Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm
Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms…
The early years 1. Could your parents afford to live on the good side of town? The one with the right schools? Did they send…
View More Can you afford to be a marine biologist? Or a scientist?I was just listening to a podcast about how sea sponges use the pores all over their body to “bring in food and release wastes”…
View More A Tale of One OpeningAs we enter the last month of 2018, our team is already eager to start a new field season in beautiful #Newfoundland! Here is one…
View More The Dive Bombing Birds of NewfoundlandIt all started with this Tweet. So, uh, I just learned that this is what a pufferfish skeleton looks like, and I think you all…
View More You Should Definitely Know about Pufferfish SkeletonsAs science communicators, we are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to translate the ramblings of the ivory tower into a relatable and accessible public…
View More Writings on the SeaWall: SquidtoonsThere are all kinds of reasons why Paulo Bonifácio and Lénaïck Menot have nerd clout. There is, of course, the fact that they just described…
View More A Wormy (and Nerdy) Conquest of the DeepTake a break from the madness of #blackfriday2018 & marvel at these swimming sea cucumbers, seen during recent #Okeanos expedition: https://t.co/HneVxh2JiI pic.twitter.com/MEYO9OKmQb — NOAA…
View More Holothurian HillPhoto: Cpl. Jo Jones [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Background Most of you are probably aware of the GRE or Graduate Record Examination. Those…
View More Let’s Kill the GREFeatured image photo by Jack Follow, Blue Ribbon Eel 6, https://flic.kr/p/gXbbtG. Available by Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Because my other post today is…
View More Ribbon Eel Video RoundupWas there a tipping point? When had this all started? This uncomfortable sensation in my gut. This nagging thing rolling around inside my head. It…
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