Proud to have contributed to this study now published in PeerJ w Jon Hestetun, @mucofloris.bsky.social and others, where we show how accuracy of #metabarcoding can be improved by selecting and sequencing marker genes (barcdoding) of taxa missing from taxonomic databases. peerj.com/articles/208...

"Tekniken är etiskt neutral" - hur kan man, i denna tid, svara så här okunnigt? Den svenska regeringen är en säkerhetsrisk för sig själv. www.etc.se/inrikes/haer...

Years ago I was obsessed with these Antarctic "tulips"-eventually learned they were TUNICATES, Molgula pedunculata #tunicateTuesday Such crazy lookin' things! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Existing underwater fibre optic cables could help monitor tectonic movement on the ocean floor.

MORE on Dr. Marian Pettibone! Global polychaete expert! #Wormwednesday and International Day of Women & Girls in Science womenshistory.si.edu/blog/dr-mari...

This is a beautiful case of how real science happens & serious scientists work. Kudos to both set of authors: “This has been a humbling experience, but one that speaks to the self-correcting nature of the scientific endeavor.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.deepseareporter.com/sv/kosterhav... Har du 11 min över idag så ägna dem åt denna film. Lågmäld men slagkraftig information om en marin jätteskandal.

entering the sponge zone

Visited the Natural History Museum London last week and honestly: collections like this are the backbone of everything we think we know about the ocean. Absolute treasure trove.

Dragon in the deep. 🐉⁠ ⁠ Dragonfish (family Stomiidae) are cunning predators. Although they are strong swimmers, they prefer to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting fishes and crustaceans. This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay.

With all the madness going on, a one-holed worm thing with a no brain or any identifiable organs is quietly crawling somewhere on the ocean floor--and it is named after a churro. #xenoturbella_churro scripps.ucsd.edu/news/researc...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Great review of historical sustainable fishing in the Baltic and who is to blame (or not) for the current catastrophic state of Baltic fish stocks. @hsvedang.bsky.social www.su.se/english/divi...

"It is possible that no climate intervention will ever be safe enough to implement on a large scale. But we believe that decision should be guided by evidence – not market pressure, fear or ideology." — @tyler-rohr.bsky.social et al in @theconversation.com ▶️ theconversation.com/climate-engi...

The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used

China is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind. The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens. I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.

Disheartening to learn that after 18 years, founder Ken-ichi Ueda has left iNaturalist, citing irreconcilable differences in the direction of the company. kueda.net/blog/2026/01... He has a Patreon while he figures out his next move: www.patreon.com/cw/kueda

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

❗️ Zelenskyy: US plans to lift Russia sanctions gradually after war

"South Fork Wind, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US, is exceeding expectations for power generation and co-existing with the marine environment."

I don't think even the wonkiest high seas policy wonks I work with are ready to grasp the absolute global chaos that will be unleashed if major powers start deciding that they no longer need to defer to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Vetenskapsradion: Så kan framtida gruvdrift påverka livet på havets botten https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/9111204

What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Now also in NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Deep sea mining has ‘devastating’ impact on biodiversity www.channel4.com/news/deep-se...

After 5 years of sample collection and analysis our paper examining the impacts of an industrial #DeepSea mining trial on seafloor #biodiversity is published! Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward. A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten. What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise. theconversation.com/what-our-mis...

New paper out on the impact from a deep sea mining test in the Pacific Ocean. Great collaboration with the Natural History Museum London and the National Oceanography Centre Southampton . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extraordinary WSJ article: "Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine" Witkoff, Kirill Dmitriev & Kushner are preparing to loot $300 bn of frozen Russian assets & develop privileged US business in Russia, ignoring Ukraine. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

This week has offered many stark insights: 1. The US is by far the most corrupt Western country. 2. Trump's administration works for its own enrichment with Russia, sacrificing Ukraine (WSJ below). 3. The US must play no role on Ukraine-Russia issues. /1 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

One day we’ll look back on this as one of the stupidest things we’ve done.

A view of this year's extreme sea surface temperatures and recent warming across the North Pacific... 🌊 This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-October period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.

🌊 Beneath the ocean surface, there's a hidden world of trenches, seamounts, and even volcanoes! So, how deep is the ocean on average? Leave your best guess in the comments 👇 🏄🏻Explore more wonders of our ocean planet through our new web interactive: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world #ItsAnOceanWorld

50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video. We sent it to each other in the mail. The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself

Take a moment to consider the 250 million people who have been forcibly displaced by climate disasters over the past 10 years…70,000 per day, on average. If you aren’t one of these unfortunate people, I invite you to consider what you can do to help one or more of them. They need us.

Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland. The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh. Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.

A crucial dimension to address in efforts to secure a just transition away from fossil fuels. #COP30

Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study theconversation.com/wind-power-h...

"Offshore wind had been poised to take off along the East Coast, with about 30 utility-scale farms planned. But the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power has caused most of those projects to be abandoned, with only seven farms now moving ahead or in operation."

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in 6 months #Climate

A guide a friend shared that they heard mentioned on the last Nautilus dive: zenodo.org/records/8172...

I think these were between 4700-4800m. Anemone, Typhlonus, gastropod, bamboo coral @nautiluslive.org dive L1009 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Swima eating. 4700-4800m I heard them say a worm person says this is new. I have seen swima launch off the seafloor many times, but I have never seen them eating anything. They usually get spooked before the ROV can settle down. @nautiluslive.org dive L1009 #CookIslands #MarineLife

Vi träffar Greta Thunberg hemma i hennes kollektiv. Och får höra om tortyren hon och de andra i flottiljen utsattes för. I vår granskning framgår att UD tonat ned allvaret i situationen, i sin kommunikation med anhöriga under fångenskapen. Bilder av Magnus Wennman. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

Kan vi få en liten smula ärlighet i klimatdebatten? www.dn.se/sverige/pete...

För er som inte läst. På regeringens uppdrag ska Sverige klimatkompensera med 48 500 mopeder i Ghana. Vi har granskat projektet, nu publicerat i fyra delar. Det här är vad jag, Olof Svensson och Magnus Wennman funnit. Utgjort av @bostromsofia.bsky.social. Grävchef @abjeppsson.bsky.social (1/5)

Old looking shark teeth! 5066m @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife