Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Obsoleting my previous post..! Custom sequence logo generation for proteins is now avaiable through a browser interface, with a dark theme option for your conference presentations. 🧪 beroe.github.io/sequence-log... 1101
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have never liked the style of these protein sequence logos, so I subdued the colors and had Claude make a custom version that can use any typeface. Small details: it does not fatten sans serif 'I' characters and puts a tiny gap between letters. All user configurable. 🧪 github.com/beroe/sequen... 071
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you’re known by the company you keep, I’m in good shape with this article about ctenophores. Great to be paired up with these luminaries, including @ibudin.bsky.social 🦑🌊🧪 0173
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print! Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙 Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑 04311
Reposted by Steve HaddockCorey Garza @profcgarza.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Attending the 2026 Western Society of Naturalists Meeeting in Sacramento? Consider submitting an abstract to our session on the use of autonomous systems & machine learning in marine science. Research & education talks welcomed. Abstracts due September 9th. www.wsn-online.org/annual-meeti... 142
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 27/08/20265800+ chromosome-scale genomes? ✅ Eye-popping visualizations? ✅ Spanning the entirety of animal evolution? ✅ The latest from Prof. Darrin Schultz and company 🧪 050
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026You know that feeling when you’re chasing a dream you’ve had for 20 years, and …. you get stung in the face by a Portuguese man o’war? Same. 🦑🌊🧪 1302
Reposted by Steve Haddockalex jaffe @alexjaf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026my first 'data descriptor'! hoping this one will be useful for folks interested in tracing the distribution of genomes/genes/proteins over physicochemical gradients in the (deep) marine water column. 2178
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Attention fans of #ctenophores 🌊🦑🧪 Please consider joining us at the Ctenopalooza Ctwo conference/celebration in California this August. Support is potentially available for artists and communicators. www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Register soon or miss out on the fun! Meals included!mbari.orgCtenopalooza Ctwo • MBARICtenopalooza Ctwo – a meeting of those interested in ctenophores About the meeting The past decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of these fascinating animals—spanning genomics, cel... 094
Reposted by Steve HaddockMichael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines 616288339436
Reposted by Steve HaddockMichael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I 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/... 14639
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Just 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! 320
Reposted by Steve HaddockRiley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 25/03/2026New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas... 810517
Reposted by Steve HaddockWoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026(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 12810
Reposted by Steve HaddockJulie Packard @juliepackard.montereybayaquarium.org · 14/03/2026The 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/4s4hVq6bit.lyThe Ocean Legacy of National Geographic Explorer Dr. Tierney ThysIn Memoriam 212547
Reposted by Steve HaddockDarrin T. Schultz @dts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026When 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... 074
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026San 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... 0146
Reposted by Steve HaddockMichael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 24/02/2026From 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? 111740
Reposted by Steve HaddockGeorge Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 24/02/2026🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 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...mbari.orgCtenopalooza Ctwo • MBARICtenopalooza Ctwo – a meeting of those interested in ctenophores About the meeting The past decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of these fascinating animals—spanning genomics, cel... 23211
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Calling 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. 28024
Reposted by Steve HaddockJilanne Hoffmann | Kidlit @jilanne.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Under 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 718048
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Related 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!youtube.comGrace under pressure: How membranes help comb jellies thrive in the deepYouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) 0254
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The re-analysis of this #sponge #ctenophore study made me realize how important it is to really *look* at your data. Their filtering pipeline was meant to retain "strong" genes, but many of them had NO ctenophores and most had polyphyletic sponges. Time to put down the pitchforks for a while. 1199
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026This is a limited, regionally relevant post, but… I’ll be giving a talk at the Sanctuary Exploration Center in Santa Cruz on Friday Jan 16th. Come say hi if you’re in town. 🦑🧪 (I’m presenting in San Francisco in early Feb as well) 0134
Reposted by Steve HaddockMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/01/2026‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart. ‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things. …what? A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’ 27995185
Reposted by Steve HaddockPawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Thrilled to see our review article "The evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins" highlighted on the cover of Nature Reviews Neuroscience 🤩. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @msarscentre.bsky.social 🧠✨🧬🌊🪼🧽 112137
Reposted by Steve HaddockTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025This could be your dream job: working full time at the Friday Harbor Labs on marine invertebrate organismal biology. Nine month salary from an endowment, teaching and research faculty position. apply.interfolio.com/178804apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 13028
