I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Basic fish is real (though badly pickled) but the baby is an AI addition… 🙄
I guess that is not meant to be an Artemis shot but just a bathymetry map from a certain perspective. I was confused by the header…
That is a great perspective but… how is there not a single cloud in sight? 🤔 I can’t find the original pic from NASA.
🙀I can’t believe that is real…but it is! 🧪
Three examples of radiolaria found in shallow tropical waters. The one on the left has a central capsule and multicolored "tentacles"; the one in the middle is a long tube, and the one on the right is a cloud around a central capsule.
Don't jump on me for this, but ... from the "waist" up, it is a good match for a polycystine radiolarian (e.g.,Collozoum). They can have capsules at the bulbous end, and sometimes the other end collapses to form "tentacles". I'm sure you see rads all the time though..?
Just when you thought one couldn't revolutionize typography, Riley and the Lettermatic team blow your mind! Nearly 750,000 glyphs! But my favorite is Texture Healing. Check it out!
Picture of a spooky looking underwater channel, and a diagram from a manuscript about limpets that live in air pockets far below the surface.
There are mysteries just below the surface there. :^) I would have been so excited as a kid to come across your team doing surveys! I
New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤
A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code.
Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...
Is that the channel at Shaw’s Cove? Site of my first publication as an undergrad..!
(3/10) The Golden Glow Zoantharian is the first documented deep-sea cave species to bioluminesce.
www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...
#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean
Mine is straight also. I don’t think the periscope was out back when we got ours either. I should redo some tidepool fluorescence shots with it, and give it another chance. Thanks for the encouragement.
Congrats..!
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I got one of those Laowa probes thinking I could use it to look inside jellyfish, but I haven’t found a good situation to use it.
The ocean and all who love it lost an inspiring advocate with the passing this week of Tierney Thys. She brought such joy to the work of protecting and restoring our blue planet. This wonderful tribute from Danielle Thys captures her spirit so beautifully: bit.ly/4s4hVq6
Super interesting
Nice experimental setup too!
👀 @ibudin.bsky.social
👀 Just got to that part! :^)
The scene of painting the storefront windows made me gasp.
I’ve been listening to the Hey Jude episode and his depth of knowledge and insight is stunning.
When you zoom out from individual genes to consider the context of whole chromosomes across animal diversity, animal evolution takes on a different look. Oleg Simakov and I published a review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on topological approaches in comparative genomics. 🧬 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
I am always amazed by time-lapse animations showing the progression of a drawing.
👀 @jmacrander.bsky.social
San Francisco-area fans of ocean animals and flashy colors. 🦑🌊🧪
I'll be giving a presentation about our book The Radiant Sea at 1 pm on Saturday Feb 28 at the Book Passage shop in Corte Madera. (Preposition overload!) Swing by and say Hi.
www.bookpassage.com/event/steven...
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 We’re excited to announce that we are organizing a second ctenophore meeting — Ctenopalooza Ctwo — to be held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Monterey Bay, California, on August 23–25, 2026.
Registration is now open!
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
There is special support for the participation of artists and communicators, so get in touch if you have any interest.
CONGRATS!!@! That is such a milestone.
A photo of a large red comb jelly on a black background.
Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists!
Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊
www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...
Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.
Under cover of darkness, it's a race to eat before being eaten! Attention #teachers #librarians #ocean lovers! Win a copy of THE OCEAN'S HEART, illus. by Khoa Le! Releasing March 3!
📚👍 kathytemean.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/b... #kidlit #picturebook @pbspree.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social
Looks great! Sorry if this is in the documentation but can it do 3-D with two orthogonal cameras?
Asking for a friend, srsly.
👀@claynerd.bsky.social
Orange+pink colored ostracod Gigantocypris, with pink eggs inside its carapace and large forward-facing reflectors. Diameter about 2cm. From The Radiant Sea. S.Haddock•MBARI.
Gigantocypris is always a crowd-pleaser, but I have never seen those black amphipods!
(Get your student a little glass photo tank?)
Related to high pressure, @ibudin.bsky.social and Jacob Winnikoff led a study which showed that a particular lipid headgroup (PPE) is more abundant in membranes of deep #ctenophores. 🧪🦑
What was amazing was when they put PPE into bacterial membranes, the bacteria became more pressure tolerant!
