We captured 18 birds today and then we surveyed the colony for bird flu, which we thankfully saw no evidence of. Cape Crozier remains magical! 🌍🧪🦑🦉

The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5

A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶 This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.

In my #ENVSCOMM25-2 class today, we looked at a story on @storycollider.bsky.social to learn how to start a science-centered story. Then introduced the concept that simple ≠ simplistic, opening with this example by @edyong209.bsky.social & using the Up-Goer Five editing tool. splasho.com/upgoer5/ 🧪✍️

🌋Did you know that there's more volcanic activity under the waves than on land? Find out how underwater explosions impact our planet at the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub, a free resource that's perfect for educators, students, and the ocean-curious: go.whoi.edu/volcano 📸 via ROV Jason 2009 © #WHOI

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

New @nhm-london.bsky.social 5-day course on integrative biodiversity discovery! Learn how to collect specimens, obtain genomic data, and interpret biodiversity using cutting edge phylogenomic analysis. It's free, and aimed at early career researchers: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

With the gift-giving season upon us, how about an autographed book? You can order one (or more!) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One of our striped bass tags just turned up in a bluefin tuna caught in Maine! Those tags and their data helps us protect the fish we love and ecosystems that sustain them. Join the Fish Tagging Program and learn where your fish go! Will yours be our 1 millionth tag? www.instagram.com/p/DQmVAGYCVHy/

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬 This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪

As those of us in the northern hemisphere adjust to the end of daylight savings, keep in mind that a majority of the ocean is eternally pitch black—and life thrives even in ocean trenches 36,000 feet deep! ⁠🔦 ⁠ 🤿 Explore the #oceanzones: go.whoi.edu/oz

New species of Physalia-the "samurai Man o war" described by colleague Dr. Cheryl Ames & lab!! Congrats! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

🌊 A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualised the inner workings of hundreds of marine species for the first time www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Night dives reveal hidden alliances between young fish and larval anemones

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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Certainly resolves the debate. I love how paleontology knows so much, while knowing so little. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @paleontologizing.bsky.social I think your next twitch is spoken for....lol

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

I’ll be speaking about the mechanical development of crocodile and tortoise head scales next Wednesday at 4pm for the @tlmcambridge.bsky.social seminar series. Subscribe to the mailing list to hear more about my work, and that of @maltemederacke.bsky.social! lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species. Brilliant #beeflies

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps. There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

We're hiring a climate scientist here at @umassboston.bsky.social in the School for the Environment! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - more on the call in the image and its alt text. COME JOIN US! #climatescience

@behrenskristen.bsky.social told me about the theme today being Opah!!!! It's one of my favorite marine fish cause theyre kinda weird. Drawing I did for FAO a few years ago. #SundayFishSketch

Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

This Is What a Venomous Snake Bite Looks Like at 1,000 Frames per Second gizmodo.com/this-is-what...

This is an awesome paper about HOW the symbiosis of anemones that dissolve a hermit crab's shell works 🧪🦑 It may be an obligate symbiosis allowing the crab to grow bigger than available shells, and the anemone to access food (hermit poop but also mobile food souces)

Spooky season royalty 👑🎃⁠✨️ ⁠ Atolla gigantea is the largest Atolla species found off the West Coast. This deep-sea crown jelly can reach a diameter of up to 15 centimeters (six inches) and is one of the most widely distributed jellyfish. The genus occurs worldwide, from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

#Oregon: Just months after the historic removal of four major dams on the Klamath River, scientists and tribal leaders are stunned by what they’re seeing—salmon are returning in far greater numbers, and much faster, than anyone expected. www.activenorcal.com/salmon-are-s...

So great to have @kmkocot.bsky.social on our #invertober zoom🙌 tonight. Link to follow via our YouTube channel m.youtube.com/channel/UCMn... if you missed it. Thanks so much Kevin for sharing with us us about your expedition! 👏👏👏

📣 Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my Lab @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔬We will explore how coral larvae sense their environment and guide settlement. Check out the details! 👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #Coral #SensoryEcology #PhD #MarineScience

The hype is real. Join me for my paper watch party this week 😂

Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...

For 95 years, WHOI scientists have boldly explored the ocean’s extremes, asking provocative questions—and building the tools to answer them. Find out how we're keeping our high-risk, high-impact research strong for the next century from @bostonglobe.com: go.whoi.edu/globe-campaign

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

Osprey vs. Pufferfish #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

#toothtuesday Fur seals and sea lions evolved from ancestors with double-rooted teeth - but evolved single rooted teeth over the past five million years. Shown here is the 'anagenetic' evolution of the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus. Read more here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

That time I dissected a 100kg sleeper shark head with Jose Castro. The teeth are dimorphic between upper and lower jaws. The brain is less than 100g and just 15cm long. 🧪

New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths) bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍 Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.