Some detail with Cocco's Lanternfish (Gonichthys cocco). The photophores (light producing organs) are beautiful in this deep water species (lower inset). Trawled from the Gulf of Mexico, August 2016.

One of the goliaths of the deep - a giant amphipod (Cystisoma sp). We get these fairly regular in the deeper tows. The entire head of these amphipod is comprised of giant eyes. Trawled from the Gulf of Mexico, August 2016.

Looking for 3 PhD students to join exciting new #seagrass #restoration project (starting July 2024) focusing on #Indigenous knowledge, #genetics & scaling up solutions. Deadline for scholarship applications: 22 Sept 2023 - get in touch if interested unsw.edu.au/research/hdr/s…

Not a bad spot for some dugong DNA hunting 🧬 Eva Paulus

Today we got to take some eDNA samples while humpback whales and their calves were waving at us in the background! 🐋 #HerveyBay #Australia Joe Perkins

Comrades! Two on-line coral ID workshops coming up. No1: ZOOM: Timezone = Europe, Africa, West Asia. NOVEMBER 23 - 26, 2023, 7PM - 11PM (GMT+10:00) BRISBANE TIMEZONE - 4 x 4 hr Registration for online format (and testimonials) at: byoguides.com/pages/workshops

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Exciting #PhD opportunity available on population genomics of sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands benthic taxa with Prof Jan Strugnell Nerida Wilson and me! Please share widely! Deadline 24 Nov 23 For more info: marine-omics.net/phd-projects-o… Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future James Cook Uni MarineOmics

Delighted that our research is published in Science Magazine today! 🐙 🧬 Sally Lau Nerida Wilson Tim Naish @nick_golledge Ira Cooke Prof Louise Allcock Catarina Silva MarineOmics James Cook Uni Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future SCAR INSTANT

Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. #STEMeducation #Science #sciart

I've been looking through some old NOAA images and there's some pretty gnarly parasitology going on - this poor rattail has a huge parasitic copepod (brownish fluffy with yellow eggcases) and no fewer than three marine leeches apparently feeding on the copepod!

A ghost pipefish. When something so beautiful tries so hard not to be seen

Today was a deep-sea biologist’s dream come true. I got to meet my hero- the gorgeous #blobfish here on our Ocean Census expedition in the Bounty Trough #NewZealand where we are collaborating with @niwa_nz and Te Papa exploring the depths for new species

If you don't find this concerning, you really don't understand how bad things are getting. Yes, there's an El Niño at the moment, but the sea surface temperature anomaly has never been so extreme during previous El Niños. From The Guardian article - link in following post.

Join the Minderoo Foundation OceanOmics team as a Deep-Sea Research Assistant! You'll assist in voyage planning, fieldwork, and lab operations (eDNA and genomic). linkedin.com/jobs/view/3832… seek.com.au/job/73795811?t…

New #Dugong paper out! Exploring the dugong' s intricate habitat preferences within a #coral #reef #lagoon in New Caledonia, we found fascinating winter aggregations of dugongs OUTSIDE the lagoon & confirm dugong behaviour thermoregulation doi.org/10.1071/PC23036 James Cook Uni TropWATER

I’m looking for a few hundred fish photos please 🙏 We’re testing a new machine learning pipeline for landmarking and it works great for zebrafish but we’d like to test other species too.

#JobOpportunity Join us SENCKENBERG #Frankfurt as a Collection Scientist and Curator of #Marine #Invertebrates. 🪸🧽Candidates with expertise in #corals, #sponges, #bryozoans, #echinoderms, or other organismal groups are welcome to apply by May 30. 👉 sgn.one/5s8