Rebecca R Helm
@rebeccarhelm
Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Do not train AI off my work. Please bring croissants 🥐
The source: this proud bar-kiosk, resting wonderfully, if somewhat inexplicably, at the end of a long nature hike through a sand dune preserve. Playing music that apparently no one has ever heard.
The final song from the mystery album of the Maspalomes Kiosco Beach N°6. Also, highly recommend if you like ocean, sand dunes, being nekkid, queer hangouts, and kick-your-teeth sweet drinks. BUT what is the song?!
OMG WHAT IS THIS SONG? So while hiking through sand dunes in the Canary Islands, I literally stumbled upon a a surprise nudist beach with a fabulous little gay bar. They played with “album” of at least 3 songs, all with a similar beat, and I *cannot* figure out the name. Help me music peeps!
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My inbox is filled with AI-agent written emails. This is bad practice, but it is also fundamentally undercutting the democratization of the internet. The internet makes it possible for people to find mentors and make connections. This erodes that trusted process. Do not do this.
Washington DC: where you are regularly assaulted by abject political horrors and unabashed professional levels of whimsey.
Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)
If you’d told me this was painted yesterday I would have believed you Death and the Grave Digger (La Mort et le Fossoyeur) (c. 1895) by Carlos Schwabe
This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI
Are there any folks on here in the DC / Maryland / Virginia region that would be interested in DMV related activities? 🧪 🌊 🐙 🌿 (simulation of ocean surface current movement by NASA)
This is what baby eels looks like. The long trailing tail is its *stomach* (nope, we scientists have no idea why) Eels hold their mysteries close 📽️ by Fan Zhang
This shell is made up of fish that feed at the surface at night, and retreat to deep safe water during the day (to avoid visual predators like tuna). Watch this net pass from blue pristine "empty" surface waters into the darkness of the 'fish shell': Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TYK...
Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]
Guys looks at this baby snail 🥲 Baby sea snails (called veligers) often sport large angel-like wings, which they use to glide through the oceans before landing in a permanent home.
Several of the pictures are close ups of this beauty, the common sun star:
Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
THIS. This this 1000x this. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DUlNVvm...
Would you like a little rest? I made this little video for you. It’s just trees. A small creek. Nothing happens. It’s 2 minutes long. Come sit 🔉
Don't be a loser deep-sea snails with a yellow shells, be the snail the white arrow is pointing to: a black iron-clad snail with swords on your skin, capable of withstanding crushing temperatures and pressures. Don't be an average snail. Be the metal snail. Be the "sea pangolin"
I'm loving this book by @bittelmethis.bsky.social! The jellyfish section is so cool! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...