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Who knows what all these cells are saying to each other? In this timelapse of the Ephydatia sponge mesohyl, Lauren Grombacher has even caught a baby choanocyte chamber forming! Research in progress, stay tuned. #SpongeThursday #SciTwitter #BioTwitter #AcademicChatter #Biology

A real-life “living fossil?” 😳 Meet the nautilus! 🌀 ow.ly/5k1K50EnAoD

I wrote about one of the wildest nature stories I've heard in years. There's a community of giant sponges thriving on the peak of an underwater Arctic volcano, by devouring the ruins of an extinct ecosystem that died out 2000-3000 years ago. 1/ theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Our work on the feeding ecology of the giant #deepSea #Sponge garden in Arctic reveals sponges rely on remnants of extinct vent fauna and are about 300years old! Massive joint effort of #deepSea and #sponge experts AWI Media Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Leys (UAlbertaScience), Hill, and Riesgo labs are recruiting a student for a funded Master of Science (MSc) in “Sponge:symbiont interactions”. Deadline for applications: May 15, 2022. Start date: September 2022 Details here: bit.ly/3u1dYph

Happy Ephydatia green day #spongethursday #freshwatersponges

Our comment on how flow goes through the #deepsea sponge Euplectella has just been published with Springer Nature in nature. Read here: rdcu.be/cJEP9. #sponge UAlbertaScience Bamfield MSC

The tiny tunicate Oikopleura sp is completely transparent when not surrounded by one of its mucous houses. These snot structures are made to trap small food particles, and these bitty builders can construct up to six mucous houses a day! #deepseaanimalsyouveneverheardof

Lovely one for #Wormwednesday

I should note that all these videos of the jellyfish Rhizostoma pulmo in Trieste are from 2021.. BUT apparently they are back this year! via photographer Adriano Morettin via fB facebook.com/adriano.morett…

PhD position available in our group. The PhD candidate will explore single cell genomics data, generate transgenic and CRISPR lines to understand neuronal and muscular interactions in the cnidarian @Nematostella vectensis. Send your applications to [email protected]

Very happy to announce the lab's latest paper is finally out! From the excellent PhD thesis of Jeffrey Colgren. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Really happy to have been included in this super cool study by Niklas Kornder, Jasper de Goeij and team - sponges sneeze snot - and wastes - out their incurrent pores! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

Great research by Sally Leys and presented by Vanessa Ho 🪸🔬 on #Belinda, the most watched sponge in the world by Ocean Networks 🇨🇦 . Sponge_2022

Welcome to #NoVERMber! Starting off with a favourite: the Sand Striker worm! The latin name is Eunice aphroditois. 📸Smithsonian Channel

Sternaspis scutata! Also known as the mud owl. Living in shallow soft sediment, it is characterised by two brown chitinous and hard plates on its underside (the reddish bits on the pic). 📸 Greg Rouse in Drennan et al. 2019 CC-BY-4.0

wow Jellyfish muscle! Bamfield MSC Animals course students have made beautiful fluorescent stains of the actin that shows sarcomeres in the bell of Polyorchis penicillatus

I think you would properly call this a 'kelp circle' but it's really an Bamfield MSC Animals huddle in the beautiful pouring rain before we collect tideline critters. Winter is on its way!

Meet Belinda, the extraordinary sponge! 🧽✨ A Suberites concinnus in Barkley Sound, BC, Belinda responds to her environment with unique behaviors. From long-term winter contractions to active summer expansions, Belinda is full of surprises! bit.ly/meps_748_33