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Great explanation of cool work by @gelatinoussting.bsky.social

Go Chris Mah! Keep bringing dark taxa to light.

[New Paper] Provides the first description of cold seep fauna in the Sea of Japan, revealing just a few species living in very cold water. We also found a new snail species -- named Provanna cocytus after the icy hell in Dante's "Divine Comedy"! OPEN ACCESS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

The plot thickens in the sponges-vs-ctenophores-as-animal-outgroup drama…

Maybe this explains why many species fall apart almost instantly upon capture and most have been very difficult to preserve in collections.

🧪🌐🦤 #Biodiversity declines as #kelp forests thin and fragment. Our large‑scale field experiment shows that denser kelp forests support more taxa, and kelp spatial arrangement strongly shapes community composition. #FeatureArticle bit.ly/meps15090

I was looking in the sand for some other tiny slugs when I spotted this little Costasiella ocellifera. It was about the size of a grain of rice! #nudibranchs #underwaterphotography #macro #bahamas #scuba 🦑 📷

Whip coral goby (Bryaninops amplus). These little fellows are very difficult to photograph, they will scuttle around the whip coral avoiding you like it's a game of tag. Palau Hantu, Singapore. #scuba #marinelife #underwaterphotography

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Ocean Exploration Trust is hiring independent contractors for at-sea positions of data engineers, video engineers, and ROV engineers for our 2026 expedition season aboard E/V Nautilus. More information at nautiluslive.org/about/employ.... Questions can be directed to [email protected].

Sorting through some images today I came across a ciliate I’d forgotten all about! This flabby little fella is Campanella sp. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

Today's Oarfish comes from Junikoon on Pinterest! They have many more lovely sketchbook drawings on their profile for you to see! #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife #drawing #marineanimals

More fun with UV! This polychaete larva proved to be a great subject to experiment with my new UV torch! The setae (the ‘hairy’ bits) are particularly striking. #marineplankton 🦑

Onychoteuthid from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 453 East Cortes Basin #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife

A chance to name a new species!

What's a freckled stargazer you ask? Find out, and learn more about how Fisheries Surveys and Museum Collections build evidence that helps us better understand #MarineLife! www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

It is Ocean Exploration Day! #OceanExplorationDay videos.fisheries.noaa.gov/detail/video... Here are some old thoughts on the importance of exploring our oceans, with a #MarineLife slant for sure. What are your favorite reasons for exploring the world's oceans?

First characterization of fungal communities in a benthic jellyfish!! #MarineLife

Your artwork could go on an ocean adventure aboard #EVNautilus! Students ages 5 to 18 can submit artwork for consideration for the official Nautilus Expedition Season Stickers and Patch to be worn and displayed by members of the #CorpsofExploration: Learn more: bit.ly/47LODnm

#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws

Excellent to see this record that adds good distribution and association information about this species and genus in need of description. @beziostudio.bsky.social is working on it as part of his dissertation.

Deep Sea squid gets down in the dirt…er….sediment?? www.livescience.com/animals/moll...

🦉🌎🧪 TY @sfgate.com for covering the Farallones murrenados! During breeding season, hundreds of thousands of #CommonMurres swirl over the island before landing en masse. Once reduced to 6K, the Farallon population has rebounded to 500K thanks decades of monitoring and #conservation. shorturl.at/ZZJZQ

Today we are running seawater samples from the Fall Bering Sea #EcoFOCI mooring cruise. #FieldworkFriday 🧪🌊🦑 www.ecofoci.noaa.gov

First day at sea on our expedition to Commonwealth Bay in east #Antarctica, and we've been joined by three species of albatross already! Such magnificent birds, cruising effortlessly on massive wingspans #auroraexpeditions #USyd #SAEF @stephgardner.bsky.social #marinescience 🧪🦑

It isn’t World Jellyfish Day, but any day is a good day to share images of jellies!

I for one will be extremely happy to peruse an illustrated guide to microscopic organisms documented through expansion microscopy. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... This past year I reviewed an MS using this technique and was very impressed by this new technique. #MarineLife

I suppose it is natural to have the comparison point by “human” in discussing the earliest divergence with metazoans. Consider the source! That aside, another marker post in the Porifera-or-Ctenophora first (divergence) is fun to see. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This work on benthic ctenophore systematics (creation of Benthoplanidae) sets up a few planned works, focused on the systematics and evolution of shallow and deep water groups. www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=...

As part of his dissertation, @beziostudio.bsky.social leads a recent paper on benthic ctenophores. New family established based on anatomical observations, mitochondrial genome structure, and sequence data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very proud of my former student and longtime collaborator and friend Cheryl Lewis Ames. www.tohoku.ac.jp/romance/en/0...

NOAA #OceanExploration created a nice write up of research led by Javier Montenegro on the jellyfish Botrynema. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/jellyfi... Demonstrating the value of exploring and collecting for understanding #MarineLife

"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath." --Kahlil Gilbran www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zK5... #MarineLife #SciArt

Great write up on how NOAA and Smithsonian scientists work together to build resources supporting marine research. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

This is great - we a huge need in the #eDNA community to have data-informed standards for eDNA identity cutoffs, not just the bog-standard 97% besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... For Chordata there is no cutoff that leads to 0% error when assigning species!! (Table S4)

🗣NEW PAPER: Taxon‐specific BLAST percent identity thresholds for identification of unknown sequences using metabarcoding - Pappalardo et al. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I cannot wait to own a copy of this!!

nautiluslive.org Dive going on at this moment. Predatory tunicate.

... shifts in biodiversity from mesopelagic to bathyal depths, which will inevitably cause redistribution of ecosystem functions and services ....climate change impacts at the ecosystem level are not restricted to shallow depths..." Rakka, Metaxas & Nizinski onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Record your sightings! ⭐📋 Citizen science is a huge part of marine conservation and one of the most fun ways of helping our seabeds. Whether you’re out snorkelling or rock pooling, you can record your findings by submitting them to the iNaturalist app. #NationalMarineWeek

This is the best write up of the recent observation of a species of stalked medusa that hadn’t been seen in 50 years. www.britishwildlife.com/lost-and-fou... Some of the press is reporting this with the narrative “rediscovery of an extinct species”, which is not the case. It is positive news though.

Check out this gorgeous video of some spectacular #MarineLife, posted via IG. Halicytus salpinx, we thinks… www.instagram.com/reel/DM8VuGR...

JellyCamp2025. Coming up in October, hosted at Mystic Aquarium!! www.maritimeaquarium.org/jelly-camp-2...

This is great work!!

Our latest collaborative paper, led by NMNH intern Annemarie Wood, reports on a new tool for understanding ctenophore and medusozoan diversity. "Anthozoan eDNA primer set characterizes Ctenophora and Medusozoa ..." Characterizing #MarineLife www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

🌳 Nature visits can improve wellbeing A study of 3,500 residents in Tokyo & Osaka finds both visiting nature and feeling connected to it linked to better health – especially in deprived, urban areas. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Nature #Wellbeing #SciComm 🧪

10-week graduate STUDENT FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! See more info at : www.facebook.com/SIInvertebra... OR download info here

The twin ships that will succeed #Okeanos Explorer! Discoverer and Oceanographer! www.omao.noaa.gov/omao/news-me...

Pink awesomeness!