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Kaden Muffett

@kadenmuffett.bsky.social
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Cnidarian biology and microbe investigator 🔍 in the Hildebrand Group @ Earlham Institute 🇬🇧. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This paper on temperature in metagenomes is incredibly cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ambient temperature is encoded in the metagenome of microbial communities - Nature Microbiology
Environmental temperature can be accurately inferred from the DNA composition of microbial communities across marine and soil ecosystems, using machine learning and based on tetranucleotide frequencie...
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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
9 new sponge species described!! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
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Nine Species of Deep-Sea Sponges Discovered in Alaska
One sponge species is so unique that scientists created an entirely new genus to classify it. Another represents a group never seen before outside of the tropics.
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In addition to the genomics, we also tested whether Cassiopea, acting as siphons from the environment around them, had different eDNA profiles than the water. Turns out they did! Cassiopea that we tested were far more likely to have eDNA from little cryptobenthic fish doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yay yay! New week, two preprints on Cassiopea. In this first one we introduce the idea that Cassiopea xamachana and andromeda appear to have undifferentiable nuclear genomes (at least in the Caribbean but probably further) doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Moonglow anemone 🌙🌊🌼 #MarineLife 🦑
A bright green sea anemone (*Anthopleura artemisia*) waves its sinuous tentacles in a tidepool.
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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Medina Lab will be at ICRS next week. Below is are schedule of posters and talks. See you all soon! 🪸🦠🌎🧪🌊🧬🌿
Medina lab schedule at ICRS
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I have a genuine question: Is there a reason why people shouldn't be limited in the number of reviews they can write? Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by the review-to-content ratio when i'm looking for data 🧪🌎
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
wfh with wfh buddy
a very cute very fluffy black cat
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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The lab getting ready for the March for Science this Saturday March 7. See you all there!! 🌎🧪🪸🌿🦑
Making march for science postersShowing off March for science posters
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Creatures of the Cambrian period!
A colorful poster illustration featuring 15 species of animals from the Cambrian period 541-485 million years ago. These are mostly unusual looking invertebrates, such as Hurdia, Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Peytoia, trilobites, Marrella, Nectocaris, Hallucigenia, Opabinia, Plectronoceras, Lyrarapax, and Naraoia. An early chordate (Pikaia) is also included. The animals are brightly colored on a dark black background. White numbers with a key label each species.
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I’m pushing a question out into the broader universe because Illumina said “sowwy trade secret” — does anyone know what ensures that Illumina DNA prep/Nextera results in P5/P7 ligated DNA instead of P5/P5 and P7/P7? #MolBiol 🧬 & 🖥️
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🦀 Sally lightfoot crab
Here are several Sally lightfoot crabs (Grapsus grapsus). The baby crabs are dark in color for camouflage. The adults have colorful patterns. The atmosphere is bright and happy.
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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A jawfish, cautiously peering out of its burrow in Anilao. This is far and away the most common way to see them; they tend to be rather shy. I think this one is a yellowbarred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli). #MarineLife 🌿🐟
The head of a small fish, protruding from a burrow in coral rubble. It is greyish with a white chin, has a downturned mouth, and prominent yellow marks on the top of its eyes.

#Nature #Wildlife #UnderwaterPhotography #Macro #WildlifePhotography
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Great Southern Reef Foundation @greatsouthernreef.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Giant Australian cuttlefish are now hatching in South Australia’s Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park. To mitigate the risk from the harmful algal bloom, the State and Federal governments installed a bubble curtain to protect more than 50,000 eggs. Footage: DEW / Stefan Andrews
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Day168 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution John(H. sapiens) reflecting on what could have been with a specimen of Tiktaalik roseae Don't let PRI go extinct! #Science #SavePRI still going @ #GSA 🧪⚒️
John Oliver holding a specimen of TIktaalik roseae an amphibious creature which represents a transition to tetrapods. In the video bubble is a picture of John Oliver shirtless on the beach with his hair blowing in the wind, holding hands with a green and tan Tiktaalik plush
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...
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ヤシガニの歩き方。
YouTube video by satoshi ueda
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.
Poster showing various animals and their yeetability rating. For full rating, see the link in the reply. Intro text reads:

