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“Okay,” Miller thought, “we can see bioluminescence from space.” Wonderful Michelle Nijhuis piece on milky seas, a rarely observed but massive case of bacterial bioluminescence — often covering thousands of square miles. scientificamerican.com/article/the-my… via Scientific American

They can regenerate functional spinal cords after being sliced in half, predate dinosaurs and have survived at least four mass extinctions. But sea lampreys might not be the unbeatable monsters we treat them as. From Michael Tessler and me, for WIRED: wired.com/story/the-doub…

Great microscopy work is always such a treat. Especially when its on overlooked yet complex critters like copepods.

Taxonomy is critical and having practitioners across the world is critical. How can we know what to save in conservation if we don't know animals and plants we even have? Way to go @Persian_spiders

New Teachers Guide for the Geology of Central Park by RGGS-AMNH MAT postdoc alum Steven Jaret and MAT student, postdoc and faculty colleagues: amnh.org/learn-teach/cu…

ahhH my maggot story made it into the honorable mentions of this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing !! what a trip to be included among all these extremely talented people

I want to listen to new papers while I am commuting! I wrote a blog post arguing that scientific publishers should use some of their profits to produce audio reads of papers, for accessibility and to serve the community. Comments/further ideas welcome!

my story about what a good life with Alzheimer’s might look like is up today on The New Yorker. I’ve been thinking about these ideas for years and working on this piece since spring, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you: newyorker.com/culture/annals…

🚨NEW RESEARCH: A study led in part by Museum researchers produces the first taxonomy for a placozoan phylum! The first placozoan was discovered more than 100 years ago, but until now, they didn’t have a broad-scale Linnaean taxonomy. 🦠Read more: bit.ly/3FiwzmA

If you haven't tried eDNA, maybe our primer published in Microbial Ecology can help get you started :) @BlackCoralLab Seth Cunningham Sally Warring @bat_biomes St. Francis College American Museum of Natural History link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Marine modelers check this out! Some assumptions, not shockingly, must be reconsidered for copepods - the tiny grazers, carnivores, and omnivores of the sea. Here is the awesome paper by Emily Herstoff esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

We need your help! Have you ever seen jumping leeches? If you have—& you have video footage—please DM Museum Research Associate Michael Tessler (Michael Tessler). His team has found evidence of leaping leeches in Madagascar & they want to know where else jumping leeches exist!