Failure To Launch Podcast @failuretolaunch.bsky.social A podcast for learning about all the bad things that happened to people who went up.
https://www.patreon.com/failuretolaunch
Meghan Jones @studio-mbj.bsky.social She/her, BFA, lifelong artist, deep ocean obsessive, author/ illustrator, tell your dog I said hi ❤️
www.studiombj.com
🌊 Deep-Sea Art and Science Feed admin: https://tinyurl.com/Deep-Sea-Art-Science-Feed
Founding member of:
www.unseenoceancollective.com
Unseen Ocean Collective @unseenocean.bsky.social We are a trailblazing group of 4 women; three artists and a scientist who are bringing the deep-ocean to the world through fine art and science.
www.unseenoceancollective.com
Upcoming shows in Sweden, Alaska, and Washington. SAGA grant winners.
Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social she/they 🌈 introverted nature nerd
artist
#sciart
https://ko-fi.com/ligus , Insta: grey8auk
@ligus-doodles.bsky.social (sketchbook & art)
Kai The Fish Guy @kaithefishguy.bsky.social Dr Yi-Kai Tea | Ichthyology Curator, The Australian Museum Research Institute
| Systematic ichthyology | Wildlife photographer | 🏳️🌈he/him
Dr. Siddhi Joshi @seabedhabitats.bsky.social Marine Biogeoscientist | Research Engineer at Umeå University | Blogs at Seabed Habitats | Vegetarian
Emanuel Pereira @emanuelp1990.bsky.social Ph.D || Science || Researcher 🔬|| Argentina 🇦🇷 || Marine Biologist 🌊 || Deep-sea taxonomist || Crustacea 🦀🦐🦞 || Systematics || Biogeography || CONICET || Universidad de Buenos Aires
Prof. Kerry Howell @deepseaecol.bsky.social Deep-sea scientist working on conservation and sustainable management of the deep sea. Head of DeepSeaCRU. Co-coordinator of @Challenger150. Opinions my own.
Blair Watson 🌊 @blairlwatson.bsky.social Marine Engagement Professional working to empower communities to take ownership of their coasts.
FathomVerse @fathomverse.bsky.social 🦀 cozy sci-non-fi: FathomVerse is designed to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers and improve AI for ocean life 🌊 play now on any mobile device to explore the depths and contribute to science 🦑 solution of @fathomnet.bsky.social
D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
@alyciajsmith.bsky.social @alyciajsmith.bsky.social 
Coral Lab @corallab.bsky.social An independent community for students, academics, and professionals passionate about corals. Not affiliated with any institution or organization.
Ocean Census @oceancensus.bsky.social The largest global mission to discover ocean life 🔎🐙 Founded by Nekton & The Nippon Foundation. Endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade.
Website: oceancensus.org/
Join the Science Network: oceancensus.org/science/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceancensus/
Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊 @drkelpy.bsky.social Salish Sea Institute Fellow | ocean prof (lit, history, ecology) | Pacific + polar | feminist dive guide | nudi nerd | Seattle/Coast Salish Land | pubs/syllabi: kellypbushnell.com
📚 Current research: Cultural history of basking sharks in the NE Pacific!
Dr. Daniel M Moore @danielmmoore.bsky.social Deep-Sea Biologist and Ocean Explorer. (Hon) Lecturer in Marine Biology at University of Exeter. Studies cetaceans and deep-sea sharks. PI: Deep Shark Research Group. FRGS. He/Him
Megan Bryce @meganandtheocean.bsky.social 🏴🏴🇫🇷Surfer from Finistère｜Advocacy Manager @Under The Pole ｜passionate about all things ocean, focused on mesophotic ecosystems—vibrant underwater worlds found 30-200m deep, and surfing ecosystems
Sarah Faulwetter @sarahfaulwetter.bsky.social Benthic ecologist & polychaete taxonomist at the Uni of Patras, Greece.
Also sci-arting and loving R.
Susan Casey @susancasey.bsky.social Aquatic adventurer, obsessive swimmer, author of The Devil’s Teeth, The Wave, Voices in the Ocean, and The Underworld. If it involves water, I’m interested.
Pol Carrasco @polca98.bsky.social Oceanógrafo al que le apasionan los tiburones y habla mucho sobre ellos (probablemente demasiado). ND. Él/He/him. Tweets my own. También en Catsharks. PhD Student (UV/Oceanogràfic) ✍️🦈
👉 https://linktr.ee/PolCa98
Squid Wizard @sorceras.bsky.social Squid magician studying the trophic ecology of deep sea squid in Aotearoa New Zealand. All views expressed are the views of your employer.
