🦈 A petition has been launched to ban sharks from being sold under misleading names, asking that their common names are instead used to enable consumers to make ethical and environmental choices. divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-n…

HOT OFF THE PRESS! It's a story of bobtails. The female bobtails have a consortium of bacteria living in many tubes called the ANG. This bacteria is used to protect developing baby squid! What happens when squid grow up without that community nearby? 👇 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Computer Vision was used to measure density and size of the xenophyophore Syringammina fragilissima. More than 58,000 images were analysed, resulting in a workflow that can dramatically speed-up deep-sea benthic ecology studies 📰doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… Prof Kerry Howell (not in use) University of Plymouth

Have you spotted the new Living Seawall panels at Plymouth Barbican? These panels are designed to increase habitat complexity and biodiversity by mimicking the structure of natural shorelines. Project led by University of Plymouth together with support from organisations across the world!

Lovely yellow stalked crinoid Parahyocrinus claguei, 1831 m #Okeanos Aleutian Subduction Zone

Finally got a chance to do some painting over the holidays, so here is a lovely nudibranch based on one of the ROV images from the JC136 cruise that I helped to annotate last year as part of my ResM! Already missing the DeepSeaCRU 😁

Passed my ResM viva with corrections this Monday! Thanks again to @CherisseDuPreez, Clare Embling and my supervisor Prof Kerry Howell (not in use) as well as the rest of the DeepSeaCRU research team!

I missed posting these from that dive. A look down the center of an iridogorgia, a cool looking glass sponge, cluster of barnacles, and polychaete worm. Castle Rock Seamount #NorthAtlanticSteppingStones NOAA Ocean Exploration #Okeanos

The world’s oldest organism — a deep sea black coral — has been living in Papahānaumokuākea for 4,000 years! Scientists can measure the corals’ age by looking at growth rings, just like a tree on land. buff.ly/3VAEt4r

New Deep-Sea Cucumber Has 100 Feet deepseanews.com/2024/04/new-de…

Another great opportunity to join us University of Plymouth - PhD studentship in #antimicrobial discovery & #microbial #ecology. Working with our colleagues at the Roman Baths. Just over 10 days to closing date. #AntimicrobialResistance #NaturalProducts jobs.ac.uk/job/DGV234/phd…

‘Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean’. This is mind blowing! 🤯 Researchers have discovered that metallic nodules on the deep ocean floor produce oxygen! bbc.com/news/articles/…

Reminder to submit exciting news about your projects, events, or cruises over the past 6 months, to be included in the August 2024 Deep-Sea Life issue. Deadline to submit is August 2, 2024. Relevant information, here: dosi-project.org/deep-sea-life-…

📢#PhD opportunity for an exciting interdisciplinary project focused on #computervision, #ai and #marinebiology by Marine Research Plymouth, hosted by University of Plymouth with collaboration Plymouth Marine Lab and MBA - Marine Biological Association. Supervisory by Dena Bazazian, Prof Kerry Howell (not in use). plymouth.ac.uk/study/research…