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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bee66cb5f", "title": "What is mixotrophy and why does it matter?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2026/03/16/what-is-mixotrophy-and-why-does-it-matter/", "published_at": "2026-03-16T03:39:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bee944b77", "title": "Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2025/10/23/concurring-with-the-onion-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/", "published_at": "2025-10-23T19:56:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bee9509c9", "title": "Fighting a clamdemic: A golden mussel FAQ", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2025/07/14/fighting-a-clamdemic-a-golden-mussel-faq/", "published_at": "2025-07-14T04:25:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06beeb2deb1", "title": "What are pearls?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2025/03/19/what-are-pearls/", "published_at": "2025-03-19T04:55:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06beeefd442", "title": "Environmentally, you’ve got to hand it to Sauron", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2024/04/24/environmentally-youve-got-to-hand-it-to-sauron/", "published_at": "2024-04-24T17:50:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06beefe459d", "title": "The Biodiversity Collections Crisis", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2024/02/27/the-biodiversity-collections-crisis/", "published_at": "2024-02-27T00:08:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bef630ca1", "title": "Research Explainer: How giant clams record their diet in their shells", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2023/12/13/research-explainer-how-giant-clams-record-their-diet-in-their-shells/", "published_at": "2023-12-13T20:57:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bf054b44e", "title": "This blog is now followable on Mastodon!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2023/10/12/this-blog-is-now-followable-on-mastodon/", "published_at": "2023-10-12T17:53:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bf0cc6507", "title": "Research Explainer: Comparing the daily shell diaries of giant clams and scallops", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2023/10/09/research-explainer-comparing-the-daily-shell-diaries-of-giant-clams-and-scallops/", "published_at": "2023-10-09T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08767-e152-7370-b6b4-e06bf1a1bd2b", "title": "What cyborg clams can teach us about the ocean", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2023/08/23/what-cyborg-clams-can-teach-us-about-the-ocean/", "published_at": "2023-08-23T20:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b865ec9b8", "title": "An open letter to Stephen Colbert from a clam expert", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2023/03/23/an-open-letter-to-stephen-colbert-from-a-clam-expert/", "published_at": "2023-03-23T19:55:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b86986297", "title": "Why I like scicomm on Mastodon!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2022/12/02/why-i-like-scicomm-on-mastodon/", "published_at": "2022-12-02T21:38:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b86eea6d8", "title": "A coral, a worm and some clams walk into a bar…", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2022/05/31/a-coral-a-worm-and-some-clams-walk-into-a-bar/", "published_at": "2022-05-31T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b878d8735", "title": "New job! Where I’m going and how I got here", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2022/01/18/new-job-where-im-going-and-how-i-got-here/", "published_at": "2022-01-18T21:05:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b87b325d3", "title": "Research Explainer: How I learned to stop worrying and trust the clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2021/09/03/research-explainer-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-trust-the-clams/", "published_at": "2021-09-03T03:48:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b883a7b28", "title": "Gollum clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2021/05/11/gollum-clams/", "published_at": "2021-05-11T22:34:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b88c98793", "title": "Recent Science Communication!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2021/03/26/recent-science-communication/", "published_at": "2021-03-26T17:23:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b89596b46", "title": "Biosphere 2 Update!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2020/09/27/biosphere-2-update/", "published_at": "2020-09-27T21:01:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b8a0d37f7", "title": "Research Explainer: The chemistry across a “forest” of giant clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2020/07/19/research-explainer-the-chemistry-across-a-forest-of-giant-clams/", "published_at": "2020-07-19T02:48:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c505-e9f4-702c-a99d-9d2b8a56d5d4", "title": "The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2020/07/04/the-mystery-of-the-giant-clams-of-the-red-sea-and-indian-ocean/", "published_at": "2020-07-04T21:13:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-1291379ecf10", "title": "Apps that Darwin would have loved", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2020/04/25/apps-that-darwin-would-have-loved/", "published_at": "2020-04-25T20:31:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-129137a4a3dd", "title": "Why eating clams sometimes makes us sick", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2020/02/02/why-eating-clams-sometimes-makes-us-sick-part-1-of-2/", "published_at": "2020-02-02T01:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-1291380f209c", "title": "A Make-Up Presentation!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/10/23/a-make-up-presentation/", "published_at": "2019-10-23T22:17:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-129138a4f0e5", "title": "So you want to be a postdoc overseas!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/10/06/so-you-want-to-be-a-postdoc-overseas/", "published_at": "2019-10-06T20:05:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-12913976bdfb", "title": "What good is a clam?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/09/04/what-good-is-a-clam/", "published_at": "2019-09-04T11:14:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-129139ec78bb", "title": "Poster!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/06/26/poster/", "published_at": "2019-06-26T13:53:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-12913a7728b3", "title": "Thoughts of a clam", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/06/02/thoughts-of-a-clam/", "published_at": "2019-06-02T12:43:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-12913aba6411", "title": "How does a scallop swim?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2019/02/13/how-does-a-scallop-swim/", "published_at": "2019-02-13T12:53:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-12913ac893db", "title": "Israel: Field Report!