Ong Jing Hui

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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#brart

A nearly circular nebula with two rings is shown. The outer ring appears orange while while the inner rings is more complex and appears blue. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 A Double Detonation Supernova

Image Credit: ESO, P. Das et al.; Background stars (NASA/Hubble): K. Noll et al.

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Baby teddy bear crab♥

Amphipod, corals, anemone, tube worms... @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 811 #MarDelPlataCanyon #MarineLife

Shrimps of various colors are swimming happily. All of them are based on real freshwater shrimp. Cherry shrimp, bee shrimp and more.. Lively and happy atmosphere.

Happy happy happy~🦐 #ShyShrimp

𓂃 𓈒𓏸 𓋜 🌸

this silly little guy

Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each January to June period from 1900 through 2025. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ 2nd highest on record

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to June.

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by
@rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.

Twisted pieces of wood sticking up from the sand in Death Valley. The sun is setting behind a mountain range in the distance, casting a golden haze across the scene as distant sand is picked up by strong winds.

Twisted roots. Sunset in Death Valley. #photography

Giant isopod stuffed animal standing on a black keyboard.

Doodle of a human beaming, their eyes shining.

I MADE GIANT ISOPOD PLUSHIES!!!!! :,))

Coming to a proquest near you in the future!! #PhDone

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The sixth object in Charles Messier's famous catalog of things which are not comets, Messier 6 is a galactic or open star cluster. A gathering of 100 stars or so, all around 100 million years young, M6 lies some 1,600 light-years away toward the central Milky Way in the constellation Scorpius. Also cataloged as NGC 6405, the pretty star cluster's outline suggests its popular moniker, the Butterfly Cluster. Surrounded by diffuse reddish emission from the region's hydrogen gas the cluster's mostly hot and therefore blue stars are near the center of this colorful cosmic snapshot. But the brightest cluster member is a cool K-type giant star. Designated BM Scorpii it shines with a yellow-orange hue, seen near the end of one of the butterfly's antennae. This telescopic field of view spans nearly 2 Full Moons on the sky. That's 25 light-years at the estimated distance of Messier 6.

🔭 Messier 6

Image Credit & Copyright: Xinran Li

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a yoyo camera benthic image from the western Antarctic Peninsula...some amazing Astrotoma agassizii brittle stars and a large vase sponge and crinoids.

Starting the week with a yoyo camera benthic image from the western Antarctic Peninsula on NBP20-10...some amazing Astrotoma agassizii brittle stars in there! #Antarctica 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧

Writing my first bluesky post to say: This week I have successfully completed my PhD defense and started my post-doc journey!! What a week it's been.

Diving deep from the coral reefs of my PhD to the deep sea now for my post-doc... Lots to learn but I'm so excited!!

Absolutely stunning video of a Antarctic gonate squid captured during an expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (Too). It's never been seen alive before! Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/s...

Video: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute, courtesy of National Geographic 🦑🌊🧪

[New Paper] in Ecology reveals deep-sea snails in family Laubierinidae as obligate associates of crinoids (likely parasitic), including first-ever in situ observations of all 4 genera! This relationship was last seen in fossils >200 mil years old!

FREE READ: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Some #macro shots of little crabs in the #rockpools - a baby edible crab and common hermit crab. Taken on an iPhone with a DiveVolk housing and macro lens.
#underwateruk #marinelife #underwaterphotography

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish!

You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

Diver-Operated Microscope Brings Hidden Coral Biology into Focus The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.The diver-operated mic...

🔬 This new microscope is revolutionizing how scientists study coral photosynthesis and health! Dive in below to learn more about this exciting innovation developed by Scripps Oceanography scientists and engineers, and funded by the National Science Foundation. 🪸 ⬇️

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

Brushpen sketches of Italian wolves.
#wolves #wolfsketches #animalart #inksketches #wildlifeart

Illustration of six species of crocodilians (from top to bottom, left to right: american alligator, freshwater crocodile, chinese alligator, morelet's crocodile, dwarf caiman and gharial) in a cutesy simplified style on a flat colored teal background with ripples of water and lilypads.

🐊 It is world croc day! 🐊

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.