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Jo Wolfe, PhD

@jopabinia.bsky.social

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Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at UCSB and Harvard (she/her) My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen!

academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

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Circular timetree of crabs with pie slices colored by superfamily (Figure 2 in the paper). Simplified version with no text/labels. Line drawings of crabs arranged around the perimeter like a zodiac, with colors matching the superfamily pie slice.
Figure by me, drawings by Harrison Mancke and Javi Luque

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citrus sapling 🍋 mcm lnd 2p7 @citrussapling.bsky.social · 11h

I spy... With my 30-40cm diameter eye #art #watercolour #sciart

A watercolour painting of a colossal squid, with eyelashes on it's large eye. The text around it reads "I spy with my COLOSSAL eye".

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Shazzoir @shazzoir.bsky.social · 6h

Some stabby artwork for #CrabTime

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 8h

oh I'd agree the white parts are tiny compared to the leaf! but not zero, I guess, and I like how it looks/smells too

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 9h

*I'm not trying the indoors because the windows have weird coating that killed mint (despite a sunny seeming apartment)

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 9h

currently I'm doing inside by night, outside by day for lemongrass and tbh it is becoming purple which is probably bad. prob going to harvest it all this week

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Andrea Peterson @andreapeterson.bsky.social · 14h

A moss crab looking pretty at the Monterey Bay Aquarium 🦀

#MarineLife #Crabs #LoxorhynchusCrispatus #Decorator #Pacific #WestCoast #MBARI #Photography #MontereyBay

A moss crab with a chunk of kelp on its head sitting on a rock covered with pink algae in an aquarium

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 12h

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 13h

my fat fingers = DSB = Deep Sea Biology = the org you quoted

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Sep 4

For the day 4 #SciArtSeptember prompt riverbank I am sharing my portrait of geologist & #paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964) who mapped the Ottawa-St Lawrence river valley. 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️
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After completing her BSc in ‘11 she was 1st woman offered a position at GSC & 1st female geologist in #Canada. 🧵

Linocut portrait of a young Alice Wilson with her hands under her chin printed in gold ink. Behind her is her own geological map of the Ottawa Valley with the different features on collaged translucent Japanese papers in raspberry, purple, yellow, pale blue, and beige in inks of similar but darker hues. “OTTAWA RIVER” is marked but the final R is obscured by her head.

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 19h

A very good morning from this unimpressed glyptodon model - which was to be one of twelve real scale sculptures in Ciutadella Park, Barcelona.

Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910

(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)

black and white photo. Close-up of a model glyptodon head. it has quite the facial expression

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

@the-episiarch.bsky.social

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 17h

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Haha I made a thread of many Halloween themed crabs last year

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Oct 31

Quick thread of the many crabs named for Halloween related topics. This one is Gecarcinus quadratus, aka THE Halloween crab 🦀

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Sep 12

Interested in carcinization? 🦀🧪🦑 #invertebrate
Check out the Crab Time feed by liking/pinning here,
bsky.app/profile/did:...
and let me or @lucidillusions.in know if you want to post crabs!

How can you say no to this face?

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Lol just realized this plus the photo set really embrace the pre-made vegan proteins. I don't even eat them that much, literally finishing up some beans and rice rn

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I'll describe how I do caesar too then. Rip up kale (or lettuce tbh). Halved cherry tomatoes, cut avocado, croutons, plant based dressing. If I have it, lightlife vegan bacon

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I make salads with it too! It's good in a caesar, or this

kale salad with pecorino and walnuts

Cut into thin threads and tossed with vinegar-soaked golden raisins, sharp cheese, toasted walnuts and crispy breadcrumbs, I could eat a mile of this kale.

smittenkitchen.com

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I find the dinosaur/lactinato kale (what I have) easier to eat raw. The curly ones are a bit tough oftentimes

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I ironically don't have a good photo of cooking my own kale even though I've eaten tons of it all summer...hence the plant itself

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

My hand next to tall ass kale, the height of my balcony railing (raised in a wooden planter). It's next to a smaller kale that is stunted by being next to yet another tall ass one

Manchurian cauliflower, battered and air fried on rice. With red onion, red pepper, and cilantro

Red cabbage ripped up in a salad with shredded carrot, cucumber, and those hodo spicy yuba noodles I used to get at whole foods but can't find anywhere anymore

Vegan dan dan noodles from Bettina Mak's recipe featuring prominently some steamed bok choy (its Brassica rapa!). Contains gardein ground round with Sichuan peppercorn and dried chili pepper, and rice noodles with peanut sauce (it's supposed to be wheat noodles but I was out)

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Deep-Sea Biology Society Arts @dsbsoc-arts.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎨🔬 CALLING ALL ARTISTS & DEEP-SEA SCIENTISTS!

💡 Open to ALL artists & scientists
 🗓 Deadline: August 31
 📍 Apply via the short form in our bio / link below!

🔗 forms.gle/SftLbez3ML2j...

Are you inspired by the mysteries of the deep? We're launching a new initiative ArtSea Matchmaking that pairs artists and scientists for creative collaborations rooted in deep-sea science.
Together, you'll co-create compelling work that bridges disciplines and reaches wider audiences through exhibitions and outreach.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Not off the top of my head, but DBS can probably reach any better than I can

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory 🦀

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is noticeable to you because you are a polyglot. I never notice anything because I have zero idea what are root words unless I look them up

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 1d

Finally posted blog posts on our latest phylogenetics readings in our modern phylo class:

Phylogeography

Simulation

Behavior & Genomics

Reticulate evolution

All in series: brianomeara.info/blog.html#ca...

#Evolution 🧪

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Max @paisleystars.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back to the 'don't look now but the sky's doing weird shit' part of the year

The aurora borealis (northern lights) as two distinctive shapes over a mountain. One purple spike into a more diffuse green wave. Both very clear and strong.

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