And to wrap up an amazing and very successful conference, IPC15 delegates dinned and danced with dinosaurs, and dazzled with amazing salsa moves! Many thanks once again to @etilic.bsky.social, @madamverm.bsky.social and the whole team who produced an amazing conference

Another fantastic day at IPC15 in Frankfurt. Day 2 focused on taxonomy, systematics and phylogenomics. Interestingly it started and finished with the renowned sand striker worms, with the fascinating story of Walter.

A fantastic mid conference trip to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Messel Pit, a former oil shale quarry full of amazingly preserved fossils from the Eocene. Followed by an excursion to Lohrberg, a great opportunity for conference participants to get to know each other and chat about polychaetes

Well day 4 at IPC15 in Frankfurt certainly started with a smoking topic, and the underworld of Hydrothermal vents. This set up for a great set of talks on ecology, biodiversity and conservation.

The final day of IPC15 was a fascinating insight into the world of EvoDevo & genomics. Two invited speakers Elaine Seaver and Toru Miura provided a backdrop for a series of fascinating talks.

The afternoon of Day 5 of IPC15 Frankfurt saw the general assembly, election of council members and president, selection of next conference, student prizes and thanks to the amazing team. It was also a chance to remember members of our polychaete family who are sadly no longer with us.

A fantastic first day of IPC15 in Frankfurt, so many great talks and posters. Our hosts are looking after us so well too.

My first International Polychaete Conference 🪱🪱🪱 thank you @etilic.bsky.social and the local committee for organising an exciting conference.

Position Alert! Come be a Curator of Crustacea at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Research Zoologist (Curator of Crustacea), IS-0410-12

Job Opening: Research Zoologist (Curator of Crustacea), IS-0410-12 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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This paper published in #BiologyLetters documents a record-breaking depth and geographic range in a marine ribbon worm doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #Taxonomy #Palaeonemertea #Nemertea

New paper out in Biology Letters! Tubulanus lutescens occurs in shallow Swedish waters and deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica — same species revealed by genome scale data, across oceans and extreme depths 🤯 👩‍🔬 Led by Christina Sagorny #MarineBiology #DeepSea #Nemertea doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Genomic evidence reveals a record-breaking range in Tubulanus lutescens (Nemertea) from shallow coasts to deep-sea seeps

Abstract. Morphological and low-coverage genomic data reveal that the shallow-water Swedish ribbon worm Tubulanus lutescens is conspecific with nemerteans

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Grab the mirror, this eyelash worm has gotten a makeover! Oh uhhh, looks like I meant taxonomically...using phylogenetics & morphology on Myxicola, two divergent clades were supported! Not only that, 2 new species were described! 🧪🌍👇 doi.org/10.1093/zool... @linnean.bsky.social

Check out the @gfbs-science.bsky.social newsletter if you haven’t already! I wrote a short piece about the upcoming polychaete conference in Frankfurt. Bonus: very pretty worms on the cover 😉🪱 (Der Artikel ist auf Deutsch)

Ralph Schill@ralphschill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 Newsletter 45 der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) ist erschienen! Mit Berichten aus der GfBS, Kooperationen, Forschungsaktivitäten, einer Tiefsee-Expedition vor Uruguay... 📥 Kostenloser Download: www.gfbs-home.de #Biodiversität #Systematik #Taxonomie #Phylogenie

🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨 If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬 Details here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... #PhD #Genomics #Annelida #MarineBiology #EuroWorm

Registration and Abstract Submissions for the 15th International Polychaete Conference is now open!! #IPC15 polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

IPC15, Frankfurt 2026

Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026Hosted at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt The 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) will bring together resear…

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Reminder! Get those names in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Hk...

True Facts: New Species Naming Competition

YouTube video by Ze Frank

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Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA)@oceanspecies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀! Check out Ze Frank’s newest True Facts video and drop your name suggestion for this new chiton in the comments: youtu.be/G7HkBBJO7ZU?... @sgn.one @bdj.pensoft.net

Star-shaped worm colonies? ✨🪱 Our new paper describes 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, named after Mauritania’s Baie de l’Étoile (Bay of Stars). Open access & featured on the Feb cover of Ecology & Evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #newspecies #polychaete #taxonomy @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social

Macroid Formation in Salmacina stellaebayensis n. sp. From Mauritania's Baie de l'Étoile With New Insights on Mitogenome Evolution in Serpulidae (Annelida)

We describe Salmacina stellaebayensis n. sp. from Mauritania's Baie de l'Étoile and provide the first complete mitochondrial genome for the genus Salmacina. The species forms distinctive macroid colo...

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There is a great opportunity to work on some cool worms and join the #IPC15 this summer. Details below! Apply here: 🔗 forms.gle/w9DKstARVaki... @oceanspecies.bsky.social

Worm news! 🪱 Two new polychaete species + a new subfamily from #Indonesia, led by Joko Pamungkas (Senckenberg Global Fellow). Fresh out in #ZJLS. @linneansociety.bsky.social @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social #Polychaeta #Taxonomy #NewSpecies #Nereididae #Dendronereidinae #Tylorrhynchinae

📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026 #IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

Two brand new polychaete species just published in the latest issue of Ocean Species Discoveries! 🪱 Nicon salinus Hernández-Alcántara & Dávila-Jiménez, n. sp. 🪱 Spinther bohnorum Tilic & Rouse, n. sp. Read the paper here 👇 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... @oceanspecies.bsky.social @bdj.pensoft.net

Ocean Species Discoveries 13–27 — Taxonomic contributions to the diversity of Polychaeta, Mollusca and Crustacea

Despite centuries of exploration, marine invertebrate biodiversity remains notably under-described. The majority of species in major marine groups are still unnamed, limiting our ability to understand...

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Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com

For about 2y, colleagues from @leibnizlib.bsky.social @sgn.one @univie.ac.at‬ @mncn-csic.bsky.social met to discuss how to contribute to #biodiversity #taxonomy research by sequencing #genomes of type natural history #collection specimens. The result is published at @systbiol.bsky.social

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

“A story of Neomicrorbis” is out! Our paper on these fascinating and rare bathyal serpulid worms has just been published. The study is beautifully illustrated with SEM and microCT images—we hope you’ll enjoy it! It’s open access: 🔓🔗 rdcu.be/ekuGc

Als Newcomer direkt in die Top Ten! 🌟 Der von Ekin Tilic & Team entdeckte wunderhübsche kleine Seestern Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa hat es in die #toptenmarinespecies der 2024 beschriebenen Arten von @marinespecies.bsky.social (WoRMS) geschafft! Glückwunsch @etilic.bsky.social! 🥳 📸 Greg Rouse

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Very exciting that this little sea star we described last year made it into the #toptenmarinespecies list. 🌟🤗

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(8/10) The Scripps Cousins Wood-Dwelling Seastar has some remarkable adaptations for life on sunken wood. marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @scrippsocean.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies #deepsea

Taxonomy training workshops are an incredibly valuable experience for everyone involved. The next #ConfusingCrustaceans workshop will be in Wilhelmshaven, Germany from Oct. 6-10, 2025. See peracarida.org for more details. #Peracarida #SweatTheSmallStuff #IcyInverts

A taxonomic inventory of faunal diversity at the methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #biodiversity #biogeography #ecology @etilic.bsky.social

Wie viele und welche #Organismen leben im #Meer? Forscherinnen und Forscher dokumentieren die #Artenvielfalt im World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) – darunter auch @etilic.bsky.social vom @oceanspecies.bsky.social … Christina Mikalo erzählt mehr darüber: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3...