Dr Kym Abrams

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💜 invertebrates, subterranean fauna and dogs. Phylogenetics, taxonomy, biogeography, conservation of small subterranean taxa (esp Aus Schizomida & Parabathynellidae). RA WA museum. 🇿🇦🇦🇺

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Insert an Invert: Velvet Worm I can't get over the little feet on these fellas. #art #animalart #invertebrates

For Subterranean month in #InsertAnInvert please watch this amazing video of these enchanting #cave animals (#troglofauna): www.abc.net.au/education/ni... Can't wait to see what you create!

Ningaloo Nyinggulu: Swimming in deep time - ABC Educationwww.abc.net.au Tim Winton and speleologist Darren Brooks explore the underground seas of Cape Range.

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Slightly early on July week 3 #insertaninvert2024 - more cave dwellers. A troglodytic wanderer surveys from his spricket.

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This lovely pair of Castianeira amoena (female in my hand, male in the leaves) helped make my day 🧡 Lovely dainty colorful friends. 🌿 🕷️

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#InsertAnInvert2024 Subterranean - Underground Animals that live underground often lose features like vision and body color. To compensate for this, they typically gain other traits like long sensory hairs or antennae to navigate the dark environment. 🎨 🐡

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TIL I could've been raising a crab army at home www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDN0...

The crab condo guru: Meet the man who rears crabs at home in Singaporewww.youtube.com Meet Shannon Lim, who’s not only rearing his own crabs at home, he’s teaching others to do the same - even if they don’t have the space. Read the story: http...

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From fish to fungi, the world is filled with beautiful glowing creatures. 🍄🐟 Here are just a few of the many bioluminescent organisms present in various ecosystems around the planet. 🌏🧪 🖌️ Infographic by Eleanor Mohren.

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Week 2 of July's #insertaninvert2024 - votive offerings to the Velvet Worm God.

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The second week of #InsertAnInvert2024 subterranean month is about how some #invertebrates that live underground lose traits like vision. This is Paroster macrosturtensis, a blind predatory subterranean diving beetle from the calcrete aquifers of the Western Australian desert. 🧵1/2

Since we've been talking about velvet worms (Onychophora), I've been looking for references and was struck by this thought - who did it it first - nature or Disney? Art imitating nature again 🤔😀 #InsertAnInvert2024

Cave #crickets are a suggestion for July week 3 #Subterranean theme for #InsertAnInvert2024. Read about their roles as "keystone" species - they have a disproportionately large impact on their environment compared to their abundance. tinyurl.com/dmaahr4s 🌏🧪

Most people will never see a cave cricket—so why should we care about them?tinyurl.com If you're not an entomologist or avid caver, you can be forgiven for not hearing of cave crickets: most Australians will go their entire lives without seeing one of these spindly insects. That’s becau...

This makes me so happy- seeing subterranean (troglobiontic) diving beetles in print! Trog diving #beetles of the family Dytiscidae occur in a range of places but they are immensely diverse in limestone (calcrete) aquifers in Western Australia with over 100 species described to date!

More subterranean invertebrates for #InsertAnInvert2024 are coming… even blind predatory subterranean diving water beetles from the calcrete aquifers of the Western Australian desert. #linocut #printmaking #wip #invertebrate #sciart #entomology #beetle 🐡🧪

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It's week 1 of subterranean month in #InsertAnInvert2024. Here's a cave beetle (sinotrechiama yunnanus) mking an entrance.

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Featuring more invertebrate art from @liminalitea.bsky.social - I was very pleased with their imagining of Zlivalk the verbose slug-kaiju #InsertAnInvert2024

It's been a while since I posted any of my writing for #InsertAnInvert2024, but the "Subterranean" theme is perfect for "An Awaited Hero" - featuring a giant slug who's read too many Arthurian romances. www.patreon.com/posts/107629...

An Awaited Hero | Lawrence Hardingwww.patreon.com Get more from Lawrence Harding on Patreon

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prompt list:

Here's the latest, updated list of prompts for #InsertAnInvert2024 What's changed: - Carcinization and Wormification months are swapped As always, feel free to interpret the themes as you wish! If you don't vibe with these, we have more suggestions in the spreadsheet: insertaninvert2024.carrd.co

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#InsertAnInvert2024 NEW VELVET WORM SPECIES!!! Oroperipatus tiputini is from Ecuador and has unique morphology! 😍🧪

Cute but deadly: a new velvet worm species from Ecuadorblog.pensoft.net The so-called "living fossil" shoots a sticky substance from a pair of glands to trap its prey.

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Science folks, one thing about bluesky is there's way less 2 way interaction between people, especially on science posts, than there was on old Twitter. I'm not sure why that is, but it's something I'm keen to encourage. I'd love to hear your thoughts 🧪

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Giant Isopods💚✨

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I haven't been online much but I'm still drawing. Here's last week's 5 minute daily drawings. The theme was wasps I've met.

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AAAS has just released an amazing set of comic book stories about women scientists, including physicist Dr. Jessica Esquivel & astronomer Dr. Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil. And the art by @juaneletamal.bsky.social is amazing. Please check them out! #EduSky #AstroSky #comics🎢 sciall.org/projects/?fb...

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July's #insertaninvert2024 theme is cave dwellers. First off, when navigating the depths, a cave beetle is your best friend.

It's #subterranean fauna month for #InsertAnInvert2024 ! I can't wait to see what you come up with. There's very little subterranean fauna art in the world so you'll be treading new ground! 🧪 📷 top pic: WA Museum, bottom pic by me

It's July. Time to look up dirt bug pics. @drkmabrams.bsky.social will post the references in the near future, but can start answering questions if needed. #InsertAnInvert2024

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We are hiring! Two RA positions at NHM London and a postdoc at University of Sheffield as part of a grant on convergent evolution. We strongly encourage diverse applicants to apply. Feel free to email me or Gavin Thomas for more details or if you have any questions 1/3

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Making some new antipodean invertebrates for July, the subterranean month for #InsertAnInvert2024 🧪🐡 You may not know the velvet worms if you live outside the tropics & in the N hemisphere. There are 2 families of them: 1 in the tropics & the other, like my Lino block depicts, from the southern 🧵

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Last week of parasites month of #InsertAnInvert2024 and this week is Megarhyssa macrurus.

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A gallery of ladybird beetles from around the world. My favorites are the little brownish ones, because there are a ton of them and no one knows that they’re ladybirds. www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Cole...

Coccinellidae - Alex Wildwww.alexanderwild.com A gallery of ladybird beetles.

If you see this, post a vampire Any excuse to show a schizomid - this is Draculoides bramstokeri, a subterranean arachnid that is only known from a single island (Barrow Island) off Western Australia. 📷 WA Museum

If you see this, post a vampire The logo of MrBayes always looked like Dracula to me 🤣

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For the third week of this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 carcinization theme, 'not crab', I chose a skeleton shrimp amphipod because I see these weirdos all the time and I love them.

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#InsertAnInvert2024 WHO ARE IN THE FALSE CRABS. The Anomura, on the right side, include: - squat lobsters (contains porcelain crabs) - more squat lobsters (contains Lomis, yeti crabs) - mole crabs - hermit crabs (contains king crabs, coconut crabs) 🦀🦑🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I turned @elksneedle.bsky.social 's explanation & analogy for carcinisation into an info poster :)

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Good night #invertefest! My last post for it is also my last post for the worm theme of #insertaninverte, conveniently. Have an Elvis Worm.