Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species
The Squid is a new scientific machine:
One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could see cells interacting with each other, exchanging material and building skeletons. And we could do that live on the ship, when usually it takes a couple of weeks of staining and mounting to see anything,” Osborn said.
The expedition discovered thirty-one new marine species in two weeks. The article doesn’t say if any of them were new species of squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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lurker • July 31, 2026 7:36 PM
Two stories on AI slop
Snapchat claims to be “Holier than Thou”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77g6dm5pr8o
Google admits, “Oops, that was a bit too cool”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9349yx2ydvo