Out now and led by the impeccable GJ Jeunen: a new way to squeeze #eDNA sequences from preserved natural samplers!
NO need to damage the old specimens: just take out the DNA leached into the ethanol!
Also: we have a new entry into the #nsDNA world: #bryozoa!
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Register now for the Oslo Larwood meeting 1-3 June 2026 calling all bryozoologists and #bryozoa enthusiasts! Oslo does get expensive in the summer, start planning your trip to keep costs low!
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Our digitized Lophophorata data (now mostly #bryozoa, some #brachiopoda) are online at GBIF, this is just the beginning! More coming! www.gbif.org/dataset/82e6...
A new year means more facts about bryozoans we have come across during our #NorDigBryo project!
#Bryozoa #scicomm
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We might have found a new species for Norway, but is it an unknown species, an invasive species or a simply overlooked species? We don't actually know yet 🤔
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
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Happy New Year! Please pre-register (non-binding) for the 1-3 June #Oslo Larwood #bryozoa meeting! It will help us better estimate conference needs, meaning lower conference fees! There will be ecology, evolution, taxonomy and an in-person Dennis!!! www.bryozoology.org/kopie-von-20... pls repost!
Three hermit crabs looking like they are closing the fiscal year and/or having finals. One is made in gingerbread, the other two are real. The gingerbread one had green sugar beads as eyes, on stalks, pink frosting on legs and claws, and white pattern on the shell.
#Crustmas, you say??
We made scientific gingerbread cookies for @unibergen.bsky.social's #AcademicGingerbreadVillage (exhibited at the natural history museum!), and of course some of them featured #invertebrates. Here's a glorious #HermitCrab made by the participants of our #Bryozoa workshop
It's always nice when we can use museum collections to do research and other projects! Here is an example from Norway with bryozoans from the 50s!
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#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa #scicomm
An electron microscope image of Notoplites evocatus
A close up image of the zooids. The long and slender frontal avicularia is noticable.
Notoplites evocatus seems to be a species that prefers the deep sea. We have not found too many specimens of this species during our project, but the ones we have found have all been from deep sea samples.
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
An electron microscopy image of a Harmeria scutulata colony
A close up image of how the outer zooids differ a lot in morphology from the "inner" zooids
Meet Harmeria scutulata!
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
Dennis Gordon got the prestigious Hutton Award! I'm so happy for the recognition of his amazing work on taxonomy, systematics & natural history! So lucky to have worked with, & been in the field with Dennis — one of the best humans I've ever met! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/m... #bryozoa #NZ
Wrote a blog post about our workshop at the Espegrend Marine Station last week! #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo @bryozoology.bsky.social @hardbunnsfauna.bsky.social
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Photo of a human finger tip on grey limestone pointing at a bryozoan fossil that looks like lacy cloth.
Human finger on grey limestone pointing at a fossil bryozoan that looks a bit like a lacy feather. To the right of the bryozoan fossil is the fossil of the rear third of a trilobite arthropod that looks a bit like a woodlouse. This is a trilobite butt.
@nhmbryozoa.bsky.social saw these Fenestrate #bryozoa (?) In #Devonian limestone from Belgium. They have these feathery extensions, like in the 2nd pic. Have you seen anything like this previously? #geology #paleontology ⚒️ 🧪
Hi bryozoologists (and other people interested/working with bryozoans)! We have opened a pre-registration form for the Oslo Larwood Symposium 2026, and it would be very helpful if you could fill it out (it helps our planning a lot!).
Details: www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
#Bryozoa #bryozoology
#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social
A photo of two Triticella zooids. One of them has what looks like mini zooids growing out from it
Still finding Triticella-colonies. This zooid has some weird growths/buds 🧐 #artsdatabanken #nordigbryo #bryozoa
Wrote a little thing about Celleporina caliciformis & decipiens and one character you can use to tell them apart! #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken
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I wrote a short post about some characters to use when identifying and differentiating between the cyclostome genera Hornera and Stigmatoechos!
#Artsdatabanken #NorDigBryo #Bryozoa
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A photo of a dead crustacean in ethanol. It is covered by small zooids
A close up of Triticella zooids. Thei have a long "stalk" and then you have the autozooid.
Today's cool museum collection discovery: Bryozoans growing on crustaceans!
I believe this ctenostome belongs to the genus Triticella, which is known to grow on specific groups of marine invertebrates 🦐
#bryozoa #nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
A photo of a flustra foliacea colony. It looks like a flat tree/plant with only a few branches
A close up image of flustra zooids. They are broadest in their distal part and they have small spines
I have come across some Flustra foliacea colonies when I've sorted through unidentified #bryozoa material🪸 Here you can see the colony form and a close up of the zooids
#nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
Happy #fossilfriday
Checkout this cool #Mississippian ? #brachiopod which I believe is #Composita encrusted by some #bryozoa #fossilsofmissouri
#bryozoa bryozoologists! It’s official!! We are hosting Larwood 2026 in Oslo!! 1-3 June: mark and save on your calendars and spread the news!! @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
A photo of a bryozoan colony. The surface of the zooids looks like a net or web and they have paired avicularia
A photo of a bryozoan colony. The aperture is taking up much of the zooidal surface and small avicularia are scattered about
Some recent findings from this week! To the left: Cribrilina (Cribrilina) cryptooecium and to the right is what I believe to be Amphiblestrum auritum
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
Today, @bfiguerola.bsky.social
presented at the International Bryozoology Association conference in Tokyo on how an extreme marine heatwave reshaped the microbiome composition of a Mediterranean bryozoan. 🪸🦠
Stay tuned, the full study will be published soon! #Bryozoa
