So rewarding to see years of work led by Carlos Taboada and Jesse Delia in three labs (mine, Junjie Yao, Lauren O’Connell) finally come to fruition. Short version: glassfrogs maintain transparency by hiding their red blood cells in their mirrored livers. nytimes.com/2022/12/22/sci…

This is my car, packed with Christmas presents, at 7am this morning. I can’t catch a break. 😞#stormsurge

Working on something special for the Libbie Hyman Memorial Auction at #sicb2023 - here’s a preview hint! SICB

Still working on my Libbie Hyman Invertebrate Auction contribution while flying toward #sicb2023 SICB

I think this is the prettiest poster session I have ever attended and I don’t think I’m biased just because it’s my Alma Mater UNAM #SSB2023

Three of us just completely lost track of time and spent hours deciphering R code and drawing whiteboard trees in rachelss 's office but... we figured it out!! (well, mostly) 🙂

Teaching students to interpret data and write their first scientific paper can be hard! Our new publication provides all the materials you need to teach these skills in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses. 1/ doi.org/10.24918/cs.20…

Bluebottles (Physalia) are known for drifting across the ocean with their large float as a sail. On our blue-water scuba dives in Hawaii, we found tiny 4mm babies down at 20 feet, not yet ready to breach the surface. Cc Jellywatch

This is awesome! Congrats Darrin Schultz stevehaddock.bsky et al!

We are excited to announce that our fifth scientific meeting, GIGA V, will be held in Cartagena, Colombia Oct 31-Nov 3, 2023. Learn more and join in: gigacos.org/index.php/meet…

Had the sudden, insatiable urge to paint a squid

Great paper by High Seas Science and colleagues documenting the life teeming in the great Pacific garbage patch goodnewsnetwork.org/pacific-garbag…

Tonight’s #rainbow 🌈 & #sunset 🌅 from the bow of the MV Aurelia 🛥️ in Greenwich Cove, Rhode Island #liveaboard

I wish Mark Hamill and Annie Potts would reunite for a sequel to Corvette Summer.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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.