Giant squid dissection.

Just stop with the balloon releases already!!!! This is what hapoens when you do dumb shit like that. These DO NOT fall apart, they sit down way down here and pollute. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Nuestro compañero @cefafalopodo.bsky.social participa en este estudio que ha analizado la dieta del atún rojo y ha detectado cambios importantes causados, entre otros, por la sobre pesca y el cambio climático. Artículo: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869. 📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN #WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

@lavozdeasturias.bsky.social se hace eco del trabajo del grupo de investigación ECOMARG, liderado por la investigadora @pilarrl.bsky.social. Su labor se centra en conocer los fondos marinos para protegerlos. #SponBIODIV #BIODIV_A6 #BIODIV_A3 #MICROPLASTUR www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/inas...

Inés Fernández estará con nosotros hasta finales de 2026 trabajando en el proyecto "MICROPLASTUR: Microplásticos asociados a organismos filtradores en el medio acuático astur: Porifera", financiado por @gobasturias.bsky.social

How did animals repeatedly conquer land? 🌊➡️⛰️ We analysed ~1,000 gene repertoires (24M genes!) from all animal phyla to uncover how this happened. Work led by @gemmaeling.bsky.social & Klara Eleftheriadi, both first coauthors of this titanic effort! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big shout out to all the collaborators, particularly @cefafalopodo.bsky.social @aubombarely.bsky.social @vargaschavezc.bsky.social Judit Salces-Ortiz & Nuria Escudero, for endless adventures together while working on this project! 🙏

Here is all the more detailed information regarding each individual workshop: For any information regarding Workshop 2 you can reach out to @cefafalopodo.bsky.social

Here is all of the information regarding workshops www2.aeplan.co.jp/ciac2025/p_s... Workshops range from: Cephalopod fisheries management; cryptic biodiversity; Cephalopod Health Management; and using AI to unlock new frontiers in cephalopod research.

Planned Schedule for CIAC, note that we are also planning to host a 'Cephalopod Research Network" Dinner on Monday October 27th at 7PM EST to get to know about our fellow members some more!

Greetings all Cephalopod researchers! If you have not been keeping up with all of the news regarding CIAC, I will share everything that I possibly can here! Anything else I can provide, please let me know Best, Austin #CIAC #CephalopodResearch #Cephalopods #Cephalopoda #Cephalopod

Wir möchten Euch diesen Artikel vorstellen, in dem unser Kollege Fernando (@cefafalopodo.bsky.social) über die Kopffüßer der Balearen interviewt wird. Wir hoffen, dass er Euch dabei hilft, Euer Deutsch zu üben. www.mallorcazeitung.es/umwelt/2025/...

What's more, another specimen found in the stomach of a sperm whale from the Antarctic was not found to fit into any Oegopsid family, described here as a new species: Mobydickia poseidonii! I wonder if you can guess the inspiration...(2/2) 🐋🦑🧪 @linneansociety.bsky.social @cefafalopodo.bsky.social

Cryptic biodiversity challenges assessments of global biodiversity & ecosystem health, including in the ocean. Here, morphology & DNA of Ancistrocheirus lesueurii was studied, revealing ~6 cryptic species! You've gotta be squidding me...🌍🧪🦑 (1/2) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Seguimos con el proyecto #DILAN #PLEAMAR reuniéndonos con la tripulación del Saiñas para decidir la zona y detalles de la maniobra de la campaña de septiembre. Veremos si hay éxito con los nuevos lander capaces de soportar el paso de una red de arrastre. #FEMPA @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social

This year's Squidmas samples are from sub-Antarctic waters. This is Galiteuthis, a 'glass' squid (Cranchiidae, same family the colossal squid). There are undescribed species in this genus so looking forward to genetic results! #SQXmas2025

This is a young Moroteuthopsis, a warty hooked squid (family Onychoteuthidae)

We've had a couple of cock-eyed or jeweled squid species (family Histioteuthidae); this is a nice H. macrohista, one of the more extreme examples of tiny mantle (yes, that's the whole thing!) compared to head & arms. See also distinctive long arm-tip photophores. #SQXmas2025

#SQXmas2025 continues. On the larger end of the scale, a hefty warty hooked squid, Onykia sp.

And a teensy glass squid (cranchiid), Liocranchia #SQXmas2025

this footage is notable because while blackwater photographers encounter larval ancistrocheirus quite often (if you search for ‘sharpear enope squid’ you will almost entirely find blackwater photos of it) images of adults in situ is extremely rare

here’s an incredible in situ encounter with an adult ancistrocheirus, taken by ROV SuBastian of @schmidtocean.bsky.social during a 2024 expedition: www.youtube.com/live/-ky9jTc...

