Finding a Sea Slug on Earth Day 👀 @s.lxwe discovered the Dotted Sea Hare in one of our sea water tanks this morning and everyone was very excited!
Dotted sea hare (Aplysia punctata) #EarthDay
A leisurely Wednesday lunch for this fussy little diner 🦀
Another brilliant video from @paulnaylormarinephoto
#spidercrab #ukmarinelife #marineconservation #underwatervideo
The coast is crawling with them! 🦀 Clibanaruis erythropus populations have shown large increases at MarClim time-series sites in south Cornwall since 2025 @thembauk.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social
New paper 👇
@elizabethbeston.bsky.social
This happens even when they're very little (microscopic), and this video shows the blood flow delivering those elements around the sea squirt's body. The blood flow will frequently change direction.
🎥 Video by @elizabethbeston Elizabeth Beston
#MarineBiology #OceanScience
A young ascidian.
Sea squirts can often look like leathery sacks, fine vases, or soft crusts, siphoning water in and out of their bodies and extracting the oxygen and nutrients.
A look at MBA PhD researcher Daniela Sturm's research cruise from South Africa to Mauritius aboard the RV Thomas G. Thompson, exploring coccolithophore communities in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Read the full story mba.ac.uk/news
Read the full story on our website www.mba.ac.uk/exploring-coccolithophor...
#MarineScience #Phytoplankton #OceanCarbon #MarineBiology
Pparticularly abundant in the Southern Ocean, MBA PhD researcher Daniela Sturm set out to examine coccolithophore communities in the Southern Indian Ocean as part of a research cruise from South Africa to Mauritius.
Our oceans contain a vast community of calcifying algae, known as coccolithophores, that play a critical role in the global carbon cycle through their ability to produce calcium carbonate in huge quantities.
The ocean's most underrated employee can't even get their name spelled right.
Meet the coccolithophore. 👉 www.mba.ac.uk/exploring-coccolithophor...
#Coccolithophore #MarineScience #OceanLife #MarineBiologicalAssociation
Calling all Ocean-Inspired Photographers!
We are inviting photographers from around the world to enter photos for the Ocean Image Collection Photography Competition 2026.
Find out more and enter - https://www.mba.ac.uk/ocean-image-collection/
Leaving the office at 5:01pm ✅ Otter mode ACTIVATED ✅
Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash
#otterconservation #MarineBiology
📚🌊 Must Reads for Future Marine Biologists
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#MustReads #FutureMarineBiologists #MarineScience #OceanReads #BiologyBooks #OceanInspiration #MarineLife #ScienceReads #OceanEducation #OceanLovers
🐠 Parrotfish of the Great Barrier Reef by Michelle Brayshaw - An exceptional field guide that doesn't read like one. Brayshaw writes with the scrupulous attention to detail of a researcher and the presentation and reflections of an artist, covering 23 species with extensive photography.
🦐 Shrimp and Prawn Welfare in the Wild Caught Fishing Industry by Ren Ryba, Shannon M Davis, Tse Yip Fai & Peter Singer - Can prawns and shrimps feel pain? This book evaluates the global capture fisheries and aquaculture, presenting the evidence.
🪸 Reefs of Time by Lisa S. Gardiner - interweaves palaeoecology, geology, and marine biology to explore what fossils can tell us about today's reefs and their future. Gardiner's tone is pragmatic, and she successfully makes a complex topic accessible to a wide audience.
📚🌊 Must Reads for Future Marine Biologists
Who are John Coe and Aquarius? @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social has the story behind Cornwall's visiting orcas on iNaturalist UK
🔗 uk.inaturalist.org/blog/127644-iconic-orcas...
Photo by: Gill Fisher
#DASSH #iNaturalistUK #OrcaSighting #Cornwall
Understanding how these microscopic organisms adapt to changing ocean conditions is critical for predicting the future of marine ecosystems and carbon cycling.
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Led by Dr Yasmin Meeda and senior author Dr Katherine Helliwell, researchers at the Marine Biological Association and the University of Exeter have identified a key protein, PtCDPK2, that helps diatoms cope during phosphorus starvation.
New study reveals how tiny marine algae survive phosphorus starvation.
Diatoms are responsible for around 40% of marine primary production - fuelling food webs, supporting biodiversity and helping regulate our climate.
But what happens when a vital nutrient like phosphorus runs low?
Stunning 😍 and we’ve recently added book about nudibranchs to our collection 😎
📖 BL.48/P
Who else needed to see more rainbow sea slugs this week? 🌈
These photos of Babakina anadoni we're taken by @yolandave_24 in Falmouth.
#nudibranch #seaslugs #intertidal #rockpooling
Illustrations of a bottlenose whale (top) and a narwhal (bottom)
It's #NationalUnicornDay 🦄
Here's an illustration (bottom) from Cuvier's 'De l'histoire naturelle des cetaces' (1836) of the 'unicorn of the sea' - the narwhal!
Both volumes of this work (text & atlas) can be found in the rare books room in the library @thembauk.bsky.social
📖BL.95/C
Giant Pacific Octopus transits through a narrow tidal pool in Oregon.
Who's your Plankton Match?
Swipe to meet them 👉 then tell us your match below 👇
#MarineBiology #Plankton #Copepod #Diatom #Dinoflagellate #MarineLife #OceanScience #MBA
Bowhead whale cells actually need fewer mutations than human cells to turn cancerous. They're not better protected from damage - they're better at cleaning it up.
https://www.mba.ac.uk/magazine/
footage NOAA and PLOS Media
