19th Larwood Symposium Oslo 2026 - Natural History Museum We welcome all scientists interested in bryozoans to the 2026 Larwood Symposium in Oslo! Students and reserachers new to bryozoans are especially welcome!

Registration is open for Larwood Oslo 1-3 June 2026!! #bryozoans deadline 15 April! Registration link in website!
www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... Spread the news!

For #wormwednesday, here is a
beautiful collection of encrusters ...
#Bryozoans #spirobid? worm tubes and a petal like #foraminifera all preserved thanks to a cool clam 😄

Join us! #corals #bryozoans #microbiome

Bryozoans are fascinating colonial animals that create intricate encrusting and branching communities on underwater surfaces. To start new colonies, they release pelagic larvae into the water column.

🎥 Video by @elizabethbeston.bsky.social Elizabeth Beston

#MarineBiology #OceanScience #Bryozoans

It is always great to catch up with bryozoologist colleagues 😊 #networking #research #bryozoans

This week, Steve Hageman and his wife Elizabeth Miller were visiting Barcelona and we met up for drinks. It was great to catch up with our bryozoologist colleague Steve again after Japan. Hopefully next year we’ll meet again. 🍷✨ #bryozoans #research

How do #bryozoans and ginger cookies go together up North? Read here!

Seven new bryozoan species are described from various habitats across the Mediterranean. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #bryozoans #newspecies @bfiguerola.bsky.social

Check out this beautiful specimen from the #Bellevue Formation. Got some tiny 550ish million years old #gastropods hanging out with some #brachiopods and #bryozoans

Mediterranean Bryozoans Stressed by Simulated Future Ocean Conditions

At volcanic CO₂ vents off Italy’s Ischia island, bryozoan colonies (Myriapora truncata) showed weakened skeletons and reduced microbial diversity after a study of stress. Read more: getnews.me/mediterranean-bryozoans-... #mediterranean #bryozoans

Schizoporella japonica - An invasive species from the Pacific - Natural History Museum Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Read about invasive #bryozoans in Norway by @malihr.bsky.social www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... and other supercool finds in her documentation of our #Artsdatabanken funded project NorDigBryo! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...

Cheilostome #bryozoans highly evolvable, at least when it comes to their skeleton. Switched to araonite many times! Phylogeny and fossil record agree on that! Read it in Geology pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... led by @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social

For the first time, copepods of the family Sabelliphilidae are found to be associated with bryozoans, as three species of the genus Lichomolgella are described as new to science: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#copepods #bryozoans #newspecies

Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming"

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea...

#bryozoans #microbiome
@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

We are very excited our new paper is out today! Do you want to know more? Check this thread! 👇🪸🦠
#bryozoans #microbiome #oceanwarming #oceanalcidification

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Very excited about being part of such a great team dedicated to the assessment of #climatechange #seaacidification using our little #calcifying friends 🪸💜 the #bryozoans

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out this beautiful #horncoral from #Kentucky that's infilled with sediment hiding a few #brachiopods n #bryozoans
#ordovician
#rugosa

Yesterday Blanca met with Emanuela, one of our collaborators, in Catania. Exciting new studies and publications are on the way. Stay tuned! And see you soon in Japan. 🪸 #bryozoans

A small, irregularly shaped slab of limestone is being held by hand in the raking sunlight. The flat surface, stained pale orange by iron minerals, shows a series of straight parallel grooves or scratches -- these are glacial striations cut by the passage of abrasive rock fragments and mineral grains embedded in the sole of the glacier. Numerous fossil fragments are seen on the slab surface. Some of these have been ground through at various angles and show as complete or partial cross sections. Other fragments (lower left and far right) have escaped glacial sectioning and still stand in relief.

Close up of the glacially polished slab surface showing several medium- and high-spired gastropods in section, as well as the outlines of rhynchonellid brachiopods.

More of the same surface with sections through trepostome bryozoans and a planispiral gastropod.

Current events call for a "don't let the bastards grind you down" kind of post. These #Ordovician #bryozoans, #brachiopods & #gastropods entered the #fossilrecord ~450 MYA only to be scoured by a Pleistocene glacier. Be like these #fossils - endure! Verulam Fm, Ramara Tp, #Ontario 🇨🇦 #FossilFriday

#Periglypta reticulata with some cool anomiids? , #bryozoans and #spirobis

#molluscsofsrilanka
#veneridae
#Annelida

It’s official! The #HOLOCHANGE project has secured funding through the Consolidación Investigadora grant. Exciting updates coming soon—stay tuned! 🪸 #oceanwarming #acidification #marinecalcifiers #bryozoans #microbiome

If like me you are TIRED of people talking about direwolves and extinctions- HERE is 8 minutes of LOVELY video showing off #BRYOZOANS featuring South African marine biologist Charles Griffiths! Enjoy! youtu.be/unjt3W9hGKM?...

We are very happy with this initiative funded by the National project #MedCalRes! We will publish a short animation soon. Stay tuned for more news! #bryozoans #oceanacidification #warming #microbiome

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out these neat #bryozoans on a #brachiopod and on what looks like a fragment of an Isotelus maximus hypostome
#peebles formation

Happy #FossilFriday
Check out this beautiful #brachiopod from the #Peebles Formation. The infilled sediments have some super neat #bryozoans
#fossilsofohio
#mississipian

Have a look at our preprint on the effects of #oceanacidification and #warming on #bryozoans and their #microbiome and stay tuned for more news!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Moss Animals”
Colony of bryozoans in freshwater.
This is the largest colony I’ve seen.
#bryozoans
#freshwatercolony
#filter-feeding
#invertebrates
#mossanimals