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

.@SenateGOP passed their bill to give handouts to fossil fuel companies while cutting funding for coastal communities and saddling American families with trillions more in debt. Thank you to @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats who fought tirelessly for our coastal communities and ocean future.

'Jaws' shark scared us, but we must save this vital species | Opinion

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

Wow. A bright yellow HUGE# Bolosoma glass sponge at 1825 m maybe >50 cm across- you could SIT IN IT!! Paul Seamount #okeanos #saveNOAA #spongethursday

I had the best time ever! 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

Bring back Google Reader then we can talk.

“Like most ocean scientists…” 💀

This post now lives in my head constantly. bsky.app/profile/name...

Endangered species act: You can't "'harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect' plants and animals on the verge of extinction." Trump admin: "I mean, what is HARM anyway..." Like they don't NEED that forest, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Important thread on the current hearing on deep sea mining 👇🏼

If you read one Science Thing today:

Cf., Kodama? ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Kodama

What’s this? What’s this? A sponge made out of glass 🎶