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KetrinaDrawsALot @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

SHRIMPtember 🦐 The Pink Floyd pistol shrimp is named after the band because of its bright pink claw. The shrimp's snap can reach 210 decibels (for reference, a jet engine gets about 140 decibels)! #shrimptember #pistolshrimp #education #SciArt

A grumpy Pink Floyd pistol shrimp (Synalpheus pinkfloydi)

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lethocerus, my beloved! Nothing like working with your favorite insect to brighten up your day!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today is the final day to submit abstracts for SICB 2027!

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#SICB 2027 is on the horizon! Come share your #research and learn about the most exciting areas of integrative, comparative, and organismal #biology in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. The abstract deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST. www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/abstrac... #science #conferences

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It's that time! Abstract submission is open for #SICB 2027! Come share your research and learn about the most exciting areas #scientific research in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. abstract deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST. Questions go to Matt McHenry: ProgramOfficer@sicb.org.

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027! @sicb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Cool work by @alexcnkingston.bsky.social showing how snapping shrimp have an orbital shell (aka magic helmet) that helps them deal with supersonic shock waves during fights #ICN2026

Alex Kingston in front of a slide highlighting the orbital hood on a snapping shrimp and graphs showing how orbital hoods dampen shock waves

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Interested in how mutualistic animals identify each other to maintain their partnership? I’m giving a poster on how mutualistic snapping shrimp identify their partner gobies at @neuroethology.org during poster session 3! Feel free to find me and chat about all things shrimp and ephys :) #ICN2026

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George Kafetzis @gkafetzis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Curious about sharks? The evolution and adaptation of vertebrate visual circuits? 🦈 🐟 🐤 🐁 👁️ I'll be speaking at ICN2026 @neuroethology.org on Friday, or just find me to chat! Special thanks to @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social and Gregor Belušič for the wonderful session within yet another wonderful ICN!

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congratulations to @samjakeengland.bsky.social for his @currentbiology.bsky.social cover😍after @atal-pande.bsky.social's new paper! This leggy fren is a wolf spider (Pardosa) featuring in several projects in @multipleye-lab.bsky.social, so it's lovely to see her getting the limelight she deserves 💃

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The only upside to a 5 hour delay and multiple flight changes (including a 2 hour drive to my parents house in Wisconsin) and getting home at 4 am is that I CAN GO TO A LOCAL CHEESE FACTORY TOMORROW!!

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Tom Iwanicki @iwanicki.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"The next time you hover over [a scallop] on a dive, remember you’re not just looking at a shell with eyes. You’re looking at an animal that’s also looking at you." Lovely quote by Dan Speiser

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/07/2026

One of the most memorable scenes in the history of cinema. RIP Sam Neill

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 09/07/2026

網から出てきた瞬間、「海にザリガニ！？」ってなったエビ

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Atal Pande @atal-pande.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Really excited to share that my first PhD chapter is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🕷️👀 We show that visually hunting spiders have repeatedly evolved forward-facing eyes, highlighting the remarkable evolutionary flexibility of their modular visual system. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...

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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Beyond proud of @atal-pande.bsky.social, whose first PhD chapter is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social! Atal shows that spiders that use their vision to hunt have convergently evolved similar eye arrangements, which imply lots of resampling of frontal space www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Vision is one of the most important senses used by animals and contributes to fundamental behaviors, including foraging, navigation, and mate detectio…

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Around here, loving Shrimp is the law. This guy will enforce the law, with his firearm (pistol shrimp 💚🦐 )

Large dark green shrimp with a massive claw used to shoot fools with sound

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's #JapaneseCrabDay! In honor of this auspicious day, which I learned from @crabspromenade.bsky.social, here is a two part hermit crab story 🦀🦑 Post your crabs!

