Our researchers from the Museums in Uppsala and Madrid are streaming LIVE from the Arctic Mid-Atlantic Ridge: on Bamboo Coral Garden at 1000 m depth. So many #sponges! @biodiversa.eu @greenpeace.org @uu.se @mncn-csic.bsky.social #deeparcticexpedtion

¡Directo! Seguid la campaña Deep Artic Expedition organizada por @greenpeace.org. Participa @sergitaboada.bsky.social, investigador del MNCN.Contemplad organismos,esponjas y otros seres vivos que sustentan este ecosistema marino ubicado entre 500-3000m de profundidad. www.youtube.com/live/HyqR7Si...

www.youtube.com/live/aat4yLR... Live stream of the Deep Arctic Expedition led by Greenpeace. Exploring a seamount with loads of sponges and bamboo coral

Happy to share my recent 🎧 interview on Ecoshock Radio! We discussed our new findings on how long-term and short-term ocean warming is impacting fish biomass across the Northern Hemisphere. Take a listen here: www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES... #ECOSHOCK #podcast #climate #fisheries #marine #ecology

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-10 marine species of 2025! Do you have a favorite? www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

Don’t miss it! 🎓 On 26/02 at 15:00, @elenafcorr.bsky.social will defend her PhD thesis at ICM‑CSIC: “Drivers of trophic ecology in large predatory fishes...”. 📍 Main Auditorium 🔴 Live stream: www.youtube.com/live... ICM-CSIC

Today in marine invertebrates youtu.be/Vf1AC3OKi9c?...

#seminarioMNCN 'Understanding senescence in wild populations: environmental effects and underlying mechanisms' Por Elisa Pérez Badás (MNCN) 📆23 de enero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/u4Ch2jY...

Os esperamos en el XV congreso del grupo de microbiología del medio acuático 🦠💧 de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología. Se celebrará en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social en Madrid del 10 al 12 de junio de 2026. Toda la info en la web: www.xvmmamadrid.es

🧵(HILO) Un equipo internacional que ha estudiado cómo el diente de león común ha logrado extenderse por todo el planeta, investiga una nueva estrategia para luchar contra las especies de plantas invasoras.👇 www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

¡Feliz 217 cumpleaños a #Darwin! 🎂 Hoy lo hemos celebrado en el MNCN con la lectura pública de una de sus obras más conocidas: 'El origen de las especies'. El sábado seguiremos los festejos con 'La noche de Darwin y Wallace'. www.mncn.csic.es

#seminarioMNCN 'Evolution, Function & Mechanisms of Multimodal Communication' Por Cristina Romero Díaz ([email protected] ) 📆20 de febrero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/BPPpsXt...

¡El MNCN- @csic.es forma parte del nuevo #barriodelaciencia! Conoced más sobre esta iniciativa aquí: shorturl.at/EqHKN

This is a great video on speciation after the Chicxulub impact, well worth watching. Video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/geolog... Credit @geosociety.bsky.social youtube.com/@geogirl Paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... 🧪⚒️🦴🧬

Sergi Taboada showing all the great research they do on sponges. #SESBE2026 @sesbe-org.bsky.social @sergitaboada.bsky.social

‪ #seminarioMNCN 'Life Finds a Niche: Ecological Specialisation Across the Tree of Life' Por Sara Gamboa Ramón 📆6 de febrero, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/hySyQNd...

Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.

@mncn-csic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ciimar.bsky.social y.social @universityofri.bsky.social @geomarkiel.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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...

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 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

#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/...

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/...

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!! Start your countdown; #WCMB2026 is happening exactly one year from now! Register here: wcmb2026.org/registration @unoceandecade.bsky.social @vliz.be #marinebiodiversity

Their findings, published in @natureportfolio.nature.com, reaffirm earlier work by researchers including Steven Haddock of @mbarinews.bsky.social, who have urged the global community to move cautiously in the face of all the uncertainties. mbayaq.co/44cVKEa

Scientists long assumed that inactive vents, without the mineral-rich plumes that make active vents so mesmerizing, didn’t host unique lifeforms. “It turns out that we just weren’t looking very closely,” says marine biologist Jason Sylvan. www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...

Del 4 al 16 de noviembre se celebra la semana de la ciencia (si, son dos semanas aunque por el nombre parezca una) Tienes toda la información en el enlace pero yo te recomiendo especialmente el homenaje a Jane Goodall que tendremos el jueves 12 mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.

These iconic #corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved? #marineecology #research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“New Zealand is bearing the brunt of these warming seas because of its position…Meanwhile, the Subtropical Front — the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water…has moved 120km west…the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around NZ had been observed”🧪

WOW. Posting also to the 🧪 feed

Preparing for the new week like a 5th Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition (newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed)

Check our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social about the unique sex determination system in Nautilus ➡️ XX/XY chromosomes unlike other cephalopods (ZZ/Z0). with @reef-combo.bsky.social and @anariesgo.bsky.social et al., and led by Hector Torrado. Get it: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbs~_LsQS...

Como era de esperar, el alga asiática que está invadiendo las costas de la península ya ha llegado a nuestras costas. www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/astu...

The White-spotted Yellow Wart Slug is a rare sea slug found only in the warm waters of the Mediterranean. Its #genome opens up exciting research opportunities for this colorful species. 🔗 Learn more: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/a-color...

Imagine if your car were powered by…seaweed 🌿 #Kelp farming is a rapidly growing industry, promising not only the uptake of CO2 but also potential food and #biofuel. 📲Learn how #WHOI scientists are helping to scale kelp production in the US & beyond: go.whoi.edu/seaweedfuel

¡Recordad!☀️'Museo de Verano', el campamento urbano para niñas/os de 5 a 12 años, se celebrará hasta el 5 de septiembre. Este año estamos aprendiendo sobre ríos🏞️, dinosaurios🦖, especies invasoras o evolución 🧬. ¡Todavía quedan plazas! tinyurl.com/ykpn9kjj @csicdivulga.bsky.social

🔍 What do fishers, scientists, and managers prioritize to secure the future of fishing in Mallorca? We explored this in the Llevant de Mallorca – Cala Ratjada Marine Reserve in this new study!⭐  Here's what we found 👇 #SustainableFisheries #MPA  @ICMCSIC #JuanjoMartin @miquelortega.bsky.social

I signed on to this letter of support to reconsider....its essential to research and science in #Antarctica. 🧪🇦🇶

🌍 Antarctica’s krill crisis is exploding. 🦐 518,000+ tons harvested — risking whales, penguins & the fragile Southern Ocean ecosystem. 🔥 Climate change + unregulated fishing = ecological tipping point. 🛑 #ProtectAntarctica | 📉 Collapse is unfolding. Not fiction—fact. 🔗 apnews.com/article/anta...

We couldn’t do it without all of you! A huge thank you to our incredible partners and sponsors. We’re proud to have you with us on this journey! @ciimar.bsky.social @cmiaviladoconde.bsky.social @ieo.es @euromarine.bsky.social @oceancensus.bsky.social

This is truly depressing... Look at how they abused these amazing photos by @nickybay.bsky.social ... Everyone needs to be super extra careful when sharing or liking cool/pretty/funny stuff anywhere.

New data on 2023's marine heatwaves is alarming. Oceans hit unprecedented temps & durations, with some events so extreme they're considered once-in-centuries occurrences. It's a clear signal that warming climate impacts are accelerating. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #unprecedented #oceanwarming