[New Paper] Our paper reporting the finding of active chimneys and chemosynthesis-based animal community on Quaker Seamount, Mariana Forearc is now published in Marine Biodiversity! Read for FREE: rdcu.be/fl6VE doi.org/10.1007/s125...

Teuthowenia Tuesday! ROV pilots filmed this glass squid during the #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition at 739 m. Read about the animal and the DeepPIV imaging system from @kakanikatija.bsky.social & @mbarinews.bsky.social via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/ekV8I...

📣 Happening today at 15:00 – 16:30PM EDT (UTC-4)! COBRA webinar: Ecology of mesopelagic micronekton in a deep-sea mining site with Victoria Assad 🗓️ 2 June 2026 Sign-up here: buff.ly/ah1n1QM

Are you a US-based early-career scientists presenting at #ICESASC26? ✈️ Travel funding has been made available by the National Science Foundation, @whoi.edu & @univofmaryland.bsky.social#ICESASC26Center for Environmental Science​. ⏰Deadline to apply is tomorrow 3 June! Find out more➡️ https://bit.ly/3RHDEHc

Aplacophoran molluscs are a spiky, early-branching lineage that often resemble microscopic worms. Here’s a fun hot pink species (Helicoradomenia sp.) that we recently found at hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicor... #MolluscMonday #SnailsRising #NSFfunded

Two teams, one deep-sea mission 🌊🚢🌊🪸 Last month, a team of researchers from MBARI and @montereybayaquarium.org completed an expedition to Guide Seamount offshore of Central California. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-a...

Article on the Endangered Scaly-foot Snail from Scientific American @scientificamerican.com.web.brid.gy ! www.scientificamerican.com/article/cele...

The Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies (AleutBio) project has now concluded with a Special Issue sharing years of international deep-sea research, collaboration, and discovery. Read the Special Issue: buff.ly/efI5BM7 For more information on AleutBio: buff.ly/W4WcHQc

We’re hiring! We seeking an Operations Manager, hosted by the University of Southampton, to support operational delivery across DOSI’s activities. 📅 Deadline: 3 June 2026 Apply here: buff.ly/XSqCkrd

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall. OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

PDF: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

[New Paper] We named a new species of vesicomyid clam, Waisiuconcha takashii, from deep-sea cold seeps in Nankai Trough, Japan and Mariana Forearc! This species is named after the late Japanese malacologist Takashi Okutani (1931-2025). Out now in Zootaxa: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

🪱 New study shows that meiofauna biomass and production decreased significantly from 2000 to 2017 at @awi.de HAUSGARTEN #observatory in the #Arctic #DeepSea. This may reflect growing competition with macrofauna. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The latest Deep-Sea Round-Up is out now. This week we cover: 🔹An Aleutian Trench special issue, 🔹Filamentous forams from hadal depths, 🔹The importance of mesoscale eddies & goblin shark spotting! Read it here: buff.ly/rhR4nZM 📸 A squid documented by ROV SuBastian, Schmidt Ocean Institute.

[New Paper] We assembled the chromosome-level whole genome of the deep-sea tubeworm Lamellibrachia columna! Part of the Darwin Tree of Life project aiming to sequence 70000 eukaryotic genomes. Published @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Wellcome Open Research, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.12688/wel...

DOSI ambassadors Cherisse Du Preez and Ana Calaco are participating in the Northwest Pacific REMP Workshop in Busan. Regional Environmental Management Plans are critical for ecosystem-based management in the #DeepOcean, informing protection and management of biodiversity and cumulative impacts.

🦞 Great postdoc opportunity for a benthic ecologist with an interest in bioturbation on the important topic of trawling impacts on seabed carbon stocks.

🌊🧪🦑The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining "Here we review the many decades of environmental research in these areas with a focus on the biodiversity baseline and the results from experimental mining or disturbance tests." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Simmons foundation graduate fellowships in ecology and evolution!! Open now! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

Have you added our kickoff Seminar 1 to your calendar tomorrow? See you there!

Our #SnailsRising hydrothermal vent cruise is at an end - we are back in port in Fiji and demobilizing - today we’re packing up the lab and wrapping our pallets for shipment back to the USA! #NSFfunded

~ Sound on! ~ Preview of Mesopelagia: an immersive audio/visual experience from the #ArtSeaMatchmaking Team around Alina Wieczorek and Eli Stine. From planet-level wind and water movements that define ocean currents, to the sub-microscopic fragments of DNA, and the many levels between.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #protistsonsky

Members, the 2026 #DSBSoc Seminar Series is now live! After Seminar 1 this Tuesday, mark your calendars for Seminar 2 - #DeepSea Sharks: #TrophicRoles & #SensorySystems on Aug. 25. Stay tuned for Seminars 3-5. Check your email for the Zoom link. Not a member? Contact [email protected]

MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Olívia Soares Pereira has been named a National Geographic Explorer. 🌊 Supported by the National Geographic Society, she’ll join an expedition with @schmidtocean.bsky.social to study fracture zones near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-p...

