Steve Haddock

Our book The Radiant Sea was chosen as one of five "Must Buy" science books by the Wall Street Journal! :^D

I don't like to promote Am@z0n, but... it is on sale there for super cheap right now too.

Image below showing fluorescence of one of the animals featured in the book. 🦑🧪🌊

Et tu, Brute?
“Although a recent analysis of gene linkages provided strong support for the ctenophore-sister hypothesis (13), phylogenetic analysis of gene linkages can favor hypotheses *that have otherwise not been supported* and currently lacks robust models of evolution.”
🤔 <emphasis added>

The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolution Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were...

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience

Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com
Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E

@jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology”

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪

Italian: Pappardelle
Japanese: Udon

Your replies are all amazing. Keep the guesses and impressions coming..!

Looks like an XOR gate to me too

Scuba divining?🫥
A new way to find water in which you're never wrong.

Bolinopsis microptera comb jelly (ctenophore) swimming horizonally.

Let's do another #ctenophore survey.
You are scuba divining and see this lobate comb jelly cruising in search of prey. Is it swimming to the LEFT or RIGHT?
🦑🧪🌊

Wow. Amazing! 👀

Photo of a stack of purple books in front of a large black book.

I found your book displayed *directly* in front of our book at the local shop..!
Naturally I had to buy a copy to reduce the height of the obstruction 😉

Ordered!
The vampire squid entry was sufficient to convince me :^)

Panel of photos. At left the cover with a squid embracing the text The Radiant Sea, and examples from the pigments, bioluminescence, fluorescence, and iridescence sections.

Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉
Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)

Thanks so much.
Hope you enjoy it :^)

La Jolla.
The PCH (instead of just PCH)

Thanks to those of you brave enough to vote. :^)
Still time to sway the results with your own thoughts on #ctenophore anatomy. 🦑🧪

I'm lamenting that bluesky doesn't have a native Poll option, and the third-party solutions that I found don't support images. How are we supposed to implement Ctenophore Am I Hot or Not?

Thanks. That is much warmer than I was envisioning for Bergen!

A spherical comb jelly floating against a dark background, with its tentacles deployed, tentilla (side branches) fanned out. There is a number 1 above the body and number 2 below the body. Photo by S. Haddock taken around 1990.

For CTENOPHORE DAY, a little survey:
Which end of this fishing Pleurobrachia is the mouth on? Please just "vote" in the comments — no definitive answers. 🦑🧪🌊

P.S. this is one of my earliest #ctenophore photos, shot on film in a home-built kreisel.

P.P.S. Legit data-gathering for a future paper.

What is the water temperature there now? Mnemiopsis has such a wide tolerance for both temperature and salinity!

Thanks @dannastaaf.bsky.social !
The cephalopods definitely make featured appearances in all 5 sections. 🦑

Ugh to "no one else has a problem with it" !! 🙀

Not to hijack this thread, but our book The Radiant Sea includes 35 pages of fluorescent animals (and humans.. and asparagus).
Here is a young strawberry squid showing green fluorescence in the eyes and red fluorescent caps on its photophores. 🦑🧪🌊

¡Gracias! :^)

@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast
www.upr.org/podcasts/103...

I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉

Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org
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OOPS: 3260 meters, but still pretty deep.

It is great to see Mackenzie Gerringer's taxonomic work, describing a fish we collected from 3800 meters, featured in the @nytimes.com. We tried to spin this story to combat the blobfish's "ugliest creature" reputation, to get people excited by deep-sea exploration, not turned away. 🧪🦑

Picture of several piles of books including The Radiant Sea, looking shiny.

My first sighting of The Radiant Sea in the wild, at our local bookshop. If you have any “encounters” I would love to see them. 🙃 #booksky

HI Alex. Was that exhibition for The Deep by @clairenouvian.bsky.social ? If so, I saw it in Paris (would be fun to visit Reunion though!)
Our book does have echoes of The Deep, but no plans for an exhibit at the moment. That exhibit came from Claire's absolute dedication and unmatched energy.

Thanks to your incredible support, THE RADIANT SEA is already the top-selling new release in... Entomology?

There are going to be some disappointed bug-huggers out there (looking at you @franzanth.bsky.social). 😉
I am hopeful they will warm up to pictures of ocean bugs like Cystisoma.