Giving different chatbots the prompt "draw a chiton wrapped around a ball" - ChatGPT is like a lazy student. Other chatbots are out of their depth and kind of panicking with the assignment.

Limpets are the BEST gastropods. This is not an opinion, it is evolution. Limpets evolved more than 50 times: they are important. People in Hawaii already know this.

You can daydream about seeing them here
www.waikikiaquarium.org/experience/a...

and vote for it here
moty.senckenberg.science

Glaucus atlanticus is like a living Pokemon.

It is NOT in the deep sea, Glaucus lives on the surface, but it still got the cover of this ridiculous book of "deep sea girls". Which was published here
www.php.co.jp/books/detail...

and you can vote for it here
moty.senckenberg.science

Arctica islandica is one of the oldest (non-colonial) animals, they easily live more than 500 years, and still look amazing. It got a write up in "Mollusc World" (this is a real magazine) that you can read here
conchsoc.org/MolluscWorld...

and vote for it here
moty.senckenberg.science

Xenophora conchyliophora (not the auto-correct "xenophobia" - boo!) is an ace decorator. I have never seen one alive. In their natural habitat they are INVISIBLE.

You can play with a 3D model of a similar species here
sketchfab.com/3d-models/xe...

and vote for it here
moty.senckenberg.science

VOTE NOW! Mollusc of the Year 2025

Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet
Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon
Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus
Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector

YOU decide - we do its genome
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social

New open access paper with Kasia Voncina, who designed new primers to successfully get COI barcodes from old chitons in museum collections

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meet our new fossils: Punk and Emo (their real names)
New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs
out now in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Nominate your favourite mollusc for

International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀

A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!

Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...

@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

Time for the International #molluscoftheyear competition 2024!!!
Meet the incredible finalists - explore their profiles &
~ VOTE ~ for your favourite by April 14th.
Please share! Winner will get its genome sequenced. sgn.one/moty24