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14 Jan 2025
#ProjectESCA lives! @ALCESonline and I developed this novel light lure with funding from @PureOceanFund. It uses a quiet frame, illumination invisible to the animals, a 360-degree camera, and simulated bioluminescence to attract shy deepsea animals.
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May 31
#wellycon #boardgame con is on this weekend and I caught up with the creators of #EndevourDeepSea on @DeepSeaPod. For the cons special edition card they wanted to showcase New Zealand marine science and used our expedition.
...where do I put this on the impact reporting?
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Dr Thom retweeted
#ComingSoon #deepsea inspired #games
Jose, developer of @sub_rov, talks with us about working with #scientists to make his marine exploration #sim as accurate as possible.
Even better, the game is currently in the #Steam ocean #sale.
store.steampowered.com/app/1…
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Dr Thom retweeted
Sorry the next episode still isn't out, @ThomLinley is still out chasing #ColossalSquid
Buuuut.....
@Hadalbloke is on the latest episode of the #Oceanography #Podcast by pineforestmedia talking about #deepocean #tech to tide you over.
open.spotify.com/episode/2Zh…
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Dr Thom retweeted
The next episode is recorded but @ThomLinley been a little too busy for the edit. Coming soon hopefully!
Buuuut.....
Thom's on the latest episode of the #Oceanography #Podcast by pineforestmedia talking about what the #deepsea is really like.
#deepocean
open.spotify.com/episode/2tM…
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Feb 24
A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported by @schmidtsciences. Scientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.
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Feb 25
The day before heading out to #Antarctica to look for the #colossalsquid with our low-light/far-red camera, I caught #IronLungMovie and loved it.
Now I'm in an inhospitable environment looking for monsters in an ocean of blood 😐.
#ProjectESCA #ironlung #deepsea
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Feb 25
The shapes of #PancakeIce are really satisfying. They remind me of jellyfish, giant waterlilies and some sort of paper sculpture.
#Antarctica #RossSea #ProjectESCA
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Feb 23
Eerily peaceful moments at 3am off Ross Island. #antarctica is a magical place of extremes.
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Feb 21
A new record for #projectESCA, down to 700 m deep from a Zodiac using a pot-hauler and a battery.
This project is the embodiment of #number8wire.
@PureOceanFund @ALCESonline @Te_Papa #Antarctic #Antarctica #RossSea
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Jan 20
Too many cookies over Christmas? Why not use a smaller #cookiecuttershark to cut back?
Adorable little horror.
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Jan 16
#anglerfish are so gross and scary!
Oh really, have you seen the babies? They look like a furious peeled grape!
#deepsea
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Dr Thom retweeted
What’s the deepest-living fish ever recorded? Not this one! (But they’re related.) Check out our new Ocean Exploration Fact to learn about how snailfish and other “deepest fish” contenders make things work at the absolute limits for vertebrate life. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean…
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Jan 15
I wondered why I was randomly drawn to this doorway.
2nd image: Smithsonian image by Dave Johnson of Harvard MCZ specimen 60585
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Jan 12
I know I give generative AI a hard time but it worries me how completely people have already made it part of their workflow when it's so cheerfully and confidently wrong.
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19 Dec 2025
A gem from Andrew's book collection. Giving me nostalgia for Northern Hemisphere fishes... Where cod are cod dammit!
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