Old ocean maps are packed with deep-sea creature details. Haven't seen a meme of this yet so I made one last week for my deep-sea colleagues. So, what's your vibe today? 🙃 #deepsea

Bathysphere is a voluntary deep-sea network of deep-sea scientists and professionals. Our aim is to increase collaboration and knowledge-sharing across institutions, discuss the developments and issues concerning Nordic and Arctic deep-sea, and to raise the profile of deep-sea science in Norway.

Thank you once again to everyone at the 3rd Bergen Bathysphere Science Symposium, and to the fantastic team to work with on the steering committee! 💪 Looking forward to our future community plans!

Our meeting received support from
@cdeepsea.bsky.social
@unibergen.bsky.social
Norges forskningsråd

Lara Maleen Beckmann @planulara.bsky.social created this delicate ping pong ball sponge during the deep-sea linocut session led by David Rees www.instagram.com/david_rees_l...

Christian Nilsson (@oceandude.bsky.social) and I started us off on a discussion about how to get the public to care about deep sea, exploring differences in communication based on stakeholders, communication narratives and how message evolves from scientists to the audience

Mari Heggernes Eilertsen @mariheilertsen.bsky.social facilitated a discussion on planning research cruises, where participants were invited to share tips, and the insights gained will be compiled into a useful resource for future research expeditions.

To link to our community representatives here on Bluesky, Katrine Kongshavn gave us a good overview on FAIR data sharing through GBIF and OBIS in the session “Where to find deep-sea data?” @hardbunnsfauna.bsky.social's nice writeup of the event: invertebrate.w.uib.no/2025/11/06/m...

Thank you all for the engaging discussions and the positive community spirit! 🙌 We spent two days together at the Marine Biological Station in Espegrend, enjoying this autumn view of the Raunefjord, perfect for a sauna session and a swim!

In textbooks, you'll find that certain iron-oxidizing bacteria are exclusively found in freshwater. But we've recovered their genomes from deep-sea hydrothermal vents! 🦠🤔
We've explored what they do, how they adapt to this environment, and whether we can determine their origins 🧬