Joana Xavier

Absolutely ecstatic!
Just as Portugal announces the Gorringe Bank as a new Marine Protected Area, the #TwinDEEPS expedition team is right here on-site, exploring its deep-sea habitats.
#MPA #OceanScience #Gorringe #HighSeas #UNOC3
📷 Credits:EMEPC, @niozsearesearch.bsky.social, @ciimar.bsky.social

Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

Imagine being on your everyday walk and see a 🌋 erupt! Now imagine the same only you are diving inside a submersible 1.6 miles underwater… 😳🤩😅 (amazing and perhaps a little scary)
🔗 - www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...
#deepsea #ridge #Alvin

delighted to be co-chairing this conference with my longtime spongy friend @cristobo.bsky.social and organizing it with an amazing group of Iberian sponge scientists!

Something special is happening in a beautiful coastal setting this September! The global sponge community is coming together for the 12th World Sponge Conference in Vila do Conde (Portugal). Join us in shaping the future of sponge research and conservation 🤗
#WSC2025 #Science #Art #SpongeCommunity

🌊 Deepness alert! 🌊 Join the launching of EMB’s Future Science Brief. It highlights the need to expand our knowledge on the largest biome of our 🌍 and how science, global cooperation and policy engagement are crucial to ensure its sustainability. #FutureOcean #OceanGovernance #DeepOceanExploration

How interesting, I’ll come by to know more :)

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

After less than 16 months exploring the ocean’s depths, we’re thrilled to reveal the first 866 new marine species discovered by the Ocean Census Alliance!

This isn’t only a significant step in documenting ocean #biodiversity. 👇

Yep! Looking forward to meet up 😊

Xenos are incredible, but please note that the beastie in the image is in fact a lithistid (=rock) sponge... and rock sponges are the epitome of resilience! 🙂

📢 Have you read our new Deep-Sea Round-Up?

This week we explore:
🦐 The role of light in shrimp evolution
🌍 A hidden hotspot for nitrogen loss
➕ More updates and opportunities!

Read the latest #DeepSea insights, here: https://buff.ly/3D1Z0Ie

#DeepSeaRoundUp

Our next #SpeciesDiscoveryWorkshop begins today at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, in South Africa.

A team of scientists are analysing suspected new species of sponges and octocorals, collected during the Nekton First Descent Seychelles (2018) and Maldives (2022) expeditions.

It's official.
CETAF to Join @bsky.app 🦋 and Leave X ✖️

Read our statement 👇
cetaf.org/elementor-11...

#CETAF #Taxonomy

Make it 6001! Way happier on this platform 😊

Check out this cool collaborative study led by dear colleagues from MARE-Madeira on macrofouling of the twilight zone! It’s their first (surely of many to come) #deepsea publication! Welcome to the “deep” @jcanningclode.bsky.social 😊

🌊 This week in #DeepSeaRoundUp
🔹 Oldest Antarctic microplastic record
🔹 Vertical zonation in hadal trenches
🔹 Updates from the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
👉 Read the full issue here: https://buff.ly/41uIv1p
#DeepSea

Great idea! Please add @ciimar.bsky.social! 🙌

‘That’s funny’: creative solutions for time-starved researchers @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Tips and tricks to help scientists to reach peak performance and creativity. #PhD #scisky #Medsky #Academic #Nature #Science

Read more
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s a fun bunch 🙌 Let me know if you’d like to be added to it!

These starter packs idea is just so cool! Delighted to be added and connect with other Oceanic Women 👋

Leaving darker places behind! Here’s to building a brighter, kinder digital community together 🌊☁️
#BlueSky