@jeffday.bsky.social
i like weird deep sea shit, particularly cephalopods. also metal, parasitic fungi, horror, etc. he/him, ace, adhd (maybe autistic?) opinions are mine and not my employer’s
a bit further west than what you're looking for but might be of interest still:
www.searover.ie/dives.php
the bomber sequence was my white whale, i saw it randomly on MTV's liquid television without any accompanying information back in the 90's. finally figured it out a couple years back. something about zombies chasing after you in a WWII era bomber flying through space apparently captivated young me.
06.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mastigoteuthis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
05.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 62 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Squids out there making art. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
05.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 77 🔁 16 💬 6 📌 1This squid looks like it got sliced open in the back. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
05.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 35 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0Ommastrephes per squid squad. Inked SuBastian. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
05.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0if @autsquidsquad.bsky.social doesn't know, she could direct you to the appropriate person. if its related to any of the new taxonomic revisions, TJ verhoeff would be the person to ask
04.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The #ArgentinianDeepSeeps team completed 1st comprehensive study of Argentina’s cold seeps. Their goal: to understand how the animal communities live and interact with localized physical, geological, and chemical conditions as well as with surrounding deep-sea ecosystems.
youtu.be/KvJewhMvrIQ?...
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
3 panel comic. Panel one: coworkers stand around a desk, as another employee, a Humboldt squid carrying a big stack of binders, walks past them. One says to the squid, “hey Eric, need an extra hand with that?” Panel 2: the two human employees are laughing and a man steps into frame, breaking the fourth wall. He says “stop.” Panel 3: the man, still talking to the camera, says “squid discrimination in the workplace. Know the signs.”
07.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 4820 🔁 900 💬 20 📌 16Disheartening to learn that after 18 years, founder Ken-ichi Ueda has left iNaturalist, citing irreconcilable differences in the direction of the company.
kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
He has a Patreon while he figures out his next move: www.patreon.com/cw/kueda
yoooo bobtail eel! nice! that’s a deep cut, only seen those on a dive stream once or twice.
06.01.2026 01:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A flash sheet of deep sea creatures - including angler fish, gulper eels, viper eels, a tripod fish, and a coelacanth
Creature Commish from way down deep.
05.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 2362 🔁 711 💬 15 📌 2
A shirt of cartoon oarfish, squid and nautilus
Jellyfish whale sharks and sponges oh my!
Oarfish on a black sleeve
Purple jumping spider backpack
Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists.
We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
the origin:
bsky.app/profile/moss...
thanks to @mossworm.bsky.social i am unable to think of the mariana snailfish as something other than 'bibby'
05.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
ICYMI: On Friday, we ran an exclusive interview with the owners of Bottom of the Hill, a beloved SF club that plans to shutter its doors later this year. I've always loved this venue, but it's storied history is so much more fascinating than I realized...
05.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
There have been over 100 unique media stories about the deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench since the Request for Information was announced by the Trump administration on November 10 -- including local, national, and international outlets.
Read our media list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CW: blood
05.01.2026 02:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0kakani got it! it’s ink. which apparently has the consistency of hershey’s chocolate syrup if it gets on you (so says liz shea, anyhow)
04.01.2026 02:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I'm convinced squid know they are fabulous. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 889 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
30.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 98 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
A colour ink drawing of a ratfish, brown with white spots.
A spotted ratfish! These are such neat weird little guys; I didn't realize they lived in our region (west coast Canada)
Drawn with fine line pen and alcohol markers
#fish #marine #pacificocean #ratfish #ghostshark #inkart #ohuhu
screenshot of another edit to the wikipedia page for magnapinna (bigfin squid). the name has been changed from "Bigfin squid" to "Bigfin squidick"
😑
30.12.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Woohoo, squid time! @jeffday.bsky.social
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 889 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
screenshot of an edit to the magnapinna wikipedia page. the text 'Big Juicy legs' has been added, replacing 'Bigfin squids'
"hey i wonder what's been going on with the magnapinna wikipedia page since i got that list of sightings published"
"...oh"
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
(the subsequent edit reverts this vandalism, but just, ... what? lmao)
from the fin proportions and secondary mantle fin the santa hat is nestled on we can deduce that this squid is asperoteuthis, in this essay i will -
24.12.2025 18:39 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0🎄 in the deep sea
24.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 1212 🔁 413 💬 6 📌 5wasnt really paying attention to the ascent, looked over and nearly shat myself
always fantastic to see a taningia, even if it's only a brief flyby
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET
