Dr Kym Abrams
💜 invertebrates, subterranean fauna and dogs. Biodiversity, phylogenetics, taxonomy, biogeography, conservation of invertebrates (esp Aus Schizomida & Parabathynellidae). RA WA museum. 🦐🕷🇿🇦🇦🇺 Respectfully from Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. She/her. Skeets my own
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- Me too! Definitely high on my wishlist
- Wonderful time of the year - "The crab horde will now move inland to the jungle" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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- Imagine seeing them! They should just rename it Crab Island
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- It's from the 1800s and probably written on a stone tablet hidden in a mysterious tomb 😃
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- Thanks Franz but I'm sorry to say I don't know the meaning 😅. I'll see if I can track down the original paper, which might explain how the name was formed. I hope Moss' publishes this book because I bet it would be the first kid's book to include a bathynellacean or syncarid!
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- I like this idea but a lot of syncarids look so much alike, it'll be interesting to see if people get bored 😅. Mostly line drawings too but let's see if we can create some obscure crustacean connoisseurs 😁
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- It's that wonderful time of the year- when we celebrate #Crustmas!
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- Days 2-24 can just pack up and go home 😆
- there's an entire superorder (very big category) of crustaceans called Syncarids, and like 99% of them are tiny white eyeless sub-millimeter things living in cavewater, except in Tasmania, where they just casually live on the surface world like regular shrimp. infuriating
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- You have lots of the stygobiontic bathynellaceans though and still many new species being found and described 🙂
- Omg this is Christmas for me!
- Thanks to @franzanth.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this wonderful post. Look at those gorgeous, shiny schizomid babies! Many arachnids are great moms 😍
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- Congrats!
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- Thanks so much! I've never seen one before, so shiny 🙂
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- Oh thanks for letting me know. I'll save the link instead
- 📌 so I don't forget
- It's wildflower season!
- I hope Aus won't be blocked! "...smaller providers may choose to opt out of Australia entirely. Bluesky blocked Mississippi users after a similar age assurance law passed in the state, citing costs in developing age verification systems and lack of resources." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- I'd be so disappointed if we lose this 😟
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- Pixar movie? The possibilities are endless 🙂
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- Not unclear, I'm just impressed with how crisp they are. Cute crabs and worms too. The whole community would be a fun sci-fi book
- Beautiful photos. I like that you get 2 inverts for the price of one
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- Adorable pseudoscorpion 😍
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- There always has to be an exception. They don't want things to be too easy and simple for us 😅
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- May I present my super clear photo of a platypus in the wild - similar cursed vibe
- Kind of this lovely #millipede to give us a clue to its identity - forming an "S" for Spirostreptida. Mount Cooke Area, Western Australia.
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- Amazing!
- Still #TeamVelvetworm but I couldn't resist the opportunity to share this little video of turtle #frogs - another wonderfully weird Aus animal. www.abc.net.au/news/science...
- I'm #TeamVelvet too - it's hard to ignore an animal that shoots some at it's prey! but there are lots of fascinating animals on this list, have a look and vote
- Velvet worm was bug of the year for NZ. Let's make sure it sweeps the antipodes! #TeamVelvet #invertebrate
- *shoots slime
- Velvet worm was bug of the year for NZ. Let's make sure it sweeps the antipodes! #TeamVelvet #invertebrate
- Very excited to see this launched and proud to have helped shape the list. www.abc.net.au/news/science... What’s Australia’s most underrated animal? Get voting!
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- I'm embarrassed I missed the cuttlefish and they're definitely wonderful and underrated!
- I'm disappointed there's only one invert but at least they chose an incredible one!
- Adorable #stygofauna art. I love that #InsertAnInvert2024 is still inspiring art
- The latest #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025 is a minute resident of a park my sister in law's family loves. They'll probably never see it but I think they'll enjoy hearing about it!
- New giant stick insect just dropped 😍 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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- Your kid has a good point, particularly because all the media keeps saying how heavy this critter is 🙂
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- Pity it wasn't fixed/ revised during the time it was offline
- Mantis shrimp 🦐
- Amazing 😍
- A new month of #InsertAnInvert2024 in 2025 takes us down to earth. I loved sketching this dude in his bed of sphagnum.
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- Beautiful! And so great that insert an invert is still going
- why is it that human-headed mythical creatures always have the bodies of vertebrate animals (i.e. harpy, siren, manticore), why can't we have human-headed oysters or human-headed blowflies
- Hello Scorpion King! Sadly bad acting and cgi but it has so much potential
- I was trying to make a logo for something at work & accidentally created this... the start of a romantic comedy about 2 unlikely lovers - a dugong & a velvetworm. Or perhaps a unique wedding cake topper? 🤣
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- Oh now it's taken an unexpectedly dark turn 😅
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- We all need something to believe in 😅
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- It made me laugh so happy to share 😁
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- Good idea 🤔
- Just back from surveys of #caves of the Nullarbor, Western Australia, land of the Mirning People. 🖤 amazing caves 🕷️ amazing cave #invertebrates ✨ hugely exciting finds The best start to my ARC Industry Fellowship. 👀 Watch. This. Space 👀 #biodiversity #conservation #ozinverts 📸 Dr Steve Milner
- Can't wait to hear more- and see some photos of your finds
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- Oh I love this so much!
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- Wow I love this! Can see it in a sci fi movie
- Definitely should be on the cover of a metal band album #SpinelessButNotDefenseless #snail #invertebrates
