I spend the better part of most days reading & interviewing scientists to write about the very real & very wonderful animals living in our Ocean. This article hit me right in the feelers. (Also: @sabs.bsky.social book "How Far the Light Reaches" is a wonderful read.) defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

Today, in things short-sighted and stupid… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

🌊 Ocean job alert! 🌊 We're hiring a Science Systems Specialist to support cruise planning on R/V Falkor (too) and management of the maritime instrumentation and scientific equipment. Learn more & apply! https://jobs.lever.co/schmidt-entities/ccec45a4-a347-445e-a022-6e0b8045dc56

Some of the coolest folk I’ve ever met!

Another installment of "Poetry in Ocean," where we pair deep-sea footage with poetry. Do you have any favorite poems that capture the wonder of these animals? Feel free to share — I'm always looking for inspiration!

“You wouldn’t have bet on it, the battered rock orbiting a star from the discount bin of the universe, wouldn’t have guessed that it would bloom mitochondria and music, that it would mushroom mountains and minds…” youtu.be/inKW8Kk4-Hk

The view from somewhere over Rio last night during 36 hours of planes and layovers, coming home from a couple of weeks at sea. 🌊

My first expedition on R/V Falkor (too) was epic. Here’s a bit of what we did! 🌊 #scicomm #writinglife

Haliphron atlanticus with a jelly in her belly! This large lady is a pelagic octopus, spending her entire life in the open ocean, never touching shore or seafloor. Read more via the link. #designingthefuture3 800 meters youtube.com/shorts/qVikb...

Poetry in ocean.

The Atlantic Ocean, 360 nautical miles (414 miles/667 km) from Brazil on the R/V Falkor (too). #designingthefuture3

Writing up a storm with a steady stream of deep-sea views and a few wee breaks for some knitting at sea — apparently all I needed was to be put me in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. #designingthefuture3 #writinglife

Using imaging systems being tested during #DesigningtheFuture3, Dr. Dhugal Lindsay is confident that this animal appears to be a new genus, maybe even a new family of physonect siphonophore. (Read the full YouTube caption to learn more.) youtube.com/shorts/U0iw_...

Sunset from @schmidtocean.bsky.social’s R/V Falkor (too), in international waters off Brazil during #DesigningTheFuture3.

🚨 Booby alert! 🚨 Now that I have your attention…I’ve been waiting for seabirds for days — am excited to finally spot this beauty. My non-expert guess: a juvenile masked booby (Sula dactylatra). (Name comes fr Spanish word “bobo” for fool, because of the silly dance they perform during courtship.)

It takes a village to do incredible ocean discovery. Live now! @schmidtocean.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/wbQXgnH...

Watching the @schmidtocean.bsky.social team launch a robot, ROV SuBastian — the #designingthefuture3 science team study the ocean’s midwater in international waters off Brazil. Accelerating species discovery & expanding our genetic library of life on Earth seems a good way to spend one’s time! 🌊

Goodbye dry land, onward to the high seas! #designingthefuture3

Safety first! Today, at sea: we had an abandon ship drill and all went well. (Bonus, everyone in the orange, enclosed life boat got to experience what hot flashes feel like.) We’re ready to get underway! #oldladyandthesea

How do you provision a ship with about 70 people for weeks at sea? It’s a team effort. Today, we got to help the crew load food for the journey. It took about 3 hours. The @schmidtocean.bsky.social crew work hard — with patience and humor! #designingthefuture3 #writinglife #scicomm

First day on @schmidtocean.bsky.social’s R/V Falkor (too), a whirlwind. Tours, safety briefing, meeting new people (who I already adore), and getting ready for departure. Ask me questions about at-sea adventures & ocean science and I’ll try to answer them!

