Horrible, horrible news out of USF marine lab. Thankfully, no one is believed to be injured. But the fire today likely "total loss" -- thinking of all our colleagues who are grappling with the loss of their labs, gear, samples, and their research "home" 🐟🌍🌊🐙 www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Today is One Tribe One Day, @wm.edu's annual day of giving. I am excited to support the Institute for Integrative Conservation, all gifts today support the Conservation Research Program that funds student teams working on real-world conservation challenges. 🌍🌊🐟 donate.wm.edu/schools/Will...

New fish news: Salmon on cocaine swim 1.9x further than those not on cocaine (!?!) An example of how human habits can affect fish & other marine organisms. 🧪🐟🌊🌍 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Florida wildlife officials are trying to determine who scattered hundreds of toxic mothballs Monday across a stretch of St. Pete Beach near a colony of protected black skimmers that had gathered near the dunes. 🌍🌊 @tampabaytimes.bsky.social @maxchesnes.bsky.social www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

Great hammerhead sharks outperform the curve journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Researchers tracked 9 great hammerhead sharks off Florida and the Bahamas. Here’s what they discovered https://www.newsbeep.com/au/581986/ Giant hammerhead sharks are masters of the “thermal hustle,” maintaining peak hunting performance over a surprisingly wide range…

Great hammerheads maintain peak hunting across wide temperature swings, biologging data suggest: New research published in the _Journal of Experimental Biology_ reveals that great hammerhead sharks exhibit remarkable "thermal hustle," maintaining peak hunting performa… https://ranked.news/470836?u=b

Biologging data indicate great hammerhead sharks maintain high hunting performance across a broad range of ocean temperatures, suggesting notable thermal flexibility compared to other predators. doi.org/hbvhnf

Thermal performance and activation energy explain flexible thermal habitat use in great hammerhead sharks journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.” The crew all shared a hug after. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...

New piece from BBC wildlife about our recent publication looking at great hammerhead thermal performance 🌊🦑🧪🐟 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

New paper out today! Using accelerometers to generate thermal performance curves in great hammerhead sharks. Their low activation energies may explain why they can perform well across seasons.

The final chapter of my PhD is published in Journal of Experimental Biology! And, we got the cover! We used biologgers to estimate great hammerheads' temperature “sweet spot.” We saw they can perform well at a range of temps, which supports observations from the field. (1/2) 🌊🦑🧪🐟

New article presents an image guide from trenches in the NW Pacific. It includes 100+ taxa and is a way to ID organisms in future biodiversity studies. See examples below, including chordates, arthropods, and "rarities and peculiarities." Read it here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1821... 🌊🦑🐟🧪

Absolutely spectacular images from @schmidtocean.bsky.social's recent expedition in Argentina. The team documented the largest known Bathelia candida coral reef (nearly the size of the Vatican!) and 28 suspected new species. Learn more in their expedition recap: schmidtocean.org/argentinas-d... 🌊🦑🧪🐟

New study quantifies the impacts of mining on deep sea organisms. Researchers found: 🪱number of organisms decreased by 37% in mining tracks ⚖️number of species decreased by 32% in mining tracks, making the remaining community more unbalanced Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌊🦑🧪

What can you do to helpt turn climate change around? 🌱 Use GIS! 🌐 Register for our free course and learn how. We'll provide all the data and software you need: ow.ly/r4lf50Y6zUz #gischat #geogsky #geosky 🧪 🦑 ⚒️ 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏

Mondays are better with an octopus squid 🦑💫⁠ ⁠ The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is unusual among squids. Most squids have eight arms and two long tentacles, making a total of 10 appendages. As young Octopoteuthis mature, their two feeding tentacles are reabsorbed into their bodies.

This is so unnerving. "For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop." 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Fun new paper documenting deep-sea fishes off Puerto Rico. The paper documents some interesting observations, including how diversity changes with depth & even how cusk eels are an important but understudied part of abyssal & hadal communities. 🦑🐟🌊 Read it here: academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

Catching up on my @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive watching and WOW this habitat is stunning. This is from the Malvinas Trench during the Argentinian Deep Seeps expedition. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWEt... 🦑🌊🧪

Finally out! We studied the retinas of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, and found that the retinas remain remarkably healthy in animals around 150 years old. What is the mechanism? It may be a highly efficient DNA repair system. Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love being a biologist, becuase it means at any moment your Instagram stories will have someone's beach pic followed by a photo of a half-digested vole extracted from roadkill as part of a diet study. Incredible, no notes.🧪🌍

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