🚢 We are about to begin a 3.5-week expedition on the R/V Isabu to support the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology in the Pacific Ocean! #KIOST 1/1

🌊 Join us at the ANDR Mini-Symposium! 📅 29 Sept | 16:00–17:40 EAT 📍 Baracuda Room, #WIOMSA2025 Proudly hosted by the African Network of Deep-water Researchers. @wiomsa.bsky.social #WIOMSA2025 🌍 More from ANDR: challenger150.world/andr-highlig...

Hey, members! Are you currently a #DeepSea student or ECR researcher without permanent employment? We can help provide up to £750 for your participation in an in-person or remote conference. Deadline Oct. 4th, apply here: dsbsoc.org/conferences-.... Questions? Contact [email protected]. Good luck!

🌊 Big news for the ocean 🌊 The #BBNJ Agreement has reached 60 ratifications triggering entry into force in Jan 2026! A huge milestone, but more work lies ahead, building institutions, rules & financing to protect biodiversity. Learn more about the work of DOSI and the BBNJ: buff.ly/VDjrs6u

And just as a bonus, here's another look at that gorgeous Conocara slickhead we caught last year. 86cm long from 4850m deep - what a fish!

Wrote up a little self-promo profile for DSBSoc :^] Feel free to give it a read to find out a little more about what I actually do & how I ended up with the best PhD project in the world!

Hey, members! Here's the latest addition to our "Meet the Next Generation of #DeepSea Researchers" series: Jethro Reading @jethroreading32.bsky.social, a PhD student at @unisouthampton.bsky.social researching deep #pelagic fishes. Check out dsbsoc.org/deep-sea-bio... for more about Jethro!

MBARI’s Video Lab has developed the first benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking in deep-sea video. 🤖🌊DeepSeaMOT tests machine learning models in real ocean environments. This publicly available tool will help advance AI for ocean exploration. Learn more: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03499

Check out Denley Delaney's recent launch of her new NGO, Marmoris!! I am excited to join the Marmoris Advisory Board to help support locally-led deep-sea exploration in the Caribbean. www.marmoris.org

MBARI has released a benchmark dataset for multi-object tracking on deep-sea video. - Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03499 - Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/MBA... - Workflow: docs.mbari.org/benchmark_ev... #machinelearning #deepsea

Check out MARMORIS - a new NGO founded to explore #deepsea habitats in The Bahamas ewnews.com/new-bahamian... Beyond excited too see a fellow Bahamian passionate about deep-sea research. Way to go Denley, @katycroffbell.bsky.social and team!

Members! Reminder about the upcoming #DSBSoc AGM tomorrow in two different time-slots. 18:00-20:00 (UTC), 09/17 07:00-09:00 (UTC), 09/17 Can’t make it? The meeting will be recorded & online for members if requested. If there is an item you'd like to see discussed, please email us.

New paper in PLOS Biology explains how #hotvent worm P. hessleri detoxifies arsenic and sulphide from #hydrothermal vent fluid by creating #orpiment share.google/sSv9DiOhdnrr...

A deep-sea hydrothermal vent worm detoxifies arsenic and sulfur by intracellular biomineralization of orpiment (As2S3) #microbiology #DeepSea @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

❄️ The Nord University is searching for a #PhD in Subarctic Benthic Ecology at Bodø starting from January 2026 ⏳ Apply by September 21 More info👇 buff.ly/DQqxOpB

Launched our new NERC C-Floor project on the effects of bottom fishing, and other human activities on benthic carbon stocks with collaborators from @pml.ac.uk, @exetermarine.bsky.social, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, and @noc.ac.uk, with policy and impact facilitated by @publicpolicyuos.bsky.social

Started my journey to the @icesmarine.bsky.social science conference in Lithuania (2 days of train plus the ferry from Kiel, hence the early departure 🙂). I'm giving a talk on Monday in session R on 'Assessment of bottom trawl impacts on the status of seabed communities in European Seas'. 🌊🦞🪱🪸

Congrats to another exciting #DSBSoc support awardee! Meet Gerrit Meiners, "a biologist and computer nerd from Germany who traded reef dives for deep dives into data" working on his PhD with the #IndianOcean Exploration (INDEX) project with #DeepSea #ROV imagery. Read more in alt-text!

MEET OUR ARTISTS Nicole Pittoors www.etsy.com/shop/Beyondt... Fauna of the Deep Digital Illustration - 2023 Read more about Nicole in the ALT-text! Follow @dsbsoc.bsky.social and visit dsbsoc.org for more science! #sciart #sciartist #marinebiology #deepsea #contemporaryart #digitalartist

It is great to see Mackenzie Gerringer's taxonomic work, describing a fish we collected from 3800 meters, featured in the @nytimes.com. We tried to spin this story to combat the blobfish's "ugliest creature" reputation, to get people excited by deep-sea exploration, not turned away. 🧪🦑

✨ Matchmaking in progress… ✨ Over 90 artists and scientists (!) signed up, and are now being paired to spark new creative collaborations. Stay tuned – and check your inbox if you signed-up! @dsbsoc.bsky.social

New study led by members of the @awi.de #Deepsea Group suggests "Offshore wind turbines constitute benthic secondary production hotspots on and around constructions". BUT: "Altered benthic energy flow may affect food-web dynamics across the ecosystem." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEXT WEEK - "The Effects of Climate Change on Scottish Deep Seas - A Story Map and Policy Brief" will be an open session with @kristinakbeck.bsky.social (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)‬ + Daniëlle de Jonge (@jncc.bsky.social) from the Deep Sea Forum 🪸Sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bcb2f7...

