My apologies to Dr. Mills @marinemumbles.bsky.social for crossposting this from her Twitter account! I couldn't resist! #starwarsday #maythe4thbewith you!

Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

THANK YOU to all those who are enduring current events to ensure that NOAA's mission continued. You are seen and appreciated. #altgov #altfam www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-R...

proud to be one of the initial signatories of this open letter calling on congress and Trump administration to stop their dismantling of @noaa.gov (thanks to @ucsusa.bsky.social for spearheading this!):

My first paper is out! 🥳🐠🐟

Great low tides this week — get out to the #tidepools if you can! Got up early yesterday to find these #nudibranch gems.

Peinaleopolynoe, a scale worm, has iridescent rainbow armor plates that shimmer in the dark. It’s a disco roach. A glitter tank. A drag show under pressure. #wormwednesday #invertebrate #marinelife www.nsf.gov/news/scienti...

Colossal squid captured on camera!! Amazing work by @drmtaylor.bsky.social and team. 🧪🌊🦑 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's wild that all my colleagues who are funded by a deep sea mining company to research the topic ultimately conclude that we shouldn't mine the deep sea. We should stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

*sigh* The BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY an ESSENTIAL taxonomic ane biology resource will NO LONGER BE HOSTED at the Smithsonian after Jan 1 2026! blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

Applications are LIVE for the Ocean Census Species Discovery Awards. These are financial awards available to support outstanding taxonomists, biodiversity and community scientists involved in marine species discovery. Have questions about your eligibility? We have 3 upcoming Q&A sessions...👇

A lovely euplectellid glass sponge with a tiny squat lobster freind! #okeanos #savenoaa #spongeThursday

Cool stoloniferan soft corals! 1086 m Voladoor seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA #octocoralFriday

A just splendid pic of Aspidodiadema, an urchin that uses long spines for walking-and with a prominent anal bulb up top! more here echinoblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/echi... #okeanos 1092 m Volador seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA

A possibly new deep-sea species of Tritonia! 1088 m ish Voladoor seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA

A curiousity! Glass sponge with a black coral inundated within it! 981 m #okeanos #saveNOAA #spongethursday

The ocean is the heart of our life support system, absorbing over 90% of the excess heat from global warming. This is evident in the rise of ocean heat content over time.

My masters thesis gets the “i actually tried” version of this figure I made for presentations

I made a little mini zine about eels hehehe #sundayfishsketch

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) along the Brazilian coast: occurrence, distribution, and environmental factors 🦑🌎🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BABY COLORFUL SCALLOPS! #molluscmonday

If like me you are TIRED of people talking about direwolves and extinctions- HERE is 8 minutes of LOVELY video showing off #BRYOZOANS featuring South African marine biologist Charles Griffiths! Enjoy! youtu.be/unjt3W9hGKM?...

Turning screen time into ocean action 📱🌊 The collective efforts of @fathomverse.bsky.social players around the world are enhancing AI models that researchers rely upon to deepen our understanding of marine ecosystems. Join us today and become part of the mission to discover all life in our ocean!

With its UFO-like display, the cuttlefish may look like it’s trying to get attention—but its intent is anything but. The undulating black stripes confuse prey, making the creatures all but invisible to crabs and other victims: scim.ag/3FVL43z

"The most important place on the planet is not on land, but at sea." Super stoked & excited to see the trailer drop for 'Ocean' the new film of hope by David Attenborough youtu.be/cIZAdCtKT_g?... Globally released in cinemas May 8th #oceanwithattenborough #davidattenborough #oceanoptimism 📽 🌊 🐟 🪸 🐙

Delighted to share our new paper, led by the fantastic Tasha Lucas at @bas.ac.uk on using cool robotics to investigate the role of giant icebergs in ocean mixing and the impacts on biology in the Southern Ocean www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/u...

Paper out today from the #NHMDeepSea team on these strange little worms from the abyss. First of 3 highly technical papers on them, possibly not headline-makers but science is all in the detail. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study shows that #SouthernOcean #warming plays a greater role than #Arctic Ocean warming in shifting tropical #rainfall in a future climate, increasing rainfall in #Brazil and enhancing #drought risk in the #Sahel. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Philanthropic funding of scientific research, and especially support of early-career researchers, has never been more important. That’s why we’re excited to support the 32 newest members of the @schmidtfellows.bsky.social. Congratulations! schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...

