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(7/10) The Nodule Crown Coral is the first & only known stony coral that lives attached to polymetallic nodules.

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@guadalupebribiesca.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social @sgn.one

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #deepsea

🌊 AbyScapes, by @bokamero.bsky.social, is underway!

🤖 The project will explore the biodiversity of abyssal landscapes & is focused on the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (Pacific Ocean).

🔗www.icm.csic.es/en/news/abyscapes-launch...

Deep ocean seascape ecology: gaps and pathways for application - Landscape Ecology Context The ecological implications of multiscale spatial heterogeneity remain poorly resolved in many parts of the ocean, especially at abyssal (3000–6000 m) and hadal (> 6000 m) depths. Seascape eco...

Feeling very grateful today to be part of this big, thoughtful collaboration. New open-access perspective on deep ocean seascape ecology lays out where the gaps are and how we actually move from concept to practice. Huge thanks to an incredible group of coauthors. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join the Deep Ocean Ecology and Biogeography lab at @icmcsic.bsky.social! We are looking for a postdoc or experienced technician to work in environmental, climate and ecological modelling of abyssal seascape ecosystems (project AbyScapes). 2 years, extendable. More info: icm.csic.es/en/calls/pos...

This Squid Is Playing Peekaboo at the Bottom of the Ocean

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Why do we see so few squid in the abyss? Because they hide from us, pretending to be sponges!🦑 New paper by @alemejiasaenz.bsky.social captures a potential new whiplash-squid species that burrows between nodules at the #CCZ, world's largest region targeted for #deepseamining doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

New species of deep-sea coral found living on polymetallic nodules. 🪨🪸

A team of international scientists have recently discovered a deep-sea coral is are specially adapted to live at depth, in complete darkness, and whose only known habitat is attached to the nodules.

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I'm thrilled to present our latest paper about the trophic ecology and behavior of sea stars (Asteroidea) and brittle stars (Ophiuroidea) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. doi.org/10.1016/j.ds... It was a great collaboration with a team from 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇪🇵🇹 and 🇦🇹 (incl. @bokamero.bsky.social). #SciArt

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

Areas of High Biodiversity Value Evidenced by the Spatial Scaling of Phylogenetic Uniqueness Phylogenetic endemism is the most efficient single criterion to maximise global phylogenetic diversity within the smallest land area, and can be complemented with the spatial scaling of phylogenetic ...

Our paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet:
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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...

An incredible discovery that challenges our assumptions about how complex life can thrive in the deepest and more remote places in the ocean.

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to join our deep-sea ecology team at @icmcsic.bsky.social? We seek a PhD student to study macroecology and effects of climate change in abyssal seascapes. With focus on sea cucumber communities. Please disseminate, and if interested please contact us www.icm.csic.es/en/calls/phd...

From tiny worms to giant squid: New global database reveals the hidden power of body size in the ocean A new open-access resource, the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) Database, is giving scientists, conservationists, and the public an unprecedented look at the true scale of ocean life—literally.

From tiny worms to giant squid: New global database reveals the hidden power of body size in the ocean phys.org/news/2025-05... #science #ocean #biodiversity #marinelife #invertebrate

Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

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Ecological shifts persist decades after a deep-sea mining test in the abyssal Pacific. www.icm.csic.es/en/news/new-...

#OIKOSFin2025

Starting the @oikosfinland.bsky.social Ecology & Evolution Conference in Jyväskylä after a great workshop on HSMC modelling yesterday. Can't think of a better way to start my new job at ICM-CSIC! 🐠🌳🪲🦐

The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock: A Feywild Adventure in Ecologic Succession - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild Hunt the Jabberwock, Defend the Warren, Save the Forest Welcome to the Warren. Within this tiny Domain of Delight, Rabb

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D&D 5e.

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It'd be soo cool if we both get it! 🤞🫰

After 10 great years at @noc.ac.uk, and 13 in the UK, I am pleased to announce that I will start a new position at ICM-CSIC in Barcelona next month! see: icm.csic.es/en. Excited to continue diving into #deepsea research, with old and new colleagues, now from home..!

Our new article out in Science Advances today! 🌊 In Europe we have protected 1% of our deep-sea biodiversity from bottom-contact fishing, but our analysis revealed that 3,500 hours of fishing still occurred within these protected areas. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Erik presenting his paper at dsbs17. Starting to understand who lives where and why at abyssal planes.

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This means these fauna, mostly soft corals, likely have a lower recolonisation capacity to the impacts of Deep-Sea Mining than we previously thought. But we need more knowledge on life-history traits, larval typologies & behaviour in abyssal seascapes to fully understand these processes!

Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!

Starting the #17DSBS! Pleased to be in Hong Kong, and to write my first post here, at last..!