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/12/19/israel-field-report/", "published_at": "2018-12-19T13:54:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c517-6d9c-73c1-82f2-12913b50ecee", "title": "Mystery of the “spurting” mussels", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/11/21/mystery-of-the-spurting-mussels/", "published_at": "2018-11-21T11:50:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5997347813", "title": "The clams that sail the seas on rafts of kelp", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/10/19/the-clams-that-sail-the-seas-on-rafts-of-kelp/", "published_at": "2018-10-19T22:23:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5998019437", "title": "Weird Clam Profile: Pinna nobilis", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/07/22/weird-clam-profile-pinna-nobilis/", "published_at": "2018-07-22T23:37:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa59981d567b", "title": "Killer Clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/07/22/killer-clams/", "published_at": "2018-07-22T03:42:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa59982f375d", "title": "Weird Clam Profile: Hammer Oysters", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/07/01/weird-clam-profile-hammer-oysters/", "published_at": "2018-07-01T22:20:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa599836b045", "title": "The boring giant clam is anything but.", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/06/21/the-boring-giant-clam-is-anything-but/", "published_at": "2018-06-21T21:00:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5998a31075", "title": "Weird Clam Profile: The Heart Cockles", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/06/13/weird-clam-profile-the-heart-cockles/", "published_at": "2018-06-13T20:15:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5998e042fb", "title": "Oh, the seasons they grow! [research blog]", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/06/10/oh-the-seasons-they-grow-research-blog/", "published_at": "2018-06-10T20:07:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5999c7c6c8", "title": "When a clam gets an offer it can’t refuse", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/05/21/when-a-clam-gets-an-offer-it-cant-refuse/", "published_at": "2018-05-21T06:10:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa5999fbffdf", "title": "Lessons of the Condors", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/04/24/lessons-of-the-condors/", "published_at": "2018-04-24T01:02:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c522-58e0-706d-b194-aa599abe72f7", "title": "The insidious cost of increased class sizes: A TA’s perspective", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/04/16/the-insidious-cost-of-increased-class-sizes-a-tas-perspective/", "published_at": "2018-04-16T18:21:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa070f90d411", "title": "Behold, my new favorite creature", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/04/06/behold-my-new-favorite-creature/", "published_at": "2018-04-06T02:14:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa070f97ea35", "title": "People (and frogs!) before cows", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/03/22/people-and-frogs-before-cows/", "published_at": "2018-03-22T20:49:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa071027a63d", "title": "Revenge of the Clams", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/02/06/revenge-of-the-clams/", "published_at": "2018-02-06T20:59:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa0710b1056b", "title": "Chameleons think bone fluorescence is sexy", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2018/01/16/chameleons-think-bone-fluorescence-is-sexy/", "published_at": "2018-01-16T00:31:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa0710c0d857", "title": "The Snails that Farm", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/12/07/the-snails-that-farm/", "published_at": "2017-12-07T03:14:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa07112e7212", "title": "What is Conservation Paleobiology?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/10/31/what-is-conservation-paleobiology/", "published_at": "2017-10-31T22:42:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa0711f2100c", "title": "Hard shells aren’t actually that hard to make (yet)", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/10/03/hard-shells-arent-actually-that-hard-to-make-yet/", "published_at": "2017-10-03T15:48:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa07123f29da", "title": "Things I wish I knew/did earlier in grad school", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/09/21/things-i-wish-i-knewdid-earlier-in-grad-school/", "published_at": "2017-09-21T18:27:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa07124b20e2", "title": "It’s rude to eat your pollinators", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/09/19/its-rude-to-eat-your-pollinators/", "published_at": "2017-09-19T22:20:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c52d-d539-738f-afca-fa0712ff9383", "title": "No Man’s Sky: An Environmentalist’s Review", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/09/18/no-mans-sky-an-environmentalists-review/", "published_at": "2017-09-18T19:16:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd7b9ab93", "title": "You are Isotopes (Part III)", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/08/30/you-are-isotopes-part-iii/", "published_at": "2017-08-30T18:56:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd841ca53", "title": "Local thief spotted in my backyard", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/08/25/local-thief-spotted-in-my-backyard/", "published_at": "2017-08-25T00:39:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd8c400a4", "title": "A hinged shell does not a clam make (QUIZ)", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/08/16/a-hinged-shell-does-not-a-clam-make-quiz/", "published_at": "2017-08-16T21:59:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd8ed6ad2", "title": "You are isotopes (Part II)", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/08/14/you-are-isotopes-part-ii/", "published_at": "2017-08-14T16:32:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd967af54", "title": "You are isotopes (Part I)", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/31/you-are-isotopes-part-i/", "published_at": "2017-07-31T23:42:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd99d661d", "title": "#brosforlife", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/25/brosforlife/", "published_at": "2017-07-25T16:31:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bd9e61fce", "title": "Fossil-Fueled Life", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/24/fossil-fueled-life/", "published_at": "2017-07-24T23:10:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bda9097ec", "title": "When a clam has a stowaway", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/19/when-a-clam-has-a-stowaway/", "published_at": "2017-07-19T20:24:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bdb255ea7", "title": "They were nesting in the pool grout and when I jumped in, they evacuated. The little white dots they’re carrying are their baby sisters.", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/17/they-were-nesting-in-the-pool-grout-and-when-i-jumped-in-they-evacuated-the-little-white-dots-theyre-carrying-are-their-baby-sisters/", "published_at": "2017-07-17T02:31:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c538-72ec-735c-8d01-bd5bdb681a88", "title": "In formation. ", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/16/in-formation/", "published_at": "2017-07-16T22:19:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c541-f1c8-71d5-8c00-003b660bb75a", "title": "The Many Homes of Hermit Crabs", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/16/the-many-homes-of-hermit-crabs/", "published_at": "2017-07-16T18:13:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c541-f1c8-71d5-8c00-003b662e5800", "title": "Well hello there", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/16/well-hello-there/", "published_at": "2017-07-16T02:10:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c541-f1c8-71d5-8c00-003b669d7218", "title": "Why do worms surface after a rain?", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/15/why-do-worms-surface-after-a-rain/", "published_at": "2017-07-15T01:35:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c541-f1c8-71d5-8c00-003b66aa5509", "title": "I’m Back!", "url": "https://dantheclamman.blog/2017/07/14/im-back/", "published_at": "2017-07-14T20:42:19+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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dantheclamman.blog