ancistrocheirus is notable within the family for being much larger. i joke that it’s like what you’d get if a firefly squid decided it wanted to do its best impression of a diamondback squid: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

to put ancistrocheirus in context with other squid you might be more familiar with if you aren’t a squid taxonomist: it’s a in a family known for having a large number of photophores, the enoploteuthids. the firefly squid is also in this family. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

in plain english, this is a really cool paper that does a more thorough review of existing specimens of ancistrocheirus and finds several new species. a surprise finding was that one specimen wasn’t ancistrocheirus at all, but something so different it had to be placed in a new family and genus

mobydickia was chosen as the genus name due to it being found in a sperm whale stomach and almost being entirely depigmented (basically albino in appearance, like moby dick) poseidonii was chosen as the species name due to the resemblance of the tentacle hook morphology to a trident

absolutely wild finding that a specimen previously identified as ancistrocheirus, retrieved from a sperm whale stomach, was so different from any known oegopsid that it was placed in a new family and genus. it’s entirely depigmented except around the eyes. mobydickia poseidonii

new paper from arnold et al, including @cefafalopodo.bsky.social, revising ancistrocheirus to include new species based on morphological and molecular analysis academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 🧪🦑

Fernando Fernández-Álvarez, @cefafalopodo.bsky.social se incorpora con un contrato Ramón y Cajal de la @ageinves.bsky.social. Investiga patrones de biodiversidad en medios marinos mediante el uso de técnicas genómicas de depredadores, parásitos y microbioma 🦈🐙🪱🦠🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 ¡Bienvenido!

❗📝Nuevo comunicado ¿Quién no ha sufrido violencia burocrática en la carrera investigadora? Quizá no le ponías nombre, pero todas hemos pasado por los terribles trámites burocráticos (1/2) 🔗 fji.precarios.org/contra-la-vi...

New Biodiversity Genomics Europe case study: Researchers from Unibo and UNIDUcro are studying invasive Polydora species affecting farmed #oysters in the Adriatic Sea 🦪🌊 ➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/alien-p... #genomes for #biodiversity #MarineBiodiversity #InvasiveSpecies

Two Assistant Prof positions in Geography at Durham, deadline for applications next week!

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

And research institutes are CONSTANTLY cutting the budget for admin staff, forcing researchers to waste more and more of their time on things they aren't best suited for, either skills wise or training wise

More parasites! Squeamish beware… Some fish are absolutely crawling with parasites, literally… this species of fish is known to have their guts full of tape worms. 🧪🦑

Postdoctoral position, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER. The postdoc will analyze existing long-term (25 y) data sets on plants and invertebrates at ten sites collected by the GCE-LTER. gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/private/app/...

A mix of nice zooms from SOI back in November off the coast of Chile. The first and the last one are two different bathyphysa siphonophores, aka the flying spaghetti monster. Then there is a marrus orthocanna siphonophore and a hymenaster slime star. #ChileMargin2024 #Siphonophriend

Parasites do not get enough attention in marine research. They’re absolutely everywhere when we collect specimens. Eyes, tongues, gills, and even burrowed under the skin like this one I found embedded in a Grenadier’s tail. I have no idea what it is, just that it’s freaking cool. 🧪

It’s nice to film a Bathyteuthis while it’s reconsidering all its life decissions… Look at its face!!! 🤭

Super happy to have been involved with the great Jordi Paps & @martaalvarez.bsky.social in this project. Using genome-wide data, we show #Xenacoelomorpha to be the sister-group to the rest of Bilateria.

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Marine Spatial Science at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania, Australia). Closes 30 Nov (details in link below) 🐟🦑🧪 @utas.bsky.social careers.utas.edu.au/ci/en/job/50...

Scientists raise the alarm: Too many harbour porpoises dying in nets. In Danish coastal waters over 900 die each year vs a 24 death limit that would keep Belt Sea population stable. In 2012 & 2016, there were around 40.000 individuals, by 2022, only 14.000 left.  🧪🦑🌎 tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

In ten years of cephalopod research, it is the first time I see the four species of Mediterranean flying squids collected in the same trawling sampling. Can you name them?

Y’ALL! Scientists at Schmidt Ocean just captured this rare video of an open-ocean squid caring for its young. That pearl-packed black bag between its tentacles is a brood pouch, each pearl is a developing baby squid (you can see a few hatch out at the end). Nature is so cool. 🧵 🪼🦑🐙🌿🧪

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I suspect we're heading toward a period where science will be further co-opted for transphobia, eugenics, & racism. All the more important to repost @jedidiahcarlson.com's great article about far-right co-option & the radical scientists of the past. magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/sprea...

Every Tuesday throughout #Squidtember, I'll be dropping a brand new squid coloring page! This week's squid is Bathyteuthis! All the pages are in the Squid Zine, which you can check out here: givebutter.com/aNWslJ If you color them in, I wanna see 👀 #SciArt 🦑 🧪

First #BestSquid matchup of #Squidtember! 🦑🧪 Taningia danae, aka Dana Octopus Squid: a heavyweight contender (max 356 lbs!) with fist-sized bioluminescent organs vs Histioteuthis heteropsis, aka Cock-eyed Strawberry: a feisty lil fighter with 1 small eye, 1 big eye, & 100s of photophores Vote! ⬇️