We had a fantastic time at the 8th Jellyfish Blooms Symposium in Cork 🇮🇪 presenting our latest work at the Manet Team🪼🪸 surrounded by a wonderful community of jellyfish reseachers. @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

“I find your lack of ctenes disturbing.”Credit original #sciart to @joanjsoto.bsky.social. #MayTheCtenoforceBeWithYou #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #ctenophore #scicomm

Proud to be part of this great piece led by talented @annaferraioli.bsky.social. A fundamental step towards a better understanding of ctenophores' complex behavioral repertoire. @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social + amazing cover by @alexandrejan.bsky.social

Michael Sars Centre@msarscentre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations to all the authors 👏 A special mention goes to @alexandrejan.bsky.social for a gorgeous cover image! @leodigel.bsky.social @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @carinelegoff.bsky.social @joanjsoto.bsky.social @maikekittelmann.bsky.social @aaas.org 4/4

Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists! Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊 www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

🚨 Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a new project by Artsdatabanken, the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Project ODIN will investigate Octocoral Diversity In Norway 🌊🪸, tackling it with a synergetic combination of imaging 🔬📽️ and sequencing 🧬💻 tools. Picture: Erling Svensen.

Here's some underwater Christmas trees🎄 to brighten up your day. #Hydrozoa #Hype4Hydrozoa.

Joan J. Soto-Angel@joanjsoto.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Never thought I'd be on #spotify, but here we are. More on our findings here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... #Ctenophora @unibergen.bsky.social

Reverse development in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi | PNAS

Reverse development, or the ability to rejuvenate by morphological reorganization into the preceding life cycle stage is thought to be restricted t...

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Pawel Burkhardt@pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The curious case of the comb jelly, where we described a comb jelly with the ability to reverse its development to an earlier stage of life, is now also available at #spotify 🤩 #ctenophores 🪼⏪ open.spotify.com/episode/6c2O... with @joanjsoto.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Happy #AntarcticaDay, everyone! Today Dec 1st commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. Remember: there's more than (truly amazing) whales 🐳, seals 🦭 and penguins🐧 in its icy waters, and they also deserve some (research) attention and resources 🪸🪼.

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/...

Happy #worldjellyfishday, everyone 🪼🪼🪼! Jellyfish (and their blooms) are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, significantly contributing to carbon transport and storage. An ocean without jellyfish would not be a healthy ocean. @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

Happy Ctenophore Day! These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈 Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab #CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore

We just wrote a blog post on our recent Antarctic adventure with @ub.edu @icmcsic.bsky.social at the the Invertebrate Collections blog @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social. Take a look here: invertebrate.w.uib.no/2025/07/21/a... Spoiler alert: cool pics of #Antarctic #Hydrozoa🪼🪸

Excited we played a small part in this amazing work out now in @nature.com. We established a ctenophore culture from a single individual through self-fertilization to reduce heterozygosity levels. Named them "Arnau" & they lived happily for 2 years 😂 @joanjsoto.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Iana V. Kim@ianakim.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's some of the 🪼🪼🪼 beauties we found so far during the XIX Spanish Antarctic expedition on board BIO Hesperides. Next net deployments will be seriously deep 🤩. We are crossing our fingers (and toes) for some cool specimens! @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

Excited about this new video that explains our research on how comb jelly membranes function under extreme pressure of the deep-sea. Made by 1st author Jacob Winnikoff & Kyra Schlining for @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑🧪🌊 Just in time for @dsbsoc.bsky.social! #ctenophore www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7A0...

Grace under pressure: How membranes help comb jellies thrive in the deep

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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Grace under pressure ✨️💫⁠ Comb jellies are some of the most dazzling and depth-diverse denizens of the sea. Using MBARI's advanced deep-sea robots, researchers revealed how membranes help comb jellies thrive in the deep. Learn more: youtu.be/e7A0hZ8mBtE?...

Ready for a new #Antarctic adventure on board BIO Hesperides @csic.es . During the next 6 weeks, we'll be looking for (bi)polar #jellyfish🪼 and #polyps🪸 for project Pole2Pole + the Invertebrate Collections🦀🐚🦑🪱 of the University Museum of Bergen, @UiB. #Hype4Hydrozoa

In honour of #Antarctica day (and my first ever post on here) I'm sharing one of my favourite #photos of this truly amazing place taken during the summer #sea #ice minima last year. In this image, three resting seals are dwarfed by a capsized iceberg in the Bellingshausen Sea. #photography

Quote post with a ctenophore! Here's a sea gooseberry, Pleurobrachia pileus (bonus: tiny parasitic trematode). #Ctenophores #InverteFest🪸🪼

JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Quote post with a ctenophore! Here’s a Beroe I appliquéd/embroidered on a beanie. #inverteFest 🐙🦑🐡

Proud to see our findings on reverse development in Mnemiopsis leidyi echoed by National Geographic🤩🤩🤩. Check out our @pnas.org article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411499121 #Ctenophores @UiB @msarscentre.bsky.social @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social

Medusas inmortales capaces de volver al estado larvario

Aunque existen algunas especies capaces de ralentizar el envejecimiento, no es tan común encontrar un animal que pueda rejuvenecer. Los científicos han descubierto cómo lo hacen, y sobre todo, por qué...

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The curious case of the comb jelly | Science Sessions | PNAS www.pnas.org/post/podcast... Listen to our podcast where we describe a #ctenophore with the ability to reverse its development to an earlier stage of life. @joanjsoto.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social @pnas.org #rejuvenation

The curious case of the comb jelly

Joan Soto-Angel and Pawel Burkhardt describe a comb jelly with the ability to reverse its development to an earlier stage of life.

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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

🪼Jellies are back🪼! Happy to announce that our exhibition #JellyfishUnveiled has been extended until January 26th. The exhibit is a joint effort between the Manet Team at @UiB and @msarscentre.bsky.social. Come and join us at the stunning Natural History Museum in Bergen. @Artsdatabanken

Hi @bsky.app! I just landed here and thought I'd share these beauties. I'm a marine biologist working at the Natural History Museum in Bergen🇸🇯. My work? Exploring the diversity and ecology of polar❄️ jellies🪼 and polyps🪸. These are some of the creatures we usually find in Norway. Follow for more!