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 16/12/2025A survey for Ctenophore Ctuesday: * What way is this comb jelly swimming? Up or Down? 🧪🦑🤷♂️🌊🤿 24412
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 10/12/2025OK, this is wild! Smithsonian Magazine included The Radiant Sea in their Best Photography Books of 2025! 😲 From the start, our goal was to entice people with pretty pictures, and then sneak in the science, so to have both appreciated is a complete thrill. 🦑🧪📸 Not bad for a couple biologists :^) 0222
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Not to mention… we just had our 4th ever sighting of Haliphron in over 35 years (7000+ ROV dives). Its arms were closed up but we followed it until we could see that it was again holding a jellyfish… m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_lt... See also: www.nature.com/articles/sre...m.youtube.comFresh from the deep: Rarely encountered seven-arm octopus in Monterey BayYouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) 1134
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Our book The Radiant Sea was chosen as one of five "Must Buy" science books by the Wall Street Journal! :^D I don't like to promote Am@z0n, but... it is on sale there for super cheap right now too. Image below showing fluorescence of one of the animals featured in the book. 🦑🧪🌊 2557
Reposted by Steve HaddockPawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.socialrdcu.beThe evolutionary origins of synaptic proteins and their changing roles in different organisms across evolutionNature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent studies have shed further light on the evolutionary origins of chemical synapses, In this Review, Colgren and Burkhardt explore how ancient proteins were... 4361139
Reposted by Steve HaddockPrakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025“Cellular Olympics” our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superhero’s is freely available “Ann Rev of microbiology” www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... This is a compilation of world’s fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. 🧪 011341
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Let's do another #ctenophore survey. You are scuba divining and see this lobate comb jelly cruising in search of prey. Is it swimming to the LEFT or RIGHT? 🦑🧪🌊 6414440
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉 Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social) 14311
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Thanks to those of you brave enough to vote. :^) Still time to sway the results with your own thoughts on #ctenophore anatomy. 🦑🧪 1110
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 04/10/2025For CTENOPHORE DAY, a little survey: Which end of this fishing Pleurobrachia is the mouth on? Please just "vote" in the comments — no definitive answers. 🦑🧪🌊 P.S. this is one of my earliest #ctenophore photos, shot on film in a home-built kreisel. P.P.S. Legit data-gathering for a future paper. 146619
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Not to hijack this thread, but our book The Radiant Sea includes 35 pages of fluorescent animals (and humans.. and asparagus). Here is a young strawberry squid showing green fluorescence in the eyes and red fluorescent caps on its photophores. 🦑🧪🌊 1181
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 15/09/2025@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast www.upr.org/podcasts/103... I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉 Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org 🦑🧪🌊upr.orgUnDisciplined: Under the seaDeep in the ocean, jellyfish, shrimp, fireworms and other creatures use multi–colored lights for defense, luring food, attracting mates, and communication. In their new book, Steven Haddock and Sönke ... 0234
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It is great to see Mackenzie Gerringer's taxonomic work, describing a fish we collected from 3800 meters, featured in the @nytimes.com. We tried to spin this story to combat the blobfish's "ugliest creature" reputation, to get people excited by deep-sea exploration, not turned away. 🧪🦑 35110
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 07/09/2025My first sighting of The Radiant Sea in the wild, at our local bookshop. If you have any “encounters” I would love to see them. 🙃 #booksky 1232
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Thanks to your incredible support, THE RADIANT SEA is already the top-selling new release in... Entomology? There are going to be some disappointed bug-huggers out there (looking at you @franzanth.bsky.social). 😉 I am hopeful they will warm up to pictures of ocean bugs like Cystisoma. 3336
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 28/08/2025BTW I updated the Bioluminescence and Biooptics starter pack with a couple new faces. Let me know if you should be included..! go.bsky.app/9wFuWB9 010
Reposted by Steve HaddockCasey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...sciencedirect.comPopulation genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open oceanThe open ocean is a vast, highly connected environment, and the organisms found there have been hypothesized to represent massive, well-mixed populati… 15646
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊 1521770
Reposted by Steve HaddockPawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective. Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores #volumeEM 47523
Reposted by Steve HaddockCathy Lucas @drjello67.bsky.social · 01/08/2025www.ucc.ie/en/bees/rese... Calling all those interested in #jellyfish - preliminary information about the 8th International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium being held in Cork in 2026 is available. Follow the link.ucc.ie8th Jellyfish Blooms Symposium | University College CorkLearn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus. 061
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Come out and say Hi at MBARI’s open house Saturday the 12th from noon to 5. This is the one day a year that we are open to the public. We will have a biooptics and plankton booth set up! 080
Reposted by Steve HaddockSamuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Wish I could be at #Evol2025 this year! I’ll be starting a new lab at NYU this fall, and will be recruiting at all levels. Please spread the word if you know anyone who wants to work on evo. genomics, phylogenies, and comparative development of inverts (like Hawaiian Drosophila!) shchurch.github.io 73817
Reposted by Steve HaddockSamuel Church @shchurch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌 216948