Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈

Ph.D candidate at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Biophysical interactions, meiofauna, marine tech development. Let’s talk worms

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

It’s a scary thing when you sit down at your desk with your snack and drink and realize that you must actually work now.

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

My new favorite response to the casual "How are you?" is "I'm in grad school" with no follow up

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@blairajohnson @ScienceMill @ut_caee @CWEuTexas Congratulations!!!! Well deserved!

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

Realizing I need more asymmetrical nematodes in my life

[Lily Dove @SoLilyquizing]

Being removed from a cruise because of discriminatory medical clearance process made me feel broken and excluded from the polar community. It is validating to know that I am not alone in this experience but horrifying to read the my colleagues' stories.

https://t.co/8eeHc3Z1rL

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

If I could actually focus on writing I’d be unstoppable

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

I can’t tell if I’m struggling through my book because it’s bad, or because I’ve lost the ability to focus on a book for pleasure

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

The real cause of polar gigantism is the Mercator projection

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@lilmissratboi I think he likes you

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

If you’re starting grad school, you should probably be starting a retinol as well.

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@lilmissratboi Theme rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up

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Woah

The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation - https://t.co/4igFPu56J5

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This is so cooooool

[The Perron Group at MIT @MITgeomorph]

This week in @Nature, @EricDealFluvial shows how grain shape matters in sediment transport. Work with Ken Kamrin, @VendittiLab, @s_j_benavides. https://t.co/gEXe05J2Ag

[Megan McCuller, ectoproctologist @mccullermi]

arthropod molting? I'm calling that a segmental breakdown

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

Setting Microsoft Word to replace “um” with “μm” has been the most impactful tech upgrade I’ve made in the last year

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

Always love seeing the cool work my friends do in a formal setting!

[Graduate Students of the Island @Island_grads]

Several of our students and techs attended the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference in early January! They presented their research to fellow scientists in Austin, Texas; what a perfect way to kick off 2023! Happy New Year!

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@blairajohnson AMAZING

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@kmkocot @myapchiongco @chimpi_cobo @fsbergmeier I stared at that bottom image for waaaaay longer than I care to admit thinking “where the hell did Meghan find that many aplacs???”

[Will Ballentine 🏳️‍🌈 @willfindjoy]

@RandiiLeiigh Have you tried bed? Bed is the best after midnight