Lilian Lieber @lilianlieber.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth exploring biophysical drivers of ocean predators
🌐 https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/lilian-lieber
🌊 go.bsky.app/VgpFR6B
🦈 PhD on basking #sharks
Ocean #sensors #acoustics #drones #PlanktonImaging
Dr Margaux Steyaert 🪸 @margauxsteyaert.bsky.social Postdoc & Teaching Fellow @ Imperial College London
Research: coral reef diversity | benthic invertebrate communities | anthropogenic impacts | Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
BES Aquatic Group committee member @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social
Maria Baker @drmariabaker.bsky.social 
Nils Piechaud @npiechaud.bsky.social Benthic ecologist at IMR, Bergen (Norway). Image analysis and Habitat mapping with Computer Vision and AUVs for the MAREANO project
OctoNation - World’s Largest Octopus Fan Club! @octonation.bsky.social 🐙 Inspiring wonder of the ocean by educating the world about octopuses! 🎉 Of course there is merch! OctoMerch.com (funds OctoNation.com)
Nicolai Roterman @demersal-drifter.bsky.social Deep-sea Ecologist & Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Portsmouth.
Ole Mikkelsen @olemikkelsen.bsky.social Your Ocean 🌊. Our Instruments 🔬. President & CEO @ Sequoia Scientific, Inc. Maker of the LISST and Hyper series of instruments for Particle Intelligence - suspended particle and aquatic optics research everywhere.
Lisa Bachelor @lisabachelor.bsky.social Editor of the Guardian’s Seascape series, all about the state of our oceans. Previously deputy news editor on the Observer.
AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social Geochemistry | 🌊 | Deep-sea | UNCLOS |
Assoc. Prof. at ULACIT 🇨🇷 Visiting Assoc. Prof. at 同济大学 🇨🇳
@geolatinas.bsky.social | @aslo.org Early Career Committee
Andrew Kornblatt @akornblatt.bsky.social Communications on Green issues, the Ocean, Politics, and Science. Voice actor. Founder and Co-Host of Ocean Science Radio podcast.
Javier Escartín @jescartin.bsky.social CNRS Scientist @ Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (Dept. of Geosciences). Marine geologist.
Mapping the seafloor - including with robots (autonomous and remotely-operated). Interested in tectonics, volcanism, hydrothermal activity... mostly under water.
Lucy Goodwin @deepsealucy.bsky.social Abyssal food-webs and other deep-sea squishy things 🐙
PhD student @ University of Liverpool 
franz @franzanth.bsky.social i draw bugs and stuff. please ask before using my images.
he/him 🏳️🌈🇮🇩
contact: franzanth at gmail
portfolio: franzanth.com
Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social Biologist and molecular ecologist, studying animals in Antarctica, e.g., sea spiders. I also use eDNA to study biodiversity all over the globe.
Web: MahonLab.com
Google Scholar: https://rb.gy/6z3tre
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4kvx48s
UnderseaTV @underseatv.bsky.social 
Herrera Lab @deepseamoleco.bsky.social Deep-sea molecular ecology and evolution. Biological Oceanography. eDNA. Diversity. Exploration.
🌊🪸🐙🧬
Lehigh Oceans Research Center
https://www.lehighoceans.org/deepseabio
Maria Rakka @mariarakka.bsky.social Post-doc | Dalhousie University | deep-sea corals | beer brewing
Elin Thomas @elinthom.bsky.social Cymraes 🏴 | #DeepSea biologist 🦑 | Based in Perth, WA 🇦🇺
@deepstewardship.bsky.social
@deepseauwa.bsky.social
Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com Art in Awe of Science
🔸 glendonmellow.com
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Art skeets
💀 #GlendonMellowArt
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SciArt Feed - no gen AI, just human artists:
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🦋 Elder # 18,744 | 12Apr23
☑️ Oct 2025
🚴🏼♂️ Cyclist 🇨🇦
🎨 BFA Hon
JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social Disabled Marine Scientist & Artist living by the Salish Sea
Actually a cyborg
Probably has seen a ctenophore today
3D visualization of marine inverts
Support my work, get some art: https://linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg
📸 by me unless cited
José Queirós @josepmqueiros.bsky.social Junior Researcher at @ciimar.bsky.social within @twindeeps.bsky.social project 🪸🌊🇵🇹
#MarineEcologist #DeepSea #Food-Webs #Antarctica #SouthernOcean #Seamounts #Fisheries #AtlanticOcean 🐧🦑🐙🦐🐟🌊
AUT Squid Squad @autsquidsquad.bsky.social Deep-sea research group in Aotearoa NZ, focusing on squid ecology & systematics www.aut.ac.nz/alces
Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social I am an evolutionary and marine biologist interested in how new structures and functions originate during evolution. Eyes, vision; photophores, bioluminescence. Macroevolution. Phylogenetics. Molecular Evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ The Ohio State University.
Phylogenetics, biogeography, ichthyology, anglerfish toucher.
https://elizabethcmiller.weebly.com/
URI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography is one of the world’s premier academic institutions of oceanography and ocean exploration. An anchor of the blue economy.
