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Official account of the Deep-Sea Biology Society | #DSBSoc
A society for student, academic & professional #DeepSea biologists. 🌊

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Deep-Sea Biology Society @dsbsoc.bsky.social · Nov 17
Hey, members! We’re opening submissions for our media (alongside our NextGen of #DeepSea Researchers series - self-submissions encouraged).

Also welcome: research profiles, accessibility/fieldwork challenges, and non-traditional career paths. Contributions especially welcome outside the EU/US.
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kakanikatija.bsky.social
A great year in observing the deep ocean!! 🦑🧪🌊
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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profcgarza.bsky.social
We are now advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Marine Invertebrate Organismal Biology @uwsafs.bsky.social The position will be based out at Friday Harbor Labs in the San Juan Islands. See the ad below for details. @csucoast.bsky.social
apply.interfolio.com/178804
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December 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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[New Preprint] 3 days ago, we had a dive at Quaker Seamount -- and today we report the first results! We discovered a serpentinite-hosted seep ecosystem there + the first visible discharge of geofluids.
Read for FREE: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Dive video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwp...
December 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Assistant Professor without Tenure (WOT), Marine Invertebrate Organismal Biology
University of Washington: Academic Personnel & Faculty: College of the Environment: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Three year position; 9 month salary - apply.interfolio.com/178804
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December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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melaniebergma18.bsky.social
Yay, it's happening again: Save the date for #MICRO2026 in Cadiz 🔽
martiwag.bsky.social Mⓐrtin Wⓐgner @martiwag.bsky.social · 16d
Mark the date and get ready: MICRO 2026 is happening (yes, it’s official!) and we want you all to join us in beautiful Cádiz from 12–16 October 2026 for a fantastic week of plastic science and community.
micro2026.sciencesconf.org
MICRO 2026 Plastic Pollution from Macro to nano - Sciencesconf.org
Welcome to MICRO 2026
micro2026.sciencesconf.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social
I'm seeing an increase in fake AI-generated content on social media purporting to be deep-sea fish videos. Instead of highlighting these and giving them attention, I'll share a fantastic and real source of deep-sea fish videos:

www.youtube.com/@MBARIvideo
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) is a nonprofit research institution advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean.
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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mbarinews.bsky.social
First ROV science mission for R/V David Packard ✅

After months of work to integrate the ROV Doc Ricketts, our team conducted the first ROV science dives from our flagship research vessel during an expedition with our partners at @montereybayaquarium.org.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-c...
An MBARI researcher with short gray hair and a gray beard wearing a black headset, navy blue polo, blue jeans, and tan slip-on shoes points to a wall of video monitors in the dark submersible control room of a research ship. The researcher is seated in a black leather chair with his legs up on a black plastic milk crate. In the background are two submersible pilots seated in chairs and operating submersible controls and a third submersible pilot holding a cup of coffee. The video monitors on the right side of the frame are displaying a live feed from a deep-sea submersible showing an array of clear plastic sampling canisters and a bright red jelly. A submersible pilot and two biologists sit in black leather chairs and watch video monitors in the dark submersible control room aboard a research ship. The pilot is in the foreground. He has wavy salt-and-pepper hair, is wearing a headset, a black hooded sweatshirt, and gray pants, and is holding a black rubber joystick. The biologist in the center has short blonde hair. She is wearing a headset and a navy-blue jacket. The biologist in the background has short blonde hair. She is wearing glasses and a headset. All three are watching a wall of video monitors on the left side of the frame displaying a video feed and data from the deep sea. A bright red comb jelly swimming in open blue water is displayed on the two monitors at the center of the wall. A submersible pilot operates the robotic arm of a deep-sea submersible from the dark control room of a research ship. The pilot has long brown hair and is wearing glasses, a black headset, and a green jacket. She is seated at a desk with various controls on the counter. She is holding a jointed black metal arm and watching a video monitor displaying the silver metal robotic arm of a submersible as it grips a rock on the deep seafloor attached to a red coral. A Monterey Bay Aquarium biologist examines a red deep-sea jelly in the lab aboard a research ship. The biologist has short blonde hair and is wearing an orange beanie cap, blue hooded sweatshirt, yellow vest, and black pants. She is leaning over looking at a clear plastic canister filled with water and a bulbous red comb jelly. On the right side of the frame is a black fiberglass frame with water hoses. In the background are white walls and windows looking out to black night sky.
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine Scientist Position – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), full-time, permanent Marine Scientist position based in Panama. Application review begins February 15, 2026 (open until filled). Early-career researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. www.stri.si.edu
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute was founded with the purpose of increasing and sharing knowledge about the past, present and future of tropical ecosystems and their relevance to human welf...
www.stri.si.edu
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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ICYMI - applications now open for our FREE #SciComm and #DataViz virtual workshop. Targeted towards grad students & postdocs!
hollybik.bsky.social Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 15d
Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My favorite deep sea worms: Xenoturbella from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 745 #ChileMargin2024
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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dsbsoc-arts.bsky.social
🌊 Double Helix Harmonies

Meet our first ArtSea Matchmaking duo

Alina and Eli are transforming deep-ocean data into immersive, visual experiences - revealing the beauty, mystery, and fragility of the world beneath the waves.

