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On september 5 the preliminary schedule of the 11th International sponge symposium will be announced!

@Detmer_Sipkema @hauke_smidt @BeckingLisa @BenBlueExplore @GeorgSteinert Happy to hear that another collaborative study just got published! Congratz to Indra, @Detmer_Sipkema & all other coauthors to that nice study link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy to share our new @Ecology_Letters review on measuring habitat complexity and spatial heterogeneity in ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Now THAT’s a headline. 🤧 “Sea sponges launch slow-motion snot rockets to clean their pores”sciencenews.org/article/sea-sp…

Our sneezing sponges 🤧 are now also in the print version of the #NewYorkTimes Actually it was in the science section yesterday, but was only in stores on Hawai'i today... The perks of #islandlife 😝 @FAME_IBED_UvA @IBED_UvA @UvA_Science @SpongeLoop

The sneezing #sponges were featured in 250+ news articles around the world! 🤧 One more video? Small critters eat the sponge mucus, making the sponge a vital part of the ecosystem 🪱 [Kornder et al. Current Biology] @KornderA @SpongeLoop @FAME_IBED_UvA @CurrentBiology

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Last chance to register as an early bird for the 11th International Sponge Symposium! #sponge

Only a few more days to register as an early bird for the 11th International Sponge Symposium in Leiden, the Netherlands!

New study by #IBED @KornderA and colleagues shows that sponges 'sneeze' to get rid of waste. Beautiful time-lapse shows the mucus collecting at central points and the sponge sneezing 👇 @FAME_IBED_UvA @SpongeLoop Credit: Daniel Stoupin (Current Biology, Kornder et al.)

a big thank you to study authors @KornderA, @SpongeLoop Jasper de Goeij, Yuki Esser and @SallyLeys for chatting with me and to Ben Müller for the beautiful sponge pics 📸 many thanks to @VibrioSoup as well for his ocean invertebrates & microbes wisdom🪸 🦠

...and the New Scientist newscientist.com/article/233297…

Sponges sneeze life into the reef! Our new study by @KornderA et al. show that sponges release mucus-bound particles from the outflow opening, transport them on their surfaces, and release them with a sneeze in the environment! #spongeloop @FAME_IBED_UvA

The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Science @ScienceMagazine science.org/content/articl…

Nature @NaturePortfolio nature.com/articles/d4158…

...and being picked up by the media, such as The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/08/10/sci…

Here is the study: Niklas A. Kornder, Yuki Esser, Daniel Stoupin, Sally P. Leys, Benjamin Mueller, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Jef Huisman, Jasper M. de Goeij, Sponges sneeze mucus to shed particulate waste from their seawater inlet pores, Current Biology, 2022 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…