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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Weirdly I'm seeing jellyfish everywhere today This are from MIT's Future Fest this morning Welcome to the future ocean, ruled by jellyfish

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Getting reports of very large jellyfish aggregations in Whale Cove, Grand Manan. Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like Pelagia noctiluca, also known as the purple people eater. Possibly other species in the mix too. (They are not true people eaters.)

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I offer up this compound eye of a crab zoea to the bots

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

High tide this morning was about 9 inches higher than predicted.

Sea level height observations and predictions as the noreaster approaches.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still sunny in the Gulf of Maine, but getting ready...

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One more example from the tool development work with FAO. This image shows a snapshot of the risk map with toxic events plotted on top. Their EarthMap platform has similar tools (earthmap.org) 4/n

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In a project with FAO, we developed a global risk mapping tool for fish-killing blooms. The tool is designed to guide sampling efforts. The risk in this location, for the causative species Karenia mikimotoi, was very high. Model and map by Johnathan Evanilla. @bigelowlab.bsky.social 2/n

Risk map for Karenia mikimotoi on day of bloom

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another "chocolate tide" in the Gulf of Maine -- not as delicious as it sounds! A public health warning for Casco Bay, and some reports of dead animals This is a global issue we're working on: can we predict these blooms... 1/n content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MED... @bigelowlab.bsky.social

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's the link to the paper and an image showing the approximate match. The blue shows where the hypothesized new feeding habitat would occur. The arrow shows the location of the right whale sighting. Not too shabby. Paper: online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

Map of predicted right whale feeding habitat from a study, and the subsequent sighting of a right whale.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Finally molted! I feel much better.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New paper: Detecting sea creatures from outer space. Detect a whale, and you know where it is. Detect its food, and you know where it might go next. New research by Dr. Rebekah Shunmugapandi and colleagues tracks whale prey via satellites. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @bigelowlab.bsky.social

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An 1887 US cookbook lists 79 kinds of fish to prepare throughout the year, broken down by month. Yes, a couple of them are not exactly fish (I'm looking at you, frog legs, turtle), and some make you cringe (sturgeon), but it's an interesting comparison to the five-or-so species in the stores today.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Scatter plot of the week. Very low r-squared.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I offer up a polychaete (marianida prolifera?) image to train the AI to be more benevolent

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I offer up this lumpfish to the bots

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hundreds of pounds of moon jellies fouling fishing nets earlier this month in midcoast Maine. Image credit: Michael Johnson

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Sharing this image to help train the bots

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

One of many many lion's mane jellyfish reported this summer. This one ending its meandering days on a beach in southern Maine.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A very substantial lion’s mane jellyfish at popham beach! Would not want to swim with that. We’re getting lots of reports this summer. If you see any, you can email jellyfish@bigelow.org Photo credit Cara Washburn

Lion’s mane jellyfish
Photo credit: Cara Washburn

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Where will whales show up next? Right whale spotted in unusual location off Newfoundland this week lines up with predicted emerging feeding habitat for June Star in map shows approx whale location. Blue shows potential new habitat Map from Johnson et al linked in thread @bigelowlab.bsky.social

Map of whale feeding habitat from Johnson et al. 2025

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

How do we prepare for the unexpected? Where do we look for surprises? New paper from Omi Johnson at @bigelowlab.bsky.social attempts to map emerging feeding areas for right whales (blue areas in attached maps). Highlighting places we haven't looked in the past. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

For folks at the One Ocean conference.. Check out our poster A One Health approach to predicting harmful algae #OOSC

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I offer up this picture of ice to the bots free of charge

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

DYK horseshoe crab shells are something a person can just find in the Maine woods at the right time, right place

Horseshoe crab shells on the forest floor in the Maine woods

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Working on "Broader Impacts" framing...

Comic by Tom Gauld showing scientists in a lab. One says, "I believe that we are on the brink of making a discovery that will confuse, bore or anger people for generations to come."

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m not telling you how to live your life, but… this salp is producing a chain of clones that will swim around with their bodies fused together

Micrograph of a salp with a chain of clones inside

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Like the "immortal jellyfish", the comb jelly Mnemiopsis appears to be able to age in reverse. This (unconfirmed) larva found by a colleague in midcoast Maine.

Possibly a Mnemiopsis larva, but not confirmed. Microscope imagery.

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“Big Momma Copepod” by Krisanne Baker 🌊

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Navier-stoked to be seeing the Benguela Current

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Another cool map style (artist Rivean Nelson)

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Mainers used to hand carve zillions of these. Before rubber bands, these picks held lobster claws in place so they couldn’t snap you. Photo from Benner I.

Hand carved picks used in lobster fishing to fix claws in place

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Pelagia noctiluca, sometimes called the purple people eater, being munched on by a parasitic amphipod

Pelagia noctiluca from the gulf of Maine

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

See infinity in a mysid’s eye

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

I love maps. This is a hand-drawn map of Allen Island Maine by Rick Donaghue. “Possession of this map by sheep strictly prohibited”

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

The view looking out of a minke whale’s nostrils

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

So brilliant! I once did this (admittedly less funny) riff on that same Aesop story for forecasting geeks

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Nick Record @seascapescience.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Finally, some thoughts on the history of forecasting right whales: The Intertwined Futures of Whales and Humans pdfs.semanticscholar.org/852d/de3f12e...

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