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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

well that’s a hell of a way to kick off squidtember this is a cool observation, we don’t have a ton of east pacific magnapinna sightings

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

graneledone will scavenge mermaidfalls just as readily as whalefalls. the real interesting question is whether or not there are osedax worms specialized to mermaid corpses, as they are often specific to the animal they scavenge (no this is not real, i’m just riffing on one of eduardo’s works)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A midweek montage from the July 2026 #DeepWonders expedition to Trinidad & Tobago w/ @divaamon.bsky.social. The team located over 25 active cold seeps, discovered 20 suspected new species, and mapped approximately 13% of the country’s marine territory.

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

been a great couple of months for magnapinna sightings. i need to update the list

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I think that's Mastigoteuthis? Poor squid has been through some things with those ripped off arms and tentacles @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 959 #deepwonders

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

as shit as spotify is, i have to give credit, as i found out about the previous two bands from its recommendations. also castle rat, whom i will forever adore due to riley pinkerton’s response to them being an industry plant loudwire.com/castle-rat-r...

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'It's Hilarious and a Compliment' - Castle Rat's Riley Pinkerton Laughs Off 'Industry Plant' Talk

The very DIY nature of Castle Rat would seemingly discredit the idea of being an 'industry plant.'

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

on the music front, i’ve been really enjoying creaturess lately:

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

i’m gonna have to side with danna, while i am of course a Squid Guy, and if you’ve never seen imagery of them “flying” you absolutely need to look it up immediately, ommastrephes is by far not the coolest option here.

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Xeni Flowers | Horse Destroyer @xeniflowers.com · 13/08/2026

You can get prints and posters for 25% off! One of the best ways to support me as an independent artist! ▶️ SHOP #art #DarkArt #horror #BSNM #ArtShop

Digital greyscale ink drawing that uses lots of fine lines and hatching. A portrait of a zombie horse from the neck up. Its decayed, mostly skeletal mouth is open and its ear is perked up. Its neck is torn open, revealing bands of muscle underneath. Its dark mane flows in movement.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Do you want a beautiful, free, 500-page guide to marine Isopods? Yes. Yes, you do. museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-...

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Marine Crustacea Isopoda: guide to families and genera of the world | Collections & research | Museums Victoria

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

the real crazy part about this observation is the pair of gigantura (telescopefish) in the back:

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Chiroteuthis doing stuff I haven't seen them do before @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Whoa, check out that Chimaera!! Not a species I've seen on a dive before. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Shrimp, pycnogonid, tiny hermit crab beside zoanthid covered sponge stalk, & not sure what that coral is attached to. Urchin test maybe? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Apristurus! Love the dead shape on this shark @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

OMG look at this fishfall!! Big ole ray. That's a 1st for me! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 939 part 2 #deepwonders #MarineLife

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

An addition to the "Awesomely Peculiar Hall of Fame" — extremely rare sighting of a barreleye fish, & first footage of this species, Winteria telescopa, alive in situ. Filmed during the #Doldrums expedition at 710 m. Read more about tubular eyes & a light organ here: youtube.com/shorts/1bhh3...

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A barreleye fish with binocular vision & a sole!

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚨Not one, but two Magnapinna squid! 🚨 the #doldrums team observed 2 elusive Magnapinna sp., commonly known as bigfin squid, at approximately 4,300 m (about 2.7 miles). Magnapinna is the deepest-dwelling squid. Sightings of these animals are extremely rare — seeing two in one dive is extra exciting!

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🐙 Say hello to Inopinoteuthis magna — the big-eyed jellyhead. 🐙 And yes, that common name does makes us suspect someone’s kiddo was in the lab that day! (Special thanks to @jeffday.bsky.social for sharing this species ID when we posted a different view of the animal.) #Doldrums 2,923 m

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Cirrothauma or Inopiniteuthis @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 931 part 3 #Doldrums #MarineLife

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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

2 in one dive is crazypants

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

hey if you're a scientist and you use this data in your research and you want to tell me how dumb this is, contact info is in my bio (i will also listen to scientists who think this is a great idea, if such a person exists)

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

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Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever

Scientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Munnopsid (breast-stroke) isopod carrying sargassum. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We're 60 shirts away from getting our first bug mural of the fall funded. If you haven't already, get a shrimp shirt. Look cool as hell while supporting a project that's just as cool 😎 SquidFacts.net

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My fish prson says this is the first Winteria in situ! I have waited 11 yrs to see a barreleye on a dive. It's my top bucket list fish. Worth every second! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Before that fish rendered me speechless they saw this octopus. Japetella or Bolitaena. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Squid squad is thinking Neoteuthis for this one @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 924 #Doldrums #MarineLife

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ohhh I love this. Winteria telescopa, a species of barreleye - incredibly cute and simultaneously beautiful animal, paddling about in the mesopelagic without a care. (Also, good evidence for my hot take that it's a shame Macropinna is the poster child of the family 💅)

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

BOOSTING this again for #AAPI, Asian American Pacific Islander month! I am the first Chinese American in to be among this august if obscure assemblage of 20 #echinoderm taxonomists! and the number continues to grow!

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EDGE @edgescience.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 A new nearly complete specimen of the Ichthyosaur, Stenopterygius quadrissicus from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Whitby Mudstone Formation at Ravenscar near Whitby, Yorkshire, England is described... 🎨: Somniosus insomnus

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Does anyone who has worked with low-oxygen/anoxic seawater have any advice for setting up microcosms from Niskin bottles? What methods do you use to prevent/minimize oxygen contamination?

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Ivy Baremore, PhD @ivalina.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I was supposed to present my research on deep-sea sharks in the western Caribbean Sea at #SI2026, but I was, er... let go from my job shortly before the conference and am not there. Since I gained a few followers from this, I thought I would share some of what I would have presented yesterday (1/9)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our #DesigningTheFuture2 expedition video is live: Most life on Earth lives in a place we can’t see, a place we can’t reach easily, and that we still barely understand. To explore it, we need entirely new ways of seeing. youtu.be/NW5_KouueSk?...

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New ways of seeing | Designing the Future 3

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute

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Allen Collins @agcollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tomorrow, April 30, 2026, at 4 p.m. ET I will share some discoveries (including the “golden orb”) from the 2023 Seascape Alaska expeditions during a webinar. Registration link: vimeo.com/event/584117....

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Seascape Alaska - 2023 Expedition Discoveries

NOAA Library Seminars Speakers: Dr. Allen Collins (NOAA NMFS Office of Science and Technology National Systematics Laboratory), Meredith Westington (NOAA Integrated…

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In my interpretation I pair the octopus with the giant ammonite Parapuzosia, these animals aren't known from the same localities but their time ranges overlap which makes it plausible to me that these guys, or close relatives, could have met.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.

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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag

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