PhD candidate at QUT, sub-Antarctic ecology. 🌱🔬 Tardigrade enthusiast, fossil fan, admirer of molluscs. 🐙🐌 I enjoy messing around with microscopes! She/her
Brisbane, Australia
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Kita marie Williams retweeted
Another gorgeous Red Cage (aka Coeur de Sorcière, Sorceror's Heart/Witch’s Heart) fungi out this morning. This one smelled very strong 😂🍄
#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #MushroomMonday
ALT Closeup of a scarlet Red Cage (Sorceror's Heart/Witch’s Heart) fungi out of a bed of damp bark
ALT Closeup of a scarlet Red Cage (Sorceror's Heart/Witch’s Heart) fungi out of a bed of damp bark, from the back, showing the pale yellow base of the fungi
ALT Closeup of a scarlet Red Cage (Sorceror's Heart/Witch’s Heart) fungi out of a bed of damp bark, with a hand beside it to show scale
If you like penguins and cushion plants on windswept beaches, you can vote for my photos in the EcolSocAus competition 🙂
There are also many beautiful images of Australian landscapes, wildlife, and hard-working ecologists!
Vote 🥇for @SeaSpongeCake!
SAEF PhD student Kita Williams has two photos short-listed in the @EcolSocAus Photo Competition.
They were both captured at #MacquarieIsland and depict the island's unique flora and fauna. 🐧📸
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Our night science delivered the unexpected story of an animal, which appeared as a total enigma. It was spotted by Ryo Minemizu @ryo_minemizu in Okinawa and subsequently puzzled hundreds of biologists. Now we have the full answer for @RebeccaRHelm : science.org/content/article/…
The funny (but annoying) way samples get trapped in other samples 😂🔬
Two tiny snail shells with a mite and a springtail caught inside 🐌
#microscope #microscopy #fieldsamples #snail #shell #springtai #collembola #mite #acari
My attempt at a grey headed albatross chick in a mud nest for #TSBakeOff2023 😄🕊️
I’ve never tried to decorate with fondant before 😬
#tsbakeoff #threatenedspecies #threatenedspeciesday
My very talented labmates made a Lamington spiny crashfish, and a silver headed antechinus.
We had a tasty lab meeting 😋
#TSBakeOff2023
Twitter no longer loads comments or threads, I can only see single tweets 🙄 Does anyone else have this problem? It’s getting impossible to use
#twitterfail #broken
Kita marie Williams retweeted
This is cyphonautes - a wandering planktonic larva of bryozoans. Helgoland, North Sea 🌊. It often reminds me a flying hat.
Kita marie Williams retweeted
Starfish bearing young (brooding) is a CRAZY thing. Most species live around the Peninsular region. But there's like 5? 6? DIFFERENT lineages/groups that ALL brood in DIFFERENT WAYS. Young around mouth. Internal brooding. Brooding among arm spine baskets!
Two young elephant seals that wanted to have a practice fight... but also wanted to have a nap.
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#MacquarieIsland #ElephantSeal #SubAntarctic #Wildlife #Cute #Sleepy #Seal #FunnyAnimal #WildlifePhotography
Kita marie Williams retweeted
FIRST! NEW BROODING SPECIES! Paralophaster ferax! ferax means "fertile" or "fruitful" For a specimen coll. in 1963 THIS was a CRAZY discovery! It and others were from 3138-3239 m! Scotia Sea! Juveniles inhabiting its coelom (as far as I could tell)
Kita marie Williams retweeted
This is the tiny, delicate, planktonic larva of a sea urchin. At metamorphosis the tissues reorganise into a young adult form that will sinks to the sea floor where it will live the rest of its life. @zeiss_micro
Kita marie Williams retweeted
This TINY little creature is a sessid moth. They are remarkable little creatures and are capable of hovering stationary while feeding from surfaces. Their wing beats are so fast. These photos were taken with a shutter speed at 1/6400 of a second!
Kita marie Williams retweeted
Happy #PolychaeteDay #Tomopteris TL10cm, Depth -15m open sea (bottom depth Approx. 1,000m) of the Kume Is. Okinawa Japan #Deepsea #planktonic
Kita marie Williams retweeted
Was blessed by the cephalogods yesterday. I got to hang out with this beautiful #octopus for a while as it pootled around Clovelly, checking crevices and poking any fish that got too close.
ALT An octopus exploring the seafloor. It is surrounded by colourful algae. It is partially camouflaged, showing a brilliant range of patterns, colours and textures.