Congratulations to Erin Easton, Ph.D. & Javier Sellanes, Ph.D., recipients of the 2025 Citation of Merit from The Explorers Club! In 2024, they led an international team with @schmidtocean.bsky.social & discovered 150+ new species on unexplored #seamounts in the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.

2 photos of the arctic both taken in the summer more than 70 years apart show the dramatic change in the continent ice cover. There is no time to waste. No planet B. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #phaseoutfossilfuels #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic via @ChristianAslund

🐙🌊 Meet Coco, the octopus created from over 2,000 pieces of ocean plastic waste! This incredible sculpture was inspired by the curious and intelligent octopus featured in the Indian episode of Our Oceans, who has made a home on a trash-littered ocean floor. 🐙💙 #OurOceans #OceanArt

By this point I'm usually pretty blasé about the weirdness of the deep sea but CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · 2y ago

Deep-sea hermit crabs without shells? 🦀 Meet Parapagurus! Instead of traditional snail shells, many species use deep-sea anemones for protection. It's a mutualistic partnership—crabs get shelter, anemones get mobility and scraps of food. #marinelife oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/expl...

It's time for the penguin weigh-in! 🐧 These three macaroni penguins from the 'Little Mac' colony on Bird Island near Antarctica are off to forage at sea to feed their new chicks. We use an automated weighbridge to monitor their weight and foraging patterns! 🪶 THE SOUND OF THEIR LITTLE FEET 😭

Shifting baseline syndrome explains how we normalise the continual visceration of once unimaginably rich ecosystems. Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏

Hello blue sky ☀️ my name is Cam! I’m a fisheries ecologist that studies how human impacts and climate stressors influence fish biology and ecology. I’m currently based in St. Paul, MN @ UMN in the Hansen lab. In my free time I enjoy cooking, camping, watching women’s sports and fishing 🎣 🏕️

Hi Bluesky! 🌊 I’m an Afro-Caribbean Latinx nerd exploring marine ecosystems in deep ocean zones using innovative tech. Passionate about democratizing ocean research, social & env justice. Finishing my PhD soon & excited for next steps in academia, non-profits, or gov. Let’s connect! 🌍

Deep sea mining plans blocked in Norway 🇳🇴🚫 Environmental groups described the news as a “historic win” for ocean protection. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters, an area greater than the UK, for deep-sea minerals.

Amazing! Giant bluefin tuna seen chasing mackerel off Devon coast. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09...

🌊 Just finished Our Oceans on Netflix, and it’s breathtaking! 🌍✨ Narrated by Barack Obama, this series is a stunning tribute to the beauty and fragility of our marine ecosystems. The cinematography is incredible, and the message is clear: we must protect our oceans. 🎥🐋💙 #OurOceans #Netflix

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While filming #OurOceans I had the incredible opportunity to explore the deep sea at both poles! Here’s a behind the scenes look at our adventure 🦑🌊🧊 youtu.be/IxCrN7e6ufo?...

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Hello to my recent, new followers! I'm Dr. "Deepsea Dawn" Wright, a marine geographer/geologist. I map underwater volcanoes & habitats. Have been to areas of the seafloor never before seen + helped build the 1st fully 3D digital ocean in GIS. I build with LEGO bricks too. 🌊 #BlackSky

INC Chair Luis Vayas Valdevieso of Ecuador convened frank talks among member states at the #PlasticTreaty negotiations to hammer out this critical global agreement to end plastic pollution across the life cycle of plastic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hope of breakthrough at international plastic treaty talks after two-year deadlock

‘Important shift’ made in global attempts to address plastic pollution though final treaty text yet to be agreed

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Possible the most surprising new behaviour captured for #OurOceans youtu.be/PFEW96L2ND0?...

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The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

A new installation lets you hear extinct and endangered animal sounds, thanks to Björk

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

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Delegates from 150+ countries, scientists, advocates & experts are in Busan for the final #Globalplastictreaty negotiations. I’m here with the ISC & @montereyaq.bsky.social for this decisive moment in tackling #plasticpollution.

Protect the ocean, so it can protect us 🌊 Almost 200,000 of you used your voices to stand up for the oceans and ask for an end to bottom trawling within marine protected areas . I had the joy of ensuring your voices were heard, delivering this petition box to DEFRA 🌊💙🦑🪸

I don't know who needs to hear this, but sharks absolutely get cancer. Even if sharks didn't get cancer, eating shark wouldn't cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball. 📷 Andrew Fox

Sign the petition to help stop Bottom Trawling inside Marine Protected areas eu.patagonia.com/gb/en/eu-mar...

When your doing press and accidentally geek out over humpback whales ‘I feel like every single time I look at a humpback study, there’s something entirely new, and I’m just fascinated’ #OurOceans www.thedailybeast.com/our-oceans-b...

Barack Obama Is Behind Your Next Netflix TV Binge-Watch

The former president narrates the revolutionary docuseries “Our Oceans,” which attempts a rarity for the genre: a nature series you’ll want to binge like all your other streaming favorites.

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Thank you so much for allowing us to share your incredible research!! One of my favourite sequences 💙🌊🐋

Lars Bejder@lbejder1971.bsky.social · 2y ago

We (Marine Mammal Research Program [@MMRP_UH] at the University of Hawaii) had the great honor of being part of the first episode which portrays our collaborative work on humpback whales in Hawaii and Alaska. Great partnership with Alaska Whale Foundation. Go Netflix !

Our Oceans lighting up Times Square 💙🦑🪸🌊 #ouroceans #timessquare

‘It deals in the sort of awestruck majesty James Cameron was aiming for with the last Avatar film, only this is real.’ ‘This is an advocacy series in disguise – and a necessary one’- The Guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Our Oceans review – Barack Obama’s nature show might be the most beautiful thing you see all year

Yes, the ex-president’s soothing voice was made to narrate this gorgeous wildlife programme. But the absolutely majestic visuals are the real star

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Had the most wonderful evening celebrating the UK premiere of Our Oceans last night! It was such an honour to share the stage with these filmmaking legends 🙌🏾🌊

Peruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing https://buff.ly/3Z6BTEP 🦑🌎🧪

Peruvian fishers help red sea urchins recover from overfishing

At 8 a.m., 15 divers from the Artisanal Fishers Association Cristóbal Colón meet on Carrizales beach in the Marcona district of Nazca province in southern Peru. They tie a mesh bag to their waist and...

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Ocean Champions to follow. 🌎🌊🐋🤙💙 go.bsky.app/SzcjzVv

Great to see so many marine scientists already on Bluesky - to help get you find some of them here is a starting list list of a few marine biologists If you want to be added (or deleted), or know other I have missed (many for sure) - just contact me and I'll sort it go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv

Here’s a link of ocean & enviro activists & leaders to follow. 🌎🐋🌊🤙 go.bsky.app/9yweJ17

I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR