Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈

Hello there #LGBTQScience! I am Jamie (he/him 🇮🇪), a gay marine biologist whose @IrishResearch PhD is investigating the phylogeny and biogeography of Antarctic Sea spiders @nuigalway and @BAS_News 🇦🇶🌊🕷️ #InvertsRule

INTERESTING! a sea spider, Colossendeis feeding on this jellyfish! First time I've seen this happening! 2340 m Trinidad Slope #okeanos #pycnogonid

It's me!

After over 7 weeks at sea the #SDAScience expedition is finally at an end and the science team flies home tomorrow. A gentoo penguin turned up at the harbour to see us off!

@squidblubber, it seems it was written in the stars....

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! #tomcrean #stpatricksday🍀

What I have been up to the last few days 😁 #SDAScience @uniofgalway @IrishResearch

A few #seaspider beauties from our test of the Agassiz trawl. A couple of Nymphon species and an Austropallene. Phpotographing them under UV light to check for any biofluorescence. Next trawl is 5.5km deep, really looking forward to seeing what we discover #SDAScience

A male meridionale #pycnogonid carrying a large clutch of eggs. Seen in the waters of Eastern #Tasmania. #scubadiving #seaspider #underwaterphotography

@TUExplorer1 @echinoblog @BAS_News @uniofgalway @IrishResearch No they can't support themselves out of water

1st sea spiders of the trip & 1st time I've ever seen them alive. These 2 Nyphons (australe I think) came up in the multicorer. 2nd 📸 is under UV, highlighting their "hairs". One was carrying round a large brood. #SDAScience #seaspidersaturday