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Gemmules from the freshwater sponge, Heteromeyenia tubisperma, very carefully positioned with a single hair for SEM imaging. 1-profile view showing elongated foraminal aperture 2-aperture view 3-close up of foraminal aperture 4-out layer peeled away #spongethursday JEOL USA

Because June is pride month #spongethursday

A herd of shrimps, eating Petco mystery pellets, looms yonder.

These tentacles 🤩! The ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus cultured in our ctenophore facility Alexandre Jan #ctenophores Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen uib.no/en/michaelsars…

Awesome work

µXRF Element map of a freeze dried freshwater sponge. Image 1: Visible light image. Image 2: Multi-element maps. Image 3: Si only map, showing spicule arrangement w/in flesh. Data collected with Bruker Tornado M4+ #spongethursday #freshwater Bruker

Flying along ctenophore syncytial nerve net neurons. Check out our YouTube channel: youtu.be/aX678zJKwSo?si… EM data: Maike Kittelmann 3D reconstructions: Pawel Burkhardt Blender animation: @DigelLeonid Original article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Michael Sars Centre Universitetet i Bergen Oxford Brookes University

You stare too long at the gemmules,and the gemmules start to stare back....

Freeze dried freshwater sponge sections (Ephydatia muelleri) #spongethursday

This is your friendly neighborhood Octopus Lady reminding you that you don't have to go into space to find aliens.

An AMAZING set of images showing off brooding young in sea anemone TENTACLES by the Marine Detective! themarinedetective.com/2024/06/23/bab…

I interrupt my #polychaeteday stream with this iNaturalist photo of a BIG ASS Pisaster brevispinus! inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Today's freshwater sponge collection trip was a success.

Led by Swee Cheng Lim NUS everything you need to know about the surprising diversity of teeny-tiny sponges living on deep-sea polymetallic nodules. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12… #NHMDeepSea Science at the Natural History Museum

Symbiofresh grant awarded by Agencia Estatal de Investigación!! 3 years of hard work to understand symbiotic associations between freshwater #sponges and 🦠 ahead with a national and an international dream team!! Now true holidays unlocked!! Marta Turon

Undergraduate student Ethan pulling up a branch with a large freshwater sponge growing on it, Ethan is collecting sponges this summer to look for microplastics

So awesome, I am interrupting my social media hiatus to share! "A morphological cell atlas of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri with key insights from targeted single-cell transcriptomes" — Read it on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38…