1/ In the days since Hurricane Ida, I have had the privilege to see the very best of people; including staff members who have lost their own homes volunteering to get essential supplies to others. 2/ A member of our leadership team, spent the day working on LUMCON recovery, checking in with staff, keeping their own research going, only then to go spend hours helping a neighbor cut up downed trees.

What advice would I give junior scientists? A thread 1/ 1. Don’t skip times just to hang with other scientists and just talk science. 2/n

1/ When I was a young graduate student I was privy to gossip about a supposed site near Puerto Rico where pharmaceutical waste was dumped in the ocean. 2/ A senior scientist in my field told me that antibiotics in the waste killed off most of the natural microbes occurring in the water column and on the seafloor. That was all the specifics I received at the time.

This is a story about how a deep-sea sponge was confused for an alien artifact 1/n In 1964, the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin made this photograph of the sea bottom west of Cape Horn. 2/n

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 "right side of town", the private school, the speciality school, or the magnet school?

I’ve been rereading Beebe’s Half-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton’s 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda. To reach this depth the two placed themselves into a self-designed 4,500lb sphere about five feet in diameter raised and lowered from a ship by a cable.

1/ How common is albinism in the ocean? 2/ First we need some working definitions. Albinism is the lack of pigmentation in skin, hair, feathers, scales, shells, or eyes (Hiler 1983).

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 deep-sea exploration did not occur until after the 1960’s. 2/n

There are #bacteria that can fix nitrogen at 92C (197.6F). newswise.com/articles/micro… This lends insights into the origins of life and the conditions, even extreme, where life is possible.

The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for biggest male-female difference: the deep-sea angler fish, also known as the giant sea devil. #deepsea Females of the largest species, Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, Ceratias holboelli, reach 1.2 m (3.9 ft) in length. Males, by contrast, are much smaller, reaching 14 cm (5.5 in)

Here are my 30 rules on leadership in no certain order. 1.Be deliberate. Have a plan.