"These include millions of records from the century-old Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys...Other shipping routes contain 50% of ocean records, whilst covering 32% of the ocean..." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
If you don't think environmental accessibility matters. "The busiest shipping routes in the ocean only cover 2% of ocean area, but contain 18% of records and 41% of species."
This is so out of touch. I can tell you first hand that people living in poverty know far more about money and finances than those living in wealth.
That's Gertrude! The McClain lab mascot!
Getting into the 3D printing hobby. Starting off with a Creality Ender and a small
3D-Printed Giant Deep-sea Isopod. Also pictured here is the output from a new 2D printer. #LUMCON #memories. Thanks @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
www.southernfriedscience.com/the-3d-print...
What he didn’t mention is one of those includes me. We missed this eruption by days that killed 22 people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Wh...
A new paper shows that deep-sea corals host dense communities of amphipods, including the spiny genus Epimeria. This individual was photographed at 921 m on a purple gorgonian. Photo from tinyurl.com/bdfrs85x
Spotted: Adorable baby deep-sea squid! 🥰
During a recent scientific cruise aboard MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson, biologists from our education and conservation partner, @montereybayaquarium.org, encountered a baby glass squid bobbing along in the water column: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-d...
I saw them there last spring. They are in for refits at the shipyard
There is a mollusk journal names Festivus published by the San Diego Shell Club. And I can only think of one thing every time I encounter it.
NSF Update
Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.
Now by Directorate...
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Somewhere, in the vast depths of the abyss, there's a worm that lives on the corpse of a dead blue whale, consuming the oil that leaches from its bones.
It's name is Osedax mucofloris, the bone-eating zombie snot flower worm. It will never see this video.
Envy it.
For #molluscmonday the the red-lined bubble snail (Bullina lineata). Although delicate looking, they are voracious predators on small worms.
Why can't they all get onboard with reviewer 1
🌍🦑 This #OpenAccess study from 'Landscape Ecology' highlights how seascape ecology can link spatial patterns and ecological processes across abyssal and hadal depths. @drcraigmc.bsky.social bit.ly/3Zuto5L #MarineEcology
Some more commensal brittle stars (Ophiothela mirabilis) on a purple octocoral (Leptogorgia rigida). Playa Balandra, La Paz, Baja California. 🦀🦑 #baja #tidepool #echinoderm
Smiley for the win!!! #spottedeagleray #eagleray #smiley #remora #remorahat #ftw #stingraysofcoralcity #coralcity #coralcitycamera #miami #coral #portmiami #biscaynebay
Although you seem to be a bit more in the the thick of it!
I think I'm a little concerned (if I am reading this right) about how segregated academic ecology/conservation is from the rest of the Bluesky landscape.
Today for our lab meeting we are reading about dolphin falls and I'll admit I'm. sucker for a good photo mosaic #marinelife www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A genuinely informative watch. @drandrewthaler.bsky.social continues to be one of the clearest, strongest voices advocating for the deep sea and sound science.
Maxine Dexter Decries 'Concerning Lack Of Transparency' In Deep Sea Mining Permitting Process www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLY2...
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.
Collections like these aren’t dusty archives. They are active infrastructure for science. Every jar is a data point across time, space, and extinction risk. Without collections, we lose our ability to ask new questions about the oceans.
8/ Ended with a nerd bucket list item, Holopus crinoids which look like meaty little fist. Been fascinated with them since @echinoblog.bsky.social wrote about them years ago echinoblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/crin...
7/ Started with a lineup of sea urchins armed with the most gnarly spines imaginable. Equal parts elegant and threatening. Evolution does not mess around.
6/ Also: a jar holding tens of thousands of brittle stars. Not hyperbole. Just a quiet reminder of how abundant some deep-sea life can be when conditions line up.
