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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

What’s everyone’s favorite animal. My top 3: 1. Crab 🦀 2. Crab again 🦀 3. Crab again again 🦀

Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

The story didn't stop me from SCUBA diving and that wasn't its purpose, but it did give me a better appreciation for the gear For obvious reasons I'm thinking about it now

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

I took a nautical archaeology course as an undergrad and the prof told us a story about a wreck diver who was on a deep dive. From out of nowhere it hit him how his life was dependent on his dive gear- he finished the dive and never dove again. I think about this story occasionally

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 14/06/2023

Normally this would not apply to me. The last two days, however…

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

ok y'all need to come check out the Spiders: from Fear to Fascination exhibit at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences because it is so informative and includes a lot of interactive displays. @bwwilliams.bsky.social and I had a blast previewing it today ahead of its opening on Saturday!

screenshot of a video of me using the interactive where the digital spiders on the floor respond to my movements as I walk across the floor

screenshot of video where Bronwyn plays a game related to spider mating dances

image of a hungry-hungry hippos like game where you can operate different shapes of "chelicerae" in order to catch "prey" (which are squishy balls)

image of a case being placed over a display that shows some spider collections from our museum

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Monstres✨ @monstres.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

Hey bluesky 🩵

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Bronwyn W. Williams @bwwilliams.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

Behold this 102-year-old adorably furry Orange Jumper (I think 😬) InverteButt from the NC Museum of Natural Sciences Collection. Collected in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 1921, by C.S. Brimley.

Image showing the green/white/brown fuzzy butt of a pinned jumping spider specimen (which I think is Paraphidippus aurantius).

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

Good Omens posting on main he's so 🥰😭👼🥺

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Bronwyn W. Williams @bwwilliams.bsky.social · 06/06/2023

Q- How many undescribed crayfish species can we find in 1 day in an area in western North Carolina 22 miles long x 4 miles wide? A- At least five, plus one with a name. 😑 We have our work cut out for us! One small miracle: the branchiobdellidans shown here ARE known (Xironodrilus bashaviae) 😮‍💨

Two people - one carrying a rolled up seine net - wading into a sandy, tree-lined stream.

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

we've got baby giant isopods now too! gotta do a shoot with them next 😆

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

i’m very jealous of the fact that megan has MULTIPLE images of herself cradling different preserved giant isopods for potential profile photo usage (she had a different image of herself doing this as her twitter pfp for a while)

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

here's our larger giant isopod, which just got its ethanol changed after taking this photo 😅 (new pfp of me holding it like a baby for scale)

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Bronwyn W. Williams @bwwilliams.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

THIS is custom-fit protective wear! A Granulate Shellback Crab (Hypochonca arcuata) collected 28 July 2004 off Usina Beach, Jacksonville, FL by SEAMAP biologists. The functional form-fit shell even comes with its own bling: bryozoans, a tiny anemone, worm tubes, and traces of barnacle.

The underside (inside) of a marine bivalve with a shell crab pressed into it.

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

they are not smooth braining the breeding process

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

eyyyy, Bronwyn is here now! go follow her at @bwwilliams.bsky.social if you want some sweet sweet invertebrate content!

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

I'm so excited 😭 I saw something that suggested it'll be released weekly instead of all at once. Do you know yet? I only ask because I have a friend in another state who was going to ask off work and visit to binge if the whole season is dropped at once

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 31/05/2023

I could watch conference talks or I could... watch Good Burger

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 31/05/2023

multiple packages delivered but first I had to: * figure out what building pkgs were delivered to * who received them * who has them * coordinate getting them to the museum * coordinate getting them to me at an off-site facility I've only got 1 in hand so far 🥴 can you tell I'm a state employee

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 25/05/2023

that's my emotional support comically large thumb tack

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

dried sponges and sea stars? in an old Cuban cigar box hidden behind an old thermal printer in MY office? it's more likely than you think

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

oh yeah I bet the results are amazing! I'm often frustrated with photogrammetry tbh

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

lmao I also forgot that! how did the micro-CT route work out?

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

it's a composite made with photogrammetry software!

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

dried sponges and sea stars? in an old Cuban cigar box hidden behind an old thermal printer in MY office? it's more likely than you think

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

idk but Elmo probably had something to do with it

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 22/05/2023

jumping spider photogrammetry in progress! I've created a model of this particular spider but it's missing details on the underside so I'm getting better photos of it upside down to try and fill in the gaps

photo of me (via automation) taking photos of a pinned jumping spider in a light box

image of the current spider 3d model with gaps

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

I wish they were magnetic lmao tie flying has always seemed really cool to me!

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

Happy Friday from Anomalocaris!

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

me, on my hands and knees, squinting: is that an amphipod or amphipod-shaped shoe grit? do I make a note in the database? [Megan dropped vial on 5/19/23]

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

well it finally happened I dropped a vial of amphipods on the floor 😭 luckily I only had to pick up about 15 of them and not like, 200

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

I'm in one of those phases where it seems like I have nothing to post about, but here's a rat snake from my walk yesterday

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

you'll have to set a double down Google alert!

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

I'm in the US and have also never had one.. apparently they were back on the menu in March for a limited time but I can't say I keep up with the kfc double down news

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

You guys you guys YOU GUYS it’s happening again! BIG BOAT STUCK!

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Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

ok on the one hand I think it's insane to have people submit presentations 2 weeks before the conference but on the other hand wow it's pretty nice that I'm not having to worry about it for another 2 weeks

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