POCKET GUIDE TO RESPONSIBLE & SUSTAINABLE ANIMAL YEETING
by franzanth

In this context, YEETING is defined as the act of throwing a “projectile” at a slightly upward angle with low initial velocity. The goal here is relocation, not destruction. Therefore, YEETING is ideally performed toward soft surfaces like leaves to minimize downward acceleration that might result in said projectile's discomfort.
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are happy to share our latest work in @nature.com . We study the genomic and cellular basis of facultative symbiosis in Oculina patagonica - a Mediterranean coral remarkable for its ability to survive long periods without algal symbionts. Led by Shani Levy and @xgrau.bsky.social rdcu.be/eLbaZ
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Articles like vvv really get me bc they suggest that the author has engaged uncritically on all of higher ed. Connections have always been a differentiator of education. We do not study a dictionary. If your class is ‘knowledge transfer only’ it was always a bad class. www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
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When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🧪🌏 Why some coral genotypes die when planted to a reef, while others thrive? interesting leads from *constitutively expressed* immunity-related genes @drcarl.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in the branching coral Acropora cervicornis
BackgroundAs coral reefs continue to decline across the globe there has been a rise in coral restoration efforts where a diversity of genets of different coral species are outplanted from nursery-grow...
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Zoë’s Studio @zoesstudio.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Day 11 of #inktober - the prompt is sting Quick sketch of jellyfish #inktober2025 #inktober2025sting #sketch #sketchbook #draw #drawdaily #art #inkdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawchallenge #dailysketch
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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉 Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)
Panel of photos. At left the cover with a squid embracing the text The Radiant Sea, and examples from the pigments, bioluminescence, fluorescence, and iridescence sections.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It's #NautilusNight!⁣ The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
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Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation
Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I made my C. chesapeakei for #Invertober quickly at the bar tonight! For Scyphozoa, you have to remember the polyps and strobila :)
Strobilating C. chesapeakei polyp
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Elmo has been chewing up my sandals but I honestly can’t punish her
Slightly guilty looking fluffy black cat
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... Things like this make me miss working with motile fauna. Look at this little guy go!
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A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed | 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
Alvaro Migotto - A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 25/09/2025
The president’s denial of climate change during his UN speech ignored overwhelming scientific evidence & his disinformation wasn't a surprise. But as a veteran businessman, Trump’s comments on renewable energy defied economic sense and need major fact checks. (🧵)
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Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
And "fishies" refers to baby lumpfish youtu.be/uxm-2CKmUZw?...
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The cutest lumpsuckers you'll ever see
YouTube video by RUNCL Fishing
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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!
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a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pirate costume and laughing .
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Cubaris Isopods
There are Cubaris isopods (family Armadillidae) with a variety of colors and patterns on a dark background.

Panda King (Pink, Red), Crabby, Amber Panda, Bumblebee, White Shark, Lemon Blue, Pak Chong, Cherry Blossom, Jupiter, Ice Flower, Cappucino, Blonde Ducky, White Ducky, Rubber Ducky, Amber Ducky, Red Edge (Miyako), Caramel Cream, Murina (Anemone, Glacier, Papaya), Apricot, Firefly, Yellow Panda, Snow Bee, Giant Mandarin, Blue Pigeon, Opal, Green Laser, and Giant Raichu.
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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos! 🐙🦑🌿🧪 www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...
An edited iNaturalist project page for ctenophore day 10/04/2025. In the about it says Celebrate ctenophore day by going out and finding ctenophores on October 4th, 2025! Can we get to 1004+ new ctenophore observations to celebrate? Are you ready for the Cteno Day Bioblitz? Join today! inaturalist.org.projects/ctenophore-day-2025
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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Ok, back to the worms! Meet Sabellaria alveolata. This beautiful polychaete worm has a golden crown. This worm is also know as the honeycomb worm for the honeycomb like tubes they create in aggregations. 📸Auguste La Roux, Catherine Boyen
A close up of the head end of the worm.Another close up of the head end.
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Can I just say that whoever is making these unhinged images for IOB is making my life measurably better
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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A stunning assortment of Japanese brittle stars, クモ ヒトデ via @Crinoidea_hk #echinoday
disks of about 100 different species of brittle stars varying in color and pattern
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New research demonstrating a shift in online climate misinformation Rather than denying climate science, this 'new denial' comprises "attacks that seek to undermine and cast doubt on proposed climate solutions and those who support them." resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529
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Curatorial Associate
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cult...
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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
IOB's latest #Regeneration and #Musculature in Halved #Cassiopea xamachana #Ephyrae K M Muffett , M Mammone , J Puckett , G Martino , Aditi , M P Miglietta doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Day 126 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps the Paleontological Research Institution John (H. sapiens) having some unicorn time with the type specimen of Terebra aclinica (USNM645154) #SavePRI #snails #fossils #MolluskMonday #EarthScience 🦑⚒️🦄
John Oliver on the street with messy hair with a high spired gastropod shell tucked against his forehead under some strands of hair.
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I had the unfortunate experience of finding that the other reviewer on a manuscript was using an unrefereed LLM to write their review. While the paper was fine, the clearly LLM feedback included such as questioning whether this journal was willing to publish null results and summarizing the paper😓 🧪
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/08/2025
Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Another little article from my Texas days with Marta Mammone on Cassiopea regenerative capacity is out :) Regeneration and Musculature in Halved Cassiopea xamachana Ephyrae url: academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
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Regeneration and Musculature in Halved Cassiopea xamachana Ephyrae
Synopsis. Adult Cassiopea medusae and their polyps have been known to regenerate tissue in uncontrolled and controlled conditions; however, the regeneratio
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Jun B. Cai @junbcai.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
First publication with lpita.bsky.social looking at Aiptaisia oral regeneration! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Aiptasia oral regeneration is host-controlled but supported by symbiont-derived photosynthates - Symbiosis
The study of oral regeneration in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana (commonly called Aiptasia) - a prominent model for the study of coral-algal symbiosis - offers the unique opportunity to investiga...
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
While my metatranscriptome seqs are downloading, I have chosen to make little clay E. scolopes with tiny bows
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Kaden Muffett @kadenmuffett.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
After many months and tears, my final thesis chap is in print! I found two really distinct pictures of a cnidarian microbiome, one from the body cavity and one from the external mucus layer :D journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Florida Keys Cassiopea host benthos-like external microbiomes and a gut dominated by Vibrio, Endozoicomonas and Mycoplasma
Interactions with microbial communities fundamentally shape metazoans’ physiology, development, and health across marine ecosystems. This is especially true in zooxanthellate (symbiotic algae-containi...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6
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