Happening now on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social livestream! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCEB... 🦑🌊🧪🐟

A little bright spot for your day -- @deepstewardship.bsky.social has a collection of incredible deep sea photos collected from partners around the world. Here are a few, and see them all here: www.flickr.com/people/19477... 🦑🐟🌊🧪

Very cool new paper: Scientists observed a whiplash squid covering itself in mud, the first time this behavior has been documented for squid. They suspect the squid was arranging its tentacles to look like the stalks of a sponge or worm 🦑🌊🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If you haven't see this incredible footage of a bigfin squid (Magnapinna) from @nautiluslive.org, stop what you're doing & watch! This was from last month's expedition exploring deep waters of the Cook Islands, spotted at 5,100 meters deep. 🌍🦑🌊🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvS...

Meet the engineering team behind one of MBARI’s new underwater imaging systems 🤖🔧 Our scientists and engineers work side by side to develop cutting-edge tools that track ocean health in real time and help us visualize the ocean like never before. Learn more: youtu.be/Kqo4MhthIkQ?...

Had a wonderful time during another @skypeascientist.bsky.social visit -- this time with 4th graders in a class in New Jersey! Sign up here if you're an educator or scientist interested in participating: www.skypeascientist.com 🧪🌊🍎

New paper by Wong et al.: The 2014-2016 northeast Pacific marine heatwave had well-documented impacts on deep reef fish assemblages. ROV surveys from 2005-2021 showed changes in sessile invertebrate abundance during and after the heat wave. 🧪🦑🌊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very cool new paper alert! On a 2024 expedition off Chile, scientists saw tons of cusk eels hanging out among tubeworms! An interesting observation of how this species uses methane seeps as important habitat. 🐟🦑🧪🌊 Read the paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

2763m A halosaur finally! I love their faces. @nautiluslive.org dive L1012 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Great drama happening on the Hudson Canyon livestream right now! Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n289... 🧪🦑🌊🌍

Excited to see @gardenandgun.com highlight the work of conservationists across the Southern U.S. + Bahamas in their Champions of Conservation feature. It showcases how conservation and recreation can work hand-in-hand for stronger, more lasting outcomes. 🐟🌍 gardenandgun.com/feature/cham...

What a cool graduate opportunity!! Dietary benefits of sexual cannibalism in spiders at Oklahoma State University. 🧪👩‍🔬🌍 sevenseasmedia.org/job/ms-or-ph...

A curious little guy! Spotted on @schmidtocean.bsky.social livestream from 9/8: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivht... 🐟🦑🌊🌍

Catching up on my shows today @schmidtocean.bsky.social 🌊🦑🧪🐟🌍

Starting TODAY: Join scientists at sea to learn more about deep sea restoration in real time. Our fall livestream series features many opportunities to hear about ROVs, deep corals, and more. 🌊🦑🧪🐟 Learn more: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/mdbc-li...

The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. (I watched the video more than 10 times.) My latest for @nytimes.com (gift link!) #marinelife www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings! Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries. 🦑🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good news out of the Gulf -- A new project found that modified turtle excluder devices (TEDs) successfully excluded small turtles while maintaining shrimp catch. 🌊🦑🧪🌍 gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/2025/07/smal...

It all started with a grand challenge: How can we unlock the potential for ocean life to inspire future technologies? @mbarinews.bsky.social's Bioinspiration Lab has spent years trying to tackle this problem, and we recently developed 4000 m-rated EyeRIS, an in situ lightfield imaging system. 2/n

What EyeRIS revealed was incredible, fine-scale detail of the 3D movements of octopus arms as they crawled over the seafloor completely unconstrained. We learned that octopus crawl by creating a modified foot that persists throughout the behavior, a simplification that could aid roboticists. 8/n

Deep-sea livestreams can inspire wonder and drive action. @schmidtocean.bsky.social's current expedition in Mar del Plata canyon, off the Argentine coast, has become an internet sensation -- just as Argentina’s president threatens to cut and privatize science. 🦑🌊🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

Thanks SyFy for sharing our recent great hammerhead energetics paper! And for pairing it with a Sharknado promo, which feels like the bigget win of all. 🌊🐟🧪🦑 www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ho...

