The BBNJ "High Seas" Treaty has been ratified by 60 countries and is now officially in effect! What a journey it's been... 🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Are you an early career scientist curious about getting involved in deep-sea research? Apply for our "new user program" at @agu.org this year 👇 www.unols.org/news/early-c...

Loving this set of vignettes about microbes' role in climate dynamics 👏 www.quantamagazine.org/microbes-als...

Space weathering effects in Bennu asteroid sample! This paper reads like a bit like a geomorphology textbook on the microscale - really cool to see how minuscule observations can point us to process. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A microbial community's composition can help reveal the mineralogy of its surroundings 😮 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Never has an article headline spoken more directly to me 😂 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/23/m...

Score another one for the microbes! Somehow not surprising, but astonishing at the same time - the tree microbiome 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Latest season of VolcaKnowledge has dropped! Stop by to learn about the many (and surprising) ways that volcanoes affect us, no matter where you live. 🌋 www.youtube.com/channel/UCD9...

Oh check it out, @microbesheik.bsky.social found some cool microbes in "mysterious goo" from a ship's rudder shaft...and I got to talk about it 😂 www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/s...

Check out "the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth" - methane seeps along Russia's NE coast, down to a depth of 9500 meters! 😮 It's amazing that such incredible ecosystems remain to be found in the deep sea... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Eeeek, this would be bad!

Check out this beautiful doc from @fieseler.bsky.social on nodules & "dark oxygen" - honored to be part of it! Our (and others') research on dark oxygen remains bewildering, exciting...and critically important as we try to understand how the deep sea really works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcm...

For marine invertebrates, the deep sea - unlike shallower coastal waters - is all connected... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The year’s crowning achievement! 🙌😂

Oooh so cool! Sea spiders that farm methane-eating microbes on their exoskeletons 😮 Methane seeps never cease to amaze... www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

"Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever" This is an uphill battle (to say the least), but a compelling case! Mostly the argument is, we just don't need stuff from the high seas, so why go to the trouble? 🤷 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Could this be a way to keep synthetic microbes released into the environment in check? Forcing a dependence on a non-standard amino acid produced by a partner microbe... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Made a science pilgrimage to St. Anthony Falls Lab the other day! It’s right next to a dammed part of the Mississippi River, and uses the water flow to run large-scale hydrology and geomorphology experiments. Part of the river can essentially be diverted to run *through* the building!

Lovely visit to @uconn.bsky.social last week! Learned a lot about low-cost nitrate and ozone sensors 😮👏

Recently upgraded Alvin can now dive to 6500m. Read our new article about its capabilities, latest #deepsea science discoveries, & new milestones on its #science verification expedition 🌊🛠🧪. Thx to the entire whoi.edu Alvin team & funding from #NSF-funded #USONR @noaa.gov @urigso.bsky.social

Reminder to grad students / postdocs hoping to get more involved in deep-sea research - the Deep Submergence Science Committee's New User Program is accepting applications! www.unols.org/event/early-... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New paper alert! 🚨 (Well, a preprint for now :) Introducing "Dual-BONCAT" - a new approach to distinguish two different metabolically active subpopulations within a single microbiome experiment. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little more info in the thread below 👇

Hello bluesky 👋 For all you oceany people out there --> dive alert in the SE Pacific, just off the coast of Chile! We're exploring some previously unvisited submarine canyons to study their geological foundations and catalog their biodiversity. Follow along here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1i...