One of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide aims to secure legal rights for ecosystems and other parts of the natural world. Here’s how that works. insideclimatenews.org/news/0204202...

We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...

The @oceancensus.bsky.social project has identified 866 new marine species, many from the deep sea, including a new species of deep-sea limpet discovered in Norway’s Arctic Ocean, Explore more discovered species: buff.ly/6oNbEsg 📷 The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Martin Hartley

The Ocean Census Species Discovery Awards support outstanding taxonomists, biodiversity and community scientists involved in marine species discovery. Financial awards available to apply for now oceancensus.org/awards/

Registration is open for the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) Annual Virtual Meeting, "Impact at Scale: Creating Lasting Change in the Deep Ocean Community" Plenaries! Breakouts! Community! 🌊 May 27-29 More info & register: www.deepoceanobserving.org/pages/2025-a... Pls share!

🌊 Big momentum for ocean protection! The SOS Ocean Summit in #Paris which concluded yesterday reinforced the urgent call for a #DeepSeaMining moratorium. With growing evidence of its irreversible harm, the world must act now to protect the deep. #StopDeepSeaMining @deepseaconserve.bsky.social

Holy wow - 600+ new followers today! Welcome! I'm Katy. I want to post about the deep ocean but these days it's more about why NOAA is awesome and should be kept whole & funded, postcards to feds, and COVID ain't over (😷 for yourself & others). Also, buckle up for daffodil photos (coming soon!)

Al Gore, at #SOSocean: we have the solutions at hand, remember that political will is a renewable ressource. @cnrs.bsky.social

The wonder of new life... from seahorses to turtles and puffins, how marine animals welcome in the next generation 🐟🐬🦈 My first time writing for the Marine Conservation Society www.mcsuk.org/your-ocean-m... 🦑🧪🌊

Video about mated crustaceans associated with these euplectellid glass sponges! #spongeThursday #Okeanos #GFOE youtu.be/Nv43Hkv44qo?...

This deep-sea jellyfish just down there being gelatinous (they only have 0.1% proteins other jellyfish have 4%) and vibing in the abyss, doing absolutely nothing but floating. Honestly, aspirational. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqq4... #marinelife #deepsea

The Metals Company's proposal to start seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean by 2027 has faced opposition from countries that are rarely aligned on these issues, such as China, Russia, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, Argentina, Uganda, Mauritius, and Fiji.

Huge iceberg breaks from Antarctica, revealing a rich seafloor ecosystem

Interested in learning more about the effects of climate change on Scottish deep seas? 🤔 Then check out the @mastscot.bsky.social Story Map and Policy Brief! 🌊🪸🐟 Great to see this published today - many thanks to an amazing team! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/11db... masts.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

POLYMASTIA! a late #spongeThursday! all kinds of projections and excurrent siphons and bits! #okeanos Castle Rock North Atlantic

The Metals Company is trying to circumvent the International Seabed Authority and get the Trump administration to approve mining of the deep sea. We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

Transcriptomics in the era of long-read sequencing go.nature.com/421ZTJm #Review by @carolinamonzo.bsky.social, Tianyuan Liu & @anaconesa.bsky.social @conesalab.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social

This piece by Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, a graduate student in my department at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, shows why we need more research before contemplating deep-sea mining. It's wild how so many researchers funded by The Metals Company ultimately conclude that we shouldn't mine the deep sea.

🪱 Seminar @sosbangor.bsky.social today at noon 🪱 Katie Mortimer-Jones - Current knowledge on the taxonomy, behaviour and morphology of Shovelhead worms, and the importance of worldwide museum collections as a foundation stone of taxonomy teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

🌊 Deep-Sea Life Issue 24 is here! From exciting projects like Costa Rica Desconocida & TwinDEEPS to a record-breaking deep-sea MPA network, this edition is packed with discoveries & achievements. 🦑🔬✨ 📖 Read it now: buff.ly/1ntTnnK @dsbsoc.bsky.social