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A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras.

Whale Fall pin 🦀🐋🦑

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

5 species of parrotfish in 15 seconds. Rainbow, redband, midnight, blue, stoplight. That’s why we call Coral City the Parrotfish Capital of the World. 🌈💙🚦🧣🌌🦜🐟🏛️🌎 #rainbowparrotfish #blueparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #stoplightparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action

Friendly reminder: 🎉 Pre-register today & get ready to join our FREE online celebration. Everyone is welcome. To keep #BlackInMicro alive Donate: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM and Register to attend: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (see links in bio) #BiMWeek2025

Illustration of a colorful Queen Triggerfish, done in Photoshop with a Wacom drawing tablet.

A favorite warm-water fish of the Western Atlantic: Queen Triggerfish (Balistes vetula). Photoshop, August 2025.
🧪🐡🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #fish #triggerfish

Historic expedition unveils vast coral reefs thriving off Uruguay A team of scientists from Uruguay has discovered that deep-sea coral reefs off the nation’s coast are thriving. The reefs are made up largely of...

CORAL REEF NEWS: Historic expedition unveils vast coral reefs thriving off Uruguay

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#coralreefs #reefexpedition #oceanresearch #uruguay #expedition #coralexploration #reefexploration #marinescience #marinebiology

Barbie crabs, sea pigs, and 40 new species discovered in a giant underwater canyon Argentina explores Mar del Plata Canyon for the first time: 40 new species are discovered and the country is captivated by the live broadcast

Any article with a headline about barbie crabs and sea pigs is just reeling me in ...

Image of a stuffed isopod facing a semi-frozen ocean. Text: Got places to be? We can help you get there. Application deadline for the 2025 DSBSoc Conference Support Awards is October 4th. Photograph credit: Johanna Weston, PhD.

Hey, members! Are you currently a #DeepSea student or ECR researcher without permanent employment?

We can help provide up to £750 for your participation in an in-person or remote conference. Deadline Oct. 4th, apply here: dsbsoc.org/conferences-....

Questions? Contact awards@dsbsoc.org. Good luck!

🍂 👿 🧪 Mass Federal Worker Lay-offs Projected by Administration During Government Shutdown

U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

Many thanks to Moriah Sevier, Marilyn Brandt, @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social Bella Ritchie and Brayan Vilanova Cuevas for making this trip such a success!

What an amazing way to kick off our Diadema project in Brewers Bay, USVI. Four days of hard work underwater, followed by hard days in the lab processing. Two experiments, and over 500 individual samples.

Day 3 Diadema NSF kickoff. Today we tested out transect approaches and new high resolution visual transects on our second site on the western end of Brewers Bay. This afforded us the opportunity to sample additional Diadema at a second site. So many of them! Very encouraging to see!

@aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt

Day 2 of Diadema kickoff. Today was all about Diadema itself (cf environmental parameters). We were excited to see so many apparently healthy animals in shallow water! We also set up an experiment to examine microbial participation in echinoderm tissue decay. Such a great start to this time series!

Selfie showing off my UVI Reef Research hat with Brewer’s Bay, St Thomas, USVI in the background

Another great day working from University of the Virgin Islands - saw an octopus & a spotted eagle ray!

If it’s my last week as a Fed, gotta make it count! #SCIENCE

Day 1 of NSF sponsored Diadema antillarum scuticociliatosis time series in Brewers Bay, St Thomas, USVI with @drchriskellogg.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social and Prof Marilyn Brandt at UVI. After months of planning it was time to figure out what makes sense from

View of Lindberg Bay from St Thomas airport cellphone lot, waiting to meet folks flying in. Green hills frame turquoise water under a blue sky.

Octopus mural painted on a wooden fence at The Shack in Hull Bay, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands

Delighted to be back in my home town of St. Thomas, USVI, working with a super talented team of folks from Cornell, USF, Northern Illinois University, and UVI on the sea urchin mass mortality agent!

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YouTube video by Global Foundation For Ocean Exploration 1-Hour Deep-Sea Relaxation: Corals and Sponges

Has the day got you down? Watch this soothing one hour #okeanos sponge and coral video to etheral music! #octocoralFriday #spongeThursday Produced by Caitlin Bailey and GFOE youtu.be/DSHFDHthDQo?...

Happy International Microorganism Day, to my whole beautiful community! 🧫🔬🧪

A patiently made mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted clay octopus, lovingly painted to resemble the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, scientifically known as Octopus briareus. The extensive and colorful reef on this artwork is made from handcrafted corals, patiently woven glass beads set on silver wire. Slowly beaded together over countless of hours.

👋 Hey friends! I'm back & super excited to share new art with you all 🎨

🥳 🎉 in love with these colors!!

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🪸 Corals are made w glass beads 🐙 clay + paint

#ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #BSNM #CoralReef #MarineLife #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡

It's Okay to Want Success as an Artist Hanging out at the Intersection of Art and Science

Say this to yourself: Nobody else in the world is making work like mine. I’ve worked hard to create something unique, beautiful, and original, and I should be rewarded for that

UNCW-Undersea Vehicles Program On Friday the UVP team and scientist got to explore two shipwrecks. It was hard not to notice the vast amounts of coral growing on these structures compared to what we've seen so far growing on the.....

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Very nice writeup on someone I've admired and learned from for many years. I didn't know he had passed until catching up on This Week in Microbiology driving to campus this morning. His 1958 paper on Salmonella growth rates basically founded the formal study of microbial physiology, which...

YouTube video by Inner Space Center Gulf Restoration Live! The Secret Lives of Deep Sea Corals

Reminder about today’s deep-sea coral livestream, 2pm central/3pm eastern #MDBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3X...

Impacts include marine stations, disrupting the work of 600 scientists, lost access to €30-50,000 research funding, and "Several online tools dedicated to research, expertise, libraries and collection consultation" 📜