Did you know? Plankton comes from the Ancient Greek 'planktos', meaning drifter. Plankton are organisms that float or weakly swim in water, unable to swim against a current. This includes many fish larvae, copepods and jellyfish. #AbyssmalHumor TWILIGHTED is EU funded

Word on the sea is, there's a new way to join #deepsea research expeditions: WhatsApp! Get live updates from the 'Deep Wonders of Trinidad and Tobago and the High Seas' expedition! www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029... We're excited to tune in! #speseas @divaamon.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

We're #hiring! Early career #postdoc (PhD for <3yrs) with #marinescience experience and interest in #deepsea biology and ecology. Applications due 6 July! Learn more: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/446502

Save the date! A new conference is coming to town! Join us in Madeira in Sept 2027 to discover and celebrate innovative deep-sea research. TWILIGHTED is a project funded by the EU and endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade. Learn more at twilighted.eu @maremadeira.bsky.social

Ocean literacy encompasses our knowledge and tools for understanding the ocean and for interacting with its spaces, lifeforms and resources in a responsible way. Improving global ocean literacy is widely seen as critical to success in the UN Ocean Decade.

As part of TWILIGHTED's capacity-building program, MARE-Madeira early career researchers Eva and Raquel took part in GEOMAR's Baltic Cruise last month! Read our blog to learn more: twilighted.eu/baltic-cruis... TWILIGHTED is funded by the EU.

TWILIGHTED is now a UN Ocean Decade Project! We will be actively supporting the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy, an #oceandecade program strengthening international collaborations and collective solutions to deep-sea research. @maremadeira.bsky.social #GEOMAR #NTNU

Last month, the #TWILIGHTED team at Geomar organized the 1st Macaronesia Marine Biology and Technology Symposium on the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, in Cabo Verde.

Join us online to hear of incredible initiatives within the deep-sea research community! The Deep Ocean Observing Strategy's (#DOOS) annual online meeting takes place 5-7 May. Don't miss our #TWILIGHTED updates on May 5! www.deepoceanobserving.org/pages/2026-a... TWILIGHTED is EU funded

How do we inspire young people with ocean science? By creating new activities, testing them, talking about them and trying again... Our TWILIGHTED Ocean Literacy Workshop in Cabo Verde with IMar gave us the chance to learn from others and trial new ideas! Funded by the EU. Video by Patrícia Nunes.

TWILIGHTED is at #OSM26! Come find us before we leave! Let's chat about our low-cost deep-sea research tools (lnkd.in/dbPyh-ch) or about your own low-cost deep-sea research tools you'd like to deploy with us in Madeira Island! @maremadeira.bsky.social TWILIGHTED is EU funded.

To celebrate #Halloween, our MARE-Madeira #YouthAmbassadors have pulled together some of the ‘spookiest’ critters of the #deepsea to share with you! Today we’re celebrating the Giant Squid of the genus Architeuthis, which can reach at least 13 meters in length!

New Abyssmal Humor #cartoon: 'Unsquishable' 😄 Check out the full Abyssmal Humor series: twilighted.eu/resources/ab... #deepsea

#Halloween is getting closer! Our MARE-Madeira #YouthAmbassadors would like to share another #SpookyScience critter with you: Zombie Worms!

This September, our partners at NTNU hosted a deep-sea technology training school for scientists, technicians and students from @maremadeira.bsky.social and GEOMAR. It got rave reviews from attendees and hit all project KPIs for moose and aurora borealis sightings, too 🦌

This month, to celebrate #Halloween, MARE-Madeira's #YouthAmbassadors have pulled together some of the ‘spookiest’ critters of the deep sea to share with you! Today we’re celebrating the Ghost Shark:

Do you know how Earth's billion cubic kilometers of water came to be? Do you know what fish was responsible for the creation of the EEZs? Do you think you can out-swim a sea snail?

Ciência Viva no Verão returns(!) and we hosted a smorgasbord of deep-sea activities and games for visiting families. We also had a live-stream of an ROV dive off the coast of Madeira, giving participants the chance to see a wreck and some underwater life in real time!

GEOMAR hosted our first TWILIGHTED training school this month, covering deep-sea research tools and techniques, plus communications and project management. Want to know what we learned? Find out on our TWILIGHTED blog! 👉 twilighted.eu/mare-madeira... Funded by the EU

Last month, Rodrigo from MARE-Madeira dressed up in all his woolens and joined a GEOMAR research cruise in the Baltic Sea! Check out the latest TWILIGHTED Blog where Rodrigo shares the tools he used and cool discoveries from the cruise! twilighted.eu/it-was-baltic/ 📷 R Silva & J Dierking

Check out our latest TWILIGHTED blog, where we review our favorite facts, questions and revelations from the 17th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium (#DSBS17) held last month in Hong Kong! twilighted.eu/top-10-deep-...

Apply to join the Impossible Things Workshop! We have a list of impossible challenges related to deep-sea research, and we want your help to solve them. (No ocean research experience needed!) Applications close 26 Jan. Learn more: twilighted.eu/opportunitie...

New PhD opportunity! ARDITI has just released a call for PhD studentships, which successful applicants can use to conduct a PhD with MARE-Madeira within the TWILIGHTED project, co-supervised by GEOMAR or NTNU! Fill out our expression of interest by 5 January if you'd like to apply!