Bridget Vincent

🐙🐟🦑Ph.D student @ UCSB | Artist | Biologist | #UCFAlumni
(she/her)

[Bridget Vincent @BridgetSquidget]

Hi all! I'm Bridget, a Ph.D. student studying squid photophore evolution and artist creating (mostly) cephalopod sketches and paintings. 🦑🐙

Website: https://t.co/2pCT8tuf0x
Patreon: https://t.co/RRcG7MlPyf
IG: https://t.co/P8hRkztekf

#VisibleWomen #sciart #scicomm

[Giulia Rossi @giuliasrossi]

New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing

https://t.co/4H5dg7TsNK

[Bridget Vincent @BridgetSquidget]

@DannaStaaf She's on bluesky! And Cara for good measure since this one is a favorite of mine ❤️

[Bridget Vincent @BridgetSquidget]

Team strawberry squid!!! 🦑❤️

[Danna Staaf @DannaStaaf]

This is a 'phore fight!!!

Reef squid use CHROMATOPHORES (pigment colors: 🔴🟡🟤⚫) and IRIDOPHORES (structural colors: 🔵🟢🟣) to make a rainbow of skin patterns

Strawberry squid use PHOTOPHORES (🔆) to blend in with light coming down from the surface, and maybe to communicate?

[Bridget Vincent @BridgetSquidget]

@SerpenIllus I had the same problem but once I tried posting from the browser it worked. Not a permanent solution but at least it's a workaround until they update the app

[Alexandra De León @alexandeleon_]

Fluorescence patterns and diversity of hydrozoans from Bocas del Toro, Panama | Ciencias Marinas https://t.co/90mhNX5jgp

[Lara Maleen Beckmann @laramaleen]

During our project work @stri_panama taxonomy course, we found that hydrozoans show diverse fluorescence patterns that can vary across life stage and species🪼Happy to see our little study out @BridgetSquidget @beroe @chipotlau @alexandeleon_
https://t.co/8cKRpN17c7

[Zainab Afzal @xainabafzal]

Whale watching fun on this beautiful day with #Embryo23
We saw lots of them showcasing their tails.. nd saw lil ones playing also🐋🐳 🤩🤩

Happy ending to this week.. it's been supa fun getting to spend time with some amazing folks 🤩😃

[Lara Maleen Beckmann @laramaleen]

The last few weeks I’ve been learning about the most fascinating animals #Meduzoa #Ctenophora in a STRI course by @thuesen_v @beroe @MPMiglietta & O. Oliveira together with an amazing bunch of international students. During the course we IDed >65 species of jellies & polyps!

[Bridget Vincent @BridgetSquidget]

Excited to be presenting my work at #Evol22 tomorrow! Drop by the parallel/convergent session at 4:30 to hear about squid bioluminescence.

[Shelly Gaynor @ShellyGaynor]

Congrats to Dr. @ReptileRhett for defending his PhD today!

[Carly Anne York, Ph.D. @BiologyCarly]

The original Jurassic Park was a feminist masterpiece

[Rʜᴇᴛᴛ M. Rᴀᴜᴛsᴀᴡ 🐍 @ReptileRhett]

Between this and the recent Nature/Science stories on grad student stipends, I really hope academia as a whole wakes up and takes a good long hard look in the mirror. Your best scientists are all leaving…this is a clear message. Overworked. Underpaid. Mentally exhausted… 🧵

[Gators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily]

LOOK AT THE BABIES

[Zac Swider @ZacSwider]

Starfish blastula labeled with probes for DNA and microtubules 🧵

[Rebecca Varney @RebeccaMVarney]

Congrats to @Sea__ram and @StoilovaMarina! Aquatic inverts for the win! 😍

[nature @Nature]

Salaries for PhD students in the biological sciences fall well below the basic cost of living at almost every institution and department in the US, according to crowdsourced data https://t.co/cTsxWsb2TF

[Rebecca Varney @RebeccaMVarney]

UPDATE: 😍Thanks to all for retweeting, thanks to @UCBerkeley Entomology for sleuthing, and thanks to @dfallik for putting me in touch with the amazing Dr. Vernard Lewis, who was so generous with his time. I got to say thank you. We’ve planned to have lunch. Thanks Twitter! ❤️

[Shelly Gaynor @ShellyGaynor]

"The point labels are pretty much 'pointless'" - @ReptileRhett

Thanks for all the submissions, we are now at 151 entries from 133 Universities. Click the link for info: https://t.co/i2wpxhNi0a

[Caitlin Nordheim-Maestas @caitlinnordheim]

The first-ever UCSB EEMB undergraduate research symposium was a huge success!

I’m so proud of the amazing work done by the undergrad researchers and grateful to the rest of the (grad student led) planning committee; never underestimate the power of passionate grad students!🔬📊

[Cheyenne McKinley @Sci_Chey]

After months of planning, the first EEMB Undergraduate Research Symposium finally happened today!

It was such a success and couldn't have happened without some amazing undergraduates, volunteers, and fellow committee members.

My heart is so full. 💛