Ana Riesgo

Mysteries of the deep sea captured by the mouth of a sponge | Current Conservation Current Conservation Mysteries of the deep sea captured by the mouth of a sponge

Very nice piece about our article on how sponges collect eDNA in deep sea waters that can be used to reconstruct their ecosystem composition by Olivia Hewitt www.currentconservation.org/mysteries-of...

🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science!
-Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL
-More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk

A map showing the topography of Antarctica, without ice

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready?

Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

Sticker of Donald Trump with an "I DID THAT!" speech bubble, pointing towards the price tag for a carton of eggs in a grocery store. The price of eggs shown is $10.49.

Spotted in Wisconsin. $10.49 for eggs.

Prices keep going up and Donald Trump isn’t doing a damn thing about it!

🤣🤣🤣 dynabeads for all!!!

📢 ¡Visitad 'El suelo, un paseo por la vida' 🪱 y 'Bosques complejos, nuestros aliados' 🌳 en Fresno de Cantespino y Maderuelo respectivamente. Estas exposiciones del #proyectoERA (financiado por FECYT) acercarán la #ciencia del MNCN a los habitantes de la comarca. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

El MNCN presenta Historia Natural, una exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Se exhiben más de 40 imágenes y ejemplares, esqueletos y huevos de las colecciones de Aves, Mamíferos y Herpetología

Estáis en Madrid? Pues os animo a descubrir la exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo: Historia Natural que estará en las salas del @mncn-csic.bsky.social hasta el 11 de mayo de 2026
mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Black coral from @marumunibremen.bsky.social dive 110 #MarineLife

Life in the world’s deepest seas: The challenge of finding 1,000 new marine species by 2030 A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be involved.

theconversation.com/life-in-the-...

Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity Assessment of how genetic diversity has been changing.

An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity

https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN

Happy #MarineBiologistDay compadres! 🦈🪸🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🪼

So funny he acquired the meteorites from a supplier? Why would someone dedicate his time to such bullshit? Bat shit I mean

Conservation genomics of the Mediterranean red coral, Corallium rubrum: a habitat-forming octocoral threatened by overharvesting and anthropogenic climate change Corallium rubrum is an octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and in the neighboring North-Eastern Atlantic. Due to its arborescent morphology, this habitat-forming specie...

🪸 New ERGA-BGE Case Study!
Scientists from @ciimar.bsky.social are leveraging #genomics for the conservation of Mediterranean red #coral - a key species under threat from over-harvesting and rising ocean temperatures. 🌡️

www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conserv...

#genomes for #conservation

New review: "Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate." Ereskovsky, Melnikov & Lavrov propose archaeocytes as a cell type specific to the class Demospongiae. Clear homologues of archaeocytes are absent in other sponge classes?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy birthday, Alfred Russel Wallace, father of biogeography and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his book Darwinism (1889), he referred to the impacts of "invading" species (such as the black rat) carried by commerce and replacing native species all over the world.

Look at all those beautiful and mysterious sponges 😍

Abajo, puedes leer sobre cangrejos de río en @es.theconversation.com
Y en este enlace youtu.be/C0AQsAu8F4c?... puedes ver el cangrejo del rey, un documental sobre 450 años cangrejos de río y gente en España.
@ebdonana.bsky.social

RECRUITING PhD student to study kelp dispersal and transport from the coastal zone to the deep sea. See our website for particulars. annametaxas.com

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

Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities.

@sjmcilroy.bsky.social, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social, @jamesvolmer.bsky.social

doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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Awesome, Pam!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Two postdocs available to study cryptobenthic fishes

Simon Brandl's postdoc in Texas, with an emphasis in ecology
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Luke Tornabene's postdoc in Washington, with an emphasis in systematics
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#ichthyology #TeamFish

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K

🧪🌎🦑🦈🌊 Some of our favorite deep-sea moments of the year—in stunning 4K! 📹👏

WATCH: youtu.be/ZlzRgvaGGGE

🚨 Oferta de feina: a la Iniciativa Catalana per a l'Earth Biogenome Project busquem un/a freelance en comunicació científica apassionat/da per la divulgació per sumar-se al nostre equip 🙌🧬🌍

Més detalls 👉 www.biogenoma.cat/oferta-treba...

Siusplau, feu RT i compartiu 😊

This is figure 1, which shows the geographical distribution of modern human specimens older than 40 ky that produced genome wide data

Analysis of the oldest-known genomes from early modern humans in Europe, who lived around 45,000 years ago, helps to provide a more precise date for when Neanderthals and modern humans mixed, according to research published in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3ZR8Kh1 🧪 🏺

Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains | PNAS The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI): Enhancing taxonomic resolution at community-level in metabarcoding analyses Metabarcoding has emerged as a robust method for understanding biodiversity patterns by retrieving environmental DNA (eDNA) directly from ecosystems. Its low cost and accessibility have extended its…

Happy to be part of this effort led by Rubén González-Miguéns: A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.626972v1 eKOI will be integrated into @pr2-database.bsky.social 🙌 #protistsonsky

Carta abierta en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones anti-evolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja.

Carta completa: drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...

I am looking for an ERC-funded postdoc to work on spatial proteomics of microalgae (red algae and glaucophytes). The ideal candidate will have experience with mass spec and data analysis (R), but above all a keen interest in broad eukaryote evolution and protists #protistsonsky (1/2)

En respuesta a las recientes declaraciones antievolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja, desde la Junta Directiva de la SESBE
hemos escrito esta carta abierta. #evolución

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drive.google.com/file/d/10p_4...