Congratulations to my student Ivan who's been carefully registering and labeling all of our #reindeer and #moose specimens in the #MuseumofEvolution collections! (and we have a lot in Uppsala so this was not easy). #Evolutionsmuseet

PhD student @melbaghooee.bsky.social from Aarhus University is visiting the Museum of Evolution for a month, to improve insect biomass measurement algorithms using deep learning (AI). Her work will have immediate applications to monitor insects, both in agriculture and ecology studies.

In this deep-sea study we aimed to evaluate the relevance of a sponge/cnidarian 🪸 morpho-functional approach to characterise their diversity and distribution at multiscales, responses to environmental gradients and structuring roles on the megabenthic community. 👇

The first Swedish national park with a marine focus in the Baltic Sea! Yesterday, Sweden's 31st national park was inaugurated 🥳 : NÄMDÖSKÄRGÅRDENS outside Stockholm. Covering an area of 25,300 hectares, of which 97 percent is sea, the area contains just over 1,300 islands!

Ants never cease to amaze me. Researchers from the University of Montpellier (France) showed that ant queens of the Iberian harvester ants can produce two different species!

A beer named after #Linnaeus! ...only in Uppsala! 🤩

In this podcast episode of 'Biodiversity Impact', scientist Julio Díaz from the Museum of Evolution (Uppsala University) talks about his journey, his job and, of course, sponges 🙂

All my animal/plant pictures from Kenya have now been uploaded to inaturalist.org totaling 241 observations free to use by scientists or any other passionate naturalist 🙂 : 26 plants 13 mammals 4 reptiles 1 amphibian 95 birds 72 insects 8 spiders 7 molluscs 2 crustaceans + a few other groups

Sponges are animals – just like us. 🧽 New sponge genomes may reveal exciting secrets that could contribute towards drug discovery, reef conservation, and much more. 🧬 sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/03/e... Image credit: Benjamin Mueller

My brother has been creating more than 100 French🇫🇷 articles on #sponges🪸 in #Wikipedia (as well as dozen others in other languages). Merci pour ton soutien!

Here it is. My very first paper on snakes and the Linnaeus collection! Isn't this cool! 🥳

The Mediterranean coastal snail (Theba pisana) is hiding from the heatwave in the South of France 🇫🇷., 37 degrees today...

First time I find the magnificent 'thick-legged flower beetle' (Oedemera nobilis) with its impressive swollen hind legs in the male. This is in the south of France 🇫🇷.

The elegant 'latticed heath' 🦋 comes to rest in my garden in the shade (it's 25 degrees today in Sweden). This widespread European species was originally described by Linnaeus.

Just found on a dusty shelf a slide collection of Carl August Nilsson-Cantell (1893 – 1987) a #cirriped world expert that worked for a while at Uppsala University. Some of the slides are from types! (I added a red sticker) What a treasure 🤩

The first batch of #sponge #genome notes are now out! 🥳 from the 'Wellcome Open Research' publishing platform: Aplysina aerophoba, Crambe crambe, Chondrosia reniformis, Aphrocallistes beatrix, Eunapius fragilis, Spongilla lacustris...

With the recent announcement that numerous datasets — such as those from NOAA in the US — are scheduled for decommissioning in May, the PANGAEA data repository has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources

🌿 Celebrate the International Day for #Biodiversity... And don't forget: There is NO Biodiversity without #Taxonomy! That is why #CETAF and its community are here! Fancy to know more? Please take 5 minutes to watch our brand new video 👇 youtu.be/XBFjUlIBj7k #BiodiversityDay #IDB2025 #IDB #IBD

Want to learn more about the power of sponge eDNA? 🪸

'SVT News' was in the Museum of Evolution collections to see the research on a Ophidiomyces fungi disease developing on snake scales. 🐍

Easter is a perfect time to show the latest donation at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala🇸🇪: a private collection of eggs from around Gävle in 1947, and pretty much untouched since. Imagine all the cool science you could do wit that!

