Thomas Schwaha
@tschwaha.bsky.social
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Zoology, Microscopy, Evolutionary Biology
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Kevin Terretaz
3 months ago
I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager! I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas!
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Mali Ramsfjell
4 months ago
Today's cool museum collection discovery: Bryozoans growing on crustaceans! I believe this ctenostome belongs to the genus Triticella, which is known to grow on specific groups of marine invertebrates 🦐
#bryozoa
#nordigbryo
#marineinvertebrates
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Thomas Schwaha
International Bryozoology Association
4 months ago
Last month, the English version of Hans de Blauwe's great book on North Sea bryozoans was released. Find excellent information on local species and identification keys.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Marine and Brackish Bryozoans from the Southern Bight of the North Sea
This book is a reliable reference for professional bryozoologists and keen amateur naturalists studying northern European bryozoans, including 200 species.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-92513-9
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)
4 months ago
#bryozoa
bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!!
@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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Thomas Schwaha
International Bryozoology Association
4 months ago
Save the date! Next Larwood meeting (European bryozoan conference) in 2026 will be in Oslo from 1st-3rd of June! Hosted by
@lhliow.bsky.social
Hope to see you there.
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Lee Hsiang Liow (廖珕庠)
4 months ago
Read about invasive
#bryozoans
in Norway by
@malihr.bsky.social
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
and other supercool finds in her documentation of our
#Artsdatabanken
funded project NorDigBryo!
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
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Schizoporella japonica - An invasive species from the Pacific - Natural History Museum
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/NorDigBryo/what-do-we-find/schizoporella-japonica---an-invasive-species-from-.html
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Dan Killam
4 months ago
Boring bivalves are actually quite interesting! The ability to bore into rock has evolved multiple times in bivalves.
@spissatella.bsky.social
found that boring bivalves have a greater variety of forms than their non-boring counterparts! (220)
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Aaron O'Dea
4 months ago
📊 new paper! The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which normally occurs every year in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
[most co-authors not on bluesky except
@javsdiaz.bsky.social
@jonscibulski.bsky.social
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Thomas Schwaha
Worsaae lab, UCPH
5 months ago
New addition to the spectacular life cycle of Osedax worms: sex of O. japonicus is genetically (not environmentally) determined since larvae show both morphological and transcriptomic signatures of gender. Might help us explain male dwarfism
rdcu.be/eCHBe
@alicerouan.bsky.social
@NorioMiyamoto
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In two independent collaborations with two different labs (Leonardi-lab Argentinia, and Gorb-lab Germany) new data on different seal lice and their adaptations for underwater respiration. See more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Host-parasite coevolution leads to underwater respiratory adaptations in extreme diving insects, seal lice (Lepidophthirus macrorhini) - Communications Biology
Seal lice survive deep-sea dives by closing spiracles, reducing oxygen use, and breathing through their skin. Genomic data suggest they store oxygen via haemoglobin, showing insects can adapt to extre...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08306-2
7 months ago
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Paul D. Taylor
8 months ago
#FossilFriday
Jabba the Zooid. This teratological zooid in a colony of the bryozoan Tornipora reminds me of Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars. Cretaceous, Campanian, Archiac, SW France.
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Thomas Schwaha
Worsaae lab, UCPH
10 months ago
Join the best invertebrate event of 2025! The official website for the 6th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM6) is now live! Check it out:
icim6.com
Thank you Felipe and colleagues for hosting this!
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great morphology meeting of the dzg last week in kiel
11 months ago
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Christoph Bleidorn
11 months ago
Phylogenomics of the rarest animals: a second species of Micrognathozoa identified by machine learning
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Thomas Schwaha
MorphoNews
11 months ago
It is amazing to see so many
#Morphologists
attending
#Morpho25
in Kiel. The renaissance of
#Morphology
is continuing
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Jo Wolfe, PhD
11 months ago
P is for Patagurus, a hermit crab known from only ONE SPECIMEN EVER! Instead of a snail shell, it wears a bivalve to cover its tiny abdomen. Is this how hermit crabs gave up their houses in carcinization? 🤔 (see king & coconut crabs, ALSO hermits)
#CrabAZ
🦀🧪🦑
www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/arti...
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Next trip, Thailand, sampling freshwater bryos
11 months ago
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Was great to have
@cblei.bsky.social
in Vienna for this weeks departmental seminar!
12 months ago
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Kevin Kocot
12 months ago
Applications for Unitas Malacologica Travel Grants to attend the World Congress of
#Malacology
in São Paulo, Brazil from August 4-8 2025 are now open!
unitasmalacologica.org/projects.html
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UM - Research
http://unitasmalacologica.org/projects.html
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first of 2025.Taiwan. Great to be here working on a variety of bryoans. Also great to meet
@yjluo.bsky.social
during my stay, thanks! Looking forward to some nice collaborations!
12 months ago
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zoologicalletters.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
On the final day of 2024, first data on growth rates from boring bryozoans of the genus Immergentia. Great work from Mildred Johnson and other colleagues.
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Ecology of endolithic bryozoans: colony development, growth rates and interactions of species in the genus Immergentia - Zoological Letters
Boring bryozoans dissolve calcium carbonate substrates, leaving unique borehole traces. Depending on the shell type, borehole apertures and colony morphology can be diagnostic for distinguishing taxa,...
https://zoologicalletters.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40851-024-00246-9
about 1 year ago
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New publication on gastropod respiratory tunnels.
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
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Recurrent evolution of breathing microtunnel system in terrestrial operculate snails (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea)
Abstract. The Cyclophoroidea are a group of land snails possessing an operculum that seals the aperture when the snail withdraws its body into the shell. S
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae158/7922266?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
about 1 year ago
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