🪼Happy World Jellyfish Day! These brainless, boneless, and bloodless beauties play an important role in our ocean ecosystems. youtube.com/shorts/KRi9y...

Here's a shot from #Okeanos in 2019 off MIami, tropical Atlantic showing a carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia being devoured by Henricia antillarum! Same kind of sponge recently discovered by @oceancensus.bsky.social recent expedition! In the #deepsea there's always someone eating someone!

Rough draft, obviously, but I think I like this approach to bivariate legends.

You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:

🧪🦤🌐 Rare jelly-falls from appendicularians observed in an Arctic fjord! A hidden link between gelatinous plankton and the carbon cycle? bit.ly/meps_771_71

A sponge #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #fish #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #reef #sponge

Supercharged seafloor spotting! 🐚 Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds. This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty... 🧵 1/4

How animals first started to move? Some insights by @egmitchell.bsky.social (@camzoology.bsky.social) using fossil records. valuepast.hypotheses.org/4954

We're #hiring! Passionate about natural history and historical collections? Here at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history, we're looking for an Assistant Archivist to support our Collections team. Closing date: 9 Nov 2025 Find out more:

The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’ @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @egmitchell.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #iceage #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 is.gd/b7AKgS

We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Read on below! 1/12 🧵

Unfortunately it looks like we won’t be hitting the preorder minimum for these hats unless we get some more orders! So if you’re interested in a leafcutter ant hat or are considering holiday gifts, please preorder! 🐜🌿 Available below ⬇️

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Who's got unfused parietals and probably wasn't a stem snake? This guy.

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨ EDIACARAN ECHOES - Tracing Evolution Across the Cosmos ~ DR EMILY MITCHELL @egmitchell.bsky.social @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #ediacaran #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/Rr_ojpUDj0c

This #FossilFriday we have wrapped up a wonderful field season in Newfoundland on #Ediacaran life - here are some tiny #Fractofusus for #FractofususFriday from Mistaken Point

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

This #FossilFriday we are wrapping up a fantastic week of fieldwork @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social imaging their #Ediacaran fossils and thinking about what shapes early animal evolution. Thanks so much to Edith at the Coaker Foundation for looking after us so well

Beautiful day out @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social admiring the tiny Fractofusus on the Johnson surface 😍

Fantastic being back in @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social mapping out their wonderful #Ediacaran fossils 👌

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

Our paper on the genetics of guppy color patterns has now been assigned an issue in NEE: doi.org/10.1038/s415... With this paper, we also publish all 14,100 guppy photos used in the study, including before and after alignment and ornament extraction: doi.org/10.20383/103...

New paper in which we evaluate how we can use information on past extinction events to better contextualise the ongoing anthropogenic extinction, led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social (with @bethanyjallen.bsky.social, @inesismartins.bsky.social, & others): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

¡Qué lindo! Every bit of this south wall in the #MarDelPlataCanyon is vibrant and alive. Read and imagine how a tiny sponge larva or other stationary animal finds a home in a place like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DN37jxs...

Let’s take a deep dive into chemoautotrophy! Dr. Roxanne Beinart, Associate Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how some marine creatures use bacterial symbioses to provide organic compounds for growth and reproduction.

My friend and I went hunting for soft corals (her favourite) the other day and we didn't find any, which was too bad, but we ended up seeing SO many stalked jellyfish which still blow my mind #InverteFest

Seamounts are vast underwater mountains, home to deep-sea corals, sharks, whales & fish. They’re biodiversity hotspots but destructive bottom trawling puts them at risk of irreversible damage. #ProtectSeamounts @wwf-australia.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social @savingoceans.bsky.social @nrdc.org

Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), 🐡🧪🦑 literally the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side,

🔎 In 2017 a research team led by Charlotte Kenchington published several new fossils discovered in the rocks of Charnwood Forest. 📄 The study included three new species of the 560 million year old fossil Primocandelabrum, which lived at the bottom of a deep ocean.

Was super excited to see the new #JurassicRebirth featuring none other than D. rex because it could only be the mega giant of the #Ediacaran world Dickinsonia rex! But yet somehow @stevebrusatte.bsky.social had turned it into yet ANOTHER dino 🙄

This is one of my favorite crinoids that I've found. This is Gilbertsocrinus spinigerus from the Devonian Windom Shale of New York. The long arms didn't get preserved, but the spines on the calyx are amazing. They may have discouraged snails from attacking. #FossilFriday

Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately. This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).

Fellowships for early career researchers (PhD students and postdocs) from the Global South at Senckenberg! Application period approaching! (15th Oct - 15th Sept) Check it out in case you are interested and spread it if you may know somebody else who is! www.senckenberg.de/en/career/gl...

These sea slugs were the highlight of an afternoon spent “dock fouling” on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Gotta love a nudibranch! 🦑

New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏

🚨🧬New #preprint and R package from the lab out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🧬🚨: 'tidygenclust' combines the functionality of ADMIXTURE, fastmixture and Clumppling into R - allowing for reproducible clustering analyses and plotting all in one place! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets. No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files. #rstats

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL 🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S... @iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

We are hiring a lab manager for our lab family at Naos Island in Panama. More information and position description here: odealab.com/opportunities/. Deadline is today, but if you need more time please just let me know

I'd be delighted to sponsor a NASA Postdoc Fellowship focused on #biosignatures, #astrobiology, or the Origin of Life here at Hopkins! 🚀

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Putting the finishing touches on some carved teapots today. Now that we've had some rain and the fire ban is over I expect to light up the wood kiln within the next few weeks. Hooray hooray! #pottery #ceramics #canadianceramics #workinprogress

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered