The magic of cross polarisation! It's tough taking pics of fish. They're so shiny and it can hide the details. If you polarise the light source and then add a polarising filter to the camera you can filter out all the scatter and be left with the beautiful details and colour.

Introducing the Unseen Oceans Collective! Formed in 2026 this collective is bringing deep-ocean fine art and science events to international venues in 2025 and 2026. #sciart #scienceartists #unseenoceancollective #deep-sea #womeninscience #deepocean

quick test print 🐡 ... have to do some corrections

More nonsense from our #Antarctic data processing. The Antarctic jonasfish (Notolepis coatsi) were attracted to the ROV lights. This one shoots off like #roderunner. @autsquidsquad.bsky.social

Me and @autsquidsquad.bsky.social have been annotating @schmidtocean.bsky.social #Antarctic footage today and it may have driven us a little.... Strange. #soundon #Cephalopods #octopus #antarctica

We had a lot of gin-fueled fun on this one, @kaithefishguy.bsky.social is a good hang. We also touch on #geekdome and meeting your idols at a #conference.

#newepisode just dropped! Environmental #DNA or #eDNA is the study of genetic material in the #environment. How can we apply it to the #deepsea? Revealing the hidden majority, changes through time and community structure, the possibilities seem endless. open.spotify.com/episode/2XQv...

I haven't seen this misleading labelling method before. I was recommended the one on the right as better value. 10 mg of nothing is still nothing.

Dr Kat Bolstad (@autsquidsquad.bsky.social ) worked with glass squid expert Dr. Aaron Evans to help confirm this observation; she narrated this video. Read the full Schmidt Ocean Institute announcement here: schmidtocean.org/first-coloss...

Young colossal squid footage! theconversation.com/a-century-af...

🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑 First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

#ColossalSquid has been filmed in its natural habitat for the first time! Filmed in #Antarctica by @schmidtocean.bsky.social, we just had a press conference to share the news. @autsquidsquad.bsky.social provides the voiceover and context for the video. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo @pure-ocean.bsky.social

I was on @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy #NinetoNoon this morning talking about joining the @schmidtocean.bsky.social expedition to explore a newly exposed area of #Antarctic #deepsea www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #TePapa @pure-ocean.bsky.social

I hope I didn't break anything... Me and the podcast now have our own domains! You can find The Deep-Sea #Podcast @deepseapod.com And me here @thomaslinley.com Hopefully old tags should still go to the right place. #deepsea #deepocean #marinebiology #science

We can now talk about what we found on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social #AntarcticClimateConnections expedition! A huge section of #iceshelf broke off and politely got out of the way, allowing us to observe pristine under-ice habitat. #TePapa @pure-ocean.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-03...

The #blobfish is #NZFishoftheyear! Our maligned ambassador of the #deepsea and precious baby finally gets recognition. 2nd place went to another #deepocean fish, the #OrangeRoughy. Check out the #TePapa #blog for the origin of that iconic image. blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2024/09/09/t...

A huge thanks to #IntrepidTravel for having me and @autsquidsquad.bsky.social aboard to deploy our #ProjectESCA #squid lure in #Antartica.

Happy bday colossal squid! The species was described in 1925 so @deepseapod.com & I did a centenary episode on the @deepseapodcast.bsky.social - www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/056-... 🦑🎉 Gorgeous artwork thanks to Gareth, a guest on our recent #Antarctic voyage with #IntrepidTravel for #ProjectESCA

The score card is in, over 800 #newspecies for @oceancensus.bsky.social! Our new #eelpout are among them. Here's to many more!

A nice side effect of joining #IntrepidTravel is the chance for #scicomm - talks on #ProjectESCA & #colossalsquid. Loving the guest engagement and #fanart! Last night they were on the @deepseapodcast.bsky.social @autsquidsquad.bsky.social @pure-ocean.bsky.social #Te_Papa @autnews.bsky.social

Master Squidcrafter Heather has been at it again. Not sure #IntrepidTravel realized just what they were in for by having the #ProjectESCA team aboard--we brought a rather large stowaway! #colossalsquid @deepseapod.bsky.social @pure-ocean.bsky.social @AUTnews.bsky.social #Antarctica #deepsea

It's happening! @autsquidsquad.bsky.social and I are out with #IntrepidTravel deploying #ProjectESCA in search of the #ColossalSquid. Supported by @pure-ocean.bsky.social, #Te_Papa and #AutScience, we have developed a suitcase-sized light lure and camera system. #deepsea #deepocean #Antarctica

If you want some distraction and hear about the fish living in Antarctica, I had a great time chatting with Dr Thom @deepseapod.com about my favorite fishes! 🇦🇶🐟 There's a short and a long version depending on how much time you have! And give the other episodes a listen too! They're great!

We're off! Setting sail for Antarctica to chase some squids with the #ProjectESCA camera system and @deepseapod.com, thanks to @pureocean.bsky.social and Intrepid Travel. Bring me that horizon!

New #podcast episode just dropped, coming to you live from #Antarctica! We talk to @notothentoma.bsky.social about the amazing adaptations of #Antarctic #fish: Clear blood, antifreeze and parental care. www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/055-...

Ceph street art sighting! Spotted these arms on the side of a building in Ushuaia, Argentina, while out and about with @deepseapod.com as we prep to take #ProjectESCA to the Antarctic Peninsula next week

More wonders from #AntarcticClimateConnections #polychaete #bristleworm Brought up in immaculate condition.

A #MinkeWhale came by to say hi. #whale #marinemammals #AntarcticClimateConnections

Close Inkounter! #ProjectESCA gets its next squiddy visitor, a glacial squid (P. glacialis) around 800m. It gifts us a few puffs of ink, then drifts back into the dark Antarctic #deepsea. #antarcticclimateconnections #PureOceanFund @schmidtocean.bsky.social @deepseapod.com

With our new deep-sea low-light camera on #ProjectESCA, we can see #bioluminescence as well as the animals illuminated by our lights. This might be a 'shrimp spew', a series of blobs of glowing mucous produced as a decoy to give the animal a chance to escape a perceived threat

A feel for #AntarcticClimateConnections and why this project's important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr89...

A #bioluminescent #psudomorph captured by #ProjectESCA. Many animals use light to distract a predator. Some bind it in mucose to give it a shape. Like throwing your shadow so you can get away. #antarcticclimateconnections #PureOceanFund @schmidtocean.bsky.social @autsquidsquad.bsky.social

Tiny planet #360video #Antarctica #Iceberg @schmidtocean.bsky.social @pure-ocean.bsky.social

I can see my house from here #AntarcticClimateConnections #Antarctica

I hope our lure attracts squi... THUNK! #ProjectESCA works! Squid like the lure and a 360 camera means nowhere to hide. Likely a glacial or clubhook #squid, this is 200m in #Antarctica #AntarcticClimateConnections #SchmidtOcean #PureOceanFund #Te_Papa @autsquidsquad.bsky.social

A stampede of #seals while we're relaxing in the mess. #Antarctica #AntarcticClimateConnections

Who wants to know what's inside the #ocean #sunfish? Marianne Nyegaard joined the #TePapa #fish team to dissect some of our specimens. They are just as strange on the inside as on the outside! #marinebiology #Mola #dissection #taxonomy #morphology www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crol...

Pilots collected this fish. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 780 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife

#bioluminescent #fireworks #ProjectESCA is very light-sensitive, even detecting flashes from tiny organisms! Something crashes, letting out a bio-firework in surprise! #AntarcticClimateConnections #Challenger150 @autsquidsquad.bsky.social #PureOceanFund

Control room vibes. #ROV #divestream #AntarcticClimateConnections

I am already writing a sitcom about these two. Heartwarming unlikely friendship kinda thing. #Antarctica #EmperorPenguin #penguin #AntarcticaClimateConnections

We divin'!

A frenzy of activity as immaculate specimens arrive. The #crinoid is a filter feeding starfish relative. #AntarcticClimateConnections is sampling seabed previously covered in ice that has no associated data; biological, geological, oceanographic, mapping... nada! #Challenger150 #projectESCA

Gorgeous big Antarctic octo with @deepseapod.com narrating the #SchmidtOcean divestream. Megaleledone is the biggest octo in the region and this one may have been brooding! Stayed firmly put while they carefully sampled nearby.

I'm very new to all this but I think I'm #DiveStream -ing in about an hour and a half. The stream is live right now here! www.youtube.com/live/GKtQHLL...

#seals chilling on #icebergs in #Antarctica. I don't think I'm going to tyre of these views. Extremely lucky to be here. Tomorrow the work starts... #Challenger150 #AntarcticClimateConnections

How do you take a photo of a deep-sea squid? @autsquidsquad.bsky.social and @deepseapod.com think putting on the red light will help. They'll be testing their camera in Antarctica. Looking forward to seeing what they snap in the cold and deep. #AUTSquidSquad

Large, deep-sea squids tend to be camera shy so if we want to see them we have to get creative... so @deepseapod.com & I made A Thing and now we're off to Antarctica to see whether anyone comes to take a look! Huge thanks to @PureOceanFund for the support; stay tuned! #ProjectESCA

We entered the #Antarctic #PolarCircle and stuff just started happening all at once! #Icebergs and #whales out the window. #AntarcticClimateConnections

#ProjectESCA lives! @autsquidsquad.bsky.social and I developed this novel light lure with support from the #PureOceanFund. It uses illumination invisible to the animals, a 360-degree camera, and simulated #bioluminescence to attract #deepsea animals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8PU...