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
A photo of a large red comb jelly on a black background.
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.
The best part? The Manet team at @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social has received funding for 2️⃣ projects in the 2026 call! The second one on Challenging Gelatinous Zooplankton🪼, led by Aino Hosia. Double celebration: loading [99% completed...]
🚨 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.
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
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
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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
Rathkea octopunctata
I do not! They never cease to amaze me 🤩.
Modified WP3 net for jellyfish sampling
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 ✨️💫
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
Thank you! 😃
Quote post with a ctenophore!
Here's a sea gooseberry, Pleurobrachia pileus (bonus: tiny parasitic trematode).
#Ctenophores
#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
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
Thanks, Paula! Bon Nadal per a tu també! 🎄🎄🎄
Hydroid colonies resembling Christmas trees with ascidians at their base.
Hydroid colonies resembling christmas trees with ascidians at their base.
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
Thank you! 😃😃😃
Polyp of Corymorpha being photographed in a kreisel tank
Thank you! They are all "studio" pictures, taken in small aquariums/kreisel tanks. Here's the making off⬇️
🪼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 Mónica, could you please add me to the Jellyfish Research 🪼🪼 starter pack/list? Many thanks!
Could you please add me too? Also to the Marine Biology one. Many thanks!
Polyp of Corymorpha nutans producing hundreds of tiny medusae
Here's a beautiful polyp of Corymorpha nutans producing hundreds of tiny medusae. While polyps are usually smaller than jellyfish, this species have rather large polyps (ca. 15 cm) and rather small medusae (< 1 cm). Follow for more!