#sciart #artseamatchmaking #dataart #soundart #digitalart #scicomm
Meet our first ArtSea Matchmaking duo: 🔬 Alina Wieczorek 
She is a Fisheries Acoustician at Earth Sciences New Zealand in Wellington. Her research focuses on understanding life hidden in the ocean’s hidden layers, from deep scattering layers to microscopic traces of DNA in seawater.
By combining active acoustics with environmental DNA (eDNA), she uncovers how mid-trophic organisms - those linking plankton to fish; and fish to marine predators - shape ecosystems from the Ross Sea in Antarctica to the North Atlantic.
Alina is passionate about creative science outreach, turning invisible data and complex marine processes into stories and visuals people can truly connect with. 🌐 🎧 Eli Stine 
He is an internationally active media artist, software engineer and educator. Eli’s work blends sound, technology, and environment. As Assistant Professor of Computer Music & Digital Arts at Oberlin Conservatory, he creates immersive electronic music, interactive multimedia installations, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. 🔊
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🌊 Associate Fauna ✨

An ArtSea Matchmaking team where ceramics, curiosity, and deep-sea discovery come together.

#sciart #artandscience #artseamatchmaking #ceramicart #newceramics #deepsea #coralreef #deepseascience #marinebiodiversity #weirdandwonderful #scicomm #unseenworlds
🎨 Laura Wöllner Laura is an artist based in Portsmouth, UK, she has a BA in Animation from the University of Portsmouth and she has a growing love for ceramics. Clay as a medium is so incredibly tactile and versatile; and exposing it to upwards of 1000°C in the kiln means you can never be 100% sure exactly how your creations will turn out. She is passionate about conservation, sustainability, and Earth’s weird and wonderful creatures, Laura champions the underdogs of the natural world: organisms far from the “charismatic megafauna,” yet no less beautiful and fascinating. With a special admiration for the deep sea, she believes its strange, complex, and hidden life deserves the spotlight - And that it’s worth protecting. 🐚💙 🔬 Dr. Emanuel Pereira Emanuel is a deep-sea researcher from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s working at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. His PhD thesis focused on the taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of deep-sea isopod crustaceans. They are among the most bizarre animals and are commonly found in association with cold-water hard corals. He recently joined the renowned expedition “Underwater Oases of the Mar del Plata Canyon: Talud Continental IV” aboard the RV Falkor, further deepening his exploration of one of Earth’s least-known ecosystems. He is driven by a lifelong passion for marine biology and has been interested in crustaceans after knowing their diversity biology and ecology. Emanuel hopes to raise visibility for deep-sea fauna and demonstrating the importance of one of the least known habitats in the world. 🌍🦐 🤝 Together Together, Laura and Emanuel aim to reveal the deep sea not as bleak or lifeless, but as a bustling, vibrant community. Their collaboration centers on a multi-layered, three-dimensional ceramic ceramic sculpture of a coral, populated with a selection of the typical fauna that call these corals home — from permanent residents to fleeting visitors. By restoring form, color, and presence to species we rarely see alive, they hope to bring these hidden creatures closer to viewers and showcase the deep sea’s true beauty, complexity, and vitality. This photo shows their first ceramic artwork: A beautiful clay cup with a brittle star coiling around the cup and the ear. It has not been in the kiln yet, so it still has the natural gray color The same cup from the last picture, but out of the kiln. The brittle star now has a beautiful reddish brown color A detail from the same artwork, to show the beautiful texture of the brittle star. This photo also shows the wonderful colors on the coiling arms
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Deep Sea Coral Education for Children 🌊

With Kelsey’s expertise in deep-sea coral reefs and Megan’s talent for illustration, they'll create a non-fiction children’s book that dives into the amazing world of deep-sea corals.

#ArtSeaMatchmaking #DeepSeaCorals #OceanEducation #WomenInScience
🎨 Megan 
Megan Paustian is an artist and PhD ecologist who brings science to life through visual storytelling. She dreams of creating nature-inspired children’s books and loves shining a spotlight on the tiny animals that make up most of species diversity. 🔬 Kelsey 
Kelsey Archer Barnhill is a deep-sea scientist based in Norway, specializing in cold-water coral ecology. As Head of Research & Development at Aspecto, she connects academic and industry science to strengthen knowledge exchange and production.
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🌊Meet this awesome ArtSea Matchmaking duo 🌊

Guided by Jeremy’s expertise, Cat will create visuals that can support both scientific understanding and public
appreciation.

