Bridget Vincent
@BridgetSquidget
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🐙🐟🦑Ph.D student @ UCSB | Artist | Biologist | #UCFAlumni (she/her)
Joined July 2014
Hi all! I'm Bridget, a Ph.D. student studying squid photophore evolution and artist creating (mostly) cephalopod sketches and paintings. 🦑🐙. Website: Patreon: IG: #VisibleWomen #sciart #scicomm
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RT @giuliasrossi: New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of loco….
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Team strawberry squid!!! 🦑❤️
This is a 'phore fight!!!. Reef squid use CHROMATOPHORES (pigment colors: 🔴🟡🟤⚫) and IRIDOPHORES (structural colors: 🔵🟢🟣) to make a rainbow of skin patterns. Strawberry squid use PHOTOPHORES (🔆) to blend in with light coming down from the surface, and maybe to communicate?.
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RT @alexandeleon_: Fluorescence patterns and diversity of hydrozoans from Bocas del Toro, Panama | Ciencias Marinas .
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RT @laramaleen: During our project work @stri_panama taxonomy course, we found that hydrozoans show diverse fluorescence patterns that can….
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RT @xainabafzal: Whale watching fun on this beautiful day with #Embryo23 .We saw lots of them showcasing their tails. nd saw lil ones play….
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RT @laramaleen: The last few weeks I’ve been learning about the most fascinating animals #Meduzoa #Ctenophora in a STRI course by @thuesen_….
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Excited to be presenting my work at #Evol22 tomorrow! Drop by the parallel/convergent session at 4:30 to hear about squid bioluminescence.
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RT @chipotlau: Honored and very excited to be presenting at #evol22 in the SSB Mayr Award symposium tomorrow (session 2, 11:30AM)!! Come ch….
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RT @ReptileRhett: Between this and the recent Nature/Science stories on grad student stipends, I really hope academia as a whole wakes up a….
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RT @Nature: Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and d….
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Nature - As inflation rates soar, new data on the finances of US graduate students spark calls for action.
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RT @RebeccaMVarney: UPDATE: 😍Thanks to all for retweeting, thanks to @UCBerkeley Entomology for sleuthing, and thanks to @dfallik for putti….
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RT @ShellyGaynor: "The point labels are pretty much 'pointless'" - @ReptileRhett . Thanks for all the submissions, we are now at 151 entrie….
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RT @caitlinnordheim: The first-ever UCSB EEMB undergraduate research symposium was a huge success!. I’m so proud of the amazing work done b….
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RT @Sci_Chey: After months of planning, the first EEMB Undergraduate Research Symposium finally happened today!. It was such a success and….
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Having a @MontereyAq live cam on while listening to the Finding Nemo soundtrack makes for the best Friday afternoon working vibes. Highly recommend.
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