Mushroom coral pipefish (Siokunichthys nigrolineatus), Anilao #MarineLife 🐟🌿

This one was my arch nemesis for a hot minute. But theyre finally done. Teuthowenia pellucida, the googly-eyed squid. A deep sea cranchiid aka glass squid 🦑 🧪🐙🐡

Got my performance review.

A shell I saw on Piha Beach in New Zealand. Sea and sky, I thought. I left it there. #elsewhere #travelling

I have no idea who did this, but it's too funny not to share

Arrrggh. Much better version of this than what I originally posted! #MarineLife

Banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus), hanging out on the underside of a ledge in Anilao. Gravity is more of a suggestion than a law when you're underwater :) Didn't see many of these in Anilao, although they're common as muck in the Caribbean. #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

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A butterflyfish from Anilao. Unfortunately I have been completely unable to figure out what kind of butterflyfish it might be. #MarineLife 🐟🌿

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Some amazing work here oceanographicmagazine.com/winners-gall... #MarineLife #UnderwaterPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

Nautilus! 😍 🦑 #Invertebrates

I started a Deep Sea Art and Science feed for everyone who is interested in the ocean below 200m and the artists/art inspired by it! If you’re keen to be added to the contributor list then dm me. #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean #science #marinebiology 🦑🐡 bsky.app/profile/did:...

if you want to hear it with the original audio instaed of the music, I downloaded this from the EcoWatch Discovery Mauritius Instagram page directly. if you want to share it please credit them

So you're a scientist about to face a government shutdown? Have you considered becoming a rock star? It's easy AND profitable! 🎸🧪 Let's list off five scientists who turned rockers:

A jellyfish from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. It has a couple of hitch-hikers; a juvenile fish and... I'm not sure what the little orange thing on the right is. Maybe an amphipod? #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

Today's shark threesome news that you didn't know you needed. #MarineLife www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today's fish is definitely one of the more eye-catching ones. This is an intermediate-phase Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon meleagris). Pic from Anilao #MarineLife 🐟🌿

Here's my message to MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra. He gaslights our nation, blames Canadians for being mean to the US. He accuses of us being anti-American. He says we are mean and nasty and doesn't like us saying Elbows Up. Too bad Pete. We are proud anti-fascists www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Jh...

A slightly random post for the weekend... hydroids, I think. Because the little things are cool too. Pic from Anilao. #MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿

Off-topic, but... if you close your eyes a bit, he looks like a leaping dolphin.

No one trolls with street names quite like Prague.

The Ig Nobels are out! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Maybe he could go home, and we could get an ambassador who's less whiny, less entitled and less stupid. I'm not sure that we would, though.

A classic #macro subject... golden gobies (Lubricogobius ornatus) in a bottle. They have probably laid eggs inside. Local dive guides frequently leave bottles at dive sites so they can do this, as they're very tolerant of photographers. #UnderwaterPhotography #MarineLife 🐟🌿

ah, well

Yeesh. #DiveSky Although I should also note that Corryvreckan is an excellent dram, if Islay malts are your thing.

A vital corrective to the Charlie Kirk hagiography, from Ta-Nehisi Coates: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Cool space news: one of the biggest black holes in the universe is doing something WEIRD! You probably remember this picture, the first ever image of a black hole, in the galaxy M87. What you’re really seeing here is the disk of gas around the black hole. (1/n) 📸: EHT Collab.🧪🔭

I had no idea what this was... but since @echinoblog.bsky.social has been posting doliolids for #TunicateTuesday all day... now I do! I think this looks like the nurse stage. Crappy pic, but it's the best I've got... from Balayan Bay, Anilao. #MarineLife 🌿

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

What a masterpiece. Absolute chaos - couldn't have designed it better mysefl. If you’re English, you know.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

It's not only that Republicans like Greg Abbott are lying that they don't want political violence. Greg Abbott pardoned the convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protestor- a guy who texted "I'm going to shoot a protestor" and then did so. Pardoned. Greg Abbott actively encourages violence.

A larval shrimp, I think? It certainly looks shrimpy, but not normal shrimpy, if that makes any sense. Pic from a #blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao #MarineLife 🌊🌿 #Invertebrates

Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Get off Twitter NOW. Like literally right now. Delete it from your devices.

Octopus news: I'm not sure how "handedness" works when you have arms, and eight of them, but... apparently it does. 🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Saturday night crab-posting... A tiny crab living on a sea cucumber. I think it's probably Lissocarcinus orbicularis, but.. IDing these guys is hard. #MarineLife 🦀🌿

Canadians stand with Rachel Gilmore. The Conservative government, whose actions and rhetoric have put her in harm’s way, must take responsibility and act immediately to ensure her safety. This injustice cannot be ignored, and it must be rectified. NOW. #IStandWithRachel

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

A ringtail cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus aureus), Anilao. They are mouth-brooders, and this one has a clutch of eggs. The photo was taken as it opened its mouth to rotate the eggs and circulate fresh water through them. #MarineLife 🌊🐟🌿

Cutest larval anglerfish EVER!

I like to think that I know quite a bit about fish at this point, but I am forever reminded that when it comes to fish, you can never know everything. So for today's #FishOfTheWeek let's talk about a reproductive strategy that I spent an entire day studying when I did learn about it 1/7

Amidst a crazy time, the cutest arthropod I've ever found in my garden, a candy striped leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea). Is he eating my cilantro? 🌱 Yes. Will I stop him? No 🥰