Kevin Cummings (@musselguy) 's Twitter Profile
Kevin Cummings

@musselguy

Retired Curator of Mollusks, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois. Music lover. Unabashed liberal.

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All Too Clear Film (@alltooclearfilm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Give you one guess what's all the way down at the very deepest point of #GeorgianBay. You got it - quagga mussels! At 560 feet down, they look a little different from their shallower relatives, but they're still filtering away down there.

John Pfeiffer (@mud_iark) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Colleagues and I are working towards making a comprehensive 3D library of the freshwater mussels of the United States! #ShellYeah Check out some of the models at sketchfab.com/FloridaMuseum/… fab collab w/ Zach Randall Nina Ramos USFWS NCTC Chesapeake Bay Foundation @RVABAYScientist

MBARI (@mbari_news) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gliding into Cephalopod Awareness Days with a mama Gonatus squid. 🦑⁠ ⁠ MBARI scientists discovered that some female deep-sea squid, like this Gonatus onyx, brood their eggs by carrying them between their arms until the young hatch and swim away. ⁠

LOEWE Centre Translational Biodiversity Genomics (@loewe_tbg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reminder! 🐌🦑🐙🦪 📢 Nominations for the International #molluscoftheyear 2024 are open until 3 January! ✍️ Nominate your favourite #mollusc for free #genome #sequencing! 🧬Any living species of #mollusc is eligible! 👉 sgn.one/f4b SENCKENBERG Unitas Malacologica

Reminder! 🐌🦑🐙🦪
📢 Nominations for the International #molluscoftheyear 2024 are open until 3 January!
✍️ Nominate your favourite #mollusc for free #genome #sequencing! 🧬Any living species of #mollusc is eligible! 👉 sgn.one/f4b 
<a href="/Senckenberg/">SENCKENBERG</a> <a href="/malacologica/">Unitas Malacologica</a>
Jeremy Tiemann (@jayhawktiemann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fish (& herp) job alert! The Illinois Natural History Survey is hiring curators for both our Fish & Herp Collections. Both are amongst largest & oldest in country, and with large international holdings. Come work with us to help continue their legacies. More info: blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/8725…

Fish (&amp; herp) job alert!

The <a href="/INHSillinois/">Illinois Natural History Survey</a> is hiring curators for both our Fish &amp; Herp Collections. Both are amongst largest &amp; oldest in country, and with large international holdings. Come work with us to help continue their legacies.

More info: blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/8725…
John Pfeiffer (@mud_iark) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our synthesis and analysis of >400k US freshwater mussel records is finally published! Big ups to @thepopenjay and @PhishBiologist! Article - sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Smithsonian Magazine - smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national… Web app - musselmapr.shinyapps.io/hic_sunt_naiad…

Our synthesis and analysis of &gt;400k US freshwater mussel records is finally published! Big ups to @thepopenjay and @PhishBiologist!

Article - sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Smithsonian Magazine - smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national…

Web app - musselmapr.shinyapps.io/hic_sunt_naiad…
Jeremy Tiemann (@jayhawktiemann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper alert on this #MolluskMonday- Distribution of nonindigenous Basket clams (#Corbicula spp.) in Mexico 🇲🇽 Kevin Cummings & I summarized known Corbicula occurrences throughout the under-sampled country. >50% records came from #CitizenScientist! Paper: revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/…

New paper alert on this #MolluskMonday- Distribution of nonindigenous Basket clams (#Corbicula spp.) in Mexico 🇲🇽

<a href="/Musselguy/">Kevin Cummings</a> &amp; I summarized known Corbicula occurrences throughout the under-sampled country. &gt;50% records came from #CitizenScientist!

Paper: revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/…
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos and videos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them

Kevin Cummings (@musselguy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Before it was Alligator Alcatraz, this airstrip sparked fury and changed America's landscape sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/13/bef…