Fudge Lab
@fudgelab.bsky.social
Douglas Fudge's lab at Chapman University: Marine Biology, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Biophysics, Hagfishes, Slime, 1st-gen; opinions my own.
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Fudge Lab
@fudgelab.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Happy to be joining the conversation on Bluesky! I’ll be posting about our research on the biology of hagfishes, marine biology, bio-inspired design, and reposting all things slimy and fishy.
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My guess is a juvenile, but there's no chance I can ID that. @jethroreading32.bsky.social what do you think? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My guess is a juvenile, but there's no chance I can ID that. @jethroreading32.bsky.social what do you think? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
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Cleveland’s beloved ancient sea monster was more turtle than shark www.popsci.com/science/clev...
Cleveland's beloved ancient sea monster was more turtle than shark
Paleontologists revised the anatomy of Dunkleosteus terrelli–and it’s still terrifying.
www.popsci.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Cleveland’s beloved ancient sea monster was more turtle than shark www.popsci.com/science/clev...
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
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This Oreosomatidae looks unique, and neat to see it up in the water column! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This Oreosomatidae looks unique, and neat to see it up in the water column! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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One of at least seven Humpback Whales off the south Mainland of Shetland today. Amazing!
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of at least seven Humpback Whales off the south Mainland of Shetland today. Amazing!
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
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November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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#FossilFriday From the black ‘marble’ floor of the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, a horizontally sectioned productid brachiopod and a solitary rugose coral enveloped by a syringoporid coral. The stone looks to be European Carboniferous but I would welcome any feedback.
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#FossilFriday From the black ‘marble’ floor of the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, a horizontally sectioned productid brachiopod and a solitary rugose coral enveloped by a syringoporid coral. The stone looks to be European Carboniferous but I would welcome any feedback.
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I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
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Amazing look at a Erenna siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 874 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Amazing look at a Erenna siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 874 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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Now that's a cool squid. I'm not sure of the ID for it. Psst, it waved. Parasites on it? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Now that's a cool squid. I'm not sure of the ID for it. Psst, it waved. Parasites on it? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖
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New paper from the @rouxlab.bsky.social on Nature Communications! We study how membrane tension is spatially organized in cells. Using the mechanosensitive probe Flipper-TR to visualize tension across the plasma membrane of adherent cells and to dissect the conditions needed for a gradient to happen
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New paper from the @rouxlab.bsky.social on Nature Communications! We study how membrane tension is spatially organized in cells. Using the mechanosensitive probe Flipper-TR to visualize tension across the plasma membrane of adherent cells and to dissect the conditions needed for a gradient to happen
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Roses are red
That dino looks ill
That dino looks ill
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Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) publicdomainreview.org/collection/3...
Henri Rivière’s *Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower* (1888–1902)
French lithographs of the Eiffel Tower and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints.
publicdomainreview.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) publicdomainreview.org/collection/3...
Congrats Grant!
Congrats to Grant McClelland for winning the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social! Fantastic and well-deserved recognition for a great mentor, colleague, and research buddy!
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
registrar.mcmaster.ca/convocation-...
Faculty of Engineering & Faculty of Science
registrar.mcmaster.ca
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Congrats Grant!
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After 3 decades of work by Alameda Creek Alliance (& others), chinook salmon make it 20 miles upstream from San Francisco Bay, farther than ever since the 1950s!
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
‘Epic’: Salmon seen far upstream in Bay Area creek for first time in 70 years
After the removal of small dams and the addition of fish ladders, salmon have been seen swimming further up a Bay Area creek than at anytime since the 1950s.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
After 3 decades of work by Alameda Creek Alliance (& others), chinook salmon make it 20 miles upstream from San Francisco Bay, farther than ever since the 1950s!
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
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In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, our Museums will offer free admission to all visitors from 3 - 5pm this Friday, November 21. Free tickets will be available at any on-site museum ticketing desk.
The #NHMLAC is proud to offer this general admission benefit at both @tarpits.org and @nhm.org.
The #NHMLAC is proud to offer this general admission benefit at both @tarpits.org and @nhm.org.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, our Museums will offer free admission to all visitors from 3 - 5pm this Friday, November 21. Free tickets will be available at any on-site museum ticketing desk.
The #NHMLAC is proud to offer this general admission benefit at both @tarpits.org and @nhm.org.
The #NHMLAC is proud to offer this general admission benefit at both @tarpits.org and @nhm.org.
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I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
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November 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I never expected that AI would flood authors with scam emails from "private" "communities" of "readers." One of many examples from the past few weeks:
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I never expected that AI would flood authors with scam emails from "private" "communities" of "readers." One of many examples from the past few weeks: