1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊
What a terrific team
@isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more.
What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph
New observations of fascinating rock #sponges 🤩, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea! A short note from our Greek partners highlight some of the threats rock sponges face, such as #plastic liter in the deep-sea 🙁
@biodiversa.eu
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Amazing SponBIODIV discovery 🤩 by Díaz et al. at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, Sweden.
We welcome the VILESIDA, an entirely new order of #sponges 🪸 @biodiversa.eu
The Uppsala University News today talk about our new order of sponges! 🪸If you want to know more 👇
Uppsala University was curious to see for themselves the new order of #sponges we discovered 😅
The use of historical #collections is pivotal in the understanding of today's taxonomy and biodiversity.
Our SponBIODIV partner @uu.se illustrates this with a 19th century🎩 #sponge🪸 collection from the North Atlantic 🌊.
@biodiversa.eu
#Photogrammetry works to monitor vulnerable marine ecosystems such as deepsea #spongegrounds! A population of the iconic 'Asconema setubalense' slightly increased reveal our partners from IEO-CSIC (Gijón, Spain), despite high fishing pressure. @biodiversa.eu
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What a great SponBIODIV kickoff meeting we had at
@ciimar.bsky.social in June 2023. 🙌 to this awesome All-Atlantic & Mediterranean consortium with 10 partners +7 associate partners, and over 60 researchers! Since then the #sponge science (and fun) has never stopped 😊 .
@biodiversa.eu
Can #sponges help protect the threatened coastal lagoon of the Mar Menor (SE of Spain)? 🧽 #eDNA 🧬 to monitor biological communities in shallow coastal ecosystems. 76 taxa, 9 phyla identified by Corral-Lou et al! @mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Do microbes contribute to #sponge sexual reproduction❤️ ? A team from SponBIODIV finds significant microbial composition changes in two species between reproductive and non-reproductive sponges! Spoiler: #Archaea are important!
@mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu
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#Connectivity in the #deepsea! EXCELLENT study on the key sponge ground species ‘Geodia hentscheli’, shows strong genetic and microbiome structures segregated by depth. 👇
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Very nice piece about our article on how sponges collect eDNA in deep sea waters that can be used to reconstruct their ecosystem composition by Olivia Hewitt www.currentconservation.org/mysteries-of...
🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science!
-Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL
-More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk
A map showing the topography of Antarctica, without ice
We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready?
Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al
Sticker of Donald Trump with an "I DID THAT!" speech bubble, pointing towards the price tag for a carton of eggs in a grocery store. The price of eggs shown is $10.49.
Spotted in Wisconsin. $10.49 for eggs.
Prices keep going up and Donald Trump isn’t doing a damn thing about it!
🤣🤣🤣 dynabeads for all!!!
📢 ¡Visitad 'El suelo, un paseo por la vida' 🪱 y 'Bosques complejos, nuestros aliados' 🌳 en Fresno de Cantespino y Maderuelo respectivamente. Estas exposiciones del #proyectoERA (financiado por FECYT) acercarán la #ciencia del MNCN a los habitantes de la comarca. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...
Estáis en Madrid? Pues os animo a descubrir la exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo: Historia Natural que estará en las salas del @mncn-csic.bsky.social hasta el 11 de mayo de 2026
mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...
Black coral from @marumunibremen.bsky.social dive 110 #MarineLife
An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity
https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN
Happy #MarineBiologistDay compadres! 🦈🪸🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🪼
So funny he acquired the meteorites from a supplier? Why would someone dedicate his time to such bullshit? Bat shit I mean
🪸 New ERGA-BGE Case Study!
Scientists from @ciimar.bsky.social are leveraging #genomics for the conservation of Mediterranean red #coral - a key species under threat from over-harvesting and rising ocean temperatures. 🌡️
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conserv...
#genomes for #conservation
New review: "Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate." Ereskovsky, Melnikov & Lavrov propose archaeocytes as a cell type specific to the class Demospongiae. Clear homologues of archaeocytes are absent in other sponge classes?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Happy birthday, Alfred Russel Wallace, father of biogeography and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his book Darwinism (1889), he referred to the impacts of "invading" species (such as the black rat) carried by commerce and replacing native species all over the world.
Look at all those beautiful and mysterious sponges 😍
Abajo, puedes leer sobre cangrejos de río en @es.theconversation.com
Y en este enlace youtu.be/C0AQsAu8F4c?... puedes ver el cangrejo del rey, un documental sobre 450 años cangrejos de río y gente en España.
@ebdonana.bsky.social
RECRUITING PhD student to study kelp dispersal and transport from the coastal zone to the deep sea. See our website for particulars. annametaxas.com
Hydroid colonies resembling Christmas trees with ascidians at their base.
Hydroid colonies resembling christmas trees with ascidians at their base.
For those feeling Christmassy🎅, here's some aglaopheniid hydroids🎄 with ascidians and corals at their base. Looks like someone in the reef will have lots of gifts 🎁 this year. #Hype4Hydrozoa
