Freshwater Sponge Research

Our latest paper is now officially published and available via open access in Journal of Biogeography! Journal of Biogeography | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

@KarolinaBrylka beautiful SEM images

Mix of beautiful fossil diatoms Cestodiscus (or Actinocyclus, I never know 🤷🏼‍♀️😅) Odontella Rocella And a mysterious genus 🤔🧐

So awesome, I am interrupting my social media hiatus to share! "A morphological cell atlas of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri with key insights from targeted single-cell transcriptomes" — Read it on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38…

@echinoblog I thought you would like that one 😃

Some old crinoids ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😎

@LakotaMan1 Never stop! :)

Should I stop (sharing Indigenous stuff with you?) Do you want me to stop? Or would you like me to keep going?

So, MAGA’s are now accusing me of “turning” you woke by sharing Native American content with you. Please, tell me — am I making you woke? Am I really indoctrinating you?

Symbiofresh grant awarded by @AgEInves!! 3 years of hard work to understand symbiotic associations between freshwater #sponges and 🦠 ahead with a national and an international dream team!! Now true holidays unlocked!! @MTuron_Rodrigo

Undergraduate student Ethan pulling up a branch with a large freshwater sponge growing on it, Ethan is collecting sponges this summer to look for microplastics

Led by Swee Cheng Lim @NUSingapore everything you need to know about the surprising diversity of teeny-tiny sponges living on deep-sea polymetallic nodules. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12… #NHMDeepSea @NHM_Science

@BoneHeadBrianTV @Natural_habitok the step before the platypus hand puppet ;)

@sponge_research @Natural_habitok You're gonna use it to explain things to kids more easy aren't you?

naturalhabitatshorts.store Fun fact: Chris the glow in the dark platypus is available to order at our official store! 🦫💙🛍️

@laspongehunters It is a hardy one! Also one that I would really like to see the symbiosis related gene expression for. I very much suspect our excessively green and your not so greens might be strongly related to symbiotic preference due to length of active growing season

@sponge_research Our E fragilis is never that beautiful, but it can tolerate extreme water conditions down here!

Today's freshwater sponge collection trip was a success.

@MikeGates17 Pine River, Starting in Midland Michigan, working up river from there

@sponge_research Where were you collecting?

@RicciardiLab Most likely, the 'tissue' texture was right for E fragilis as well

@sponge_research Large oscula. Eunapius fragilis?

I interrupt my #polychaeteday stream with this @inaturalist photo of a BIG ASS Pisaster brevispinus! inaturalist.org/observations/2…

An AMAZING set of images showing off brooding young in sea anemone TENTACLES by the Marine Detective! themarinedetective.com/2024/06/23/bab…

This is your friendly neighborhood Octopus Lady reminding you that you don't have to go into space to find aliens.

@docsloth What?! I am moving to battle Creek next month, you can come visit me too next time!

Had a good weekend visiting family in Kalamazoo, now ready to do this #NAPC2024