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🦀 cozy sci-non-fi: a free mobile game designed to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers and improve AI for ocean life 🌊 play now on any mobile device to explore the depths and contribute to science 🦑 solution of @fathomnet.bsky.social
🌊Accelerating ocean discovery with AI 🌊
Thank you to everyone at hashtag#OSM26 who participated in the #FathomNet town hall yesterday, and to everyone who attended our talks and posters throughout the week. Let's stay in touch!
Join the FathomNetwork here 📸🤖🧪🐙➡️ forms.gle/sfJa6pAzkh1o...
FATHOMNET TOWN HALL TODAY @ 12:45 (the sound red theater)
We'll share how you can share visual data, analyze ocean video, and expand engagement through gaming.
#OSM26 @agu.org @aslo.org
@tosoceanography.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
#OSM26 you don’t want to miss the FathomNet town hall on Thursday! We’re sharing how your can extend engagement through FathomVerse and all the latest in the FathomNet program.
poster with a barreleye fish text reads "cozy sci-non-fi a video game designed to inspire a new wave of ocean explorers"
Today at #OSM26 replace scrolling with ocean exploring! Find us in the poster hall – Emily Clark is presenting a poster on #FathomVerse.
agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/me...
@fathomverse.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social
This image is a poster for a FathomNet event at OSM26. It features a blue and white design with ocean imagery, including urchins on the left. The text details a Town Hall about accelerating ocean visual data analysis with FathomNet, scheduled on Thursday, 26 February 2026, from 12:45 to 13:45 at Hall 3, The Sound (SEC). Additional presentations, posters, and networking opportunities are mentioned.
Attending #OSM26 in Glasgow? Join us for the FathomNet Town Hall on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 12:45.
We'll demo the FathomNet Database, Portal, and FathomVerse. Come with questions, leave with solutions. See you there!
Save to your calendar: www.fathomnet.org/news/fathomn...
Look for:
🔦 Human-made equipment used for scientific purposes
🦾 Robotic arms
🧪 Vessels for collecting samples
🌡️ Measuring instruments
🤖Not a living organism, but also not trash or rocks
Select 'Equipment' in training mode to get started!
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Screen of FathomVerse app showing an image of an ROV manipulator arm and a sticker labeled "equipment"
NEW EQUIPMENT MISSION ADDED TO FATHOMVERSE
Now you can label and bound scientific equipment that you see in FathomVerse! Here are some helpful tips for identifying equipment. ⬇️
In 2025, the FathomVerse community made significant contributions to ocean exploration 📱🌊
The collective efforts of @fathomverse.bsky.social players are enhancing the AI models that researchers rely on to better understand marine ecosystems and ocean health. Read more: www.mbari.org/news/fathomv...
Want FathomVerse in your inbox??? Subscribe to emails for fun, funky, fresh newsletters! www.fathomverse.game/community#em...
eeeeeeeee! hi @sarahmackattack.bsky.social thanks for coming to my talk 😊
A jellyfish is using a phone and thinking “oh sucks. Squid lemme log that” with the other words “community scientists help id animals from images from the deep sea with a phone game”
MBARI created a game called @fathomverse.bsky.social that gamifies identification of animals from the deep sea!
Listening to a talk about this super cool work at #SICB2026
2025 Year in Review infographic by Fathomverse, displaying various statistics: 19,676 Images Labeled, 194,217 Regions of Interest, 4,037,497 Annotations, 36,351 Players, 16,573 Hours Played, set against a dark blue background.
Promotional graphic for Fathomverse, titled 'Moving Up the Ranks'. It features a blue pyramid diagram divided into three levels, showing the number of players at each level: 34,866 players in Level 1-7, 426 in Level 8-14, and 286 in Level 15, labeled as 'Denizens of the Deep'.
Promotional poster titled 'WITH GRATITUDE' by Fathomverse, thanking various organizations like Schmidt Ocean Institute, MBARI, Dawn Wright, Joost Daniels, Ocean Networks Canada, and NOAA Ocean Exploration for contributing data and images, with specific image counts listed beneath each name.
Poster titled 'Top Favorites' by Fathomverse featuring six marine animals in a grid layout, including a ghostly pale octopus, a vibrant orange squid, a fluffy orange sea creature, a robotic-looking deep-sea submersible, a camouflaged octopus, and a translucent red comb jelly. Images credit to NOAA MBARI.
