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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adult snails + baby pillar coral, sped up 125x because snails are slow like my replies

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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

Oh wait, three years after Twitter. The baby corals miss their baby coral frens!

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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 · 04/12/2024

Good question! I will put this on my increasingly weird to-do list!

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Now I'm wondering what exactly is "safe poultry temp" for a slimy venomous animal on the bottom of the sea that evolved hundreds of millions of years before poultry or cooking 🤷

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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

On the left: Baby Boulder Brain Coral C. natans. On the right: Baby Grooved Brain Coral D. labyrinthiformis. Baby age: 2 or 3 years. Video speed: 100x. Underdog: They crushed it.

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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

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thank you! Excited to learn more about your work. They are all very good slimy creatures.

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s tiny pieces of actual Thanksgiving turkey! Humans helped eat the rest.

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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

Unforced error of a whole order of magnitude! Baby size is 1 cm. Still tiny.

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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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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Oh gah I forgot my alt text. A round, orange coral polyp, 1 cm wide, surrounded by pink encrusting algae. A piece of Thanksgiving turkey falls onto the coral. The coral uses 6 of its 42 tentacles to smash the turkey into its mouth and then closes its lips. Being a plankton looks terrifying.

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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

We'll be bringing you this nonsense all week. If you want.

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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

Some coral species stay a humble meatball size! But the biggest reef builders can easily grow to be 3 meters wide like these corals on the north shore of Curacao. (I'm the scale bar.) And a coral colony was just documented in American Samoa that's over 30 m wide!

An overhead view of a scuba diver hovering over a green coral colony. The diver has arms and legs extended outward, and the coral colony is wider than the diver. The rest of the frame is filled with green and gray-purple coral colonies the same size or bigger.

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Aren’t they fabulous?? And they grow up to be the size of cars!?

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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 · 21/11/2024

Omg this took me out. Is it a riddle? A metaphor? No. Hi Rick!!

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Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And the camera never quite captures how much they glow in real life!

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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 · 19/11/2024

Professor Choi!! It’s so good to see you here!! How on Earth was GT freshman bio 20 years ago what is time???

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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 · 13/11/2024

We were encrusting our way over all this time it just took 107 weeks. Hi Bryan!

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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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