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In 2025, the FathomVerse community made significant contributions to ocean exploration 📱🌊
The collective efforts of @fathomverse.bsky.social players are enhancing the AI models that researchers rely on to better understand marine ecosystems and ocean health. Read more: www.mbari.org/news/fathomv...
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07.01.2026 21:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0eeeeeeeee! hi @sarahmackattack.bsky.social thanks for coming to my talk 😊
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A jellyfish is using a phone and thinking “oh sucks. Squid lemme log that” with the other words “community scientists help id animals from images from the deep sea with a phone game”
MBARI created a game called @fathomverse.bsky.social that gamifies identification of animals from the deep sea!
Listening to a talk about this super cool work at #SICB2026
2025 Year in Review infographic by Fathomverse, displaying various statistics: 19,676 Images Labeled, 194,217 Regions of Interest, 4,037,497 Annotations, 36,351 Players, 16,573 Hours Played, set against a dark blue background.
Promotional graphic for Fathomverse, titled 'Moving Up the Ranks'. It features a blue pyramid diagram divided into three levels, showing the number of players at each level: 34,866 players in Level 1-7, 426 in Level 8-14, and 286 in Level 15, labeled as 'Denizens of the Deep'.
Promotional poster titled 'WITH GRATITUDE' by Fathomverse, thanking various organizations like Schmidt Ocean Institute, MBARI, Dawn Wright, Joost Daniels, Ocean Networks Canada, and NOAA Ocean Exploration for contributing data and images, with specific image counts listed beneath each name.
Poster titled 'Top Favorites' by Fathomverse featuring six marine animals in a grid layout, including a ghostly pale octopus, a vibrant orange squid, a fluffy orange sea creature, a robotic-looking deep-sea submersible, a camouflaged octopus, and a translucent red comb jelly. Images credit to NOAA MBARI.
2025 Year in Review 🎁
As we look back on 2025, the team at FathomVerse would like to take this moment to thank every single FathomNaut for playing FathomVerse and contributing to ocean science. Check out the highlights in our latest blog: https://www.fathomverse.game/post/2025-year-in-review
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 ‘Tis the season of deep-sea art! Join @montereybayaquarium.org, @mbarinews.bsky.social, and @fathomverse.bsky.social with these daily deep-sea inspired art prompts. Submit your deep-sea art to our gallery for all to admire! montereybayaquarium.secondstreetapp.com/Gallery-Deep...
01.12.2025 22:28 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A group of shrimp on a white coral
New #FathomVerse Badge: Sea Fan-atic 🪸
FathomNauts, we're so close to clearing a huge batch of sea fan data from #NOAAOceanExploration! Join our community in November with a run on sea fans: make 15 new sea fan discoveries that FathomVerse agrees with to earn a special badge!
This video was recorded aboard the @mbarinews.bsky.social R/V Rachel Carson. Joost Daniels uses DeepPIV, an innovative imaging technology that utilizes lasers, to scan a larvacean so we can study their intricate structures.
29.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This week’s #DrawnFromTheDeep icon is the larvacean. You can search for larvaceans by playing Bound in FathomVerse, and we encourage you to share your larvacean-inspired art on the FathomVerse Discord! discord.gg/E77WXsfpbD
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Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃
While we were scanning a larvacean with lasers to create a 3D model of the animal, we noticed a jack-o-lantern-like face appear for just a split second. We decided to nickname this the jack-o-larvacean as our underwater mascot for Halloween. 🌊🐙🧪🎮
Drawn from the Deep ✍️👻This October, find and draw the icon of the week!
As we transition into autumn and get that pumpkin spice urge to chill at home, you can play FathomVerse, the cozy game for ocean nerds! Read here for more on the drawing prompts:
www.fathomverse.game/post/drawn-f...
