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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 18/09/2026

It appears that many of you liked the video above. Please enjoy its prequel: a day in the life of an enshittificator. By @forbrukerradet.bsky.social

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Polychaetes at the #ICESASC26! Talk by Eivind Oug on the cryptic diversity of polychaetes in Norway

Slide from Oug's presentation showing the distribution of Amphicteis gunneri

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rockpooling and nature journaling the day before the #ICESASC26 in Brest. Tides and the Atlantic shores with their massive algae are a miraculous thing when you are used to the microtidal Mediterranean 🤩

A nature journal page. The spread shows a rocky coastline at low tide with a kelp forest emerging, below that an illustration of a lighthouse on a cliff. On the right side of the spread details of the kelp and a leaf of the brown alga Fucus serratus. Done in watercolour.

A watercolour illustration of an oyster.

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Vangelis Tzanatos @acanofsardines.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

First day at the @icesmarine.bsky.social #ICESASC26 in Brest and already feeling like it is a blast! Fantastic plenary and round-table discussions to warm up for the "proper" scientific sessions coming up after lunch! Not to mention the joy of meeting amazing scientists, collaborators & friends...

Phare du Portzic, a lighthouse situated close to Brest (France), where this year's ICES Annual Science Conference is taking place. View from the beach at low tide (while rockpooling in the area).

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🌊 ASC 2026 starts today! ICES community is gathering in Brest for a packed week of science. From changing ecosystems and biodiversity to fisheries, spatial planning and science-policy connections, we’ll be exploring the questions shaping the future of our oceans. Let’s get started! #ICESASC26

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

4983m That's the 1st polychaete I've seen that looks like this. Cool! @nautiluslive.org dive on 8-25-26 #MarineLife

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A few photos from last week's IPC15 conference in Frankfurt. Many thanks to Carly for capturing them

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#IPC15 in Frankfurt is over *sniff*... but see you all in 3 years in Japan dor #IPC16! 😍

Picture of a power pont slide advertising sake varieties, a part of the advertisement for the next international polychaete conference in Japan

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Worm tattoos courtesy of IPC15

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The final day of IPC15 was a fascinating insight into the world of EvoDevo & genomics. Two invited speakers Elaine Seaver and Toru Miura provided a backdrop for a series of fascinating talks.

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The afternoon of Day 5 of IPC15 Frankfurt saw the general assembly, election of council members and president, selection of next conference, student prizes and thanks to the amazing team. It was also a chance to remember members of our polychaete family who are sadly no longer with us.

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A fantastic first day of IPC15 in Frankfurt, so many great talks and posters. Our hosts are looking after us so well too.

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Polychaete Bob @polychaetebob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Another fantastic day at IPC15 in Frankfurt. Day 2 focused on taxonomy, systematics and phylogenomics. Interestingly it started and finished with the renowned sand striker worms, with the fascinating story of Walter.

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

On my to Frankfurt for the International Polychaete Conference #IPC15

A backpack with a poster tube standing on a train platform, in the background a train in a station

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A year ago we published a paper on a large-scale analysis of environmental data from fish farms in Greece www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Yesterday a colleague showed me a paper they got assigned to review. By a single author. Exactly this paper. Same images. Only text changed with AI. 1/n

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Large-scale analysis of environmental and ecological impacts of marine finfish aquaculture in the Aegean and Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

Marine finfish aquaculture is a rapidly expanding industry and contributes significantly to global seafood production. However, this rapid growth rais…

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Look, @thelongestjohns.bsky.social , the Wellerman also comes to marine science conferences nowadays! 😃

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Laura Kranich @laurakranich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is just stunning. The northern Baltic Sea with ocean temperature anomlies of up to 11 degrees C, absolute temps of up to 24°C 🤯, the Norwegian Sea up to 7 deg C too hot, absolute temps of up to 23 deg C, due to the unprecedented heat wave in Scandinavia. The future is grim.

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Diving over a #rhodolith bed the other day. Rhodoliths are calcareous red algae that are not attached to anything and just form little balls on the seabed. They are a highly biodiverse habitat and I saw so many species I have never seen before! Spot the cheerleeder #crab!

A very long-legged crab with little flappy red algae growing on its legs for camouflage. It sits on a muddy seafloor with more red algae and is basically not visible.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Many may not remember the DENDROGRAMMA mystery! This weird mushroom-shaped thing was described in 2014 as a "new metazoan" of unknown affinities! They were hinting that it might be a new phylum-but THEN 2 years later @drtimohara.bsky.social sequenced it and BOING! BENTHIC #SIPHONOPHORE!

mushroom shaped organism with translucent base

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

inaturalist•org Update on June 11, 2025 9:15pm EDT “We are not giving Google special access to your iNat data, and we have no obligation to use Google's infrastructure…If the demo… is not helpful, compromises data quality, has outsized environmental impacts, or is … too flawed, we will not keep it.”

We recognize that this announcement has caused a lot of upset and confusion among people who care deeply about iNaturalist. In the hundreds of comments, we hear that many people feel betrayed, disrespected, and without agency. We sincerely apologize.
With respect for the ethical and environmental concerns raised, we'd like to offer more clarity about our plans with this grant and program. We know that trust is not easily rebuilt, but we'd like to try.