Don't forget, the #DSBSoc 2026 Seminar Series kicks off Tues. (May 19) from 12:00–13:40 UTC. Seminar 1 is #DeepSea #CoralReefs #Ecology & #Biodiversity, presented by Beatriz Mejía-Mercado & Manuja Hendawitharana. Check your email for the Zoom link. Not a member? Contact [email protected]

Trying to collect animals at hydrothermal vents is pretty hilarious - here, we are using an underwater vacuum hose to suck up shrimp (small ones were easy, large ones always ran away!) #SnailsRising #NSFfunded

Video of the copepod zoomies - A dish full of hydrothermal vent meiofauna from our #SnailsRising cruise! #NSFfunded

The latest issue of Deep-Sea Life is out now 🌊 Featuring the first published eDNA datasets from Okeanos Explorer expeditions, reports from Antarctica & the Pacific, plus projects spanning genetics, restoration, ocean literacy & more. A huge thank you to all involved, read is here: buff.ly/hVYEezH

There's a 3rd R/V getting set to stream soon! I'm quite interested in this one b/c it looks like they're going to go look at what has become of an area that was being mined in recent years. I'll share when they go live. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/arctic-...

The latest issue of the Deep-Sea Round Up is here. This week includes: 🔹 A new DOSI research opportunity for an ECOP, 🔹 New research on the rapid declines in seamount foundation species, and 🔹 A 3D animation of the seafloor! Read it here: www.dosi-project.org/20455-2/ 📸 NOAA Ocean Exploration

🌊 Happy #DeepDay! Started by the @deepseaconserve.bsky.social, today is about the incredible #biodiversity hiding in our #deepseas. 👇Read @pensoft.net's blog to learn more: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/07/c... #deepsearesearch #deepsea

Check out a new video feature by @declan-morrissey.bsky.social on #deepsea corals and his research! #octocoralFriday youtu.be/nwiUc1sTDHE?...

Just because I always forget to do this - I'm out at sea again 🥳 Absolutely surreal and incredible that I've managed to do this 10 times in my scientific career so far, and very exciting to be on the RRS Discovery IV for the first time to help with the PAP-SO time series :^]

This is what the inside of a hydrothermal vent chimney looks like! Literally sparkling inside, with formations of mineral crystals such as pyrite (fool’s gold - which is an apt warning for why we should all oppose deep-sea mining) #SnailsRising #NSFfunded

Understanding deep-sea mining’s environmental impacts requires evidence, not slogans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

[New Paper] We combine multiple isotopic analyses (amino acid+bulk stable isotopes, radiocarbon) to reveal the calamyzine worm Shinkai semilonga at a cold seep feeds directly on the gill of its host vesicomyid clam Archivesica kawamurai! OPEN ACCESS in Marine Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/maec...

𝐑𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬: 𝘼𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝐬𝐩. 𝐧𝐨𝐯. (𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐚, 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚) 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙡𝙚𝙪𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞 (𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚, 𝐇𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚) by Natsumi Hookabe, G. G. Manzano, N. Jimi, H. Kise, J. D. Reimer, S. Tsuchida & Y. Fujiwara buff.ly/2Gdtzzl

It's a big week for the #DeepSea community: Deep Day & DOOS AGM 2026 Check out what's happening in the thread below 👇

Did you know there are BARNACLES at hydrothermal vents?? I did not until I saw them on this cruise - this morning we got a great view of this wavering field of stalked gooseneck barnacles! #SnailsRising #NSFfunded

The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining. Our review paper looking at the last 50 years of research on the subject out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Two members of the Deep Shark Research Group will be presenting their work at Sharks International this week. Look out for posters by @mollymcnamara-lang.bsky.social and Ava Graham. #SI2026 #ExeterMarine

Last week, I presented my research: “Understanding Morphological Variation and Growth Strategies in the Deep‑Sea Catshark genus Apristurus”, marking the end of my dissertation submission! Whilst I’m still awaiting my grades, I am so grateful to have gained so much from this opportunity: (1/7)

📢 Have you read our latest Deep-Sea Round-Up? This week we cover: 🔹️New research on hydrothermal vent seascapes 🔹️Antarctica’s warming deep water. 🔹️Plus upcoming events and opportunities for the #DeepSea community! Read it here: www.dosi-project.org/dosi-deep-se... 📷 NOAA Ocean Exploration

It was such an honor to join the @schmidtocean.bsky.social #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition! This video by Alex Ingle is a window into the past three weeks. Incredible! 🦑🧪🌊. bsky.app/profile/schm...

Where should deep-sea restoration begin? 🌊 Join SER-Europe for the first webinar of the Redress Project series, exploring how science and data guide restoration priorities in the deep sea. 📅 7 May 2026 🕒 15:00 CET 🎓 1 CEC available Register: lnkd.in/dSUgzQpD

@sorbonne-universite.fr is looking for a postdoc! The position is based at the Benthic Ecogeochemistry Laboratory, located at the Banyuls-sur-mer Oceanologcal Observatory and jointly affiliated with Sorbonne University and CNRS. Deadline: 20th May 2026 To apply: redress-project.eu/redress-oppo...