The gang has swapped places, Alan is back in Perth and now it’s Thom’s turn to hit Antarctica. He’s out with the Schmidt Ocean Institute on the Antarctic Climate Connections expedition to the Bellinghousen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. 
He will record, edit and upload a podcast from there… somehow. This episode may sound a little rougher as a result, but the content is gold as ever… Underrated belter alert.
 
The Prof managed to have some downtime with the family in Antarctica and has some great stories to tell, he’s a chopper guy now. He’s over subs and only into helicopters now… the subs of the sky. 
 
We talk to Antarctic fishes expert Thomas Desvignes about the fishes that are only found there and their amazing adaptations. Of course, we also have a remote coffee with Andrew.
 
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Reference list
News
Cable damage
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cqx9g5wwp89o
 
Vessel named after Don
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2025/01/11/naval-ships-named-after-explorers-don-walsh-and-victor-vescovo/
 
Antarctic ice melting dynamics
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-marine-040323-074354
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/how-is-the-ocean-melting-antarctica-were-starting-to-figure-it-out
 
Guest
Antifreeze in fish: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.94.8.3811
Supercooling and heating processes: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1410256111
Cod antifreeze: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1817138116
X-cell disease paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)00860-4
Hemoglobin paper: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/11/msad236/7329987
The new species of dragonfish: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5501.2.3
Nesting in notothenioids: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/faf.12523
Icefish nest colony:  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01698-5
 
And the three comics:
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticfishdiversity/
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticxcell/
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/fishsexdetermination/
 
Follow Thomas on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/notothentoma.bsky.social
 
Credits
Theme – Hadal Zone Express by Märvel
Logo image: Thom Linley
Song of the month: Five Magics by Megadeath
 

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