The EyeRIS camera, developed by @kakanikatija.bsky.social and MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab, is a game changer for studying the biomechanics of marine life, revealing new insights about octopus locomotion that open the door for future bioinspired technologies. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

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...

Thank you @popsci.com for covering our recent paper on great hammerhead energetics! 🐟🧪🌊🌍 Read the piece here: www.popsci.com/environment/...

Anemone, umbellula, sea pen, scotoplanes? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 820 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

Cusk eel from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 818 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Unreal images from the hadal zone, the deepest part of our ocean, in this new paper in @nature.com. Scientists used the manned submersible Fendouzhe in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the western Aleutian Trench at depths from 5,800 m to 9,533 m 🦑🌊🧪🐟🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Look at the detail on this STUNNER from yesterdays @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive in Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon in Argentina 🦑🌊🧪🐟

🤣 that squid is straight up saying🖕🖕 @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 817 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

Pandea rubra (paper lantern jelly) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 817 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

Spotted on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social livestream! Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg9N... 🦑🌊🧪

This is the horoscope content we NEED🐟🌊🧪🌍 www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new species of eyeless cavefish is described from Guizhou Province, China. 🐟🧪 mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

Just released: a comprehensive report by @ucs.org of how this administration has gutted federal science systems. Huge thank you to @dminovi.bsky.social & coauthors for this important work. As they say in the report: When science is sidelined, people are harmed. 🦑🧪🌊🐟🌍 www.ucs.org/resources/sc...

The latest technology in the battle against invasives: robotic rabbits. 🧪🌍👩‍🔬 www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/07/17/r...

From a new study about migration in coastal sharks: "We found delayed departure dates from summer habitats under future elevated SST ... Delays in migration timing of may alter local ecosystem dynamics and challenge current management strategies." 🌊🐟🧪🌍 www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Happening now -- @nautiluslive.org‬ is exploring a wreck in the Solomon Islands as part of their Maritime Archaeology of Guadalcanal: Iron Bottom Sound expedition Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lR6... 🧪🌊🦑🐟🌍

Energetics suggest Great Hammerhead Sharks only need to eat ~0.7% of their body weight per day of other sharks to survive. Means a ~250 kg big one would only need to eat one ~50 kg shark every three weeks! Good reason to be shark and ray-eating specialists. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Awesome new paper on deep-sea coral community structure within California national marine sanctuaries (feat. some gorgeous coral photos) 🦑🌊🧪🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper lead by @etspencer.bsky.social We use biologging to understand why great hammerheads may specialize on large prey like other sharks. If they hunt blacktips off south Florida then they probably only have to catch a shark once per month link.springer.com/journal/442

Proud to share that my second dissertation chapter is now published in Oecologia! Great hammerheads often eat other elasmobranchs, which suggests there must be some kind of advantage to going after big prey instead of smaller fish. (1/4)🦑🧪🌊🐟

Absolutely stunning video of a Antarctic gonate squid captured during an expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (Too). It's never been seen alive before! Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s... Video: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, courtesy of National Geographic 🦑🌊🧪

A USGS-BOEM-NOAA production 3-yrs in the making. This mission has something for everyone: undersea hazards; hydrothermal vents & seeps; exploration for seabed minerals; deep-sea coral biology incl *microbiomes*, reproduction, & population genetics; sediment cores; eDNA; & more! 🌊🧪🦑🧫

Attending #CHOW2025? Go see @etspencer.bsky.social present today (6/3) at 2:35-2:55pm and tomorrow (6/4) at 10:35-10:55am in the Sanctuary Cinema! They may even given you a cool poster for stopping by 👀🪸

Join restoration experts LIVE from the Smithsonian on 6/2 at 2 pm EDT! Get a behind-the-scenes look at the museum’s collections, and learn more about how they support deep sea restoration in the Gulf. 🦑🌊🧪🐟🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elN...

Join me and others from the Mesophotic & Deep Benthic Communities projects LIVE from the Smithsonian on Monday! We're talking deep sea inverts, coral restoration, & more 🌊🦑🐟🧪👩‍🔬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elN...

Join restoration experts LIVE from the Smithsonian on 6/2 at 1pm CST! Get a behind the scenes look at the museum’s collections, and learn more about how they support deep sea restoration in the Gulf! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elN...

The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🦑🌊🧪