Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈

PhD student, phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea Antarctic sea spiders. Also got a soft spot for Polychaetes
He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🧜🏼‍♂️ science & other stuff

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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

[Christopher Mah, @echinoblog.bsky.social @echinoblog]

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

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

It's me!

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

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!

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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

[Tom Crean Discovery @SouthPoleTom]

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

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

Over the past week @griffiths_huw & @morroghmax, the crew and #SDAScience team have been testing the new deep sea research capabilities of the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough in one of the deepest and least explored parts of #Antarctica, the Hesperides Deep! 🧵(1/4)

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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

[Shaylyn Potter @SaveOurPlankton]

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

#scubadiving #seaspider #underwaterphotography

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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

[Jamie Maxwell 🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈 @morroghmax]

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