"Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras" www.cell.com/current-biol... @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

whalefall / life seeks to perpetuate 2

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

suddenly very glad i follow the nuclear proliferation folks like martin:

Pelagic Respite

For a 3rd year, I made a carcinization pumpkin. But this time it's a true crab, Calappa! 🦀🦑🧪 (It's a view of the "shame face", not the dorsal body)

If your city is really lucky, you’ll get a weird girl who goes above & beyond to celebrate squid. Maybe she has a Squidmobile & glues 🦑 on poles. Maybe she gets on stage to sing about squid, dressed as a 🦑. Philadelphia & Tokyo are both lucky. Extremely cool to meet my Tokyo counterpart today ☺️

🎃 Looking for some last-minute Halloween costume inspo? Look no further, here are FOUR Steal the Looks: Bay-Delta Edition! Which one are you dressing up as this halloween? 🌿 #stealthelook #baydelta #halloweencostumeidea #chinooksalmon #sandhillcrane #riparianwoodrat #deltasmelt

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

i've only gotten to this point thanks to the many cephalopod scientists such as @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, who have been beyond generous with their time and expertise.

Screaming inside with joy seeing @jeffday.bsky.social on the slide at the cephalopod international advisory council meeting this morning. “He is massively accelerating our ability to monitor cephalopods in the deep sea”- Kat Bolstad Jeff started his work on cephalopods here on social media 😭

@jeffday.bsky.social on a CIAC talk!!!!! Im beaming with pride

🌟 ‘Automated Detection of Antarctic Benthic Organisms to Aid Biodiversity Monitoring’ is by Cameron Trotter, Huw Griffiths, Tasnuva Ming Khan + Rowan Whittle. It was published at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, at the International Conference on Computer Vision ⬇️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

Trophic ecology of squids in the Benguela Upwelling System elucidated by combining stomach content, stable isotope and fatty acid analyses 🌊🧪🦑 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congregation of cusk-eels (Genypterus chilensis, Ophidiiformes) at a deep-sea methane seep off Chile 🧪🦑🌊 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ... The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

please bask in the 4K glory of @nautiluslive.org's recent magnapinna observation

Day two of our Deepwater Horizon cruise is a success!

👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍 Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.

How cool is this? A LEGO Argo Float! Thanks for the inspo @mbarinews.bsky.social! "Treated" everyone in the brick store to a 5min ad-hoc talk why Argo Floats are so cool and important. Shouldn't have asked what I'm building 🙃 ✅Permanent Ocean Monitoring ✅Aid weather/climate forecasts ✅Free/open data

was randomly browsing r/megalophobia earlier only to see an image of stygiomedusa with a snorkeler at the surface, which is bonkers since it's a deep sea jelly. 🦑🧪 after a little digging, it came from this paper: doi.org/10.1590/S198... about this observation: www.instagram.com/p/BzlnDMxht0y

This is the longest I've spent on any single project in my life! Please remind your friends that Isopod is coming out tomorrow!

4K footage of that cirrate octopus encounter from nautilus earlier this week; looks much more like cirrothauma than grimpoteuthis to me, though.

wild, there was a SECOND magnapinna on the same @nautiluslive.org dive!! 🦑🧪 youtu.be/gCN-R5DCoJ8

bigfin squid live on @nautiluslive.org just now!! youtu.be/LkrrWJvNVwU 🦑🧪

Cirrothauma around 5200m @nautiluslive.org dive L1011 #CookIslands #MarineLife

@nautiluslive.org dive L1010 is ongoing #CookIslands www.youtube.com/live/0lR6fx8...

Cirrothauma! (5182m ) @nautiluslive.org dive L1010 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Here's a better look at this little critter. Got a nice little thruster spin & a brief view from the side (5187m) @nautiluslive.org dive L1010 #CookIslands #MarineLife

5100m Crinoid, bassozetus, gastropod, different urchin than the ones they've seen so far @nautiluslive.org dive L1010 #CookIslands #MarineLife

A young #argonaut #octopus (aka “paper #nautilus”) hitches a ride atop a muave stinger #jellyfish. #papernautilus #symbiosis #muavestinger #🐙 #🪼 #blackwater #blackwaterphotography #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug #kumejima #okinawa #marinelife

Johanna was the first person to use our new #deepsea answerphone to tell us about her @schmidtocean.bsky.social expedition going #viral in #Argentina. A whole country following #deepocean exploration together. Check our the full episode and our wider reading here: www.deepseapod.com/episodes/062...

Solitary hydroid @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Crosotta millsae (psychedelic jelly) @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Chondrocladia w/ a holuthurian snack. @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife

The Halloween Humboldt Squid has arrived! The only way to get these stickers is to join my Patreon. Help support open science and get some jaunty ocean stickers. These stickers will go out Monday, October 20th, so sign up before then! patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Working away on this #deepsea carnivorous sponge, crinoid and brittle star painting. It’s getting there, probably 75% done now, adding all the details and rainbow colors is my fav part! #deepseacreatures #coldwatersponges 🐡🦑 #invertebrates #acrylicpainting #marinebiology #art #painting #artist

Munnopsid isopod! I love these little critters. @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

Begging scientists (and media posts about science) to stop using ChatGPT-generated images

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

In honor of World Squid Day, here's a Moroteuthopsis longimana fr #SouthSandwichIslands. International cephalopod awareness days happen each year in Oct — we celebrate octopuses on the 8th, in honor of their 8 arms, and squid on the 10th, to acknowledge their ten appendages (8 arms and 2 tentacles).

A better close-up of another faceless cusk eel! You can only see these guys down deep like this! 4539m @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

Enypniastes 4413m. @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

casper octopus sighting from @nautiluslive.org this morning for those unfamiliar, casper is an undescribed species of deep sea octopus threatened by deep sea mining: www.science.org/content/arti...

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

A quick spiderweb mari (Brain still bad)

Another carnivorous sponge for you: The Ping Pong Tree Sponge! #LetsChangeThat

Black cydippid cteno. I don't see black ctenos too often @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 854 #uruguaysub200 #MarineLife