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Valentines themed flash drop! I had a lot of fun putting these together. Grab you, your loved one, or a friendling, a fun little tattoo to celebrate love with. Swipe for pricing and skin swatches!

The cuttlefish and nudibranch originally had captions but I like them without :>

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A similar program has been successfully running in the #worm community and a lot of our program structure/surveys and ideas were adapted from those. We are very grateful to the worm program chairs and #WormBase members for supporting us in our endeavors.

Keep an eye out for emails from the GSA next week for more details. Meanwhile urging everyone in the #genetics #community to kindly please share this with trainees/faculty who will benefit from the program.

A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: #HydrothermalVents and the Resilient Pompeii Worm deepseanews.com/2024/06/a-jour

"The #worm is found on the sides of #hydrothermal vents, with its tube often reaching across the chimney to access some of the hottest fluids. The #worms can be briefly exposed to 100˚C waters, although temperatures adjacent to the worm’s tubes more often range between near freezing and 45˚C. The rear end likely experiences extreme heat while the front end experiences extreme cold"

Mediterranean marine #worm has developed eyes "as big as millstones" phys.org/news/2024-04-mediterr

High-resolution vision in #pelagic #polychaetes cell.com/current-biology/fullt

"if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of this worm, we would need a big, sturdy wheelbarrow and brawny arms to lug around the extra 100kg... the worm's eyes weigh about 20x as much as the rest of the animal's head and seem grotesquely out of place... As if two giant, shiny red balloons have been strapped to its body."