Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 64, just the science, none of the wafflePRESSURISED: Cephstravanganza with Professor Kat Bolstad | The Deep-Sea Podcast | Episode 64
Episode SummaryIn our newest episode, we join roving reporter Kat Bolstad at the Cephalopod International Advisory Council in Okinawa and hear from some of the most interesting people in Cephalopod research.
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In this episode…Our episode this month is a fascinating collection of interviews from the Cephalopod International Advisory Council Meeting that took place Oct-Nov in Okinawa Japan. Join Kat Bolstad, our roving reporter, as she takes time between bug hunting, seeing her first wild cuttlefish and shaking hands with a new octopus friend to collect interviews with some of the coolest names in Ceph science with a focus on the deep-sea. We hear from 12 Cephalopod experts on a wide variety of topics, including the preferred snacks for cephalopods, the effects of oxygen depletion on egg hatching, water temperature and acidification effects on cephalopod populations, and of course, the correct answer to the viral question: are octopuses actually ALIENS?
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Interview LinksKat’s Socials
Bluesky: @autsquidsquad.bsky.social
Sarah McAnulty
Skype a Scientist SkypeAScientist.com
Squidfacts.net
Kristina Fleetwood
Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
Décima lab website
Meg Mindlin
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@Tailsfromthedeep
Global biodiversity of the genus Ommastrephes (Ommastrephidae: Cephalopoda): an allopatric cryptic species complex
Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of the giant squid Architeuthis
Spatial ecology of Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus in Mediterranean deep-water environments: implications for designing no-take marine reserves (MEPS)
Diel and seasonal patterns of Nephrops norvegicus (Decapoda: Nephropidae) catchability in the western Mediterranean
Antarctic octos as records and predictors of climate-related changes in the Antarctic “Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment“
Danna Staaf books
Cephalopod camouflage bibliography on Zotero
AUT Lab for Cephalopod Ecology & Systematics aka AUT ‘Squid Squad’
Cephalopod Images and Footage
Keishu Asada Instagram
CIAC 2025 website, programme, book of abstracts
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