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Craig McClain, Ph.D.
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1/ Can you afford to be a marine scientist? A thread on the costs and inaccessibility in science. 2/ Could you afford to go to that "right" school on the
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Beginning with Victorian science and progressing to the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was the deep sea was a stable ecosystem. Organisms, and the communities that contained
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I think it’s important to understand the influence of African-American and Carribbean work songs on #seashanties #Seashantytiktok I’m not an expert here but will post this from Wikipedia "So while
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The God of the Sea is a snail 1/n The aptly named gastropod Neptunea amianta (Dall, 1890) is a deep-water species found off the North American west coast. Although typically
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For #SpongeThursday a story about @SpongeBob’s bigger and older cousin. 1/n The phylum Porifera (sponges; “pore bearing) is divided into three classes, Hexactinellida, Demospongiae, and Calcarea. Calcarea 2/n The Hexactinellids
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1/n If you noticed by Twitter profile pic then you know about my fascination with #giantisopods 2/n You know those cute little roly-poly bugs you found under rocks as a
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1/n In #rays, the pectoral fins are greatly expanded and fused to the head. This forms a broad, flat disc, that can be manipulated to create a variety of shapes.
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1/ Hydrothermal vents appear from ruptures in the newly created basalt along mid-oceanic ridges. At fractures the surrounding cold water penetrates the crust and mix with red-hot basalt. This mixture
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The Vast Majority of the Deep-Sea Remains Completely Unexplored: A Thread 1/n Although the earliest interest and sampling in the deep sea occurred in the late 1800’s, a majority of
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So what do scientists mean when they say #deepsea? The deep sea represents those marine environments that occur beyond the continental shelf. The average depth at which this occurs is
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With most sponges filtering food out of the water, I am utterly mystified by the group of deep-sea carnivorous sponges. https://watermark.silverchair.com/j.1096-3642.2006.00234.x.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgA
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