2025 Year in Review 🎁
As we look back on 2025, the team at FathomVerse would like to take this moment to thank every single FathomNaut for playing FathomVerse and contributing to ocean science. Check out the highlights in our latest blog: https://www.fathomverse.game/post/2025-year-in-review
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 ‘Tis the season of deep-sea art! Join @montereybayaquarium.org, @mbarinews.bsky.social, and @fathomverse.bsky.social with these daily deep-sea inspired art prompts. Submit your deep-sea art to our gallery for all to admire! montereybayaquarium.secondstreetapp.com/Gallery-Deep...
A group of shrimp on a white coral
New #FathomVerse Badge: Sea Fan-atic 🪸
FathomNauts, we're so close to clearing a huge batch of sea fan data from #NOAAOceanExploration! Join our community in November with a run on sea fans: make 15 new sea fan discoveries that FathomVerse agrees with to earn a special badge!
This video was recorded aboard the @mbarinews.bsky.social R/V Rachel Carson. Joost Daniels uses DeepPIV, an innovative imaging technology that utilizes lasers, to scan a larvacean so we can study their intricate structures.
This week’s #DrawnFromTheDeep icon is the larvacean. You can search for larvaceans by playing Bound in FathomVerse, and we encourage you to share your larvacean-inspired art on the FathomVerse Discord! discord.gg/E77WXsfpbD
Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃
While we were scanning a larvacean with lasers to create a 3D model of the animal, we noticed a jack-o-lantern-like face appear for just a split second. We decided to nickname this the jack-o-larvacean as our underwater mascot for Halloween. 🌊🐙🧪🎮
Drawn from the Deep ✍️👻This October, find and draw the icon of the week!
As we transition into autumn and get that pumpkin spice urge to chill at home, you can play FathomVerse, the cozy game for ocean nerds! Read here for more on the drawing prompts:
www.fathomverse.game/post/drawn-f...
Keep the celebration going all month with our October #DrawnFromTheDeep challenge by playing FathomVerse and sharing a drawing of a hagfish on the FathomVerse Discord. discord.gg/E77WXsfpbD
Even if you can’t visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Into the Deep exhibit to meet hagfish face-to-face, you can cozy up with #FathomVerse and contribute to marine science from anywhere in the world!📱
Play the Bound mini-game this week and locate a few hagfish to earn the badge and show your love for these deep-sea jawless fish.
Happy Hagfish Day, the fall holiday you didn’t know you were waiting for! 🧙 To celebrate these slippery, slimy cuties, we teamed up with our friends at @montereybayaquarium.org on a limited-time Hagfish Day achievement badge!
“Enteropneusts are actually more closely related to humans than to worms. They have a rudimentary nerve cord similar to ours and breathe oxygen using structures similar to a fish’s gills,” according to @mbarinews.bsky.social.
Learn more here: www.mbari.org/animal/acorn...
Have you heard of worm-like animals that create spirals on the seafloor, are more related to humans than actual worms, and produce super cute larvae? We’re obsessed with #AcornWorms!
Play #FathomVerse to find acorn worms and earn a special badge!
#AnimalsOfTheDeep @mbarinews.bsky.social
Salp or pyrosome? These gelatinous, free-floating tunicates can appear quite similar in the water column. However, a closer look reveals key differences that can help with identification.
Watch this vid to learn more: youtube.com/shorts/2hnUd...
We're taking ocean exploration to the next level by merging science with an innovative gaming experience. Follow along as we share a walkthrough of the #FathomVerse and all its features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNCjy2FRiF0
Play #FathomVerse to improve your ID skills and join our Discord for more deep dives into ocean animals!
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🪸 Sea fan coral
- May look solid white in footage, but colors vary by species of corals
- Fan shape with small polyps on the branches (usually visible)
- Has a distinct disk-shaped holdfast for attachment to hard substrate
📸 @noaa.gov NOAA Ocean Exploration
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How can we tell this is a glass sponge? Let’s take a closer look.
Glass sponge
- Icy, opaque look
- Shaggy and wispy branches from irregular spicules
- Cylindrical central core of each branch, where the spicules extend outward
📸 @schmidtocean.bsky.social
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This week we had a “Wait… is that coral?” moment.
At first glance, that icy fan shape seems coral-like. We think this might be in the genus Walteria, a type of glass sponge (Phylum Porifera). These sponges come in all shapes and sizes, so even experts can find it challenging to identify them. 1/4