Eurypharynx (Pelican eel)

Yay they saw a Eurypharynx (Pelican eel)! Video of a lateral view ⬇️
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 907 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife

@cageyratfish.bsky.social

a comic book-sized publication in protective plastic sitting on a dark grey background. the cover features a gorgeous lancetfish, it’s body curved roughly in an S shape, with its broad dorsal fin fully outstretched.

a page within the book, which features detailed photographs of two cephalopods: onykia loennbergyi and cycloteuthis sirventi. there are enlarged images of the tentacle clubs of each squid, as well as one showing a sucker of the onykia.

the copy i ordered of @satokatu.bsky.social’s lancetfish dissection project arrived today. this is by far one of the coolest things i’ve found out about via twitter, and is an incredibly thorough record of midwater prey species consumed by alepisaurus ferox near japan.

Squid swing by for a peek.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 904 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife

i think i posted this one to the FB group and mike agreed haliphron. the periphylla that slowly tumbles across the frame during this observation cracks me up

We've only seen 0.001% of the deep ocean until now Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals 10,000 locations Every ocean basin The first truly global look at the deep seafloor Ocean Discovery League

I'm over the moon to share the Global Deep Sea Exploration Goals, a culmination of years of effort developing the idea, methodology, and strategy by the team at @oceandiscleague.bsky.social

www.oceandiscoveryleague.org/global-deep-...

A Sacabambaspis on tank tracks/treads, with a gun turret on its back

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches - Nature Ecology & Evolution Phylogenomic analyses of newly sequenced and published decapodiform cephalopods separate open-ocean and coastal shallow-water clades, following rapid cladogenesis from the mid-Cretaceous.

Our new paper on squid and cuttlefish evolution is out in @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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First impressions aren't everything. Meet the Blobfish! #LetsChangeThat

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

A Grimalditeuthis tattoo. which is a squid with 2 sets of fins and a little squid lure at the end of one tentacle, in orange and yellow and white and blue

Squid!

YOOOOOO THIS IS AMAZING

We brake for nautilus!

“We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

Digital illustration of a blue angel nudinbranch covered in eyes on a dark blue background with a pattern of eyes, and a purple border full of more eyes, and two circular vignettes featuring a pink crab and brain coral, both with eyes on.

Lil nudibranch doing its thing
#illustration

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin

Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure.

blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...

planctos retain the elaborate secondary fin into adulthood; in chiroteuthis it falls off/reduces as they mature

(9/10) Poseidon’s Squid was found in the stomach of a sperm whale.

www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...

@cefafalopodo.bsky.social @ieo.es @gi.ieo.es @icmcsic.bsky.social

#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

Mattia Da Fieno holds an oxygen glass bottle in front of a porthole during setup at the main lab aboard Falkor (too).

Telescopic crane deploys sediment trap aboard Falkor (too).

Captain Peter Reynolds and Chief Scientist Mathew Church on the aft deck of R/V Falkor (too).

Small work boat with scientists on calm seas

Another expedition underway! During #OBVI #SUBSEA expedition w/Schmidt Ocean Institute & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Ocean Biogeochemistry Virtual Institute, Dr. Matthew Church and a team of international collaborators are investigating nutrient exchange w/in the South Atlantic subtropical gyre.

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

Late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez accused of sexually abusing young girls in the movement for years

Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her.

Gift link:

Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

Three juvenile glass squid, one in green with yellow spots one in blue with orange spots and one pink with blue spots, each of which have a little yellow bar in the middle of their mantles are suspended in the air in this little doodle. Each of them has an ink blob below them that says get squid Facts text 1833 sci text and then my handle sarahmackattack

Alright I sent stickers to the printer. Each squid and ink blob will be their own die cut sticker. It’s gonna be cute.

They should be here in a couple of days. I made them for the streets of my fair city but I put some up on the squid facts shop too SquidFacts.net

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication. For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done: • by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, • outside of classroom settings • aimed at the public If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."

Attention Science Communicators!

We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences.

Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can.

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Federal judge stalls health secretary RFK Jr.’s overhaul of vaccine policy Breaking: A federal judge on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.

Great news!! “Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel, and changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act”

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

I started writing a BlueSky post about that Nature essay and kept going until it turned into a whole piece in Tech Policy Press www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...

sincerely believing an LLM has consciousness is an automatic disqualifier for me taking anything else someone has to say seriously

Minnesotans deserve restitution from ICE's terror campaign.

The ICE surge cost Minneapolis $200 million in just one month. That’s before overtime, charter flights, and detention contracts.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize their own trauma.