Happy #worldjellyfishday 🪼 Here is a juvenile Chrysaora colorata, one of my favourite species of scyphomedusa, native to the Californian coast.

Happy #worldjellyfishday, everyone 🪼🪼🪼! Jellyfish (and their blooms) are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, significantly contributing to carbon transport and storage. An ocean without jellyfish would not be a healthy ocean. @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

A new paper just dropped a little while ago describing a new family for a common species of benthic ctenophore (comb jellies), Coeloplana meteoris, now known as Benthoplana meteoris. www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

🌊 Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊 To celebrate the beauty and wonder of the Ocean, here is a close-up series of the jellyfish Cyanea lamarckii 🪼 These images were exhibited at the @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social inviting us to appreciate the ocean’s wonders up close. #WorldOceanDay #jellyfish

Corymorpha nutans, it is also the first jelly that appears with the stomach full. They bud from a polyp like the one in this video from @alexandrejan.bsky.social. Crazy hydrozoans!

What better time to celebrate #InverteFest than during plankton season! Check out some of the wonders we found last week while sampling in the Norwegian fjords 🔬🌊 How many species can you identify? @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

It was an honor to take part in the celebration of 200 years of knowledge at @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social, together with colleagues from across @unibergen.bsky.social departments 🎉🎂 The Burkhardt group showcased comb jellies in the Museum's majestic whale hall ✨ @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social

Director Alexis Powilewicz & aquarist Étienne Bourgouin from Paris Aquarium discuss the collaboration together with MSarsCentre Director @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social & @alexandrejan.bsky.social, ctenophore expert in the lab of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social ✨🧪 tinyurl.com/yc7erub5

The story made the cover of @biophysj.bsky.social with a beautiful shot of Littorina littorea and Malacoceros fuliginosus by @alexandrejan.bsky.social ✨

Our ctenophores say hi to Bluesky 👋🏼