The MarineBio Conservation Society @marinebio.org MarineBio is an ever-evolving tribute to all ocean life that has been a central source online for the latest information concerning marine life and its biology, and especially its conservation, since 1998. https://www.marinebio.org/ #marineconservation
Emmeline Broad @emmeb8.bsky.social PhD Candidate modelling deep-sea benthic habitats at Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Benthic habitat mapping, polar research, space and habitable worlds enthusiast!
Hunting for post doc opportunities 😁
Lena Vincent, PhD @lenaunderwater.bsky.social 🪼| Senior Research Technician - @MBARI Haddock lab
🧬| Molecular biology and biochemistry of bioluminescence
🤿| AAUS scientific/blue-water diver
Lara Maleen Beckmann @planulara.bsky.social PhD Student @naturvetenskap.bsky.social Tjärno Marine Lab | Reproduction, biodiversity and ecology in the deep ocean | Corals, sponges, hydrozoans | Art & Science | https://linktr.ee/planulara | www.unseenoceancollective.com
Cephalopod Research Network @cephalopodanetwork.bsky.social Dedicated Bluesky for the Cephalopod Research Network. This group was founded on the idea of collaboration and the sharing of all things in Cephalopod research.
If you would like Discord access please DM this account for the discord link.
Margaret Spring @margaretspring.bsky.social Chief Conservation and Science Officer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (@Montereyaq.bsky.social.) Acting for conservation of the global ocean. On the ground in Busan working to get a strong #PlasticsTreaty #INC5.
Romaric Jac @romaricjac.bsky.social PhD candidate at Université du Québec | Capelin migrations | Otolith chemistry | Fisheries ecology | Movement behaviour
Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social Marine biology, ctenophores, bioluminescence, deep-sea, genomics, computing for biologists.
The Radiant Sea. Photo book.
Cello? Views my own.
bit.ly/arms-deep bit.ly/radsea
Celia Cackowski @celiacackowski.bsky.social Fisheries researcher turned outreach scientist. I love cats and cryptids.🐙
Dr Thom @thomaslinley.com Researching #deepsea #fish. Co-host of The Deep-Sea #Podcast @deepseapod.com. #TeamFish, Curator at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. #tech and #SciComm. Views are my own. #dyslexic, he/him
Sam Andrews @oceanoculus.com Science & stories from the sea (+ occasionally the other 30% of the planet)
🌊 Science, tech, policy, sustainability writer
🤿 Founder of Ocean Oculus, the ocean-focused communications consultancy
📈 Researcher
☕ Tea drinker
🧀 Cheese eater
🐧 Bird admirer
Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social Sharing some of what scientists find in the deep sea. I do my best w/ IDs. Help if you feel like it. NOT AI. Be a jerk & I'll block you
Jesse van der Grient @jgrient.bsky.social Marine scientist, lover of ecosystem-based approaches, deep-sea systems are the best
Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social Astrobiology.com - Exploring the living universe since 1996. Life Looks For Life. Vita quaerit vitae.
Dr Helen Scales @helenscales.bsky.social Aptly named marine biologist, writer, broadcaster.
Latest book: What the Wild Sea Can Be, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing
UK + France
she/her
www.helenscales.com
MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social An oceanographic research institute focused on advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean
Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social Award-nominated Charity showcasing/supporting LGBTQIA+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths. Skeets by @DrCarpineti.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Deep-Sea Ecosystems UK @deepseauk.bsky.social Deep-Sea Ecosystems Special Interest Group of the UK Challenger Soc for Marine Science (https://www.challenger-society.org.uk/DeepSea_Ecosystems)
Laura Kaikkonen @laurakaikkonen.bsky.social Marine scientist | Human impacts on marine ecosystems | 📌 Helsinki, FI
Ian McCourry @squids-discover.bsky.social M.S. student at Federal University of Paraná, starting in August! Studying mesopelagic squid paralarvae.
Instagram: @instateuthis_dux
HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social PhD student at Southampton, studying mesopelagic fish ecology. Occasional writer and amateur baker. Tweets about fish in superlatives. Opinions my own.
Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social It's me, the sea lady.
I study Sexual Selection, Host Sex/Parasite Interactions, and Behavior (also interested in Bio Ed!)
Currently looking for a postdoc position!
Biologist/Photographer/Artist/Jedi/Autistic
https://bfitzwater.wixsite.com/bfitzwater
John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History • He/Him • 🐟Zoologist 🦈 • https://linktr.ee/john.friel
Jon Moore @metallic-roughy.bsky.social Professor of biology. Studies deep-sea fishes, gopher tortoises, lizards, and other wee beasties. Also likes fossils. My views. 
