New paper entitled “Maternal provisioning of an obligate symbiont in a sponge” is out in @Ecol_Evol!. Here is a thread of the take-aways….

RT @ConfCarolinas: Day 2 of the Conference Carolinas Baseball Championship continues with @UMOAthletics and @YHCAthletics!. #LeadingTheWay….

Life beyond the crust! Incredible work by @bright_monika and team! .

A ripe one!

RT @martintjahn: 🚨 #PhD Opportunity on "Mapping the Spatial Ecology of Gut Infection" in our group! If you want to combine #Microscopy and….

Arbacia lixula larva from this most recent experiment.

Back in Tenerife to collect for the final piece of this mind bending puzzle. Biology is wild.

RT @NicoleDubilier: This nasty pathogen infects the nuclei of mussels, multiplies to >80000 cells, swelling nuclei to >50 times their size.….

Very different scene then the hotel conference room now that Hurricane [tropical storm] Debby has left Savannah.

Sea star (Luidia clathrata) on the beach of Tybee Island.

RT @Nature: Slow productivity: do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obsess over quality

Sea urchin bowl [made in Thailand] that I found in an antique shop in Savannah, Georgia. It actually feels like grabbing an urchins test. Great way to kickoff @hollybik’s workshop on telling stories through data science!

This hits deep. My best work [in my eyes] came at peak pandemic when I was largely isolated in Kiel (Germany) with little distraction. I miss that version the research life-style, and I strive to keep that stillness in this fast-paced chaos.

RT @IanH77: Acanthaster eats Trichodesmium. Fascinating!

RT @planktonico: This year we used the newest versions of our vertical tracking microscope and the always impressive diversity of embryos c….

How sea urchins are cooked in Corse. Thanks for the recipe, @m_kus_kus!

RT @adameykolab: This is what a metamorphosing starfish larva looks like. Brachiolaria (1.5 mm in length) from Skagerrak, North Sea. https:….

RT @Verukita1: 📝(FREE) Principles of Effective Data Visualization. "This article presents some sequential principles that are designed to i….

RT @MarineMicrobio: The Isthmus of Panama separated them, now these lucinid symbionts live different lifes: @isimorel @benedict_yuen @M_he….

Join @echinoclub this month to hear about developmental symbioses in sea urchins. I'll be focusing on how an intra-kingdom heist enhances offspring fitness.

Endless congratulations to @adam_reitzel for being awarded the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, which recognizes outstanding scholarship, creativity, and research among the faculty at @unccharlotte!