It's strange coming back from two weeks at WHOI talking ocean instrumentation & deep-submergence and diving back into DSM work. Beyond anything else, there's this naive optimism that the technology will just work, while everyone with expertise in deep ocean tech is going "oh you sweet summer child".

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Happy International Ghost Shark Day from the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group! Despite their name, ghost sharks aren’t actually sharks, they belong to the Chimaeriformes order.

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Super excited to see this work by @kutaydeniz.bsky.social now published in Science! doi.org/10.1126/science.aeg1125

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Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • I wrote this for The Revelator right before the second Trump administration started, and people called me alarmist.

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This is the appropriate way to react if you come across a fossil fish.

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