Weird to visit home after four years, but grateful that few things will never change! P.s. I still fit in my old clothes, yay 🎉

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Wondering what we found exploring the Halimeda bioherms? Great job team for writing up this nice summary. Can't wait to see some of this science published!

Had a great time at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle! So exited to see the historic Octocoral collection with all the precious types. My PhD is definitively getting better every day. Thanks to Magalie Castelin for making my visit possible.

This is awesome!

Question: does anyone have a copy of the paper by Broch, H. (1935) and titled Oktocorallen des Nördlichsten Pazifischen Ozeans. Avhandlinger utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo? I can repay you with Octocoral photos!

Taxonomy next level!

Little countryside boy in Singapore. Grateful to be here under the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum Collection Study Grant. Looking forward to all the science happening in the next days, stay tuned! James Cook Uni

Learning from the bests, what could I possibly ask more? Very interesting sampling so far. And of course my bias goes towards a tiny little Clavulariidae(?) that thought it could hide from me. Thanks to Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum for having us!

Had an amazing experience collecting octocorals in Singapore! Thank you very much everyone for the incredible hospitality and great science. It's a privilege to have a bit of Singapore in my PhD! Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum James Cook Uni

MY NEW MONOGRAPH on Antarctic STARFISHES has dropped! ELEVEN NEW SPECIES! The Zootaxa updates link: mapress.com/zt/article/vie… or contact me for a pdf! A THREAD on cool new discoveries!! #echinoday

A hybrid-capture approach to reconstruct the largest evolutionary tree of stony #corals to date: 449 nuclear loci from 422 corals representing 266 species. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum NUS Biological Sciences Curtin University Western Australian Museum Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Red Sea Research Center, KAUST Naturalis Biodiversity Center James Cook Uni Smithsonian NMNH USP - Universidade de São Paulo doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe…

Emanuele Biggi's photograph 'Gladiator Crab' shows one of the resident freshwater crabs that live beneath Trajan's Forum in Rome. The river crabs choose not to inhabit the Tiber, but the ancient channels of the Cloaca Maxima Roman sewer system. Since their discovery in 1998,

Grateful to spend a full month in Okinawa and Iriomote thanks to the University of the Ryukyus and James Davis Reimer. Please say 'Hi' to the Clavularia-mobile, light cream in color like most Clavularia species out there. What a dream!

A fitting gift for the amazing Dr Michela Mitchell (aka Barnes collection queen). And now we are matchy-matchy!

This is one of the coolest things ever... My nerd mode is activated! Awesome!

Did you know that the coral collection at the museum is the one of the largest in the world 🪸 Learn about coral DNA research that is conducted at the museum & how it assists in reef conservation efforts when you visit Colour: Secret Language of the Reef! bit.ly/3gJfczN

That's a wrap! What an amazing 2 days of discovery, fun, excitement and SCIENCE 🧑‍🔬🔬 Till next year World Science Festival Queensland! Stay up to date with upcoming events and programs at the museum: bit.ly/46Eyoaz #WSFQ2024 #QMtropic

Yesterday the museum had Marine Biology and Aquaculture students from James Cook Uni join us for a morning of talks with the Queensland Museum Tropics research, conservation and collection management team🧑‍🔬🪸⚓

Male mosquitoes use their antennae to find female mates. The long hairs are so sensitive to sound, they can detect the buzz of females - even 10m away in a crowd! Better than a secret handshake! 🤫 Discover more in Insect Agency, now on at the museum. 🔗 bit.ly/Insect-Agency-…