Notices by snailix 🐌 (snailix@scicomm.xyz)

Also, this series is really cool. It has writers picked by Chelsea Manning answering the question:

"What, for you, is the most under-discussed issue affecting the trans and non-binary communities in America today?"

The E/V Nautilus is currently diving on Pele's Pit, an underwater volcano where they will be sampling and surveying the geology and biology of the area.

They are currently at 1272 m depth and will be exploring the area for a while.

watch now, and send your questions in to the team
https://nautiluslive.org/

in 3 weeks (ahhhhhhhhhh) I will be joining the crew of the E/V Nautilus as a Science Communication Fellow. We'll be exploring deep sea mountain ranges off of the Hawaii islands.

I will definitely be keeping updates on here (modern tech is wild) but my main connection to the world will be thru camera feeds from the robots we send to the bottom of the ocean.

there is a cruise before mine and they will be doing live dives again soon. keep an eye on nautiluslive.org for all the updates!!!

lichen, anyone?

(symbiotic community of fungus and algae)

since everyone liked that hydroid post so much

here's more underwater pics I got on my new camera

can I get a boost for the often ignored but extremely ecologically important freshwater mussel? here, the frilly bits you see are the siphon which brings water into the body to pass over the gills and for the mouth to extract food like zoo and phytoplankton

boost if you bus

this is my favorite picture that I've taken in a while. it's a colony of hydroid (invertebrate animals) that use their tentacles to stun prey and pull it into their mouths. this species is called the pink hearted hydroid. plz always send me weird ocean things. weird shit from the ocean is my life blood.

I printed a bunch of 3D clits back in February for use in a safe sex game show I wrote and performed for our Valentine's Day Science After Hours. I talked about calories burned, sex injuries, why not to use baby oil as lube w latex, and the importance of understanding everyone's individual sensitivities. Then I taught a whole bunch of people about the magic of the clit - no refractory period means endless blood supply = multiple orgasms. isn't science amazing 😘

@snailix

*drumroll*

it's a clit

it's a 3D printed model of the internal structure of the human clitoris

but it also kinda looks like a penguin

quiz time who can tell me what my desk decoration is

I'm the resident natural sciences gal in a mostly technology focused museum so you know I had to build a mini desk museum with my shell collection 😅

Here's a gift he recently made for me - it's supposed to be me in Acadia National Park where we recently took vacation. I'm the resident photographer of the family and the rocks and wood are from other areas we visited on Mount Desert Island and there's even a tiny picture of my family on the little toy camera he added 😭

https://scicomm.xyz/media/HLa-IL5yFeAaB6HLpGc

https://scicomm.xyz/media/ZrM0zqqstAE70JYYoCA

When my grandfather (a lifelong woodworker) passed away my dad was inspired to get back into the craft. He has since made about 20 different pieces of furniture for family and friends and he's been doing a lot of creative projects as well. It makes me so happy.

throwback to the beautiful octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) that was seen at 1164 m depth on the Davidson (Pierce) Seamount in the SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Protected Area during E/V Nautilus dives earlier this year. It didn’t move very much for the entirety of the visit to the area, which led researchers to believe this octo might be brooding. It was an enchanting sight to watch this octopus respirate at the bottom of the Northeast Pacific Ocean from a computer in Philly

i took a vacation in maine recently and this is one of my fav pictures (i got a new camera and took like 3000 😅) - quartz lined tide pool on mount desert island ⛰

boost this toot to connect me w my snail people, i know ur out there bbs 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌

Periwinkle snail chilling on the rocks of the intertidal zone. Those little blue animals (in this photo around 2.5 mm in length) are ‘seashore springtails’ - found across most of the world. When I looked back at this picture I realized how much they pop out, they look photoshopped 😂 That pop is from their cool blue ish grey color.
Not sure if the snail i photographed is a common or rough periwinkle - I saw plenty of both species! I also saw yellow periwinkles while exploring the tide pools.

want some cat toots? this is my cat choo choo and she’s great and also has the absolute upper hand in our relationship 🚂🚂