Today is the last day to send your Abstracts to the 'World Sponge Conference' (9-13 Sept.) in Portugal 🇵🇹 JOIN US! 👇

Uppsala University donated yesterday to our Museum hundreds of zoology posters previously used for teaching, most of them dating back to 1840-1890s ! What a treasure! I can't wait to sort them 🤩

Our new article on Swedish sponges 🇸🇪 is out 🥳 with a new species for Scandinavia (found in Sweden and Norway). Congrats to first author Raquel! this is part of her PhD work.

If you're into #genomes, here's a free 1-day course at SciLife Uppsala that you might be interested in. You can still register. I'll be talking about the importance of vouchers!

Found the amazing diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) in a Swedish🇸🇪 pond! It's the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water, where it builds an underwater house 🤩

Just wow.

SHAKEDOWN! EX 2504 dive 7- Stunning shots of Proisocrinus ruberrimus the so-called Moulin Rouge crinoid Hawaiian North Pacific, dive started at 1613 m! Sadly, it looks like a SECOND broken stalk is present to its left! #OkEANOS #saveNOAA

What? When? & Where? are the basic informations necessary for each specimen in a collection.

A 6-year post-doc position in Peter Schupp's Lab on coral reef chemical ecology, metabolomics and natural products.👇

"Species knowledge that belonged to general education is disappearing"

"Chondrite" meteorites like this one were formed by the accretion of particles in the primitive Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago! This exceptional specimen in our collections contains Calcium-Aluminium inclusions (white stains) which are among the oldest objects to form in the Solar System...

There are more than 2200 species of #lichens in Sweden! And probably at least the same amount of species still to be discovered and described. I photographed 'Evernia prunastri' next to me house. It is very common, ubiquitous, and especially likes to grow on fruit trees. #NameaSpecies

Amazing perfectly preserved trilobite "cemetery" from the mid-Silurian (430 Mya), recently acquired in our paleontological collections🇸🇪. #evolutionsmuseet #museumofevolution

Morning visitor in the snow near my house in Sweden🇸🇪 It's reproductive season for #foxes so this is when you see them more frequently. 🙂

Looking at #biodiversity 🪲 data from a #business 💰point of view. A refreshing initiative led by Fevziye Hasan at our Museum of Evolution and Tobias Andermann at the Evolutionary Biology Center, both from Uppsala University🇸🇪

New #museomics lab manager wanted at the University of Copenhagen!

A small, but important, reminder! In our papers, we should all aim for 'FAIR data': Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible.

Paleontologist from #MuseumofEvolution at Uppsala University🇸🇪 participates in the description of first ever soft tissue of a #plesiosaur. This revealed that marine reptiles, which lived during the age of dinosaurs and went extinct at the same time, had scales similar to those of modern sea turtles.

#Taxonomists 👩‍🔬 are threatened! According to the first-ever study that applies the IUCN RedList methodology to scientists, 40% of the insect's orders lack expertise!

@axeljensen.bsky.social is next in line to defend his PhD thesis — it's already 'nailed' according to Swedish tradition ✨ Read his work, "Genomics of an African primate radiation" 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record... The defense will be in two weeks, with @joanameier.bsky.social as the opponent!

70% of Nature readers who responded to an online poll are using 🦋 Bluesky. 53% have left 🐦 tweeter.

eDNA from the Seine river in Paris reveals rare species of mussels 😀

More than 86,000 occurrence records across more than 1,445 datasets already mobilized to #GBIF from #EJT records! 🤩

Sharing this very cool #fly observation from Costa Rica (Richardia advena) from @inaturalist.bsky.social www.inaturalist.org/observations...

😮 Amazing deep-sea glass #sponge spotted at 2000 m in the Caribbean! Possibly Tretopleura sp.?

The tropical #greenhouse in the botanical gardens at Uppsala University🇸🇪, a perfect haven when you get tired of the dark cold Swedish winter 🥶 #BotaniskaTrädgården

Never tired of being amazed by the birds of paradise from Papua New Guinea 🤩This is a male 'Arfak astrapia', living in the Arfak mountains in West Papua. Very little is know about its biology and behavior. #evolutionsmuseet #museumofevolution

Did you know that fossil vertebrate collections at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University🇸🇪 are one of the largest in Scandinavia? Vertebrate palaeontology was actually established in Sweden because of these collections. Read more: www.uu.se/en/staff/new...

Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US). ⚒️🧪🦑 Please share widely and help if you can! ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...