[New Paper] reporting 8 distinct mollusc eggs from abyssal and hadal depths of Aleutian Trench is now out in Progress in Oceanography! With a potential Dumbo Octopus egg + at least 5 snail eggs! OPEN ACCESS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social

🚨🔬 Job alert! 🔬🚨 3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...

Giving different chatbots the prompt "draw a chiton wrapped around a ball" - ChatGPT is like a lazy student. Other chatbots are out of their depth and kind of panicking with the assignment.

Vote for the 2025 International Mollusc of the Year! Choose from five amazing finalists. Your vote helps sequence the winning genome. Cast your vote by March 31: https://moty.senckenberg.science

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world." - Susan B. Anthony On yer bike for International Women's Day! 💜🚲💜🚲💜 Video in German but English subtitles (full documentary)

ADFC Frankfurt am Main@adfc-frankfurt.de · last yr.

Heute ist Internationaler Frauentag ✊ "Das Fahrrad hat mehr für die Emanzipation der Frauen getan als irgendetwas anderes auf der Welt." Susan B. Anthony

Chiton fashion = win

phantasmAgaric 🍄@lalonde.bsky.social · last yr.

you're both wrong. this is the only chiton we should be modelling ourselves on

We all need something to cheer us up ... so let's meet some molluscs! moty.senckenberg.science @cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

Julia Sigwart@sigwartae.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

New open access paper with Kasia Voncina, who designed new primers to successfully get COI barcodes from old chitons in museum collections link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evolutionary history of molluscs was contentious for decades due to conflicting genetic data vs morphology and fossils. Our tree resolves previous controversies; also provide key insights on what the ancestral mollusc looked like! @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social

Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social @squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to the teams at the Soleil Anatomix and DISCO beamlines for hosting us and @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social this week! We learned lots of new tricks and are looking forward to working through the data together soon! There are always fun new ways to look at old chitons 💛

Meet our new fossils: Punk and Emo (their real names) New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Deadline extended until 22 Jan! Nominate your under-appreciated molluscs now 🐌🐌🐌

Julia Sigwart@sigwartae.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nominate your favourite mollusc for International Mollusc of the Year 2025 🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀 A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome! Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn... @cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

Do you like monplacophorans? Of course you do. Want to see one on the inside in 3D? Well check this out @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Inside out Monoplacophora: revisiting Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 using µCT scanning

Abstract. Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957, first collected in the 1950s, was presented as a critical species for understanding animal evolution, particula

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A friend in a different city (same time zone) texted me at about 2 pm new year's eve -- and for a hot second I thought, "is it already night time there?" Soon. Happy new year!

Nominate your favourite mollusc for International Mollusc of the Year 2025 🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀 A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome! Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn... @cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

A festive gift for your ears! Check out the new episode of my podcast "weird species" with Dr Lisa Levin ... aka Deep Sea Brain aka Xeno, Warrior Princess! open.spotify.com/episode/6PDa... @oceanspecies.bsky.social @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @sgn.one

Weird Species #5: Deep sea brains – Xenophyophores

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🤩 At the #Collections Club community #scientists initiative at the #FieldMuseum, volunteers have processed over 300,000 #scientific #specimens, records & objects to make valuable #data accessible to #researchers worldwide. 👏 More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇

Community scientists digitized over a quarter-million items and records at the Field Museum

Volunteers and members of the “Collections Club” of the Field Museum provide a blueprint for how community scientists can help researchers around the world.

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Nominate your favourite mollusc for International Mollusc of the Year 2025 🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀 A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome! Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn... @cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one

Highlighting this key work involving the IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group 🪸, members of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social, the IUCN SSC Marine Invertbrate Red List Authority @sigwartae.bsky.social and other amazing partners iucn.org/press-releas...

Over 40% of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List

Baku, Azerbaijan, 13 November 2024 (IUCN) – Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global a...

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Our work can be complex, but Ze Frank has also found a way to make it really funny! Check out this hilarious video about what it is we do here at the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7k... Many thanks to Ze Frank, we truly are 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 by your work and ongoing support!

True Facts: How A Species Gets A Name!

YouTube video by Ze Frank

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Highlighting the work of Dr Mei Lin Neo, a valued member of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social and Professor Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social

Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA)@oceanspecies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Over HALF of all giant clam species are at risk of global extinction. Learn more about some of these marine giants in this @thestraitstimes.bsky.social article: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/on...

Thanks @zefrank.bsky.social First rate advisory-ing Should I change my bio to "chiton stalker" now?

Ze Frank@zefrank.bsky.social · 2y ago

True Facts: How a new species gets a name! youtu.be/yn7kUDRVcVM?...

It's time for the annual mollusc conservation roundup! Read it all in the new issue of "Tentacle" Cone snails! MIRLA! Cephalopods! and much more good news 🦑 www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Ten...

Time for the International #molluscoftheyear competition 2024!!! Meet the incredible finalists - explore their profiles & ~ VOTE ~ for your favourite by April 14th. Please share! Winner will get its genome sequenced. sgn.one/moty24

I had so much fun in Genoa talking about what @dsbsoc.bsky.social can do to help REDRESS and how to include the IUCN Red List as a conservation tool for deep sea environments!

Deep-Sea Biology Society@dsbsoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

🦑🧪 Trustee, Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social, attended as an @dsbsoc.bsky.social representative along with several of our esteemed members. (2/3)