Category: squid

Friday Squid Blogging: Regulating Squid Fishing in the South Pacific The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) needs to regulate squid fishing in the South Pacific. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go…

Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Article about the bigfin squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Live in the Waters of Western Australia Evidence of them has been found by analyzing DNA in the seawater. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events Science news: Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, surviving mass extinction events by retreating…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the South Pacific Regulation is hard: The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) oversees fishing across roughly 59 million square kilometers (22 million square miles) of the South Pacific high seas, trying to impose order on a region double the size of Africa, where distant-water fleets pursue species…

Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Fish Chokes on Squid Here’s a fossil of a 150-million year old fish that choked to death on a belemnite rostrum: the hard, internal shell of an extinct, squid-like animal. Original paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that…

Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Bacteria in Squid The Hawaiian bobtail squid has bioluminescent bacteria. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Flying Squid in the South Pacific The population needs better conservation. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Increased Squid Population in the Falklands Some good news: squid stocks seem to be recovering in the waters off the Falkland Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Byzantine Monk Cooking This is a very weird story about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules. At Constantinople’s Monastery of Stoudios, the kitchen didn’t answer to appetite. It answered to the “typikon”: a manual for ensuring that nothing unexpected…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce…

Friday Squid Blogging: Do Squid Dream? An exploration of the interesting question. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant: Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while studying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an abyssal plain…

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in the Star Trek Universe Spock befriends a giant space squid in the comic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #5. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found in Light Fixture Probably a college prank. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Petting a Squid Video from Reddit shows what could go wrong when you try to pet a—looks like a Humboldt—squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes. It’s technically not a squid: “The vampire squid is a fascinating twig tenaciously hanging onto the cephalopod family tree. It’s…

Friday Squid Blogging: New “Squid” Sneaker I did not know Adidas sold a sneaker called “Squid.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Pilot Whales Eat a Lot of Squid Short-finned pilot wales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) eat at lot of squid: To figure out a short-finned pilot whale’s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a variety of sources, including movement data from short-lasting tags, daily feeding rates from satellite tags, body…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Game: The Challenge, Season Two The second season of the Netflix reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge has dropped. (Too many links to pick a few—search for it.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.…

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid at the Smithsonian I can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce…

Friday Squid Blogging: “El Pulpo The Squid” There is a new cigar named “El Pulpo The Squid.” Yes, that means “The Octopus The Squid.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Sperm Whale Eating a Giant Squid Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Jigging for Squid A nice story. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Whale A comparison aimed at kids. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Catching Humboldt Squid First-person account of someone accidentally catching several Humboldt squid on a fishing line. No photos, though. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Nice short article on the bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped UFO Spotted Over Texas Here’s the story. The commenters on X (formerly Twitter) are unimpressed. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: A Case of Squid Fossil Misidentification What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Designs Yet another SQUID acronym: “Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design.” It’s a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: The Giant Squid Nebula Beautiful photo. Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula’s bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently surrounded…

Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous New research: One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with high fossilization potential that could help the…

Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Skin Distorts Light New research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: What to Do When You Find a Squid “Egg Mop” Tips on what to do if you find a mop of squid eggs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to…

Friday Squid Blogging: Stubby Squid Video of the stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) from offshore Vancouver Island. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Run in Southern New England Southern New England is having the best squid run in years. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: NGC 1068 Is the “Squid Galaxy” I hadn’t known that the NGC 1068 galaxy is nicknamed the “Squid Galaxy.” It is, and it’s spewing neutrinos without the usual accompanying gamma rays. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Pet Squid Simulation From Hackaday.com, this is a neural network simulation of a pet squid. Autonomous Behavior: The squid moves autonomously, making decisions based on his current state (hunger, sleepiness, etc.). Implements a vision cone for food detection, simulating realistic foraging behavior. Neural network can make decisions and form associations. Weights are…

Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Divers Video Giant Squid The video is really amazing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Pyjama Squid The small pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata) produces toxic slime, “a rare example of a poisonous predatory mollusc.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Facts on Your Phone Text “SQUID” to 1-833-SCI-TEXT for daily squid facts. The website has merch. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Live Colossal Squid Filmed A live colossal squid was filmed for the first time in the ocean. It’s only a juvenile: a foot long. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid and Efficient Solar Tech Researchers are trying to use squid color-changing biochemistry for solar tech. This appears to be new and related research to a 2019 squid post. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Bruce…

Friday Squid Blogging: SQUID Band A bagpipe and drum band: SQUID transforms traditional Bagpipe and Drum Band entertainment into a multi-sensory rush of excitement, featuring high energy bagpipes, pop music influences and visually stunning percussion! As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I…

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Bioluminescent Squid Firefly squid is now a delicacy in New York. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Fossil A 450-million-year-old squid fossil was dug up in upstate New York. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid the Care Dog The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a pediatric care dog named “Squid.” Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: The Colossal Squid Long article on the colossal squid. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Beaked Whales Feed on Squid A Travers’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii) washed ashore in New Zealand, and scientists conlcuded that “the prevalence of squid remains [in its stomachs] suggests that these deep-sea cephalopods form a significant part of the whale’s diet, similar to other beaked whale species.” Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier…

Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There is a lot out there about squid, even more if you count the other meanings of the word. Blog moderation policy.…

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Sticker A sticker for your water bottle. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid Lots of details that are beyond me. Blog moderation policy. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier