When I'm not reading physical books 📖 about deep-sea ecology, I'm in the lab processing invertebrate megabenthos. Today, in a team of 🇩🇪, 🇵🇹 (Lara Baptista ), 🇩🇿 female scientists at #NIOZ dissecting (freeze-dried) sea urchins from Iceland.

some more new deep-sea bryozoans, recently published:
zoologicalletters.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Our paper on the genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands, led by Javier Serrano, is out today in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

It was very nice to present a talk on marine bryozoans during the SIB2023!

#IslandBiology2023

Participants of the #IslandBiology2023 enduring the heat for an after-lunch group picture. The pool sure looks tempting... 😅

Go with the flow. Some of the very few talks on island marine biotas by Lara Baptista and Lívia Sinigaglia. Interesting stuff
#islandbiology2023

#IslandBiology2023 has started! Kick-off plenary by Carl Beierkuhnlein on speciation, isolation, diversity and volcanism using the #CanaryIslands as a model system.

Thanks to all the organizers for putting this conference together! 🙏

New paper out! 📜🧬🐚
We have reviewed the gastropod genus Tricolia in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean, for the first time using genetics and over 20 years since the last detailed morphological studies!
~Thank you to the co-authors :)
Find out more:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🏅 O programa “Cientista Regressa à Escola” alcançou pela 1ª vez todos os/as alunos/as do 4º ano que estudam na ilha de Santa Maria.
🙏🏼 Graças ao apoio do Governo dos Açores e da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento a cientista Lara e o cientista André tiveram a oportunidade de regressar à sua terra natal!

Since the late Cretaceous, at least eight unrelated bryozoan groups have evolved a free-living way of life. The amazing thing is the convergent evolution - they all look the same! Preprint out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hoje realizou-se a formação Nível II em Comunicação de Ciência para crianças dirigida às/aos cientistas que vão participar no CRE pela 2ª vez.
Estes/as cientistas, que já participaram no ano de 2021/2022, quiserem regressar de novo à sua escola do 1º ciclo em 2023.

Applications for the 2nd Azores Summer School im Marine Island (Palaeo)Biogeography, to be held at Santa Maria Island (Azores), from 9 to 21 of July, 2023 ara now *OPEN*
All information is available here:
azss.uac.pt/en/#about

Our latest #DarwinTreeOfLife #GenomeNote : the Sea Mat #bryozoan (Membranipora membranacea)🌊

Thanks to John Bishop, Patrick Adkins, Christine Wood & Helen Jenkins MBA - Marine Biological Association, Wellcome Sanger Tree of Life Programme & all who helped generate this #genome 🧬

📑 Read more WellcomeOpenResearch:
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-38

#FossilFriday Cover of this year’s volume of Papers in Palaeontology featuring a silicified phylloporinid bryozoan from the Ordovician Edinburg Formation of Virginia, USA. The PalAss

CO2 emissions are changing the oceans, causing an increase in seawater temperature & changes in ocean chemistry.But how is affecting to marine calcifiers, which build carbonate skeletons?A thread about our work published in Ecography! Huw Griffiths onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

An integrative taxonomical approach on the bryozoan genus Reteporella is now out, with genetic, morphological and biogeographical insights! 🌊🏝️
Four new species are reported for the remote Azores Archipelago.

Find out more: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Bryozoology gathering in Vienna
International Bryozoology Association

New irruption of the Membraniporopsis tubigera (Bryozoa) on the Cassino Beach (Rio grande - Brazil). Photos: Paula Spotorno

'Probably the least attractive animals in the ocean are the bryozoans ' is written in a review from 1999 (about organic compounds) I'm reading 😂 Actually I really believe people have SOMETHING special, not totally rational against bryozoans 😂

Good agreement to consider researchers’ contributions to science that go beyond publications and citations: teaching, academic leadership, peer review, etc. It calls for institutions to abandon the “inappropriate” use of the impact factor and h-index. nature.com/articles/d4158…