Lara Maleen Beckmann

An in progress impressionist painting of shrimp in a cold water coral and sponge garden, part of a series based on deep water corals off the coast of Alaska. Acrylic on canvas, #painting #impressionist #modernimpressionism #artist 🦑🐡 #acryliconcanvas

An in progress impressionist painting of shrimp in a cold water coral and sponge garden, part of a series based on deep water corals off the coast of Alaska. Acrylic on canvas, #painting #impressionist #modernimpressionism #artist 🦑🐡 #acryliconcanvas

An in progress impressionist painting of shrimp in a cold water coral and sponge garden, part of a series based on deep water corals off the coast of Alaska. Acrylic on canvas, #painting #impressionist #modernimpressionism #artist 🦑🐡 #acryliconcanvas

In progress! Shrimp friends, a painting all about little friends in a deep ocean cold water coral garden, shrimp nominally named Cornelius (not yet painted) and Reginald (in progress) by my silly and excellent children #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean 🐡🦑 #coldwatercoral #unseenoceanscollective

#artists 🖌️ who love the #deepsea, #deepocean #scientists 🥼 who love #art, listen up!

Long-term collabo-friend and #podcast Discord den-mother Meghan is nailing it right now.

So excited to join forces with three incredible artists to spotlight the amazing diversity of deep-sea corals and sponges! 🪸 #UnseenOcean #DeepSea #SciArt #ArtScience

The Unseen Ocean Collective - Spokane Arts The Unseen Ocean Collective receives support from the Spokane Arts Grant Awards (SAGA) in its second round of funding in 2025

Friends! I’m so excited to share that our Unseen Oceans collective just received a Spokane Arts grant to fund a 10 day art and science program in Spokane WA! You can read more here: spokanearts.org/grantees/the... @planulara.bsky.social 🐡🦑 #deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepocean #art

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Hoping to create engaging outreach and interdisciplinary work that resonates far beyond science?

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Are you inspired by the mysteries of the deep? We're launching a new initiative ArtSea Matchmaking that pairs artists and scientists for creative collaborations rooted in deep-sea science. Together, you'll co-create compelling work that bridges disciplines and reaches wider audiences through exhibitions and outreach.

🎨🔬 CALLING ALL ARTISTS & DEEP-SEA SCIENTISTS!

💡 Open to ALL artists & scientists

🗓 Deadline: August 31

📍 Apply via the short form in our bio / link below!

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*sigh* The BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY an ESSENTIAL taxonomic ane biology resource will NO LONGER BE HOSTED at the Smithsonian after Jan 1 2026! blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...

Observation of polyp bailout after stress exposure in Primnoa pacifica - Coral Reefs This study presents the first documented observation of polyp bailout in the red tree coral, Primnoa pacifica, an ecologically important species that forms dense aggregations in the North Pacific. Col...

We observed polyp bailout and re-settlement behavior in the #deepsea coral Primnoa pacifica. Short report just
published in Coral Reefs: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

The Metals Company’s latest deep-sea mining gamble signals financial… The Environmental Justice Foundation exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.

“Deep-sea mining is a high-risk, no-reward industry. Battery technology and mineral needs are changing far faster than prospective deep-sea miners can keep up, and whole markets... have rejected the products of deep-sea mining in advance”, says Steve Trent, EJF CEO and Founder.

Our press release:

Can the marginal male hypothesis explain spatial density variation in pinnipeds? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644795v1

Marine specimens in jars. Credit: Allen Collins.

Learn how NOAA scientists study & transport marine specimens in our latest episode of the #PlanetNOAA Podcast!

noaa.gov/podcasts/planet-noaa-from-sun-to-sea-and-everything-in-between/planet-noaa-podcast-episode-12-from-seafloor-to-museum-floor

A large black and pink snail rests on a colorful hydrothermal vent outcrop with a plume of billowing black smoke in the background.16x20 acrylic on canvas, illustration for the upcoming children’s book “The Unusual Ocean, Who Lives in the Deep” #SciArt #hydrothermalvent #scalyfootgastropod

Working through photo edits so I can turn in my book materials and pretty dang happy with this one. Scaly foot gastropod on a hydrothermal vent #SciArt #deepsea #deepseacreatures

Opinion | Germany’s Far-Right Comeback Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.

Grade noch rechtzeitig vor der Bundestagswahl: das Opinion-Stück für die @nytimes.com über das Erstarken der Rechtsextremen, effektives "truth twisting" und die deutsche Geschichtsvergessenheit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.

So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

Science at Risk: Protect NOAA Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...

Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well.

secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

The US has the best managed fisheries in the world, overall (sure, some of our fisheries aren’t perfect, but most are great, especially compared to elsewhere in the world). That is a fact that makes me to be proud to an American fish researcher, angler, and local fish eater. 1/9

Are you a scientist who knows that @noaa.gov should not be dismantled?

If so, this open letter to Congress and the Trump administration  is for you to sign 👇✍️

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Science at Risk: Protect NOAA Scientists and other experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the ...

For scientists standing up for @noaa.gov :

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Left image is a line drawing of a comb jelly from Carl Chun's 1880 masterpiece based on a specimen from the Mediterranean Sea. On the right is a photo of the same species (or at least the same genus) collected with blue-water scuba diving off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA. The photo shows thin bluish-white canals outlining the body against a black backdrop. The widely spaced comb plates are a diagnostic feature of this lobate ctenophore. The image from Chun has been rotated 180° to align with our modern understanding of these animals. Historically, they have been interpreted like medusa jellyfish, with the mouth down, but we know they encounter their environment oral end first.

One fun thing about working on #ctenophores (comb jellies) is that you get to see animals nobody has depicted for more than a century. I haven't found any images of Deiopea from the time between Chun's 1880 drawing and my 1990s photo. Even shallow SCUBA exploration can yield surprises 🌊🦑🧪

Presenting Valérie Ferchaud with a white, 15X20 cm ceramic Polychaete. A graceful way to present this enigmatic creature. Artist statement: “Attracted by the depth, I was able to continue experimenting with a creation using mixed techniques to try to express what I understood, learned from a dialogue that I found fruitful and unexpected with scientists. I wanted to share my vision. I had a lot to learn from the work of researchers in their understanding of the world of the abyss, so unknown to me and to most of the people around us. I think there's no better way than to listen to them, watch them work and, at the same time, see what my eye as a photographer and ceramist can see.... After several residencies in the Ifremer laboratories (BEEP - GEOCEAN) in 2022, I was able to digest the information and work on an exhibition entitled ‘The abyss, where life is invented’ as part of the Ressac 2024 festival (art & science) in collaboration with Sylvie Salmon (painter), which enabled us to capture what our eyes say about a world that is both dark and luminous. Together, we can aspire to express the poetry of a living world and of vast, ignored mountainous spaces, to discover and share the beauty of the oceans and our earth. My interest in the abyss is leading me to create new works in the future, and I hope to meet other researchers and why not go on an expedition with them?”

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Valérie Ferchaud

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#sciart #ceramics #contemporary #marinebiology #polychaete #worm #dsobsoc

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Scientists, it’s been a rough week. And honestly, we don’t lift each other up enough—especially when it comes to mental health. Our careers are built on repetitive rejection of papers, grants, and jobs. That doesn’t define you. You and your science are incredible. Just wanted to remind you of that.

Modified WP3 net for jellyfish sampling

Here's some of the 🪼🪼🪼 beauties we found so far during the XIX Spanish Antarctic expedition on board BIO Hesperides. Next net deployments will be seriously deep 🤩. We are crossing our fingers (and toes) for some cool specimens!
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trawling is a bad thing for Alaskas fish, the Bering Sea ecosystem and us as Salmon people, do your research. Listen to the recordings of NPFMC testimony on YouTube, check out Salmon State. Also, look at how all the other fishing management councils in other parts of the US have FAILED

🚨Breaking news! Portugal🇵🇹 just made history by approving a 25-year pause on #DeepSeaMining in national waters - a crucial step to safeguard marine health.

📍Next stop: an international moratorium!

#DefendTheDeep

Nice look at a giant solitary hydroid. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 786 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife

yellow corals covering black rock in the deep-sea

yellow corals covering black rock in the deep-sea

Shots of a Swordfish Seamount, 1000 m in the North Pacific displaying innumerable corals.. animals, which in some cases have lived there for hundreds of years. #okeanos #OctocoralFriday There is LIFE down there!

20-30 small feeding polyps with a red dot-the mouth surrounded by 8 feeding tentacles

A closeup of this octocoral in the family Isididae, aka the Bamboo corals. Each feeding polyp contributes to the whole. Residents of the #deepsea this one from East Necker Seamount in the North Pacific, Each red dot shows the mouth on the polyp! #octocoralFriday

🎭📷We will launch our next call for #EMBracingtheOcean #artistsinresidence on 6 Jan. We provide grants for creative individuals or groups to co-create work with #Ocean scientists and support Ocean awareness and scientific understanding. More here soon: marineboard.eu/open-calls

We’ve loved seeing all of the amazing #deepsea #art at #17DSBS 🎨