1/11 New #OpenAccess #anglerfish paper in @plosone.org! We combine genomic, mitochondrial, and morphological data to produce the most complete evolutionary hypothesis for anglerfishes! Includes new body shape, habitat analyses, and a new frogfish subfamily) 🦑
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Thanks for having me on the program. Great to be invited to chat about the CCZ and the creatures that live there
What’s inside sediment cores? What can they tell us about our future, using the past? 🌋
Cían McGuire, Deputy Curator at @boscorf.bsky.social, answers those questions and more in the @ukri.org series '101 Jobs that Change the World'.
Watch now ⏯️ youtu.be/TPBx-FgoUnc?...
1978 image of seafloor prior to test
"To tackle the question of recovery from #DeepSeaMining, we need first to look to the past and use old mining tests to help understand long-term impacts." 🥽
New study reveals long-term impacts of #DeepSeaMining and first signs of biological recovery ➡️ noc.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
Biodiversity on the seafloor. Credit: The National Oceanography Centre and the Trustees of the Natural History Museum with acknowledgement to the NERC SMARTEX project
"Although we saw some areas with little or no recovery, some animal groups were showing the first signs of recolonisation and repopulation." 🐙
New study reveals long-term impacts of #DeepSeaMining and first signs of biological recovery ➡️ noc.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
A new study led by NOC has revealed the long-term impacts and first signs of biological recovery in deep-sea mining tracks, 44-years after deep-sea trials in the Pacific Ocean. 🔍
Learn more about the long term impacts of the trials on our website 📰 noc.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned that full recovery may be "impossible".
#Deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️
🦑 www.barrons.com/news/deep-se...
This will be an important and impactful paper on deep sea mining. 🌊
“mining impacts in the abyssal ocean will be persistent over at least decadal timeframes and communities will remain altered in directly disturbed areas, despite some recolonisation”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Panel 1 of a three panel comic. An isopod digs at a pile of dirt, text: scrape scrape.
Panel 2: The isopod digs more quickly, a human arm with tattoos and a spiked bracelet emerges from the soil. Text: dig, dig, accompanied by a speech bubble "Mph!"
Panel 3: The isopod stands next to three radical rock stars poking up from the ground. Rock star dialogue: Gasp! Thank you, A. Vulgare! Being trapped underground for weeks was putting mad strain on the band! Isopod dialogue: No problem, Isopods are great at removing heavy metal from soil.
The cutest parasite you’ll see today 🥹. This is an isopod from the suborder Epicaridea and it’s a crustacean parasite that has 2 hosts in different points in its lifecycle: copepods and larger crustaceans like shrimps. 1/2 🦑 #plankton
Oops, yes indeed, well spotted! We'd probably been discussing sponges just before and mixed our ossicles with our spicules!
Naming a species isn’t just a label—it’s a lifeline for conservation. But what happens when an animal loses its name?
That’s the story of 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘢. Dive into how researchers at @noc.ac.uk got this purple long-tailed sea cucumber its name back: tinyurl.com/Pbuglossa
Sooooo cute!
Serolid isopods from off South Georgia at 500 m deep! #BIOPOLE2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
Come visit our poster at #17DSBS to learn about the story behind the amazing artwork that was created for DOSI by Tanya Young 🎨
@dsbsoc.bsky.social
Using my first bluesky tweet (bleet?) to share a sneak peak of my poster at #17DSBS, I'll be there from 5:30-6:15pm ready to answer any questions! @dsbsoc.bsky.social
Giant isopods? Check👍
Star Wars fandom? Check👍
Cool science? Check👍
This story really does have it all! From one of the latest studies published in ZooKeys
blog.pensoft.net/2025/01/14/t...
Featuring gorgeous seaspiders, cookie cutter sharks, giant isopods, superstar Jethro and me! 😊
RRS Discovery in Funchal in 1966
Measuring the ocean depth in 1966
The first seagoing computer on RRS Discovery
John Swallow with one of his early floats in the 1960s
Ever wondered what it was like to be onboard a research ship over 50 years ago? 🚢
NOC Emeritus Fellow John Gould went down memory lane last month as he returned for a tour of #RRSDiscovery.
Read his blog on #OceanHorizons 📜 blogs.noc.ac.uk/ocean-horizo...
RRS James Cook
Are you a student or ECR seeking ship-based field work experience? Berth applications are now open for the next AtlantiS PAP site expedition (JC278).
📅 Application deadline for JC278: 5th January 2025
Applications form 👉 forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Dr Tammy Horton in the Discovery Collections
🐙 According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), since 1758, the average overall discovery rate has been 1,254 marine species per year!
Find out more about the growing world of discovery in our latest #OceanHorizon blog 🌊👉 blogs.noc.ac.uk/ocean-horizo...
I just learned about this game from @kakanikatija.bsky.social herself. It's beyond educational; it's actually helping advance deep sea science! 🧪🌊 Plus it's fun and GORGEOUS
A COOL article on the Antarctic isopod GLYPTONOTUS
www.inaturalist.org/blog/101168-...
🌊 New DOSI policy brief on deep-sea environmental impact research for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)! With a growing focus on mCDR, it’s crucial to understand the unique challenges posed by deep-sea ecosystems.
Check out the full brief for insights and recommendations: https://buff.ly/4e7ZCIZ
[New Paper] 11 NEW SPECIES -- Including two deep-sea hot vent limpets! The #OceanSpeciesDiscoveries is a publication series by @oceanspecies.bsky.social established to speed up the description and publication of new #marineinvertebrate species.
OPEN ACCESS LINK: bdj.pensoft.net/article/128431/
Excited to share that my isopod evolution paper is now out:
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in in isopods
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
14 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the massive oil spill that followed, and the seabed there shows little sign of recovery.
We have to stop thinking that nature is just going to clean up our messes, not just the acute, but also the slow steady ones.
hakaimagazine.com/news/the-dee...
Chauliodus barbatus - Harvard MCZ
Like most fish, once preserved in ethanol they quickly lose colour. In formaldehyde, though, they can retain a beautiful opalescence that really has to be seen to be believed - almost makes the use of remarkably toxic preservatives worth it! #25DaysOfFishmas