Keep the celebration going all month with our October #DrawnFromTheDeep challenge by playing FathomVerse and sharing a drawing of a hagfish on the FathomVerse Discord. discord.gg/E77WXsfpbD
15.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even if you can’t visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Into the Deep exhibit to meet hagfish face-to-face, you can cozy up with #FathomVerse and contribute to marine science from anywhere in the world!📱
15.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Play the Bound mini-game this week and locate a few hagfish to earn the badge and show your love for these deep-sea jawless fish.
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Happy Hagfish Day, the fall holiday you didn’t know you were waiting for! 🧙 To celebrate these slippery, slimy cuties, we teamed up with our friends at @montereybayaquarium.org on a limited-time Hagfish Day achievement badge!
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“Enteropneusts are actually more closely related to humans than to worms. They have a rudimentary nerve cord similar to ours and breathe oxygen using structures similar to a fish’s gills,” according to @mbarinews.bsky.social.
Learn more here: www.mbari.org/animal/acorn...
Have you heard of worm-like animals that create spirals on the seafloor, are more related to humans than actual worms, and produce super cute larvae? We’re obsessed with #AcornWorms!
Play #FathomVerse to find acorn worms and earn a special badge!
#AnimalsOfTheDeep @mbarinews.bsky.social
Salp or pyrosome? These gelatinous, free-floating tunicates can appear quite similar in the water column. However, a closer look reveals key differences that can help with identification.
Watch this vid to learn more: youtube.com/shorts/2hnUd...
We're taking ocean exploration to the next level by merging science with an innovative gaming experience. Follow along as we share a walkthrough of the #FathomVerse and all its features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNCjy2FRiF0
02.09.2025 21:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Play #FathomVerse to improve your ID skills and join our Discord for more deep dives into ocean animals!
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🪸 Sea fan coral
- May look solid white in footage, but colors vary by species of corals
- Fan shape with small polyps on the branches (usually visible)
- Has a distinct disk-shaped holdfast for attachment to hard substrate
📸 @noaa.gov NOAA Ocean Exploration
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How can we tell this is a glass sponge? Let’s take a closer look.
Glass sponge
- Icy, opaque look
- Shaggy and wispy branches from irregular spicules
- Cylindrical central core of each branch, where the spicules extend outward
📸 @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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This week we had a “Wait… is that coral?” moment.
At first glance, that icy fan shape seems coral-like. We think this might be in the genus Walteria, a type of glass sponge (Phylum Porifera). These sponges come in all shapes and sizes, so even experts can find it challenging to identify them. 1/4
The newest data added to FathomVerse from @schmidtocean.bsky.social features fields of feather stars!
🌟 Dive into August and earn the special constellation badge by selecting feather stars, sea stars, and brittle stars.
📸Schmidt Ocean Institute/ROV SuBastian
#FathomVerse #FeatherStars 🎮🌊🐙🦀🧪🤖
Community Science + Gaming + Ocean Animals = FathomVerse
Our engagement coordinator, Lilli, joined a #NOAA Library Seminar this week to share how #FathomVerse is inviting anyone with a mobile device to contribute to science. 🧪🌊🎮
Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMi...
A blue/silver fish swimming near the ocean floor, photo by NOAA.
🐟 Play Bound in FathomVerse to say bonjour to Monsieur Frown!
01.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎭 The researchers observed several highly charismatic characters on their fourth day at sea, including a Graneledone octopus, Rajidae skates, and Monsieur Frown!
01.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🛠️ This expedition was part of an engineering shakedown to do a full test of NOAA’s ship the Okeanos Explorer and the ROVs Deep Discoverer and Seirios.
01.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🌎 The latest ocean data added to #FathomVerse comes from day 4 of a NOAA expedition off the west coast of the USA, from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington in April of 2023.
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Decision chart. Are you enjoying FathomVerse? If yes, then you should share your feedback in this survey. If no, then you should share your feedback in this survey. dark blue ocean background.
We want to hear from you!👂
To help us prioritize future enhancements and new features for #FathomVerse, please take a few minutes to fill out this survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/LSBXQ92.
