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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Love songs in the sand: Researchers listen in to fiddler #crab courtship phys.org/news/2025-04-songs-sa

Constraints on percussive seismic signals in a noisy environment by European #FiddlerCrabs, Afruca tangeri journals.biologists.com/jeb/ar

"For fiddler #crabs, vibrational signals are a crucial part of their courtship routines... males with larger claws produced higher-energy seismic signals, with higher amplitude drumming spikes. This appears to prevent the male from being dishonest about their size"

screenshot from a video of crab on sandy beach next to some scientific equipment
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Micah Ilbery :sloth_coffee:

I was made aware of the Playstacean and
1.) I NEED one
but
2.) It also got me thinking about carcinization and I'm now wondering if the "rewrite it in rust" movement is just the software equivalent. Either way I am ready to be crab. Here are the various links for you too to get ready for crab:

https://xkcd.com/2314/

https://anhdang.artstation.com/projects/YBr3GV?album_id=1661174

https://youtu.be/dSBNs3TeINc?si=QA0fRiw_lf_bqXX0

A Crustacean PlayStation, a Playstacean. Illusion by Anh Dang of a grey crab that looks like a PlayStation One with controller buttons and joysticks on the claws
A Crustacean PlayStation, a Playstacean. Illusion by Anh Dang of an orange crab that looks like a PlayStation One with controller buttons and joysticks on the claws.
#Rust#Crab#Carcinization
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Global Museum

Horseshoe Crab 🦀 A Living Fossil! | 1 Minute Animals.

Discover the horseshoe crab, an ancient creature that has roamed the Earth for millions of years. You won't believe the bizarre appearance of this unique animal, with its hard shell and spiky legs. Learn about its fascinating history and why it's crucial for medical research.

#HorseshoeCrab#LivingFossil#MarineLife
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Flipboard Science Desk

How popular crab memes amplify mistaken ideas about evolution.

Opinion piece from @SciAm: "Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and 'ultimate forms.' They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific veneer."

flip.it/GyUy9F

Scientific AmericanCrab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about EvolutionMemes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific veneer
#Evolution#Science#Memes
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Green staghorn coral may be more likely to survive ocean warming if crabs are around phys.org/news/2025-02-green-st

"predation by #starfish led to wounds that bled mucus, which in turn attracted the hoof-clawed #crab... the #crabs fed on the mucus but did not harm the coral... they also fed on nearby #seaweed, typically the vectors for infectious #bacteria, which led to infection prevention in the #corals... coral that were protected by the crabs were 60% less likely to suffer tissue loss"

underwater photo of a branching coral colony
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Ms. Que Banh

I got to enjoy eating my two fave #seafood for my birthday getaway - #crab & #clams. Due to the unexpected blizzard that hit, we weren't able to go out for crabbing or hiking as previously planned. Which wasn't a bad thing since I wasn't 100% well yet. I actually preferred just hanging out at the suite. We played board/card games, watched some funny shows, played billiards, enjoyed multiple home spa treatments, hot tubbing to ease muscle aches(fab to sit in as it snowed too, covered so it was pleasant), reading books, listening to music CDs, playing rain drums & doing fun watercolour art. Really lovely, quiet & relaxing friends bonding time over my birthday getaway.

This is the first birthday I've happily celebrated with friends in several years. I'm glad they took me away for a relaxing celebration of my existence.
I'd been too depressed/too overloaded with CPTSD to want to celebrate since 2019. It took me years to recover from being brainwashed into thinking I was worthless/not a valuable person. I am never going to allow anyone to treat me like that again. I am not & have never been - worthless. I have much value. I deserve love, kindness & respect.

Me & my friend, Sarah, pose for a photo at my birthday getaway celebration. We are each holding bowls filled with seafood. I'm holding a bowl with cooked crab, while Sarah presents a colorful bowl of clams. The background features a "Happy Birthday" banner, adding to the festive atmosphere.
A cozy indoor space with a wooden floor and ceiling. A rectangular pool table dominates the center, surrounded by balls in various colors. The left side shows a person wearing a black top and denim shorts, standing with a cue stick, while another person in black leans over the table aiming. The room is warmly lit with overhead lights, and the walls are painted orange, decorated with a quilt and other colorful items, including lamps and wall art.
Me, being a goofball. I'm seated at a kitchen table, wearing a colorful silk hair bonnet that covers my face with eyeglasses over it. I have one hand resting thoughtfully on my chin. The table has a Cards Against Humanity game & a glass with red wine is nearby. The kitchen has wooden walls and a window with curtains.
A perspective shot from within a hot tub, with bubbling water visible in the foreground. In the background, tall evergreen trees are silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
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