Clamsplaining

Map of golden mussel observations through time.

When I was a student in grade school biology, before I had an inkling of my destiny to become a clam man, I remember learning about food webs.

Screencap of Onion where some sort of scientist is announcing something in front of a Powerpoint slide of a clam Last week, The Onion, a very serious journalistic publication, published a piece “Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn Fr…

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I often get asked what pearls are and why bivalves make them.

And now for something completely non clam-related…a speculative essay about LOTR as an environmental allegory, drawing on my posts to social media last week that clearly struck a nerve.

You might be familiar with the concept of the present “biodiversity crisis“.

Two giant clams near Eilat in the Northern Red Sea.

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Figure 1 from our paper, showing a comparison of a scallop, its growth increments and where it came from in France, to a giant clam shell section (dyed blue to show its growth lines), and where it came from in the Northern Red Sea In 2020, I got an intere…

Every clam is a door into the sea.