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Kristen Marhaver

@coralsci.bsky.social
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Coral scientist running a gene bank-IVF clinic-NICU-daycare for baby endangered corals, so of course it's super easy and nothing ever goes wrong. Fighting for baby corals because they have very short arms. www.marhaverlab.com

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Live view of me avoiding the biggest thing on my to-do list.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Two years after Twitter, I'm still not sure where my social media home is. But as of rn, I have two views on tiktok. Gonna shoot high and aim for three. www.tiktok.com/@marhaverlab...
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Baby pillar coral warmups! #DCYL #100x #CARMABI #BabyCoralFriends
TikTok video by marhaverlab
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
🍗More🍗Baby🍗Corals🍗Eating🍗Leftovers🍽️ This is actual turkey and WOW ancient benthic cnidarians love a dry brined flightless birb roasted to a safe temp. Surprising but not? Mountainous Star Coral O. faveolata. Baby age: 2 yr. Video speed: 100x. Sharing work+nutrients among polyps: Cute+terrifying.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Baby Coral Holiday Tips! If you want to eat more turkey, use your other 6 mouths. If you want to save more turkey, use your other 100 arms. It is easy.🍗 The critically-endangered Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus. Baby age: 15 mos. Video speed: 100x. Top left polyp having thirds: That's how you win
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving Baby Coral Friends 🍗🪸 Just like us humans, the Baby Corals Eating Turkey are thankful for their many new Bluesky friends, their many arms, their many venomous stinging cells, and their many digestive filaments. Don't forget to eat and leave no crumbs today 🧡
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Baby Coral Holiday Tips! If you want to eat more turkey, use your other 6 mouths. If you want to save more turkey, use your other 100 arms. It is easy.🍗 The critically-endangered Pillar Coral Dendrogyra cylindrus. Baby age: 15 mos. Video speed: 100x. Top left polyp having thirds: That's how you win
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Friends of slimy ruffly sea things! Can we show some love to this account of slimy ruffly land things? They’re new! They need us! LOOP IN THE SLIME MOLDS
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Blueksky is DELIVERING in the category Friends of Friends Who Want More Baby Corals Eating Turkey 🍗 Meet O. faveolata, the Mountainous Star Coral. Baby age: 3 years. Baby size: Let's call it 1 mm. Video speed: 300x. All that gnashing back and forth: Kind of scary tbh?
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Nudibranch ウミウシ Appreciation Society @nudibranch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Mourning Dorid (Jorunna funebris)
Mourning Dorid from Makadi Bay, Hurghada, Egypt on August 7, 2014 at 11:57 AM by Hsini Lin. big one
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
More Baby Corals Eating Turkey🍗 🍗 At least two people asked for this continued nonsense. Here's the Boulder Brain Coral C. natans with a vicious speed-snarf. Baby age: One year. Video speed: 100x. One handed? Pretty close.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It's that time of year! 🎉 Time to slow down and count our blessing and watch baby corals eat Thanksgiving turkey like the venomous minibeasts they are! 🍗 The Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa. Baby age: one year. Video speed: 100x. Slow zip at the end: Brutal.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Wowww. Altmetric puts so much care into tracking research impact and that involves a LOT of mini link embiggening📝
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Honest Q. Should I leave up all my tweets so Grok doesn't screw up coral species ID? 🤷🪸 Here's our crew of baby corals that met Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands in 2021... and I guess also now Chatbotgrok?
16 ceramic tiles on a black plastic rack, each hosting a baby coral one two three years old. Various corals are yellow with long tentacles, yellow and encrusting, brown with tiny round polyps, brownish orange and starting to ruffle into brain shapes, and brown with big fart round polyps and white mouths.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Aww! 💙 I don’t remember which ORDcamp this was, but this is the happy face of someone who skipped two days of sleep to tell spicy coral jokes to strangers, learn lock picking, or get mildly injured winning at office sledding 🪸🗝️🛷
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
How it’s going / How it goes about a year after it really starts going 🪸 Baby Boulder Brain Corals (C. natans) today in the CARMABI wetlab. Big ones: a few years old. Small ones: a year old. Video speed: regular speed. Fluorescent protein? So so green.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Filmed today in Curacao: Baby corals being tiny, wiggling tentacles, not knowing about humans or their politics 🏖️🌴 The Great Star Coral M. cavernosa. Baby age: 3 weeks old. Baby size: About 0.5 mm. Video speed: 250X. Thinking speed: Probably pretty slow?
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Can we reuse our Twitter jokes here? Great, here's a live view of my to-do list. A fertilized coral egg developing in the lab overnight. Boulder brain coral C. natans, about 0.5 mm wide. Video speed 1000x. DNA replication speed So So Fast.
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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🎉WE'RE HERE WE'RE HERE 🎉 The baby corals have been trying to move over from Twitter but they can only swim like 300 m a day and they can only grow like 30 microns a day 🐌 Would you like to meet a 5-month-old baby pillar coral doing a stretch? Video speed: 125X, Polyp size: Still so tiny 💙
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