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Glad to see this one come out and big thanks to Hofstra BS student Justin Zheng (now in med school at Stony Brook) for all his work! mapress.com/zt/article/vie… @hofstrabiology @huhclas

We’re hiring a Part-Time Laboratory Course Technician: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6244. Come join our department!

Congrats to Grace Kokasko for her first pub from her MS thesis (another soon!) on a new species of weird hyperparasitic barnacle from squat lobsters of New Zealand. A real team effort on this one! academic.oup.com/jcb/article-ab… @niwa_nz @HofstraUHCLAS @HofstraBiology

Can’t believe it’s been over a week since The Crustacean Society meeting in Paris wrapped up. Looking forward to the next in South Africa!

Nice day on the water. Rough housing market for the hermits, many were in slipper snail shells.

🌍 Happy Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🎉 Today 23 May, we celebrate the incredible work of taxonomists who help us understand Earth's biodiversity. Check tettris.eu/trd/ for events all over in Europe @TETTRIsEU #marinespecies

Congrats to Adora and Rahul for presenting their research during Undergrad Research & Creativity Day last week! Great work on rare parasitic isopod larvae from the Antarctic. @HofstraU @HofstraBiology

@Emma__PT @CKatharoyan @PeerNasreen @kzbih_ul @StellenboschUni Awesome! Jealous!

Three amazing weeks exploring the diversity in South Africa's southernmost coastal zone, in the water, at the water, out of the water... Especially the great variety of invertebrates associated with the kelp forests and more specifically Ecklonia maxima. #Tanaidacea #Peracarida

Come join us . . . TT microbiology position due soon! - hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/5041%…

Already a week has gone by in Belize! It's been an exciting start with some firsts for me such as the hammerhead sighting; we also visited the Mayan Temple Altun Ha with spectacular views. Much more to explore this week . . . instagram.com/hofstrainbeliz…

Congrats to Justin and Gianna for presenting their work during Undergrad Research & Creativity Day! @HofstraU Nice work on parasitic isopods from 🦐 and squat 🦞. Next up . . . Adora and Rahul this spring on their larval stages!@HofstraBiology

@ChrisBlanar Just ~20 min in freshwater after extraction from the mole crabs and the proboscis extends. High prevalence of Profilicollis in our region on Long Island.

@jasondwilliams this is absolutely amazing- I usually only ever see these things frozen or as live adults, very cool to see the process so clearly

Time lapse of cystacanths doing their thing after my parasitology class extracted them from mole crabs yesterday. Look at those proboscises!

PhD in hermit crabs, personality and human impacts on behaviour, part of the AIRES DTC. Based in Plymouth with me and with @SvenjaTidau in Bangor. Please share and if interested feel free to get in touch for more info! plymouth.ac.uk/study/research…

Imagine if tiny peracarids grew to the size of mythical sea beasts! From parasitic isopods to clawed amphipods, deep-sea life is as astonishing as any horror movie. Celebrate Halloween w/ "Monsters of the Deep: The Mysteries of Peracarida" by Andres Pruna🎃peracarida.org

Spooktacular - this is one of the largest parasitic isopods I have ever held! I guess scarier for the deep-sea shrimp host that it fed on. Introducing Cryptione grandis from the Gulf of Mexico . . . doi.org/10.1007/s12526… @HofstraUHCLAS @HofstraBiology

Congrats to BS student Gianna Sancetta for publication of her studies on squat lobster parasites from New Zealand, part of the research resulting from my sabbatical work initiated at NIWA. Happy to see this out! doi.org/10.1007/s11230… @niwa_nz @HofstraUHCLAS @HofstraBiology

At heart, I’m still just a beachcomber. Some treasures….

Found these little cuties on the blue mussels I collected today.

That’s quite a mess of springtails!