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Kita marie Williams

@seaspongecake

PhD candidate at QUT, sub-Antarctic ecology. ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ”ฌ Tardigrade enthusiast, fossil fan, admirer of molluscs. ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒ I enjoy messing around with microscopes! She/her

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Niki Hubbard ๐Ÿ™๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿฆ€ nikihubbard.bsky.social (@nikihubbard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Was blessed by the cephalogods yesterday. I got to hang out with this beautiful #octopus for a while as it pootled around Clovelly, checking crevices and poking any fish that got too close.

Was blessed by the cephalogods yesterday. I got to hang out with this beautiful #octopus for a while as it pootled around Clovelly, checking crevices and poking any fish that got too close.
KaiTheFishGuy (@fishguykai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This TINY little creature is a sessid moth. They are remarkable little creatures and are capable of hovering stationary while feeding from surfaces. Their wing beats are so fast. These photos were taken with a shutter speed at 1/6400 of a second!

This TINY little creature is a sessid moth. They are remarkable little creatures and are capable of hovering stationary while feeding from surfaces. Their wing beats are so fast. These photos were taken with a shutter speed at 1/6400 of a second!
Dr Richard Kirby (@planktonpundit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the tiny, delicate, planktonic larva of a sea urchin. At metamorphosis the tissues reorganise into a young adult form that will sinks to the sea floor where it will live the rest of its life. ZEISS Microscopy

Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social (@echinoblog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Zootaxa updates FIRST! NEW BROODING SPECIES! Paralophaster ferax! ferax means "fertile" or "fruitful" For a specimen coll. in 1963 THIS was a CRAZY discovery! It and others were from 3138-3239 m! Scotia Sea! Juveniles inhabiting its coelom (as far as I could tell)

<a href="/Zootaxa/">Zootaxa updates</a> FIRST! NEW BROODING SPECIES! Paralophaster ferax! ferax means "fertile" or "fruitful" For a specimen coll. in 1963 THIS was a CRAZY discovery! It and others were from 3138-3239 m! Scotia Sea! Juveniles inhabiting its coelom (as far as I could tell)
Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social (@echinoblog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Starfish bearing young (brooding) is a CRAZY thing. Most species live around the Peninsular region. But there's like 5? 6? DIFFERENT lineages/groups that ALL brood in DIFFERENT WAYS. Young around mouth. Internal brooding. Brooding among arm spine baskets!

Starfish bearing young (brooding) is a CRAZY thing. Most species live around the Peninsular region. But there's like 5? 6? DIFFERENT lineages/groups that ALL brood in DIFFERENT WAYS. Young around mouth. Internal brooding. Brooding among arm spine baskets!
Kita marie Williams (@seaspongecake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two young elephant seals that wanted to have a practice fight... but also wanted to have a nap. ๐Ÿฆญ๐Ÿ’ค #MacquarieIsland #ElephantSeal #SubAntarctic #Wildlife #Cute #Sleepy #Seal #FunnyAnimal #WildlifePhotography

Two young elephant seals that wanted to have a practice fight... but also wanted to have a nap. 

๐Ÿฆญ๐Ÿ’ค

#MacquarieIsland #ElephantSeal #SubAntarctic #Wildlife #Cute #Sleepy #Seal #FunnyAnimal #WildlifePhotography
Igor Adameyko (@adameykolab) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is cyphonautes - a wandering planktonic larva of bryozoans. Helgoland, North Sea ๐ŸŒŠ. It often reminds me a flying hat.

Kita marie Williams (@seaspongecake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Twitter no longer loads comments or threads, I can only see single tweets ๐Ÿ™„ Does anyone else have this problem? Itโ€™s getting impossible to use #twitterfail #broken

Kita marie Williams (@seaspongecake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The funny (but annoying) way samples get trapped in other samples ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฌ Two tiny snail shells with a mite and a springtail caught inside ๐ŸŒ #microscope #microscopy #fieldsamples #snail #shell #springtai #collembola #mite #acari

The funny (but annoying) way samples get trapped in other samples ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฌ

Two tiny snail shells with a mite and a springtail caught inside ๐ŸŒ

#microscope #microscopy #fieldsamples #snail #shell #springtai #collembola #mite #acari
Kita marie Williams (@seaspongecake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you like penguins and cushion plants on windswept beaches, you can vote for my photos in the EcolSocAus competition ๐Ÿ™‚ There are also many beautiful images of Australian landscapes, wildlife, and hard-working ecologists!

Rosiel Elwyn ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ„๐Ÿฆ‘ (@fairysatellite) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another gorgeous Red Cage (aka Coeur de Sorciรจre, Sorceror's Heart/Witchโ€™s Heart) fungi out this morning. This one smelled very strong ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ„ #fungi #mycology #mushrooms #MushroomMonday

Another gorgeous Red Cage (aka Coeur de Sorciรจre, Sorceror's Heart/Witchโ€™s Heart) fungi out this morning. This one smelled very strong ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ„

#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #MushroomMonday