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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 1d

Deployment! ROV SuBastian. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 1d

In the water diving to 900m. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 1d

Getting ready to dive into this canyon. You can watch the stream from the ROV here www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 3d

This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 3d

nope, just you

Edward Marcotte @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the R/V Falkor (too) and the bay inside with the amazing robot sub (SuBastian), suspended from a giant A frame for deploying it through an even larger door. The two workbenches in front give you a sense of scale. You can also just make out @archaeal.bsky.social in front of the Falkor

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 3d

Live and amazing

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 4d

ROV in the water, diving to 2600m

Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 4d

An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

An archaeal genetic code with all TAG codons as pyrrolysine

Multiple genetic codes developed during the evolution of eukaryotes and bacteria, yet no alternative genetic code is known for archaea. We used proteomics to confirm our prediction that certain archae...

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, but diving in a few hours

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 4d

Waiting for the wind to subside, while the ship maps a channel on the sea floor for the next dive, Galen visits the bridge and settles right in.

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 4d

Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 4d

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

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Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 5d

We have slots of nice looking cores at this site. This is what a sediment core looks like on Subastian

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 5d

Stormy waters have cleared. Winds and light. Currents moderate. Live streaming from 850m. Collecting push cores.

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 5d

We are streaming from 900m

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

And…

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

Other researchers in action on Falkor (too)

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 7d

I don't see why you think they are euk?

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 7d

ROV SUBastian bringing back samples.

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 8d

Map of seafloor where we are diving to sample sediments today.

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 8d

Life on the Falkor (too) is lovely.

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 9d

Due copyrights we can’t play music

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 9d

We just planned this canyon and now we are diving to explore and collect samples.

Watch live here - www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcea...

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s dive we start around 2pm central, and will be exploring where I think there’s a canyon that has not been sampled. I expect it to be very exciting!

www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

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Schmidt Ocean

Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet. Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 10d

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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 10d

Starting at 7pm Central I will be streaming from the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Uruguay!

Feel free to join and ask questions.

www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

Schmidt Ocean

Our Purpose: to excite interest and inform the wise stewardship of our planet. Our Mission: Catalyze the discoveries needed to understand our ocean, sustain life, and ensure the health of our planet ...

www.youtube.com

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 10d

A pleasure to have you along!

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