I’m afraid this is nothing so intentional — just a deep-sea animal that has not experienced so many photons. We called Marrus claudanielis the Exploding Red Siph before describing it. Isolated pieces of stem will contract violently under bright light. marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=so…

“Kids these days” don’t know how good they have it with presentations. Found some old slides where I cut colored transparencies and sandwich them behind high-contrast negatives to make colored projections. Now I’m usually fiddling with Keynote late the night before my talk!

Susan Casey (Susan Casey) traversed all my emotions about the Titan sub failure in this deep dive for Vanity Fair. Great writing!

Congratulations Manabu. I have always wondered about springtail #bioluminescence relative to other insects. It’s great you and the team are working on it. I’ve only seen them on snow by the hundreds, looking like sprinkled pepper. Wonder what it is used for?

Sorry for my frustrated tone, but this has to be one of the worst science books of all time. 🌊 I took myself off as content advisor when they insisted on mixing pictures of bioluminescent, fluorescent, and iridescent animals next to one caption. Tiny author note at end… 😢

This was weird to notice: two accomplished Ell* Mackays in my network. Elly MacKay Ellie Mackay

Recent PhD interested in deep-sea ecology, genomics, biochemistry, or bioluminescence? Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship at MBARI. Check out the sponsor list & e-mail me to discuss projects hosted by my lab. Grad student position opening soon too. mbari.org/about/careers/…

Your style is great, but almost every #dragonfish pictured online has been net-caught, with head and jaw nearly ripped off. In life, they look more like you'd expect. #SundayFishSketch

If you are in the SF Bay area, tonight (Friday) at 7pm I’ll be giving a family friendly talk about marine bioluminescence and fluorescence at the Chabot Space & Science Center.

Welcome home to Monterey Western Flyer!!

Sad that pretty much every new Like or Follow is from a spam account, with a 6-digit number in the name, no tweets, and around zero followers.

Any recommendations for Spanish-language “fundamentals of data viz” using #rstats ?

Returning to plug a new paper by me and Anela Choy in which we review life in the ocean's deep water-column. annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114… The editor kindly let us go over-length, but we still couldn't fit all the great research done by the deep-sea community.

First chapter of my PhD thesis is out in the Dunn lab Casey Dunn. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!! Darrin Schultz Natasha Picciani, PhD stevehaddock.bsky and others!!

During our project work Smithsonian Panama taxonomy course, we found that hydrozoans show diverse fluorescence patterns that can vary across life stage and species🪼Happy to see our little study out Bridget Vincent stevehaddock.bsky Emily Lau, PhD Alexandra De León doi.org/10.7773/cm.y20…

🐌 I guess National Snail Day is a good time to share the overwhelming diversity of pelagic gastropods we saw in the Gulf of California, Mexico, last month. We used scuba and trawls on the R/V Sally Ride, supported by NSF grants and expertise of Brad Seibel and Amy Maas.

Super fun article by Elizabeth Anne Brown spotlights our deep-sea research led by Jacob Winnikoff and Itay Budin Itay Budin scientificamerican.com/article/how-de…

This #lipidtime story is the continuation of our collaboration with stevehaddock.bsky that uses #ctenophores as a powerful (and beautiful) comparative system for understanding the molecular basis for biological specialization