A whooping 26 persons already pre-registered for #bryozoan Larwood 2026! Pls consider pre-registering to help keep costs low! Link to register in quote. Dennis Gordon will be joining us from NZ thx to @uio.no funding! @hardbunnsfauna.bsky.social @glyptocrinus.bsky.social @bryozoology.bsky.social

🎄✨🐟🐌🦐 Happy Holidays! 🎄✨🐟🐌🦐 These glorious cookies were made by the fantastic #NorDigBryo participants on a bryozoa workshop in Bergen in November. May 2026 bring you good coworkers equally willing to rise to the occasion! #invertebrates #Invertefest #ScientificBaking #gingerbread

Just a little reminder 🐾🤍 #cat #GentleReminders #mentalhealth

#Crustmas, you say?? We made scientific gingerbread cookies for @unibergen.bsky.social's #AcademicGingerbreadVillage (exhibited at the natural history museum!), and of course some of them featured #invertebrates. Here's a glorious #HermitCrab made by the participants of our #Bryozoa workshop

How do #bryozoans and ginger cookies go together up North? Read here!

This was such a fun and good symposium - join the next one if you can!

JOB ALERT 🫎🦋🐞🪱🐍🦦🐚 Come and work with us at National Museum Cardiff. Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales seeks a new Head of Zoology to lead an experienced curatorial team driving forward innovative research and public engagement programmes. nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...

🌊 Phylum Friday: Bryozoa! 🌊 These small colonial organisms are usually found encrusting rocks or blending in with algae. However, many of the species found in New England are invasive, and have become a concern for intertidal and subtidal ecosystems as they encrust and out-compete native species.

📢 Biologists, botanists, ecologists, researchers and student: have you ever said “I’ll publish that dataset later”? ChatIPT = the “later” 😎 Built by @rukayaj.bsky.social, this chatbot makes it easy to share data to GBIF. 🚀 New update just dropped! chatipt.svc.gbif.no/ @gbifnorway.bsky.social

⏰ Last few days to submit entries to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 📅 Deadline: 7 September 2025🚀 Entries may detail newly developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones to leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network. 🔗: gbif.link/ebbe-2025

Hey #WormWednesday, this is relevant to our interest! Check out the free(!), fabulous invertebrate ebook, plan on contributing to the next, and marvel at the stunning cover @franzanth.bsky.social has made (which I *need* as a poster or book cover or something)

Take a break from the summer heat and check out the beautiful images and stories from Luis and @joanjsoto.bsky.social 's Antarctic adventure!

Watch Nico finally spot his velvet belly lantern shark(s) from a submersible! Also, GLOW IN THE DARK SHARK! 🦈 youtu.be/zHWVFDi6qQk?...

🦩 Have your say on the new #guide for publishing biological survey data to GBIF! The guide supports data holders in structuring and making biological survey data openly accessible. ⭐ Community review is open until 20 July 2025 🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

Ant Lion that we found hanging out in @crytzerfry.bsky.social garage. These insects are mostly known for their predatory larva which build sand pits to trap passing insects, like ants. Ecology of adults is understudied and not well know. (Euptilon arizonense) Mammoth, AZ

#wormwednesday!

🚨BREAKING🚨COOL SHREW FOUND insideecology.com/2025/07/03/o...

🦩 New guide for publishing biological survey data to GBIF is open for community review! The guide supports data holders in structuring and making biological survey data openly accessible. ⭐ Community review is open until 20 July 2025 🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

Ok, this is a delightful read *cackles* And I repeat, please come to Bergen later, Ursula! We have more whales, less poop! (though I agree with Sven's vision regarding birds!)

Corals

The last, much participated edition of our Community Meeting is just behind us. Rutger Vos presented our Gap List: an updated list of the animal species that occur in Europe according to various taxonomic databases: iboleurope.org/launch-of-ib...

Fitting for #MolluscMonday! (bonus #ILOVEBHL tagging!) (though I'm annoyed at Flickr for insisting I sign up to browse your content there now)

Oof! :( But a good read! There's a link to the pdf in the comments.

It looks so good!

