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ICYMI: An enduring evolutionary mystery – the consequences of sex are shaped by more than sex itself molecularecologist.com/2021/02/22/an-… — by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Lovely spring in southern Louisiana

NPR: Amid Myriad Crises, Lebanon Now Confronts An Ecological Disaster On Its Shores. npr.org/2021/03/28/981…

Spotted hermit crab, Dardanus megistos, wearing a beautiful red & hairy pijamas 🦀🐌. Heron Island, Australia (collected a few years ago as part of my PhD work on #crab #evolution). Because #CrabMonth is every month! #NaturePhotography #nature #naturelovers #crustaceans #Science

How different are Louisiana #oysters from their Acadian cousins to the North? Not as different as you might think, at least when it comes to responding to heat stress. New from @invertomics and Hollis Jones, with funds from U.S. National Science Foundation and Louisiana Sea Grant: doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13…

A flowering marine plant!? Marvelous Halophila

Today is #EarthDay Nearly 90% of the world's wetlands have been lost since the 1700's. Water, wetlands and life are inseparable! #RestoreWetlands, restore nature and value the earth.

Trying out warming mesocosm designs in the marshes this week. It's still a success to learn what isn't working.

Jungle Books in wild plant and iron ink - Baloo, Kaa, Bagheera, the Three - homage to The Outsong (read if you are up for a good cry). The best part about wild inks are their textures and vitality. credit to @thething for inspiration, and Wissam Jawad for reminding me of these :)

Accepted Article! Transcriptomic signatures of temperature adaptation in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica KM Johnson, HR Jones, SM Casas, J La Peyre & Morgan Kelly (LSU) ow.ly/C06250EEd4H

Instead of going silent for the #PalestineStrike tomorrow, I'm going to be spamming Palestinian content. I'll trawl through the archives and bring out all the Palestinian folklore and tales I can until my spoons run out. As a teaser, this guy: patron saint of Palestine:

Life on life on life ~ happy #BiodiversityDay

#Gaza: “....what terrifies me more is the silence of the aftermath. A silence that will allow the world to forget about us once again until the next round of hostilities, while we die a slow, anonymous death under the pretence of calm. That is no life.” nrc.no/perspectives/2…

What Makes Some Oysters More Resilient than Others? LSU researchers are investigating why. More 🦪 info: lsu.edu/mediacenter/ne…

Fight or flight? Neither. Female fruit flies prioritize mating in the presence of danger. ed.gr/dgfte

Our naturalist note was published this week, on a really beautiful and little-known nudibranch Polycera hummi found 350km north of its known range. Could it be a climate migrant, finding new warm waters to the north? Stacy Krueger-Hadfield Virginia Institute of Marine Science eaglehill.us/NENAonline/art…

Chambers are ready for our warming and heat wave experiments with marsh periwinkles in southern Louisiana. Thanks to a wonderful team Morgan Kelly @mark_the_way Diego Paredes-Burneo Roberts Lab #WorldOceansDay

So much fun in the field yesterday helping Wissam Jawad, who has designed an exciting experiment to test interactions between ambient warming, heatwaves and predation avoidance in marsh snails. With snail tagging dream team @mark_the_way Rujuta Vaidya and Maram K

Fiddler crab in southern Louisiana marsh