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05.03.2026 03:51
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TOLWEB is no longer; in the medium to long term it is being replaced by CephRef: cephref.org
however, until cephref is fully populated, you can view the archived version of the TOLWEB page here:
web.archive.org/web/20241226...
slide from a presentation on the SERPENT project, which contains a framegrab showing the side view of a peculiar, dull pink squid. the squid is bent in a shallow 'V' shape, with the tip of the V being where the head of the squid meets the mantle. the squid has its arms outstretched with the tips very loosely curled backward toward its body. the long secondary fin is very narrow from this perspective, and appears to be broken or bent just past the halfway point of its total length.
an ROV affiliated with the SERPENT project observed one at an unknown location and date prior to 2009:
www.boem.gov/sites/defaul...
framegrab from an ROV dive showing an odd squid. the squid is very narrow and its arms are arranged in a series of odd curls, with two short tentacles hanging downward. instead of a typical mantle fin, the squid has one very small circular fin with ruffled edges and a narrower, feather-like secondary fin extending nearly the length of the mantle again from the end point of the first fin.
an ROV pilot with the energy industry observed one at the Thunder Horse platform in 2017:
www.thehulltruth.com/11792882-pos...
Unfortunately, the footage for this observation is no longer available.
oh hey, an old post of mine is getting some traffic - turns out it's been seen a few other times. shoutout to @psychomaneshark.bsky.social for finding them.
[Origami / 折り紙 / 종이접기]
Giant Phantom Jellyfish v1.0, Opus 5
Crease Pattern/折り目/주름 패턴: ko-fi.com/atraworks
Designer/デザイナー/디자이너: Alexander Nam Tran
Design Date/設計日/디자인 날짜: 2023-03-31
Grid/グリッドサイズ/그리드 크기: 24 x 24
#jellyfish #stygiomedusa #origami #origamiart #animalart #paperart #seacreatures #deepsea
youtu.be/GXtRZu4O9lQ
In this video, I fold my 5th original origami design, a Giant Phantom Jellyfish, Stygiomedusa gigantea
#jellyfish #stygiomedusa #origami #origamiart #animalart #paperart #seacreatures #deepsea #arttimelapse #deepsea
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.
Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
People keep telling me they're "not good enough to submit" - I say, we don't gatekeep skill levels.
Sure, I use the books to scout for artists to hire/forward projects to, but our goal is to *encourage people to celebrate nature*.
This is why I insist on having kid & amateur artists each season.
This is about political retribution.
Trump is weaponizing the federal government to punish states like Minnesota that didn’t vote for him — ripping away funds from pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities.
You don’t fight “fraud” by hurting the most vulnerable.
If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.
The Annual Meeting for the Southern California Academy of Sciences is coming up soon - April 18th at Chapman University in Irvine, CA.
I'm putting together a session on Science Communication. We have some good speakers lined up already, with more to come.
Abstract submission is open now!
damn, i didn’t get that flavor of ADHD i’m kinda jealous
If you know Neosclerocalyptus you know
if you’re used to seeing physonect siphonophores, this will confuse the hell out of you. chuniphyes is still a siphonophore, but a different suborder - calycophoran siphonophores
neat one i hadn’t seen live before. hyaloteuthis, an ommastrephid (flying squid family, same as the humboldt squid) with very distinct photophores on the mantle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalote...
the weird outlier being deep sea science, à la gabe newell (inkfish), eric and wendy schmidt (schmidt ocean institute), david packard (mbari), ray dalio (oceanx), etc
Share the good news when we have it:
PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are falling in North Atlantic whales after phaseout
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
i was an unradicalized college student at the time and even THEN i remember thinking the department name had really unpleasant authoritarian undertones. the creation of DHS and the patriot act really got the ball rolling for the shitshow we’re at today
America is not ready for deep-sea mining.
My latest OpEd, in my local paper, The Star Democrat, this time: www.stardem.com/opinion/colu...
a bit further west than what you're looking for but might be of interest still:
www.searover.ie/dives.php
the bomber sequence was my white whale, i saw it randomly on MTV's liquid television without any accompanying information back in the 90's. finally figured it out a couple years back. something about zombies chasing after you in a WWII era bomber flying through space apparently captivated young me.
Mastigoteuthis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
Squids out there making art. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
This squid looks like it got sliced open in the back. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
Ommastrephes per squid squad. Inked SuBastian. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 898 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife
if @autsquidsquad.bsky.social doesn't know, she could direct you to the appropriate person. if its related to any of the new taxonomic revisions, TJ verhoeff would be the person to ask
The #ArgentinianDeepSeeps team completed 1st comprehensive study of Argentina’s cold seeps. Their goal: to understand how the animal communities live and interact with localized physical, geological, and chemical conditions as well as with surrounding deep-sea ecosystems.
youtu.be/KvJewhMvrIQ?...
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.
The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.
But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.
Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