Joana Xavier @joanaxavier.bsky.social Researcher at CIIMAR (🇵🇹), Associate Professor at University of Bergen (🇳🇴), and NatGeo Explorer • Deep-sea Biodiversity and Conservation • Science co-development and co-delivery.
https://www.ciimar.up.pt/teams/deep-sea-biodiversity-and-conservatio
Thomas Dahlgren @mucofloris.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Invertebrate taxonomist. Environmental impact from offshore wind farms. Swedish representative at CCAMLR science committee.
Kyran Graves @kyrangraves.bsky.social Deep-Sea Ecology 🪸 | Deep-Blue Carbon 🔵 | Habitat Mapping 🗺️ | Policy 🧐 | Computer Vision 🤖
PhD Researcher, University of Plymouth & PML
📍London / Plymouth
Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social Hunter #SciComm Chair & Prof, Director & Curator of Fishes Museum of NatSci @LSU, TED Fellow, F@AAAS, Fulbrighter, #Evolution #TeamFish, ASIH Past President, he/him #BLM ✊🏿 #ProtectTransKids #SaveTheNSF
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social Explorer of oceans, crafter of nifty things, mother of rascals, avoider of COVID
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social Founder & President
@NatGeo Explorer
@aaas.org Ambassador
@theexplorersclub.bsky.social EC50
Posts & opinions mine alone.
Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social Antarctic wildlife ecologist, Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Prof UCNZ, speaker, children’s book author
@natgeo Secrets of the Penguins
drmichellelarue.com
Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca Our Internet-connected cabled observatories bring real-time continuous ocean data to the surface for research & decision-making.
One of Canada's Major Research Facilities & a University of Victoria initiative.
oceannetworks.ca
Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social Marine ecology consultant for Europe's #1 Crab Museum 🦀 | PhD student studying eDNA, seagrass and fish at Aberdeen Uni 🧬🐟 | Wild Swimmer 🦭
Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate University of Kansas | Ichthyologist (means I like fish too much) | Evolution, Anatomy, and Phylogenetics
https://www.anoplogaster.com
https://www.instagram.com/whatthefishisthat_?igsh=MTk2OW1zcm1ja3h0NA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
@abyssaldive.bsky.social @abyssaldive.bsky.social 
Helena Wiklund @hwiklund.bsky.social taxonomist working with deep-sea fauna using morphology and DNA
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.
Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social Podcast host for @ScienceMagazine & @NewsFromScience
https://www.science.org/podcasts
Posts are my own. http://namedrop.io/sarahcrespi 
Adam Connors @aconnors-writes.bsky.social Physicist, writer, researcher at Google DeepMind. Carnegie nominated author of The Girl Who Broke The Sea and Find Me After. Rep'd by @agentkateshaw @scholasticuk
Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 @ithacanexile.bsky.social Good old fashioned social democrat. Born in the US, Canadian granny & raised in Britain, Ireland & Italy consider myself all of the above. AS Roma, PAFC, 49ers, Star Wars, Tolkien, SPN & Liberty - All this will pass one day. #TeamPete - Sic Semper Tyrannis
Yannick C. @biomarine.bsky.social 🌀 #Océanographe de formation, veilleur en #BiologieMarine #plongeur je poste pour préserver les #Océans le #Climat la #Biodiversité #OceanGuardian🌊
Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
Julie Huber, PhD @julesdeep.bsky.social I watch volcanoes explode in the deep sea and wonder how life continues to survive such drama. Scientist, Ocean Explorer, & Storyteller
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Benjamin Wheeler @wheeler.bsky.social 
Yuuki Niimi @yniimi808.bsky.social PhD Candidate doing research on how tiny animals in the ocean are moving carbon from the surface to the deep sea 🦐🌊
Ocean Elders @oceanelders.bsky.social 
Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social PhD丨Biologist/paleontologist studying 🐌 & 🐦丨Dungeon Master丨Curator & researcher at @nathist.bsky.social, @helsinki.fi丨Editor of the Journal of Geek Studies (@jgeekstudies.bsky.social)丨🇧🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇿 🇳🇴 🇫🇮
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Ross Parnell-Turner @rosspt.bsky.social Marine geophysicist at Scripps Oceanography
Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog) @markusbuehler.bsky.social Zoology and Paleontology Blogger on "Bestiarium", Wildlife- and Paleoartists, Author, Nature Aficionado, Archeology- and History-Enthusiast www.bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net
Jimmy Bernot 🦐🔬🧬🏳️🌈 @jimmybernot.bsky.social Assistant professor at UConn. Marine biology, parasitic copepod taxonomy and evolution, crustacean genomics
www.BernotLab.org
Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Georgia + Associate Director of UGA Institute of Bioinformatics. Marine Biology, Polar Science, Deep-Sea Worms (nematodes!), Environmental Genomics, and Science Writing. Views are my own. http://www.hollybik.com