1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊 What a terrific team @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more. What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph

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...

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/...

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/...

Very nice piece about our article on how sponges collect eDNA in deep sea waters that can be used to reconstruct their ecosystem composition by Olivia Hewitt www.currentconservation.org/mysteries-of...

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready? Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

Spotted in Wisconsin. $10.49 for eggs. Prices keep going up and Donald Trump isn’t doing a damn thing about it!

📢 ¡Visitad 'El suelo, un paseo por la vida' 🪱 y 'Bosques complejos, nuestros aliados' 🌳 en Fresno de Cantespino y Maderuelo respectivamente. Estas exposiciones del #proyectoERA (financiado por FECYT) acercarán la #ciencia del MNCN a los habitantes de la comarca. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Estáis en Madrid? Pues os animo a descubrir la exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo: Historia Natural que estará en las salas del @mncn-csic.bsky.social hasta el 11 de mayo de 2026 mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Black coral from @marumunibremen.bsky.social dive 110 #MarineLife

An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN

Happy #MarineBiologistDay compadres! 🦈🪸🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🪼

🪸 New ERGA-BGE Case Study! Scientists from @ciimar.bsky.social are leveraging #genomics for the conservation of Mediterranean red #coral - a key species under threat from over-harvesting and rising ocean temperatures. 🌡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conserv... #genomes for #conservation

New review: "Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate." Ereskovsky, Melnikov & Lavrov propose archaeocytes as a cell type specific to the class Demospongiae. Clear homologues of archaeocytes are absent in other sponge classes? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy birthday, Alfred Russel Wallace, father of biogeography and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his book Darwinism (1889), he referred to the impacts of "invading" species (such as the black rat) carried by commerce and replacing native species all over the world.

Look at all those beautiful and mysterious sponges 😍

Abajo, puedes leer sobre cangrejos de río en @es.theconversation.com Y en este enlace youtu.be/C0AQsAu8F4c?... puedes ver el cangrejo del rey, un documental sobre 450 años cangrejos de río y gente en España. @ebdonana.bsky.social

RECRUITING PhD student to study kelp dispersal and transport from the coastal zone to the deep sea. See our website for particulars. annametaxas.com

For those feeling Christmassy🎅, here's some aglaopheniid hydroids🎄 with ascidians and corals at their base. Looks like someone in the reef will have lots of gifts 🎁 this year. #Hype4Hydrozoa

Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social, @jamesvolmer.bsky.social doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵1/6

Two postdocs available to study cryptobenthic fishes Simon Brandl's postdoc in Texas, with an emphasis in ecology static1.squarespace.com/.../Postdoc_... Luke Tornabene's postdoc in Washington, with an emphasis in systematics static1.squarespace.com/.../Pursuit+.... #ichthyology #TeamFish

🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏 WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE

🚨 Oferta de feina: a la Iniciativa Catalana per a l'Earth Biogenome Project busquem un/a freelance en comunicació científica apassionat/da per la divulgació per sumar-se al nostre equip 🙌🧬🌍 Més detalls 👉 www.biogenoma.cat/oferta-treba... Siusplau, feu RT i compartiu 😊

Analysis of the oldest-known genomes from early modern humans in Europe, who lived around 45,000 years ago, helps to provide a more precise date for when Neanderthals and modern humans mixed, according to research published in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3ZR8Kh1 🧪 🏺

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to be part of this effort led by Rubén González-Miguéns: A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.626972v1 eKOI will be integrated into @pr2-database.bsky.social 🙌 #protistsonsky

Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja. Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

En respuesta a las recientes declaraciones antievolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja, desde la Junta Directiva de la SESBE hemos escrito esta carta abierta. #evolución 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...

One day left to email us to get the zoom link for @anariesgo.bsky.social Ana Riesgo's talk on "Monitoring the Biodiversity of Benthic Communities through the Sponge Lens"[email protected]

Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻 I want to help! Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting Science together is better than alone 🙌

La fauna marina, junto con las aves, sigue teniendo las grandes migraciones como parte central de su comportamiento. En cambio, en la gran fauna terrestre, las migraciones, que probablemente fueron la norma en el pasado, han desaparecido casi por completo, salvo en África y casos puntuales.

We are happy to host Dr. Ana Riesgo @anariesgo.bsky.social from the @mncn.bsky.social for our #MeeGene @leibnizlib.bsky.social seminar 10.12.2024 15h CET. "Monitoring the Biodiversity of Benthic Communities through the Sponge Lens." To join, drop us an email [email protected]

#MeeGene @leibnizlib.bsky.social: Join Ana Riesgo's @anariesgo.bsky.social #talk on Tuesday 10-Dec-2024 at 15h CET about “Monitoring the #Biodiversity of Benthic Communities through the Sponge Lens.” via Zoom. Email to [email protected] to register.

#Dragons! Face to face with some #Antarctic worms! Collected and photographed by @hwiklund.bsky.social on our @bas.ac.uk expedition to the marine protected area around the South Orkney Islands in Antarctica. 588 species of seafloor worms are currently known from the Southern Ocean!

I'm excited to rebuild this #science community over here on Bluesky! In honor of this clean slate, here's a repost of my favorite #epithelial cell building its brush border. @tyskalabactual.bsky.social

I also loved graduate school 💙! This “being happy in grad school” became nearly taboo on the other site… (only “hating grad school” became cool). I’m happy to see people being able to say PhD life was a positive experience for them! Who else enjoyed graduate school?! 🧪🧠👩‍🔬🦋 #neuroscience #phdlife

Deep-sea menage à trois? A sponge, an archaeon, and a bacterium rely on carbon & vitamin B12 exchange — until a virus crashes the party! Discover how ammonia-oxidation and viral lysis drive this unique #symbiosis! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Metagenomics 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky

Definitely with my science buddy @sergitaboada.bsky.social 🪸

Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪

So that's it...bye bye twitter/X...seems like the right thing to do given the dark deep hole it has become...hi BlueSky!