First, to clarify some things we did not clearly communicate:

1. We are not replacing or changing the current human-curated system of identifications. Many of you have rightly pointed out that this is at the heart of iNat, and we wouldn't dream of doing away with it. Anything we explore with Al would only be meant to enhance the experience of some users: by, for example, providing an interesting tip about identifying the species, suggesting that the photographer try to capture a particular aspect of the plant or animal that might aid a human identifier, or explaining the computer vision's logic for the identification it's suggested.
2. We are not giving Google special access to your iNat data, and we have no obligation to use Google's infrastructure as part of this grant. Google is providing funding and advice on how to potentially leverage Al.
3. Naturalist has successfully incorporated machine learning and computer vision (kinds of Al) since 2017, with a very small footprint (primarily three machines running in spaces we control). We understand that new technologies can have much larger environmental impacts, and we aim to quantify the environmental footprint of Naturalist's infrastructure for 2025 and beyond.
4. This grant funds our team exploring new ways to surface and organize helpful identification comments - and if the demo we create is not helpful, compromises data quality, has outsized environmental impacts, or is overall too flawed, we will not keep it.

This project is just getting off the ground, and we …

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The Naturalist community has always been a core partner in informing the direction of the platform, and we appreciate and hear your feedback (including but not limited to):
• We understand that you are concerned about inaccurate, out-of-context and/or hallucinated information being provided by a tool like this. We agree that any Al-provided information be clearly labeled as such and that there be a way to upvote/downvote or otherwise flag potentially misleading information, and we are excited to explore more ways for how this may happen.
• We hear that people would like to be able to understand and control how their data is used on and beyond iNaturalist. On iNaturalist, you own the copyright to your data, and iNaturalist Terms of Use prohibit the use of data for commercial Al training. Whether commercial Al companies are beholden to copyright law or terms of use or can argue "fair use" of publicly accessible data is being worked out in the courts and is something we are paying attention to.
• Most importantly, the community will be involved in the creation of this and any major new features.
We will not be implementing any new changes to what you see on iNaturalist right now without involving the community. Our plan is to have an initial demo available for select user testing by the end of 2025. If you have more feedback, ideas, concerns, or questions you'd be willing to share, please use this form so we can more easily keep track of them.
Additionally, if you would like to attend a virtual Q&A session to have some of this discussion in real time, please let us know in this form (more details to be determined).
Again, the project funded by this grant is just getting started. We will proceed carefully and respectfully, and we're immensely grateful for this incredible and engaged community.

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Lil' seahorse I saw today while snorkling...😍

A photo of a seahorse. It is grey-brownish in colour, over a muddy seafloor with shells and other detritus. Two sea urchins are half visible at either end of the photo. The seahorse has affixed its tail to something on the bottom and is swaying in the water, its snout almost touching the floor.

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Noll @nollthere.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Wormification - #InsertAnInvert2024 "Long, not limbless." I chose to do a paddleworm, specifically Phyllodoce medipapillata. I think this is the most beautiful worm I've ever seen on land or sea. I was DELIGHTED like a child seeing glitter for the first time looking at reference pics. #sciart

Art of a shimmery marine worm with golden, paddle-like limbs.

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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Look at this absolute beaut paddleworm Phyllodoce medipapillata. How cute is that face? And the beautiful luminescent shimmer on the body. Small but mighty. 📷Alex Heyman via iNaturalist #NoVERMber

A paddleworm that has leaf-like parapods on the side of the body (like paddles), two eyes on the head and a shimmery segmented body.

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🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻 @entobiologist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This looks amazingly useful! Congrats to the authors for this huge effort!

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Congratulations to my master student Alexandra Zachariadou for her first paper. She studied the impact of #aquaculture on coastal macrophyte communities in #Greece. Apart from a nice work that came out of this It was really a pleasure to work with her! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Macrophyte-based ecological assessment of coastal areas near fish farms in the Aegean and Ionian Seas

This study examined the effect of aquaculture on benthic macrophytes growing on coastal hard substrates across Greece. Stations were categorized into …

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Paul M Smith @paulmsmithphoto.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I've been accused of AI quite a bit lately. I get it, the current social media trends do not foster an environment of trust. But with real photography, we have the human touch and true imagery of nature that can uncover secrets about our world that an AI eye simply cannot.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/05/2025

This is beautful. And so simple. Queer people are scared. This is all you have to do as a cis het person to help take some of that fear away.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 29/05/2025

浅瀬で見つけたのは、泳ぐウミウシの仲間「ムラサキウミコチョウ」初見はまさに胡蝶の夢🫧 ウミコチョウと名付けた人のセンスに脱帽です！ In the shallow tidepools, I found a swimming sea slug— Sagaminopteron ornatum🫧 Seeing it for the first time felt like Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream. Whoever named it “Umikochou” (Sea Butterfly) had truly poetic sense!

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

One of the biggest, most beautiful larval-stage #dragonfish ever! . Shot while drifting in the open ocean at night #deepseafish #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug #scubadiving #underwater #plankton

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Vangelis Tzanatos @acanofsardines.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Packing up to go to Hamburg for the annual meeting of the @icesmarine.bsky.social Working Group on Comparative Ecosystem-based Analyses of Atlantic & Mediterranean marine systems (COMEDA). Looking forward to seeing familiar faces, meeting new ones & discussing the amazing science they are all doing!

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Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Last week we explored an area with our new ROV and came across this gorgeous field of sabellid #polychaete worms. We don't know the species and generally not much about these aggregations. But they are very beautiful! #wormwednesday

A low angle view of a dense aggregation of sabellid worms. These live in tubes which are whitish and upright and from their top the worm emerges. Only their tentacular crowns are visible - a feathery, flowery light blue crown with a few dark spots. The sabellid field is bright in the foreground, illuminated by the lights of the remotely operated underwater vehicle, and dark blue above.

A view of the same sabellid field from.a higher angle - the field of feathery crowns stretches far into the background of the photo until.it becomes one with the dark background.

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jacob 🧍 @jajeumm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Painting of pompeii worms (Alvinella pompejana), which live in communities near deep sea hydrothermal vents. Also the piece featured in the #Invertefest artbook #art #invertebrate #SciArt