2026

What is mixotrophy and why does it matter?original ↗
16 Mar 2026

2025

Concurring with The Onion: There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn from Clamsoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
Fighting a clamdemic: A golden mussel FAQoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2025
What are pearls?original ↗
19 Mar 2025

2024

Environmentally, you’ve got to hand it to Sauronoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2024
The Biodiversity Collections Crisisoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2024

2023

Research Explainer: How giant clams record their diet in their shellsoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2023
This blog is now followable on Mastodon!original ↗
12 Oct 2023
Research Explainer: Comparing the daily shell diaries of giant clams and scallopsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2023
What cyborg clams can teach us about the oceanoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2023
An open letter to Stephen Colbert from a clam expertoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2023

2022

Why I like scicomm on Mastodon!original ↗
2 Dec 2022
A coral, a worm and some clams walk into a bar…original ↗
31 May 2022
New job! Where I’m going and how I got hereoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2022

2021

Research Explainer: How I learned to stop worrying and trust the clamsoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2021
Gollum clamsoriginal ↗
11 May 2021
Recent Science Communication!original ↗
26 Mar 2021

2020

Biosphere 2 Update!original ↗
27 Sept 2020
Research Explainer: The chemistry across a “forest” of giant clamsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2020
The Mystery of the Giant Clams of the Red Sea and Indian Oceanoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2020
Apps that Darwin would have lovedoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2020
Why eating clams sometimes makes us sickoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2020

2019

A Make-Up Presentation!original ↗
23 Oct 2019
So you want to be a postdoc overseas!original ↗
6 Oct 2019
What good is a clam?original ↗
4 Sept 2019
Poster!original ↗
26 Jun 2019
Thoughts of a clamoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2019
How does a scallop swim?original ↗
13 Feb 2019

2018

Israel: Field Report!original ↗
19 Dec 2018
Mystery of the “spurting” musselsoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2018
The clams that sail the seas on rafts of kelporiginal ↗
19 Oct 2018
Weird Clam Profile: Pinna nobilisoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2018
Killer Clamsoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2018
Weird Clam Profile: Hammer Oystersoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2018
The boring giant clam is anything but.original ↗
21 Jun 2018
Weird Clam Profile: The Heart Cocklesoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2018
Oh, the seasons they grow! [research blog]original ↗
10 Jun 2018
When a clam gets an offer it can’t refuseoriginal ↗
21 May 2018
Lessons of the Condorsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2018
The insidious cost of increased class sizes: A TA’s perspectiveoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2018
Behold, my new favorite creatureoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2018
People (and frogs!) before cowsoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2018
Revenge of the Clamsoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2018
Chameleons think bone fluorescence is sexyoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2018

2017

The Snails that Farmoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2017
What is Conservation Paleobiology?original ↗
31 Oct 2017
Hard shells aren’t actually that hard to make (yet)original ↗
3 Oct 2017
Things I wish I knew/did earlier in grad schooloriginal ↗
21 Sept 2017
It’s rude to eat your pollinatorsoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2017
No Man’s Sky: An Environmentalist’s Revieworiginal ↗
18 Sept 2017
You are Isotopes (Part III)original ↗
30 Aug 2017
Local thief spotted in my backyardoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2017
A hinged shell does not a clam make (QUIZ)original ↗
16 Aug 2017
You are isotopes (Part II)original ↗
14 Aug 2017
You are isotopes (Part I)original ↗
31 Jul 2017
#brosforlifeoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2017
Fossil-Fueled Lifeoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2017
When a clam has a stowawayoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2017
They were nesting in the pool grout and when I jumped in, they evacuated. The little white dots they’re carrying are their baby sisters.original ↗
17 Jul 2017
In formation. original ↗
16 Jul 2017
The Many Homes of Hermit Crabsoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2017
Well hello thereoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2017
Why do worms surface after a rain?original ↗
15 Jul 2017
I’m Back!original ↗
14 Jul 2017