[New Paper] We found a SECOND SNAIL with HARD SCALES on the foot -- Ifremeria nautilei lives in deep-sea hot vents and makes chitinous scales not by secretion but by cell differentiation, like our own skin! @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The abstract submission deadline for 19th International #Meiofauna Conference (IMCO19) has been extended to September 30th! sites.google.com/view/19imco/...

I am stoked to share that @oceandiscleague.bsky.social & I are featured in the Sept issue of National Geographic Magazine! The article highlights our work on deep sea exploration and development of DORIS, with @bluerobotics.bsky.social, @noaa.gov, PacIOOS, @whoi.edu, & @novysan.bsky.social.

❗️Post-Doc Alert! 🦀 NIOZ is hiring a Post-Doc in Marine Benthic Ecology. Join sea-going expeditions & research human impacts on the benthic ecosystem. Apply by Oct 17, 2025 👉 academicpositions.com/ad/nioz-roya... 📷 Frank Fox (CC) #marinescience

Chinese researchers exploring the NW Pacific recently uncovered colonies of tube worms and mollusks more than 31,000 feet (~6 miles) below the surface! 📲Find out what these #extremophiles can tell us about surviving the pressure from the @apnews.com: go.whoi.edu/ap-deeplife

🌊 DOSI at the #BBNJPrepCom 🌊 The DOSI Ambassadors – experts from across North, Central, and South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania – are here at the second #BBNJ Preparatory Commission (PrepCom2) to help connect science and policy for the deep ocean.

Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com

The Knowledge Hub is growing! Can you help? If you have scientific research or traditional knowledge, stories, or insights about the deep sea, we want to hear from you. Visit the Hub to learn more and send us a message if you’d like to contribute: buff.ly/4I1E3gZ

New from the Mesophotic & Deep Benthic Communities restoration team: We deployed dome-shaped concrete structures to support mesophotic coral growth and provide habitat for other small marine animals. 🌊🦑🧪🌍 Read more in my new piece for NOAA NCCOS: coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/restora...

Excited to co-chair the session OB005 at #OSM2026 in Glasgow ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Your research explores how benthic biogeochemical processes influence ecosystems across spatial or temporal scales ?Join our session ! 🌊 agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr... Don't hesitate to submit and share ! #sediment #porewater

#Oceantrenches #hadal #chemosynthesis "Here we report the discovery of the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth..." Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches | Nature share.google/RIm3Kt1pdtNf...

We present the new marine nematode species: Dracograllus miguelitus. It is the first species of its genus described from hydrothermal environments, and from the deepest location so far. This is the first paper of my PhD, and I’m deeply grateful to my supervisors! peerj.com/articles/195...

Excited to share that our manuscript "In situ lightfield imaging of octopus locomotion reveals simplified control" has been published in @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you love 🧪🌎🦑🌊, keep reading this thread! 1/n

New work from MBARI and our collaborators outlines a strategy for the global scientific community to provide the biodiversity data needed to guide international efforts to protect marine life and ecosystems under the UN High Seas Treaty. #BBNJ Learn more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An international team of scientists is documenting remarkable biodiversity and exploring how powerful ocean currents support the #MarDelPlataCanyon ecosystem. Learn more via our latest #TaludContinental_IV expedition in Argentina! 🇦🇷 youtu.be/Ez2GJNz1vSo?...

#WHOI's Johanna Weston is part of a @schmidtocean.bsky.social research mission to investigate the biodiversity of a deep-sea canyon off of Argentina with her zooplankton sampler #DeepZoo! 📲Join millions of Argentinians following SOI’s next Divestream: youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean/streams

🥁Introducing Vemana hortonae! 🦐 This newly described deep-sea amphipod lives more than 5000m below the surface of the Atlantic, has been named in honour of NOC’s Dr Tammy Horton! 👏 Full story here: noc.ac.uk/news/new-dee...

🦑 Squid squad alert! This may be a type of whiplash squid from the family Mastigoteuthidae. Filmed during the #MarDelPlataCanyon in Argentina, where an international science team is exploring the diversity & distribution of seafloor communities in one of the country’s largest deep-sea canyons. 🇦🇷 .

So excited to join forces with three incredible artists to spotlight the amazing diversity of deep-sea corals and sponges! 🪸 #UnseenOcean #DeepSea #SciArt #ArtScience

❗️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

@nautiluslive.org has started their first dive for the new expedition! www.youtube.com/live/0lR6fx8...

Kudos to the Chinese deep diving submersible Fendouzhe and team (which have also been to Challenger Deep where we didn't see anything like these creatures)! www.bbc.com/news/article... 🌊 🦑

Have spent an amazing time these last few weeks as Benthic Taxonomist on the RV Tarajoq as part of their annual surveys of the Greenlandic 🇬🇱 Shrimp and Cod! It is always such a privilege and always reminds me how much I love being at sea

Deepest know chemosynthesis-based ecosystems!

Members, don’t forget - upcoming @dsbsoc-arts.bsky.social art-science deadline on Aug. 31st!

Back on land after a month of being at sea sampling in Earth's most remote ecosystem - the deep sea. Always just grateful for the experience and the kind people I have met during that time. @dsbsoc.bsky.social

Six of those Stylochoidea-like polyclads sampled today by @schmidtocean.bsky.social at Mar Del Plata Canyon, Argentina, cca 2500 m. Fine large #polyclads, enough to fill few double wide slides. Good luck with future description of those. Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg9N... #WormWednesday