Ian McCourry

Lots of rockfish and hake is what I'm expecting. Generally off the west coast of the USA, dont think I'm allowed to get more specific than that.

I'll be collecting quite a few otoliths in the coming weeks!

A pin on a desk, it has a codfish silhouette holding a library card, with the words "having fun isn't hard when you've got a library cod"

The Newfoundland and Labrador public libraries continue to make the absolute best free pins that you can just have if you go to borrow a book

The smooth transition of perspectives in a chapter of Children of Ruin was done so expertly well. Chapter was Ch 7 of Past III

It is beautiful!!! You did such a good job with the detail and coloring!

I was just showing my partner stuff about flying squid easier today! They were surprised to learn that some squid can glide like this! I read a paper that some flying squid can squirt water out a second time while in the air to keep gliding even farther!

Love that someone tried naming the Giant Squid "Dinoteuthis" in 1875. Terrible Squid is funny to me

GPOs are awesome though! Just because they are generic doesn't make them not cool

Happy Pride Month!! 🩷💜💙

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social Just got the Save Our Freaks shirt!!

Just ordered one!

Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.

My grad school roommate nick, who is an extremely adorable bespeckled and mustacio'd Canadian twink, stands against a brick wall wearing a black t-shirt with the words save our freaks don't mine the deep, with a big strawberry squid sinking a mining ship

These shirts are back by popular demand. I wish it was under better circumstances.

The US government is all in on deep sea mining 🤮
Time for us to get loud about our beloved freaks.

Start a conversation, get a shirt.
Design by @coreydanks.bsky.social

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Fun fact, the worms have eyes, THEY CAN SEE YOU 👀

I can't tell for sure which type this species would have, but they are all cool 🧪🦑

www.cell.com/current-biol...

An attempt was made? I don’t know how successful I was at making it look like the squid. Transparent is hard! #SciArt 🐡

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands

🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

“Endangered species could be changed forever”

Meanwhile nobody is giving them their territory and resources back. Nor do we live in a country that prioritizes having a livable planet in the first place.

“We brought dire wolves back only for the planet to be on fire!”

Smart call, George

I like that he was reading a marine bio magazine in the anime at one point

Two scientists and a full-sized stuffed colossal squid on a couch aboard a ship

Master Squidcrafter Heather has been at it again. Not sure #IntrepidTravel realized just what they were in for by having the #ProjectESCA team aboard--we brought a rather large stowaway!
#colossalsquid

@deepseapod.bsky.social
@pure-ocean.bsky.social
@AUTnews.bsky.social

#Antarctica
#deepsea

Good luck on the expedition!

Thom Linley and Kat Bolstad stand in front of an open hatch in safety gear. The ocean and icebergs are visible through it.

It's happening! @autsquidsquad.bsky.social and I are out with #IntrepidTravel deploying #ProjectESCA in search of the #ColossalSquid.
Supported by @pure-ocean.bsky.social, #Te_Papa and #AutScience, we have developed a suitcase-sized light lure and camera system.

#deepsea
#deepocean
#Antarctica

📢 STAND UP FOR SCIENCE - PHILLY - MARCH 7th, 11A, CITY HALL 📢

It has been a worrisome time for science, which is why Im helping to organize the #Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th at 11a at City Hall.

Spread the word widely.

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

a shrimp with eyelashes is wearing her little black sneakers and holding a pail of glue and a paintbrush dripping with glue, after clearly just having wheatpasted a poster that says FUCK ELON FUND NOAA on a wall that says "Post no gills" three times. She is smiling a pure little smile and blushing. The posters is dripping with blue too.

Being a rascal is good and pure behavior, when you are rascal in opposition to evil. Don't forget that, kids.

A large mural of a squid on the side of a two or three story warehouse like building. The squid’s appendages are stretched wide and there’s a bandage on one. Its mantle is wrinkly and the upper portion looks vaguely like a clown face.

Can I offer you some squid street art I saw today in Moss Landing in these trying times?

I'm deep into retirement, so most of my #FossilFriday posts will be unapologetically retrospective. This is a field shot from 2015. It's the siphuncle of a BIG late Ordovician (~445 MYA) actinocerid cephalopod mollusc ... yes, that's our helicopter skid for scale. Churchill R., n. Manitoba, CANADA

Europa also has a magnetic field!

The new camera system @deepseapodcast.bsky.social and I have rigged up for #ProjectESCA is capturing some cool stuff on its maiden voyage in Antarctica, including this little firework of startled bioluminescence

#PureOceanFund
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