Big shout out to all the collaborators, particularly @cefafalopodo.bsky.social @aubombarely.bsky.social @vargaschavezc.bsky.social Judit Salces-Ortiz & Nuria Escudero, for endless adventures together while working on this project! 🙏

Here is all the more detailed information regarding each individual workshop:

For any information regarding Workshop 2 you can reach out to @cefafalopodo.bsky.social

Here is all of the information regarding workshops
www2.aeplan.co.jp/ciac2025/p_s...

Workshops range from: Cephalopod fisheries management; cryptic biodiversity; Cephalopod Health Management; and using AI to unlock new frontiers in cephalopod research.

Planned Schedule for CIAC, note that we are also planning to host a 'Cephalopod Research Network" Dinner on Monday October 27th at 7PM EST to get to know about our fellow members some more!

What's more, another specimen found in the stomach of a sperm whale from the Antarctic was not found to fit into any Oegopsid family, described here as a new species: Mobydickia poseidonii! I wonder if you can guess the inspiration...(2/2) 🐋🦑🧪
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this footage is notable because while blackwater photographers encounter larval ancistrocheirus quite often (if you search for ‘sharpear enope squid’ you will almost entirely find blackwater photos of it) images of adults in situ is extremely rare

here’s an incredible in situ encounter with an adult ancistrocheirus, taken by ROV SuBastian of @schmidtocean.bsky.social during a 2024 expedition: www.youtube.com/live/-ky9jTc...

ancistrocheirus is notable within the family for being much larger. i joke that it’s like what you’d get if a firefly squid decided it wanted to do its best impression of a diamondback squid:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

to put ancistrocheirus in context with other squid you might be more familiar with if you aren’t a squid taxonomist:

it’s a in a family known for having a large number of photophores, the enoploteuthids. the firefly squid is also in this family.

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

in plain english, this is a really cool paper that does a more thorough review of existing specimens of ancistrocheirus and finds several new species. a surprise finding was that one specimen wasn’t ancistrocheirus at all, but something so different it had to be placed in a new family and genus

mobydickia was chosen as the genus name due to it being found in a sperm whale stomach and almost being entirely depigmented (basically albino in appearance, like moby dick)

poseidonii was chosen as the species name due to the resemblance of the tentacle hook morphology to a trident