Congratulations to Dr Alison Irwin Ally Irwin for winning the Annual Award for best initial contribution to malacology. Awarded by the Malacological Societyof London Malacological Society of London 🎉 #NHM_Science #NHM_Students

Still time to apply for my fully-funded PhD! Deadline 3rd of April 🕷️🕸️🪰🦋🦗🐝🕷️ Please retweet 🙂

Amazing footage of the extremely rare Glass Octopus (Vitreledonella richardi) filmed 651m (2135 ft) beneath the waves near the Phoenix Islands Archipelago.

Great opportunity to get free membership to Malacological Society of London

Last chance to apply for the molecular phylogenetics course at the NHM!! Deadline Monday 9 January 2023

Molecular Phylogenetics course for postgrad/postdoc level 6-10 March (or 20-24 March online) run by Suzanne Williams & Natural History Museum Science colleagues with Natural Environment Research Council funding - it's free! Apply by 9 January nhm.ac.uk/our-science/co…

ARGH! A big snail, Charonia? eating a blue Linckia in one gobble! #molluscmonday #molluskmonday #echinoday

Jellyfish-Like Robot Can Carefully Grasp Fragile Objects technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/n…

Why do some species evolve conspicuous coloration as a warning signal whereas other evolve this coloration as a sexual signal?

Turns out that ancestral diel activity can help explain this pattern.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Bumblebees’ Color Vision Weakened by Popular Herbicide technologynetworks.com/applied-scienc…

Delighted to report that ⁦Ally Irwin⁩ successfully defended her PhD on conch snail vision, systematics, biogeography and evolution! You can tell it was good news by the wonderful strombid hat from ⁦Hugh Carter⁩ ! ⁦Natural History Museum Science⁩ ⁦NHM_Students⁩

I'm so excited to be joining the Malacological Society of Australasia Molluscs 2022 meeting! 😊😊 Natural History Museum Science

The NHM/NERC introductory molecular phylogenetics course is running again in 2023. Its completely FREE! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/ym2fwh87

Huge congrats to Hamish Spencer & my Zoology_Otago PhD student Kerry Walton (not on Twitter) on the publication of his 1st PhD paper on #ancientDNA from #mollusc shells in Molecular Ecology resources 🐚🧬onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… 1/8

Fabulous write up about Ally's recent work on conch snail vision. Ally Irwin NHM_Students NHM_Students shellmuseum.org/post/complex-v…

Yesterday was a historic day in plant biotech: a purple tomato engineered with high antioxidants was approved by Dept. of Agriculture NorfolkPlantSciences helps prevent cardiovascular disease and fight cancer in humans.
This approval under new regulation ushers in a new era for plant synbio!

This is a really great meeting for young malacologists! Really friendly and lots of people give their first talks here.

So pleased to announce that Ally's second paper from her thesis has been published! Ally Irwin Natural History Museum Science NHM_Students
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If you’re at the Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology in Prague, drop by and see our poster #243 on colour in Linckia sea stars! ⁦National Geographic⁩ ⁦Natural History Museum Science⁩ #ESEB2022 ⁦Hugh Carter⁩

Fabulous talk on starfish colour by Hugh_Carter_!! ⁦Natural History Museum Science⁩ ⁦NHM_Students⁩ #starfish #ESEB2022