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  1. The snail. The myth. The legend.

    Silliness aside, I found a cool #snail while out on a walk today. Actually I'm not sure what snails do with one foot; "walking" seems the wrong word. Ambulating.

    Let's say we were both ambulating and leave it there.

    #snails #bugs #awalkaday #magicinthemundane #mollusks #pacificsidebandsnail

  2. A tiny snail has extraordinarily strong teeth, but why? Meet one of the strongest biological materials ever recorded. #science #sciencefacts #biology #snails

  3. @CiaraNi As a journalist, I need more and more time only for #factChecking and I find myself no longer believing anything at the first glance unless I can see verifiable original sources. I only follow real photographers, no accounts showing photos that are not their own.
    Sometimes, the AI crap is so hard that I react, like that fake about #snails: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts

    What really gets to me is that this #fakes keep circulating, with loads of likes and shares, and they’re right at the top of

  4. I passed a community hub last night and was delighted by the creatures painted on their window.

    #worms #snails #ladybugs #bees

  5. Hey #fediknowledge !!

    I was working in the garden and stumbled upon these kind of tiny cups with some small white eggs (???) in them.

    What are these things and what animal made them?

    Please boost!

    I know there has to be some bubble in #fediverse where someone has the answer :-)

    #eggs #nests #insects #snails #fedi

  6. Field work in one of the smallest countries, Sao Tome, looking for one of the largest snails, unfortunately also endangered. Success! Giant Obo snail, bigger than your regular Giant African land snail - and sinistral coiling. PS individuals shown are only teenagers, not fully grown #snails #saotome #chirality

  7. I just saw the first bumble bee! Tiny insects are flying again. This is the time to come out of my hibernation modus and write more about #nature. I talk about #snails, and as they are still in their protection places, reflect on Homo-not-so-sapiens: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts

    You can subscribe to my free #Newsletter: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts ( #substack free #EuropeanAlternative )

    #NatureMatchCuts #gastropods #sciComm #natureLovers #springVibes #journalism #factCheck #biology #biodiversity

  8. Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

    Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

    #ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

  9. A comprehensive scientific review quantifying the catastrophic loss of #biodiversity among #Pacific Island land #snails – revealing that extinction rates on high #volcanic islands range from 30% to 80% of total species.
    #Conservation #Malacology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/01/cons0129260

  10. #Introduction
    Hey, everyone on the Fedi!

    I'm Eli (pronounced as Ellie).

    I'm an #enby from #Mexico and not new to the Fediverse, but haven't been around recently. I had an account at queer.party and, since that instance is gone now, I'm looking to find new connections, so feel free to follow if we share interests or recommend accounts to follow.

    I'm #trans, #nonbinary, #genderflux, #agender, #maverique, #aromantic #demiaro, #polysexual, #toric, #enbian, and #polyamorous.
    My pronouns are they/them, ze/hir and it/its, interchangeable.

    I love all things #horror (mostly films) and am very fond of #80sHorror, you can check my Letterboxd out to see my reviews. My fave film is Chopping Mall (1986).

    I usually don't watch shows now, I hate when they get cancelled and the story gets no proper ending, which happens a lot, but you can also find me at Serializd.

    My reading list is predominantly #CrimeFiction (mainly Nordic) but I also like reading horror, #QueerRomance, and anything that piques my curiosity.

    I'm some kind of a #geek and enjoy #FOSS, my main OS has been #LinuxMint for 5 years now, and I have an old laptop for distrohopping, currently using #Manjaro and #Debian. My secondary OS is #macOS.

    I also happen to be a #language nerd, I speak #Swedish, #Catalan, and #French. Will mainly post in #English and #Spanish, though.

    My favourite #music genre is #IndieRock, but I’d listen to anything, primarily more #indie genres.
    My favourite band ever is #kent.
    As of now, my favourite artists are: #cupcakKe, #DaltonDeschain, #SoporAeternus, #TwinTemple, #LaCasaAzul, #Enjambre, #Ginestà, #ElsAmicsDeLesArts, #PierreLapointe, #Остава

    My favourite animals are #cats, #spiders, #octopuses and #snails, but I don't have any pets.

    #ASMR has helped me relax and fall asleep for +10 years now, so I may share some links every now and then.

    I love #JigsawPuzzles and every once in a while I do some #puzzling.

  11. While we were defending our #peas from masses of #snails & #slugs last week, my better half said, “I think we should wrap the pots in #coppertape”.

    I said, “That doesn’t work. It’s a fairy tale. Maybe I could wrap the pots with double sided tape & rub salt onto the exposed tape?”

    Her reply, “Why?”

    #Salt kills snails & slugs”

    “I’ve never heard of that!”

    #gardening

  12. New blog post! Tonight was the Members's reception for “Life in the Slow Lane”, Western Science Center's exhibit on snails and slugs! The public opening is Saturday morning.

    #FossilFriday #Malacology #museum #exhibit #scicomm #snails

    life-from-a-certain-point-of-v

  13. We’re almost there! “Life in the Slow Lane”, Western Science Center’s exhibit on snails and slugs, opens to the public the Saturday, October 25. Staff and volunteers are hard at work completing the installation. #museum #MuseumLife #scicomm #Exhibitions #snails #malacology

  14. CW: Photos of snail

    Watered the garden and sure enough, snails came right out. Are they bad for plants? I don't have fruits so they seem harmless.

    Macro photos by the Phone (3) look very nice.

    #snail #snails #gardening #WithNothing #insects

  15. Comment needed from friendly "malacologist" (me!) on the speed of snails in relation to the Ukraine-Russia war. I would have been wary of doing this interview if I was not already familiar with Tim Harford and BBC Radio 4 "More or Less" programme bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002j5tq (~24 minutes in). #UoN #snails #BBC #moreorless

  16. Garden snail genome now available. Amongst other things, a fantastic resource for trying to understand chiral variation in my lab snails.

    Can you spot the lefty in the image? wellcomeopenresearch.org/artic #genomics #snails #gardensnail #chirality

  17. Today feeling like Santa 🎅 when he receives mail at the North Pole 🛷.
    Letter addressed to "Polymita Tree Snail Department, Nottingham University" found its way to me, one of two people in the "Dept of Tree Snails" at Nottingham. It is signed by a "Robert J. Smith" 🕷️🕸️ 🐈, no really 😸. Could it could it could could it be The Robert J. Smith?!
    #TheCure #Polymita #Snails #Lovecats #Lovesnails #UoN

  18. Somehow turned my Cuban adventures back in March into "breaking news", snail-bombing the whole of the BBC and beyond 🤔😄. Highlight was probably the ITN News at 10 feature that ended with prolonged footage of two snails mating, which is not something I ever imagined could happen in real life on a primetime news programme. Did they know what they were broadcasting? At least it was after 9 pm watershed. #snails #bbc #polymita #UoN #conservation
    bbc.com/news/articles/clyrv8nd

  19. 🥂 🐌 First paper out from our Cuba-UK collaboration 🐌🥂. We used mtDNA and rRNA sequences to place beautiful Polymita snails in a phylogeny. Basically, they are basal to a whole bunch of other important and diverse snail groups. academic.oup.com/mollus/articl

    There's an obvious #paperthemetune, the "Polymita song", by collaborator Norvis Hernandez and others. youtu.be/1srl4_JI_Fs?si=G3Z5bV #snails #mtDNA #phylogenetics #UoN