A competitive 3-year postdoc has opened at the Natural History Museum Oslo. Message me if you are interested in developing a project aimed as using digital PCR methods to evaluate apicomplexans in Norwegian migratory birds and tropical arthropods #protist #parasite #ProtistsOnSky

💰 Data mobilization call 2025 from @gbifnorway.bsky.social is out! It's a call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data, targeting Norwegian institutions - check it out (link in comment). Deadline 15th of June! @gbif.org #DataSharing #Biodiversity

These are *amazing*!

Oh my goodness how beautiful it looks! 🤩 Very cool that a SEM photo of a Bryozoan from #NorDigBryo made it :) DO give a follow to Franz if you aren't already, and if you are on Insta, check out @NorDigBryo there!

@tkingfisher.com are you coming to Bergen, Norway?! Drop a message if you want a tour!

Just one of many, many uses of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social ; was looking for the original citation on enormous size of Lion's mane jellyfish (it's repeated throughout the internet without reference) - ta-da; BHL to the rescue! #ILOVEBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28070439

We love @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , and hope it will continue to grow and thrive!

#InverteFest! Cyanea capillata and Cyanea lamarckii from fieldwork outside Bergen, Norway last summer - two of our scientists were also in the water 😅 No-one was stung, though!

Our community science project begins in more or less 24 hours from now (depending on your time zone!) If you're going out to spot your local wildlife, join our project here so your findings can be used for a lot of science stuff www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Check this job advertisement by @mtaguado.bsky.social for a 3-year position, in case you are interested to do your PhD at the @unigoettingen.bsky.social on the amazing branching annelid Ramisyllis www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Take me back into the arms I love

Worm Vs. Ctenophore! A predatory Tomopteris worm has stalked and captured a Ctenophore (aka “comb jelly”). . . #ctenophore #combjelly #plankton #blackwater #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!

So, there they are, the @marinespecies.bsky.social top-ten marine species of 2024! Do you have a favorite? marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies

Whaaaaat?! 🤯 Since when could polychaetes be confused with nudibranchs?? Awesome! Happy #WormWednesday and #TaxonomistAppreciationDay

*flails like 🐸* I missed this in December - oh WOW! Go gawk at the book, it is awesome 🤩🤯✨ A new one is in the works, check out @franzanth.bsky.social tl for details!

Working on a series of projects this spring to inundate my region of Philly with action-item-based messaging focused on biodiversity. One of those is a sticker! This is an attempt to break down any emotional barrier to gardening by city dwellers. You don't need a green thumb, ya know? Just try it!

Today marks World Wildlife Day, a vital reminder of the importance of protecting our planet’s wildlife. 🌏 For over 60 years, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has helped us see our natural world through a different lens, showcasing its beauty and the necessity to preserve it.

VOTE NOW! Mollusc of the Year 2025 Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector YOU decide - we do its genome moty.senckenberg.science @cgreve.bsky.social

#TaxonomyThursday, and we're just back from a highly productive week at the field station working on #Bryozoa for the #NorDigBryo project! Check out /@NorDigBryo on Insta for the latest news!

Living jelly, (usually tiny, not sure about this one), in water, photographed onboard a moving vessel at sea - @joanjsoto.bsky.social got skills! 🤩 Also, how amazing is it that images can be shared from a researcher currently in ANTARCTICA to the internet?! 🤯 #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates

We may be a *little* bit envious back at the office 😅 Even so, fingers crossed for amazing samples, of course!

Plenty of different bryozoans from many, many samples have been identified as a part of our #NorDigBryo project, and Celleporina caliciformis is one of them! This species belongs to the family Celleporidae which is a very chaotic (in my honest opinion) group of bryozoans! #Bryozoa #scicomm

#ThrowbackThursday to some old punny posts - we once upon a time* made #InvertebrateValentines. Have shrimp, in these trying times! 🦐 (I think species is Hippolyte varians - feel free to correct!) (*before #Invertebrateshitposting was even a ting)

📣 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award has opened for nominations! Recognizing the work of two early-career researchers, the programme highlights research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by grad students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025