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

Tiny sea cucumbers, big mysteries! 🪱 Out sampling for my MSCA project SensHolo at the @msarscentre.bsky.social, at the University of Bergen, 🇳🇴— exploring how these mini echinoderms sense their world. Plus a few bonus echinoderms! 🌊✨

Happy Ctenophore day! Its a perfect day to celebrate such a small yet beautifully diverse phyla that comes in a wide array of shapes and colors. #Ctenophoreday

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 CTENOPHORE DAY (part II). A full bucket of ctenophores for Ctenophore day - time to shimmer🌈🌊✨ Please watch till end: Mnemiopsis & Pleurobrachia included. Alexandre @alexandrejan.bsky.social filmed and caught this ctenophore at the same time @msarscentre.bsky.social #ctenophores #GoPro

HAPPY CTENOPHORE DAY (part I). The fjords around Bergen are full with Mnemiopsis right now. Movie by the amazing @alexandrejan.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social #ctenophores #GoPro

Excited to share our new work on the 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ! We explored its remarkable cellular diversity and integration with the syncytial nerve net, uncovering connectivity and insights into the evolution of sensory complexes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper is out: "The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ & the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals. We reveal a remarkable cell type diversity, nerve net condensation, a multilayered circuit & gene expression profiles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores

The curious case of the comb jelly | Science Sessions | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast... Listen to our podcast where we describe a #ctenophore with the ability to reverse its development to an earlier stage of life. @joanjsoto.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social @pnas.org #rejuvenation

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Our ctenophores say hi to Bluesky 👋🏼

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