2 hermit crabs, Coenobita rugosus, meeting curiously on fine white sand

The smaller individual decides to climb up the shell of the larger one. This didn't last long and then they ignored each other

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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🧵 New paper! We’re excited to release OPTICS: software that immediately predicts color sensitivity from any opsin protein sequence. In other words: give OPTICS any opsin sequence, and it predicts the wavelength of light the pigment is most sensitive to 🌈👁️ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Accessible and Robust Machine Learning Approaches to Improve the Opsin Genotype-Phenotype Map

Abstract. Predicting phenotypes from genetic variation is a central challenge in biology. Here, machine learning (ML) offers great promise, but its use is

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Finally got to introduce Bug to pistol shrimps in person today 🥹 also there were a few little pools with baby pistol shrimps 🥹🥹 One of them gave us a few shots with its claw, it was very loud 🥹🥹🥹 🦐

Dark green relatively normal looking shrimp except its left claw is absolutely massive, nearly the size of its body. Chilling in the palm of Bug's hand

Another of the creatures in the shallow water, this one has the massive claw on the right

Miniscule pistol shrimp, just a little brown creature, already with a massive claw

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

SICB folks, please share widely! I may know the person running this account 👀😂

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

SNAPPING SHRIMP ON A SHIRT, I REPEAT, SNAPPING SHRIMP ON A SHIRT

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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Dr. Sam Fabian, FRES @stfabian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy #worldrobberflyday to some of the very best flies you can find. Robberflies are wonderfully effective predators, with some even catching dragonflies. They combine remarkable vision, rapid reactions, and fast acting venom. Every #robberfly is a treat to find.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 27/04/2026

Ever wonder why everything is blurry when you open your eyes underwater? Watch #ProcB author Kathryn Feller talk about research on amphibious vision in compound eyes: cassyni.com/events/Ur5pU... 🧪

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Dr. Kate Feller @drkatefeller.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ever wonder why everything is blurry when you open your eyes underwater? The answer explained in this video seminar by @tannermierow.bsky.social and myself, recapping our new paper on amphibious vision in compound eyes! cassyni.com/events/Ur5pU...

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Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar

Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research talks. Get started in minutes.

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Dr. Kate Feller @drkatefeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New paper on seeing in air and water with compound eyes! The problem: physics The solution: physics Elegantly described with the dream team @tannermierow.bsky.social and @alexkingston.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Alex Kingston @alexcnkingston.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

So proud of the Toebiter team Tanner @tannermierow.bsky.social, Kate @drkatefeller.bsky.social, Jess, and Rick for our paper out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Check out how we learned about the optics and performance of the eyes of amphibious insects: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes

Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨🚨TOE-BITER TIME🚨🚨 Interested in how the eyes of amphibious insects transition from an aquatic to amphibious ecology? Check out my new paper with @drkatefeller.bsky.social and @alexcnkingston.bsky.social! Super psyched to have published on my beloved toe-biters! doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Conserved optical adaptations enable amphibious vision in compound eyes

Abstract. The visual systems of amphibious animals must perform in two optically distinct environments: air and water. Little is known about how diffractio

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mjhaught @mjhaught.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I found this guy living at Paradise Reef. I've never heard the loud crack made by the claws of a red snapping shrimp, aka pistol shrimp, but I would like to.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 19/03/2026

snapping shrimp🦐💥

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

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Join the Early Career Biologist Support Network Discord Server!

Check out the Early Career Biologist Support Network community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 19/02/2026

New research from #JRSocInterface: Structural and mechanical properties facilitate shock wave damping by helmet-like orbital hoods in snapping shrimp royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article... | #Biomaterials

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Shubham Rathore Ph.D. MSc. @shubhamtr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So happy to be presenting to one of my favorite community of scientists! (@neuroethology.org ) Come join us, to check out some of my “old” work with new insights about arthropod eyes and their molecular make-up! #Neuroethology

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tannermierow.bsky.social @tannermierow.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨🚨MORE COOL SNAPPING SHRIMP WORK!!🚨🚨

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Maddy Janakis @maddy-janakis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

a little late in this (i got sick) but thank you to @sicb-dab.bsky.social Portland 2026. had lots of fun seeing great talks and talking about crabs! 🦀

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Heard from Tanner Mierow at #SICB2026 about the mutualisms between snapping shrimp and gobies. Gobies need shrimp to dig holes. Shrimp need gobies to keep a lookout. But who asks who out here? Gobies initiate- they’re *desperate* for a shrimp. But once initiated, shrimp maintain the relationship.

Sarah’s page of notes which says “tanner mierow: gobies and shrimp have murualisms in which shrimp dig burrows and gobies play lookout.” A shrimp thinks “why u so obsessed with me?” Then words “who initiates this partnership? Gobies ask out the shrimp” and then a shrimp with hearts alll over it and labeled lover boy. Words say “gobies initiate but shrimp maintain” and “gobies are desperate for a shrimp”

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