TASRU

We are the Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit based in Cairns. If it stings you, bites you, or can kill you we study it. Find us @jcu Eduquarium

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TASRU has gone digital! Follow for stories from our world famous aquarium, field work escapades and all things venomous!

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♨️Happy World Jellyfish Day♨️
We are a day late in #Australia due to finding these #boxjellyfish #tripedalia and the TASRU team spending all day homing and learning here in our facility eduQuarium

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Jellyfishing season!
Out hunting #irukandji #jellyfish at Port Douglas marina with our awesome new dive lights. What do you think?

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But what if I was to tell you that there is no evidence to support #irukandji presence being driven by wind direction???

"Environmental drivers of the occurrence and abundance of Irukandji jellyfish" - just accepted for publication.

Watch this space!

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#Strobilation in #Aurelia aurita polyps
We are getting ready to have a lot of #ephyra running around the #aquarium

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We have juvenile #medusa of the #irukandji jellyfish, Carukia barnesi.

Emily O'Hara has honed her skills at getting these #jellyfish polyps to morph into hundreds of baby jellyfish. Here is to the future of irukandji #research!

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Caught in the nude!
Welcome to eduquarium little #Nudibranch
Did you know they are a #mollusc that sheds their shell after their larval stage?
So to keep themselves safe from predators, they have brightly coloured patterns helps them become blended on the reef
#showusyanoods

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@JohnMonash students learnt all about the importance of #mangroves on their visit to weeks ago at @jcu and @eduquarium

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@AnaOceano Congratulations 🎊

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“This years #NaidocWeek theme is #GetUpStandUpShowup
The theme celebrates working together for change.
Stay tuned this week for our upcoming story about how AITHM is working towards closing the health gap for our First Nations Peoples.”

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#irukandji #jellyfish feeding time at @eduquarium

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Good news Friday!
Congratulations to the newest Doctor in the house, Dr Olivia Rowley!
She has spent the last 4 years building a suite of tools to study the difficult and illusive #boxjellyfish.

Great job Dr Rowley, we are all so proud of you! #PhDone

@OliviaRowley4 @jcu

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I think ill let these three deliver the news!

A big shout out goes to the @TASRU_JCU team and @NorthfieldTobin lab could not have done it without these people! Here's to the next chapter!

#PhDone

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PhD candidate Katrina Kaposi has been tackling the great #clonewars, and we aren't talking about Star Wars. #Asexual reproduction is known in #Cnidaria, but here she discovered a new mode in the order #Corallimorpharia
Check it out:
https://t.co/ld07rfK7z0

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Another step in unlocking the mysterious #boxjellyfish #irukandji life cycle.
PhD candidate Emily O'Hara has been able to get juvenile #jellyfish on cue! Check it out!
https://t.co/zUIuhE9b9i

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@moninya @TheMatildas This is Samba. We have ladies in our team that dance. It's a rich culture that symbolises strength, power, getting back their freedom and heritage after being oppressed and enslaved. Western cultures dont understand and see this performance unfortunately as degrading.

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Sally is a Research Assistant and Cnidarian Aquarist at the Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit @TASRU
#WomenInScience
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Katrina is a Marine Biology PhD Student at the Tropical Australian Stinger Research Unit @TASRU_JCU looking at the impacts of coral bleaching on coral venom ecology.
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#WomenInScience

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Danica is currently completing her PhD with @jcu and has self-proclaimed the title ‘world’s best PhD student’ 😊
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Have you spotted Professor Jamie Seymour and his team in the latest edition of Australian geographic?Follow the link below and read about our latest Itukandji research and world first irukandji breeding achievement https://t.co/nFpQeQgFlh

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Chironex fleckeri polyps are here again. We have had spawning #boxjellyfish and successful planula, so here we are again #studying what these animals are all about. This is a 4 tentacle creeping #polyp