Dye experiment to show how sponges work. They're the filters of the sea; crucial to ocean health. Fantastic animals! @greenpeace.org dive 10 #DeepArctic #MarineLife

One of the largest and prettiest #scaleworm I’ve ever found. There’s a term, “meroplankton” which describes organisms who will spend only part of their lives, or earlier life stages drifting by with the plankton. #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #polychaete #deepseacreatures

Inopiniteuthis. Love the ripples at the end @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 925 #Doldrums #MarineLife

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

𝐑𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬: 𝘼𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝐬𝐩. 𝐧𝐨𝐯. (𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐚, 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚) 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙡𝙚𝙪𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞 (𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐚, 𝐇𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚) by Natsumi Hookabe, G. G. Manzano, N. Jimi, H. Kise, J. D. Reimer, S. Tsuchida & Y. Fujiwara buff.ly/2Gdtzzl

A quite lovely photo of a worm inside this tunicate! Is it eating? or... ? #wormwednesday #tunicatetuesday via @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/friends-or-f...

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

A life in pictures: Celebrating Attenborough at 100 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This might not look like much, but it’s so very very cool! This (I believe), is a developing sea spider (Pycnogonida)! You can see it’s amazing body developing! I’ve added a photo of an adult from our local tide pools. #marineplankton 🦑 #seaspider

zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/en/organizat... We have an open PhD position in my group for someone interested in functional morphology, biology of reproduction and evolutionary biology. Please spread the word!🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪🕷🧪

To protect nature, we first need to get to know it ... and that's where identifying comes in. Here's what you need to know. 🧵⤵️

Nemertean? From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 642 #sepacificseamounts #MarineLife

New paper out in Biology Letters! Tubulanus lutescens occurs in shallow Swedish waters and deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica — same species revealed by genome scale data, across oceans and extreme depths 🤯 👩‍🔬 Led by Christina Sagorny #MarineBiology #DeepSea #Nemertea doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

📊 Interested in species distribution models and marine data science? Apply for the #JAEIntro26 fellowship “Marine SDMs & Reproducible Data Analysis” at ICM-CSIC Work with biodiversity data, R programming and spatial modelling. 👉 sede.csic.gob.es/tra... Maria Grazia Pennino

🐟🦐 Come work with us! We’re offering a PhD position in marine life-history modeling as part of the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. The position is based at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen in Norway. www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

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Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

R for the Rest of Us: introducción gratuita a R sin estadística. Para empezar sin miedo. De David Keyes. #biotapas book.rfortherestofus.com

Doing cyanotypes with a marine thematic? Yes please

Educación y divulgación en conservación marina en la isla de San Juan www.bioblogia.net/20... Más ofertas👇 biotapas.bioblogia.net #empleo #biotapas

A diagram of a cotylean polyclad anatomy and cell types (?), Prosthiostomidae I believe #WormWednesday

Marine taxonomy is an essential skill for us to understand changes in marine ecosystems. By accurately identifying plankton we can measure biodiversity, and create a time series to inform policy and ecosystem management.  #TaxonomistAppreciationDay

We’re pleased to be offering the Ocean Census Species Discovery Awards again this year. Supporting taxonomists and marine scientists to discover new species. $5,000 awards available. Applications open 1st April, and close 30th April. Find out more: oceancensus.org/species-disc...

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

(5/10) The Good Luck Flatworm only lives on the critically endangered guitarfish. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

The blueish green sea cucumber you will find

Crabs are cannibalizing one another with surprising rapacity in parts of the Chesapeake Bay

Marine biologist Edie Widder chases bioluminescence in new ‘Life Illuminated’ film

🆕 Two new species of ribbon worm have been identified on the Pacific #seamounts, incl. the Emperor Seamounts. Combining genetics and morphology, the study reveals evolutionary links across vast distances, highlighting how much of #DeepSea biodiversity remains to be discovered. 📷 Terra C. Hiebert

We're horseposting post your horses.

Foraminifera. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 899 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

When I started my PhD ~10 years ago, only 2/5 echinoderm groups (the star-shaped sea stars and brittle stars) had genome-scale phylogenetic datasets. I am proud to say that the quest to complete the clade is now over doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Flirting~ 🩷✨️🦀🎀❤️

CRAZY diversity of sea stars fr NEW CALEDONIA! I describe 28 NEW SPECIES,3 NEW GENERA! #echinoday #goniasteridae #openaccess. My thanks to colleagues at the @MNHN.fr in Paris! for my many visits in order to complete this research! Will share some of my favorites herein! mapress.com/mt/article/v...

Confusing Crustaceans III: Cumacea August 3–7, 2026 @ NHMLA This third workshop in the 'Confusing Crustaceans' series will introduce techniques to collect, study, and identify cumaceans. Applications are due March 15th. See: www.peracarida.org/workshops/20...

Aulacoctena! That's a big beautiful one! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 895 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

This is not a land flatworm... it's a land nemertean! In this new paper, we describe its complex mitogenome, report the presence of NUMTs, and even more! 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is hiring a Marine Scientist to lead research in marine ecology and related fields in Panama. For details on the position, visit: http://www.stri.si.edu/. #job

#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws

From my colleagues at @oceancensus.bsky.social -12 Xmas inspiring invertebrates! oceancensus.org/tis-the-seas...

Finding out that the town you are visiting is full of fossils it's quite a nice surprise

Trabajo de verano en patrullas marinas con orcas – San Juan Island (desde 25$/h) www.bioblogia.net/20... Más ofertas👇 biotapas.bioblogia.net #empleo #biotapas

Marine Meiofauna Diversity field course June 8-18, 2026 at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, Sweden

Idk the ID for this siphonophore, so I'll call it Big Red. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

#Wormwednesday The syllid Cryptochaetosyllis imitatio gen. et sp. nov. is one of the top ten year-2024 species selected by judges at WoRMS (world register of marine species) marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=... www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

"...the debate has perhaps revealed more about the effects of phylogenetic modeling approaches, data curation, and their intersection on the results of phylogenomic analyses than about animal relationships."