Traveling with a luck dragon — on my way to Research Vessel Falkor (too) in Brazil for the #designingthefuture3 expedition. #iykyk

Our team has been nominated for a People’s Voice Webby! If you follow & enjoy @schmidtocean.bsky.social deep-sea exploration, cast a vote for us! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

"Fascist efforts to control a populace employ a familiar set of strategies: Establish the purity of a people—white Christians, in the case of the U.S.—as under threat by outsiders; undermine empathy for outsiders by dehumanizing them; create a mythical past of national greatness;..." (1/3)

🐾 Who’s a cheesy boy? 🐾

Very excited to see our Schmidt Ocean team and #MarDelPlataCanyon scientists celebrated. 🌊 Vote for us! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Day 1 #osm26 and my talk on fostering empathy for deep-sea animals thru creative storytelling is complete. Now, I can cheer for others and learn about their work! Phew… #writinglife #scicomm

I’m in Glasgow with the @schmidtocean.bsky.social team, presenting at #OSM26 — also feeling quite proud our org is sponsoring childcare at the conference!

“Like a firefly in the middle of a field filled with noise, its shining, latent light within, a tiny bell, small and soundless. I fade away so that you may lose yourself. I fold myself into my wings.” Poem by Pedro Serrano, trans. by Don Cellini. Psychedelic jellyfish, #argentiniandeepseeps, 3804 m

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

I love this meditation on winter by Rick Bass in the latest issue of @OrionMagazine.bsky.social "The willows’ only job now is to simply survive: to hold their code, their green fire, safe beneath the snow, and wait for the change that always, always, returns." orionmagazine.org/article/what...

This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social#AsgardArchaeahere: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/

this essay is just as good as everyone says it is, and imo is a good piece of blanket advice lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A #Taleof2Canyons & an octopus! 186m, Patagonian red octopus, or Enteroctopus megalocyathus, hovering over a patch of sediment, lighter in color than the surrounding area, the cephalopod opened up like an umbrella to feed, likely on a crustacean. Read more: www.instagram.com/reel/DQnH14c...

@wyden.senate.gov a wonderful celebration of democracy and resistance in Portland! 🐸

In case you’re wondering if Portland is burning, see www.isportlandburning.com for live camera views and something from a bygone ere: facts.

I wrote a small thing about a group of people working together to do big things.

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Sat, 9/27 in “war-ravaged” Portland. I’m stacking firewood & where the husband works today, @oregonsymphony.bsky.social performing Tchaikovsky & Strauss at the Schnitz & Lion King is going full swing at the Keller. Most of #pdx focused on yardwork & last sun before grey & rain. Knitting likely.

Rough-skin newts are pretty cute, but they come equipped with a neurological poison that packs a punch — a handy protective trait for snack-shaped animals. in #mthoodnationalforest www.instagram.com/reel/DPFeJKr...

How's a girl supposed to get any work done when there's a team of scientists exploring a shipwreck in Uruguay with a robot? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEo...

¡Qué lindo! Every bit of this south wall in the #MarDelPlataCanyon is vibrant and alive. Read and imagine how a tiny sponge larva or other stationary animal finds a home in a place like this: www.instagram.com/reel/DN37jxs...

Winston runs a tight ship.

“Now the sea is in me: I am the fish, the fish glitters in me; we are risen, tangled together, certain to fall back to the sea.” fr Mary Oliver’s, “The Fish,” about catching & eating her first one. ROV pilots filmed this amazing fish more than 2400m deep in #MarDelPlataCanyon #TaludContinental_IV

it is 2025 who the fuck would believe consuming raw milk is sa… oh right

For everyone paying attention to earthquake & tsunami info, a lot of funding for tsunami & earthquake monitoring comes from NOAA, but the fed gov is cutting their funding. Call your legislators, tell them to fund NOAA & USGS, who in turn funds regional network operators, like AK Earthquake Center

Sometimes workweeks are filled with hard things, but at the end of this one I now have a favorite shark.

I was sent into the Lum Farm store to buy eggs, and I came out with yarn. This happens. Now, my Orcas Island blanket is well underway! I’m a sucker for natural, sheep-colored fiber, and it’s a treat to get it directly from the source. #orcasisland #lumfarm #knitting

I spend my work days imagining myself in a different body, living an entirely different life. It's fun examining how we perceive & make sense of our world & exploring how that might differ if I were a tiny squishy being. #writinglife #oceanworld #scicomm