Finally, some decent footage of a Synchaeta sp. rotifer, albeit very short footage! #marineplankton 🦑

Great news!

These are great, but I'm worried that I'd have suspected AI for some of them, especially the rhino one. Are our mental AI detectors being calibrated too high? www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Last year was my first SICB conference. Everyone was so wonderfully weird and passionate about their research and animal models, I knew I had found my people! I vowed to be more of my weird self at #SICB2026 so here is me testing that out! My talk is Sunday at 2:15! & I'll have stickers

Brittle star vs. Squid! Ophiuroids only appear dainty & harmless. Another cool moment from #OkeanosExplorer #MarineLife youtu.be/oHN4sWAuBVc?...

Pterygiocteis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Not a clue what that is. Kinda reminds me of a pteropod, but also a ripped up sea pig. The red part has me scratching my head. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

And we caught many of these adorable nudibranchs that swim sideways like a fish! Phylliroe ❤️🌊 #zooplankton #oceanography #christmasatsea

Whoa, look at that slime star @echinoblog.bsky.social! Beautiful zooms. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Bathypterois grallator. I'll catch what I miss from ascent in the morning, good night. They're on the way back up. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Be sure to catch the symposium: Needle in the haystack: Finding tools to study puncture and injection mechanisms across biology on Wednesday Jan 7! As SICB 2026 is getting closer, tune into DCB/DVM social media (here and @sicb.dcb.dvm on Instagram). @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb.bsky.social

Peniagone or Amperima. I can't tell those apart sometimes. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

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I’ll miss the dog park the most. My pictures don’t do justice to how nice this view is.

Midwater is my happy place. Bonk and woosh from a Periphylla. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 881 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Grateful to @pewtrusts.org for funding our snow fly work, in collaboration with Sebastian Brauchi at Universidad Austral de Chile. We are now looking for post-docs to work on the biophysical mechanisms that allow snow fly neurons and muscles to function below zero. newsroom.uw.edu/news-release...

Aequoreidae just chilling. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 881 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Something came up today that made me say "I need to get in touch with my Ibex guy" My job is pretty cool.

Nice red siphonophore. Idk if these have been described. I have found some images that are similar. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 881 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Critically endangered angel sharks have been waiting for 40 years for meaningful protection despite community and scientific efforts to prevent their extinction www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Getting ready to head out on the RV Sally Ride in the Gulf of California. Am mostly serving as a scientific diver on this cruise (!!!!), but will also be looking for cool plankton (rads, Dinos, obvi) and sharing lots of plankton pics :) #microbialsky #microsky 🌊

Finally a skate up in the water column. Too bad we couldn't get a view of fhe underside. He must be shy. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 881 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

Chrionema from a 2020 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive. 401 (part A) #edgegbr #MarineLife

A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the people who shaped science this year and were chosen for Nature’s 10. 🧪

I'm in the South Florida Sun Sentinel talking about deep-sea mining! Deep-sea mining cannot ignore environmental concerns - www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/17/d...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Here are just a few of the many fish I painted this year (not to scale). It's fun to stick a bunch of them together into a collage and see some of the incredible diversity of body shape and color patterns. Merry Fishmas! 🐡🐟🐠

A meta-analysis of environmental sequencing data reveals the global distribution and hidden diversity of marine anaerobic ciliates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

This could be your dream job: working full time at the Friday Harbor Labs on marine invertebrate organismal biology. Nine month salary from an endowment, teaching and research faculty position. apply.interfolio.com/178804

Meet the R/V Neil Armstrong—A ship designed for discovery, innovation, and ocean exploration! Owned by the Office of Naval Research, we operate ARMSTRONG on behalf of the nation’s scientific community. Exploring the Atlantic since 2016, ARMSTRONG supports ocean research through @unols.bsky.social.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine STEM Internship Q&A Webinar highlighting seven paid summer internship opportunities & Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) across the United States. Monday, Jan 12, 2026; 11am-12pm (Pacific time); Virtual webinar (To register, please visit: bit.ly/Marine-Showc...)

Update! @dangaristo.bsky.social has an article up in Nature with more details that puts these changes in a different light. Still a lot unknown, as this story makes clear.

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Here's a giant isopod from a Okeanos dive in 2019 swimming away with a meal since someone on my isopod post yesterday complained that it was boring and not doing anything. Is this up to your standards? youtu.be/7P8S1OwLpME?...

Who doesn't love a Bathynomus giganteus? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 395 #edgegbr #MarineLife

Hundreds gathered at the National Academy of Sciences in D.C. for a powerful screening of "Out of Plain Sight," a documentary exploring the origin and impacts of toxic dumping off the coast of California. The event was emceed by Scripps alum and National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt.

This movie shows lysosomes (orange) and keratin (gray) in a cultured cell over 10 minutes.

FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶

The K/Pg extinction created a buffet for open-ocean fishes. A new paper shows that Pelagiaria underwent an adaptive radiation following the extinction based on new jaw shapes to fill the vacuum @knapprew.bsky.social @evoswami.bsky.social @sternarchella.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Excited to share our study testing competing theories on the energy dynamics of hermaphroditism! Grateful to @djmmeeg.bsky.social for guidance, to Thomas Brey for metabolic rate data, and to Deborah Charlesworth for feedback. Thanks also to the editors and reviewers at Proc B. @royalsociety.org

Sharing a hugely impt study representing 5+ yrs into getting a data standard addressing biological inventories adopted through Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)/GBIF, then adopted by the community. We often have to play the long game folks! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEWS from Ohio State Fish Division: You can now search our 6,000-tissue collection on our website! 🐟 mbd.osu.edu/collections/...

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪 The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing “There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

Reposting this - deadline to apply is January 15

This was waiting for me in the driveway. Long live print!

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish

I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out. nature.ca/en/visit-us/... 🧪