I am thrilled to give a seminar at MBARI tomorrow. I will talk about my PhD/NGS work. I will be happy to see some of you remember to register :) National Geographic Society. Immense thanks to Dr. George Matsumoto for the opportunity🪸🪸Deep-Sea Biology Society Schmidt Ocean 4D Oceans Lab MUNSU

Announcing the Ocean Census Taxonomy Awards 📣 A new opportunity to provide financial support to taxonomists, biodiversity and citizen scientists to accelerate the pace of marine species discovery. Available to the Ocean Census Science Network. 🗓️ Launching Monday 1st July.

Hi everyone! I’m hiring for a super cool role! I’m looking for someone to manage the partnership between California Academy of Sciences iNaturalist & California Department of Fish and Wildlife develop processes to share community collected data w/ the State for conservation decision making! us241.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePorta…

A fresh look at Marian Pettibone, whose contribution to scale-worm taxonomy in her time was prodigious #wormwednesday "Her publication rate notably surged post-retirement ..."

The Smithsonian Institution's Department of Invertebrate Zoology is hosting seminars every Tuesday. I'll present the advances in our work in 🪸CWC tomorrow😌. Registration here naturalhistory.si.edu/research/inver…… Deep-Sea Biology Society Andrea Quattrini Schmidt Ocean 4D Oceans Lab 🧵

We are departing! I am so excited to be the next two weeks exploring the mesophotic and deep sea benthos of the Gulf of Mexico with an amazing team of scientist part of the #MDBC program

New feature!!!!!! For Long Now Foundation, I explored the world of underwater livestream fandom, the passionate aquanauts & amateur taxonomists digitally exploring the deep sea together longnow.org/ideas/a-stream…

oh NICE! Allegra Rosenberg wrote up my involvement with deep-sea citizen science! A thing that did not exist until a few years ago! #Okeanos and such longnow.org/ideas/a-stream…

We'd like to wish the team on board E/V Nautilus all the best on their Ancient Seamounts of Jarvis Island expedition 👋🚢 Ocean Census Science Network member and deep-sea sponge expert Cristiana Castello-Branco is onboard as a guest scientist. More 👉 oceancensus.pulse.ly/vo4u1h4gfg

Clarification-that is Dr. Anna Metaxas next to Martha! Dr. O'Shea is on the far left of the flag shot in the blue!

Seeing red may mean you’re angry on dry land, but in the Twilight Zone, BEING red means you’re invisible! Many animals between 200-1,000m are red or black; these colors are not easily observable w/out light. This siphonophore was spotted during the #NazcaHighSeas expedition.

Since being described in 2018, the new records of Heliopora hiberniana keep on coming. These colonies are from 30 m depth @ Killibobs Knob, Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, PNG. 🙏 Russell Kelley Russell Kelley for sharing. #coralCOREgroup #CoralFinder #OctocoralFinder

Our very own Dr. Allen Collins, curator of sponges, jellies and comb jellies is featured on this article about the mysterious DEEPSTARIA! #medusamonday livescience.com/animals/jellyf…

#FossilFriday Abundant freshwater bivalves in the Early Cretaceous Wealden paving stones used in the garden at Bateman’s NT, East Sussex.

The Smithsonian fellowship program is now open to postdocs and grad students. Applications due Oct 15. Come work with us NMNH Invert Zoology We study all the fun animals 🪸🦪🪱🪼🐚🐙🦑🧽 John Pfeiffer A.J. Phillips K. Osborn Lab @nmnh fellowships.si.edu/SIFP

Dr. Allen Collins of NOAA/ @invertebratesDC and grad student Nick Bezio reveal century old #deepsea #ctenophoreTuesday benthic comb jelly mystery! #okeanos oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oer-updat…