Why You Should Be Following #Fieldworkfail

by L. E. Carmichael

It's #FF (Follow Friday) over on Ye Olde Twitters, and if you're not already following #Fieldworkfail you should really get over there and get on that. Like right now.

When scientists write journal articles, they make it sound like they knew what they were doing every step of the way. #Fieldworkfail reveals the truth - they're making it up as they go along, pretty much like the rest of us.

Just with more bears.

While you're at it, hop over to this online shop where you can buy the hilarious book for 75% off. Also right now, because the sale ends today.

Happy Friday giggles, and have an awesome long weekend!

Explore Under the Sea, Live and Online

By Claire Eamer

From the website of the research ship, Okeanos Explorer: "From March 7 – 29, 2017, NOAA and partners will conduct a telepresence-enabled ocean exploration expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer to collect critical baseline information about unknown and poorly known deepwater areas in the Howland and Baker Unit of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the Phoenix Islands Protected Area.

NOTE: ROV dives are planned, weather permitting, most days from March 8 - March 27, typically from about 8 am to 5 pm WST (March 7 - March 26, from 2 pm to 11 pm EDT)."

If you go to the dive website, you can watch the whole of the dive, seeing just what the scientists are seeing, and you hear scientists discussing what they are observing in real time. Warning: it's addictive!

A seastar is wrapped around the branches of a coral, hundreds of metres beneath
the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Screen capture from Okeanos Explorer feed.