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Dear all, we are officially moving! Please find our latest #SponBIODIV news on our new account in bluesky 🦋 @sponbiodiv.bsky.social. @BiodiversaPlus

Amazing week @HcmrImbbc in Heraklion 🇬🇷 for our midterm meeting! So many interesting results underway to inform public policies for conservation of sponge biodiversity. 🙌to our hosts @sonathd @VGerovasileiou #BiodivProtect @BiodiversaPlus #SpongeThursday

With 20 SCUBA & ROV #dives in sponge-dominated reefs & underwater caves and ≈200 sponge samples, the @SponBIODIV sampling campaign in the #Ionian Sea by our Greek partners @myionio & @HcmrImbbc was completed successfully! 🙌

Happy #WorldOceanDay from the seafloor and the base of the animal tree of life! 🧽 #BiodiversaPlus

Yesterday our colleague @SergiTaboada, from Sociedad de Amigos del Museo, presented the latest SponBIODIV results at an event organised by Fundación Biodiversidad. Great opportunity to engage with other @BiodiversaPlus projects funded under the BiodivProtect and BiodivMon calls!

New "kid" on the (sponge) block! Welcome to @sponbiodiv Julio 🙌

Great meeting of the SponBIODIV consortium today. SO MUCH solid science on sponge biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation unfolding across the Atlantic and Mediterranean by all 10 partner institutions and collaborators. ⛴️+🤿+🔬+🧬+🧫=🤲🧽 #SpongeThursday #BiodiversaPlus

🤩 Awesome work by @DiazJA_, @PacCardenas and co. describing 8 new #sponge species from the Mediterranean, highlighting the #biodiversity of under-explored habitats! #deepsea #taxonomy @BiodiversaPlus

Thank you @SciCrunchers, we🫶it!

✨Our project's website goes live✨ Find out more on our efforts to advance knowledge and develop tools for conservation of sponge species and habitats, from shallow to deep, across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - sponbiodiv.org #BiodiversaPlus #SpongeThursday

✨Happy Holidays✨ and wishes of many exciting and spongy discoveries in the New Year, from shallow to the deep ocean! From the #SponBIODIV team #BiodiversaPlus #SpongeThursday

Possibly the first new sponge species to be described in scope of our project? 🧽+🔬+🧬=😃

What a great SponBIODIV (hybrid) kickoff meeting we had this week @CiimarUp.🙌 to this awesome All-Atlantic & Mediterranean consortium with 10 partners +7 associate partners, and over 60 researchers! May the #sponge science (and fun) begin 😊 @BiodiversaPlus

SponBIODIV presented this week at #BiodiversaPrague2023 #BiodivProtect kickoff meeting! Three days of inspiring projects and people, sharing of experiences and building of synergies. And all rolled out by an amazing organization by @BiodiversaPlus and @TACR_cz 🙌