist and taxonomist 🐚🪸 working with biodiversity and marine ecosystems.
#PhD with a creative streak.
#naturmangfold #biodiversity #taxonomy
#firstgen higher education of fisherman stock 🇧🇻
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trond-oskars
Conrad Helm @helmlab.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Animal Evolution & Biodiversity (Göttingen) - fascinated by worms and their larvae
bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social An independent, award-winning online magazine connecting you with stories about biodiversity and conservation from around the world. (Former account of Hakai Magazine)
Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.biographic.com/newsletter-signup/
Torkild Bakken @torkildbakken.bsky.social Marine biologist at NTNU University Museum. Working with biological diversity in coastal and deep-sea areas. #taxonomy #polychaetes #nudibranchs #deepseamining #museum #scientificcollections https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/torkild.bakken
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Two obsessions: the biodiversity of Earth's largest habitat, and why body size varies across all of life. Science communicator, ocean's weirdest animals daily.
JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social Disabled Marine Scientist & Artist living by the Salish Sea
Actually a cyborg
Probably has seen a ctenophore today
3D visualization of marine inverts
Support my work, get some art: https://linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg
📸 by me unless cited
Jo Latimore @jolatimore.bsky.social Freshwater Ecologist at Michigan State University. Director of @msue-lakes-streams.bsky.social and MiCorps, Michigan's volunteer lake and stream monitoring program. Invasive species, science comm, public engagement. Hiker, kayaker, reader, listener.
Nick Dulvy @nickdulvy.bsky.social I lift the lid on the oceans & census the life hidden beneath by combining Darwin’s toolbox–of natural history field guides, thermometer, microscope, and dissection kit–with big-data approaches @earth2ocean.bsky.social
Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social PhD researcher at St Andrews' Centre for Biological Diversity and the Scottish Oceans Institute. Sensory ecology - animal (multi)sensory processing - intertidal scavengers.
🦀🌊🐟🫧
EastBio EDI/Student Rep
(she/her)🌈🍉🌱
Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social not a butt doctor for ghosts | taxonomist specializing in phylum Bryozoa (moss animals), which used to be phylum Ectoprocta | general lover of marine invertebrates
Owen S. Wangensteen @owenwangensteen.bsky.social Marine molecular ecologist/zoologist at @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu. Doing environmental DNA metabarcoding, bioinformatics, and stuff.
Keiichi Kakui @tanaidologist.bsky.social Researcher/Taxonomy/Phylogeny/Biology/Tanaidacea/Crustacea/Japan. タナイス屋.北海道大学で無脊椎動物の系統分類学を主とした研究を行っています.私自身や所属講座のメンバーの研究成果などを書こうと思います.個人アカウントです.あまり反応はしないと思います.
Dr Margaux Steyaert 🪸 @margauxsteyaert.bsky.social Postdoc & Teaching Fellow @ Imperial College London
Research: coral reef diversity | benthic invertebrate communities | anthropogenic impacts | Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
BES Aquatic Group committee member @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social
Clement Garcia @clem2012garcia.bsky.social Marine ecologist at Cefas (UK) with specific interest in weird-looking animals living on the seafloor - the weirder the better (my posts are my own view).
https://www.cefas.co.uk/icoe/ocean-protection-and-use/our-people/dr-clement-garcia/
José Queirós @josepmqueiros.bsky.social Junior Researcher at @ciimar.bsky.social within @twindeeps.bsky.social project 🪸🌊🇵🇹
#MarineEcologist #DeepSea #Food-Webs #Antarctica #SouthernOcean #Seamounts #Fisheries #AtlanticOcean 🐧🦑🐙🦐🐟🌊
Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), founded in 1888, is an international center for research & education in biology & ecology in Woods Hole, MA. www.mbl.edu
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial @blancobercial.bsky.social Eukaryotic Plankton Ecology and Evolution | Associate Professor @biosstation.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social | ZoopGroup laboratory | Se Habla Español
https://bios.asu.edu/about/team-members/leocadio-blanco-bercial
Molly-Mae Baker @mollymaebaker.bsky.social Coral Reef Ecology🪸 | PhD candidate at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and University of Western Australia👩🏼🔬| View are my own
The MarineBio Conservation Society @marinebio.org MarineBio is an ever-evolving tribute to all ocean life that has been a central source online for the latest information concerning marine life and its biology, and especially its conservation, since 1998. https://www.marinebio.org/ #marineconservation
Dr. Marie Strader @scistrader.bsky.social asst. prof tamu bio | global change bio | marine invertebrates | larval ecology | genomics | diversity in STEM | posts=mine | she/her
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social Parasitologist (they/them) who writes a blog about parasites (http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/)
and also draws monster girls https://www.deviantart.com/the-episiarch/gallery
Sonja Rückert @rueckertlab.bsky.social Professor at UDE/Biologist interested in biodiversity, systematics, evolution and ecology of micro-eukaryotes🔬🧫, particularly aquatic symbionts/parasites and their relationships with their hosts.
Sara Shapiro @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