#sciart #artseamatchmaking #scientificillustration #deepsea #coralreef #deepseascience #marinebiodiversity #scicomm
✨ A collaboration that will reveal the hidden beauty of black corals ✨ 🎨 Cassidy Cat is a New England–born illustrator whose early years spent roaming the rural woods sparked a lasting love for the natural world. She earned her BS in Zoology and a minor in Studio Art from Oregon State University, followed by specialized training in the Science Illustration graduate program at CSUMB. Cat’s work blends scientific accuracy with visual storytelling to help make science accessible to broader audiences. 🔬 Jeremy Jeremy is a Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution where he studies the taxonomy and evolutionary history of the coral order Antipatharia (black corals). 🤝 Together Black corals rarely get the detailed illustrations they deserve, especially when it comes to the tiny structures that matter for taxonomy. That’s why illustrator Cat and researcher Jeremy Horowitz are collaborating on a series that highlights these features in a new way. Guided by Horowitz’s expertise, Cat’s artwork will capture the spines, polyps, and branching patterns that define this deep-sea coral group, creating visuals that can support both scientific understanding and public appreciation.
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Deep Sea squid gets down in the dirt…er….sediment??
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
www.livescience.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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💔 New study shows that #microplastics are found in 89% of #DeepSea invertebrates ⭐🐚from 250-450m depth near Sardinia, mostly filaments & fragments of polyethylene, polypropylene & polyethylene terephthalate. Ecological traits, not taxonomy, drove accumulation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unseen pollutants: Microplastics in deep-sea invertebrates
Microplastics (MPs) are a growing concern in marine ecosystems, but data on their presence in deep-sea environments remain limited. This study investi…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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For Day 12 of #25DaysOfFishmas we've got a fun little gadoid - this is Steindachneria argentea, the luminous hake. This silver little guy, the only living member of the family Steindachneriidae, is native to the Eastern shelf of North America, between 400 and 500m.
A silver fish with a long, tapering tail on a grey background. Credit: Robertson Ross
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Attention students and recent grads! opportunity for #oceanscience interns to sail aboard #EVNautilus next year in a paid position for 3-5 weeks. Whether you’re studying #marinebiology, #geology, or any other type of #oceanography. Learn more and apply by Jan 4 at NautilusLive.org
Nautilus Live | Ocean Exploration Trust
Explore the ocean with us! We seek out new discoveries while conducting scientific exploration of the seafloor and stream live to the world aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus.
NautilusLive.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
There are 400+ species of snailfish, including our bumpy friend here & many show adaptations to life in the very deep oceans: from the hadal to abyssal zones: 4,000 to 11,000 meters down.

Large eyes, no swim bladder are adaptations to the dark & crushing pressure.

A good summary is here:
MBARI's advanced underwater technology reveals a new species of deep-sea snailfish • MBARI
The bumpy snailfish is one of three new species of deep-sea snailfish described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY Geneseo.
www.mbari.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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dsbsoc-arts.bsky.social
🌊Meet Dexter Davis and Maeva Perez

Two incredible scientists turning deep-sea discovery into art.

Together, they’re creating a community poster celebrating the invertebrates of Western Pacific seamounts.

#ArtSeaMatchmaking #DeepSeaScience #MarineBiology #SciArt #OceanExploration #DeepSeaLife
🎨 Dexter is a deep-sea and polar benthic ecologist who’s studied larval dispersal around methane seeps and hydrothermal vents. He now SCUBA dives at methane seeps in Antarctica! Through scientific illustration, he brings fragile underwater habitats to life, raising awareness and inspiring protection for the species that call them home. 🧭 Maeva is a deep-sea biologist exploring molecular evolution and the partnerships between invertebrates and their symbiotic bacteria. She recently descended in a deep-sea submersible to a newly explored Western Pacific seamount and can’t wait to share the stunning communities they encountered.
December 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Ifremer's #postdoc call is also open :

www.ifremer.fr/sites/defaul...

Are you interested in leading a 36 months project on #deepsea benthic ecosystem functioning ?
www.ifremer.fr
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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mucofloris.bsky.social
New paper out on the impact from a deep sea mining test in the Pacific Ocean. Great collaboration with the Natural History Museum London and the National Oceanography Centre Southampton . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species ric...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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evastewart.bsky.social
After 5 years of sample collection and analysis our paper examining the impacts of an industrial #DeepSea mining trial on seafloor #biodiversity is published! Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Much has been speculated on the impact of industrial deep-sea mining on marine ecosystems. This study led by @evastewart.bsky.social provides some direct empirical evidence.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A species-level dataset of sediment-dwelling macrofauna, sampled 2 years before and 2 months after a test of a commercial deep-sea mining machine, reveals losses of macrofaunal density and species ric...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM