I have seen live giant isopods for the first time ever, and while they don’t really look any different than dead giant isopods, it made me happy. @montereybayaquarium.org

Excited to return to my alma mater to discuss the future of our ocean at the IBES Commencement Forum on May 23rd. Perhaps I will share how my career in ocean science & policy started with a semi-cursed student production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." events.brown.edu/ibes/event/3...

“We hold a simple truth: the ocean sustains us. It shapes our climate, feeds our communities, supports our economies, and holds the stories of those who came before us.” Read more (en español) on why marine protections are so important: tinyurl.com/pshph3th

🧵I’ve just returned from Guam from the UOG Conference on Island Sustainability. The timing was tough, arriving just days after Super Typhoon Sinlaku. While Guam was spared a direct hit, the road to recovery for CNMI and Chuuk is long, and my thoughts remain with those communities as they rebuild.

For anyone interested in science, activism, and inside-outside strategizing, I strongly recommend "Let the Record Show" by Sarah Schulman, which talks about Dr. Long and her incredible work.

This was a tough one to write, and I took a bit of a personal risk sharing my own career-long process of discovery from tentatively swayed by the potential for deep-sea mining to convinced that we are simply not ready.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku: What to know, How you can help www.angelovillagomez.com/2026/04/supe...

In 1963, WHOI biologist Dick Backus set his sights on a question that had puzzled scientists for decades: what caused the daily vertical movement of plankton? The sun or an internal clock? During an eclipse, Backus was able to monitor that the migration was triggered by changing light levels!

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

We need ocean advocates now more than ever! If you would benefit from this free training from @usoceanprotection.bsky.social partner @inlandoceanco.bsky.social, apply today, or share widely. inlandoceancoalition.org/inland-ocean...

ok now i will believe that Bluesky is getting close to the glory days of Olde Ocean Twitter

I love this crab so much.

A very tiny, but very beautiful larval-stage Diamond Squid - this one just about 1/2” TL. #thysanoteuthisrhombus #thysanoteuthis #diamondsquid #squid #🦑 #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #chrisgug #fugunderwater #gug

Thysanoteuthis doin' some space ship impression! #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

I made this a while ago. There are some vertebrates in here but the inverts steal the show. I especially love the triangular plaid on the velvet worm.

Good Friday ocean news! 🐋 @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social spotted endangered blue whales in the Northeast Canyons & Seamounts. It even made People Magazine! Proof the public deeply loves our remote offshore waters. 🧵 1/2 people.com/scientists-s...

Maybe it's a "lottery ticket" for industry, but it threatens local culture and ocean stewardship. See how American Samoans are pushing back against seabed mining in their waters with national support @insideclimatenews.org tinyurl.com/msv3axu2

This is extremely cool. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Amazing footage of a living foraminiferan, a type of single-celled ocean plankton that extends long thin gelatinous tendrils of cytoplasm through its shell to forage. Like some cosmic dandelion, drifting through the ether, shimmering and electric

The Trump administration’s aggressive push for deep-sea mining is rapidly shaping up to be the defining ocean policy issue of this second term. I put a little primer over at LinkedIn, but here's a thread so you don't have to click through. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🧵 1/4

Okay, here’s today’s assignment: celebrate the joy of nudibranchs. First: read this thoroughly wonderful piece on artist Arina Bovenich and her felted nudibranchs. Tiny wool sea slugs. Maximum delight. If this doesn’t spark joy, nothing will. #Nudibranchs #OceanHoptimism

If you follow ocean policy, the Trump admin’s aggressive push for deep-sea mining is THE ocean issue right now. From Guam’s fight on the frontlines (glad NPR covered this yesterday!) to the shaky economics, I put a little primer on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Timeline cleanse!

"The mola doesn't look like it's winning. It just is winning." How did I miss @hankgreen.bsky.social explaining why my favorite fish, the mola mola, is the BEST FISH? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9M...

Pacific Ocean Floor by MARIE THARP, Bruce Heezan, and Heinrich Berann, *as published in* the National Geographic. There, fixed it.😉

WEIRD INVERTEBRATES (sea spiders are the best, they breathe through their legs and the males are the ones who get pregnant)

Peter Navarro tried to explain Trump's fisheries policy in my hometown newspaper, but it turns out his geography is worse than his economics policies. You know what the Granite State loves? Getting mixed up with New York! Anyway, I fixed his homework for him. ⬇️ www.unionleader.com/opinion/lett...

WEIRD INVERTEBRATES

Considering coming off Bluesky hiatus, mostly to post ocean policy takes and weird invertebrates. Is this a terrible idea? Is it just misplaced nostalgia for Ocean Twitter circa 2010? Please advise.

“We have the opportunity now, in this moment, to protect and save [these places] for future generations... We are passing this gift down so that they will know...that they're not a sad story of the past, but that they are there thriving quietly in the dark.” - Me www.sierraclub.org/sierra/monum...

Geologist @deepseadawn.bsky.social has been to the deepest place on Earth. Now, Trump wants to mine nearby. To her, "the choice is clear: protect and explore one of Earth’s last frontiers, or destroy it before we even understand what we are losing." tinyurl.com/22ta9fkw

Two weeks ago I testified before congress on the promise and peril of deep-sea mining. A few key points of my testimony, and my responses to Congresswoman Dexter, were clipped by Forbes. I think they're worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLY2...

Forty years ago, Californians stopped an ill-conceived federal plan to open our coast to offshore oil and gas drilling. In the decades since, we’ve taken remarkable steps to safeguard our coastal waters. Now the Trump administration is pushing to undo all we’ve accomplished. bit.ly/3Lo2hWp

well Impossible Metals is so mad about this report that they spent all weekend posting about it on my LinkedIn...so you are definitely going to want to tune in! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION

Please join Michael Barnard, Lyle Trytten, and I for a public webinar to discuss their new report on whether seabed mining in the American Samoa region is economically viable and technically achievable. Tues 12/2 at 3 PM ET/12 PM PT/9 AM SST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks! Please come join us!

Haunting read by my friend @oceanhoptimism.org

"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty." An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.

DEATHBALL SPONGE 💀

"What's happening right now is exactly what I was working to prevent." A former NOAA director explains why opening our Marine National Monuments to industrial fishing is a disaster for conservation. Some places are too precious to risk: tinyurl.com/mr6tyjsw

President and CEO of Minorities in Shark Sciences, Jasmin Graham, shares how she's defying stereotypes and telling her own story. 🦈 Watch more from the 2025 Ocean Progress Symposium: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean-progress-symposium-2025-advancing-conservation-close-to-shore/

Come join me at the @womensaquaticdc.bsky.social and @nationalacademies.org Speed Networking event on October 22! Register here: www.womensaquatic.org/events/speed...

What do more than 230 scientists and 53 ocean conservation organizations have in common? They just told the Trump administration to protect our marine national monuments. Read more about our work to protect our monuments from industrial fishing: tinyurl.com/4d9xaa6e

“It is not our right to fish every inch of ocean… If we fail to safeguard Papahānaumokuākea, we risk losing not only a globally unique seascape but the wisdom it carries for managing our shared future.” Read more from Kanoeʻulalani Morishige in @CivilBeat (& sign the petition!) tinyurl.com/3jd4tt7m

Trump’s Exec. Order on seafood threatens decades of marine protections by opening national monuments to industrial fishing. Gear like trawls, gillnets and longlines devastates habitats and both targeted and not species. Tell NOAA to protect ocean ecosystems! secure.everyaction.com/cvNZk5i6cUaE...

Pausing my hiatus because this is important! Please sign and share.

Marine monuments protect ocean wildlife and areas connected to cultural and historic traditions. POTUS is undermining these special places and laying the groundwork to destroy protected areas. Support marine monuments and tell @NOAA to #ProtectOurOcean! https://linkly.link/2F3tY