Freshwater sponge research group at the University of Olivet. Lead by S Kolomyjec, PhD. Any options are my own. |🇺🇸|🇺🇦|🏳️‍🌈

Olivet, Michigan
Joined August 2019
Some old crinoids ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😎
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@echinoblog I thought you would like that one 😃
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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
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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
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Freshwater Sponge Research retweeted
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.12683 #NHMDeepSea @NHM_Science
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Today's freshwater sponge collection trip was a success.
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I interrupt my #polychaeteday stream with this @inaturalist photo of a BIG ASS Pisaster brevispinus! inaturalist.org/observations…
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An AMAZING set of images showing off brooding young in sea anemone TENTACLES by the Marine Detective! themarinedetective.com/2024/…
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This is your friendly neighborhood Octopus Lady reminding you that you don't have to go into space to find aliens.
This is what a metamorphosing starfish larva looks like. Brachiolaria (1.5 mm in length) from Skagerrak, North Sea.
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Freeze dried freshwater sponge sections (Ephydatia muelleri) #spongethursday
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Freshwater Sponge Research retweeted
Flying along ctenophore syncytial nerve net neurons. Check out our YouTube channel: youtu.be/aX678zJKwSo?si=LWhw… EM data: @maikekittelmann 3D reconstructions: @Pawel_Burkhardt Blender animation: @DigelLeonid Original article: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… @MSarsCentre @UiB @oxford_brookes
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You stare too long at the gemmules,and the gemmules start to stare back....
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µXRF Element map of a freeze dried freshwater sponge. Image 1: Visible light image. Image 2: Multi-element maps. Image 3: Si only map, showing spicule arrangement w/in flesh. Data collected with Bruker Tornado M4+ #spongethursday #freshwater @bruker
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Awesome work
My second postdoc-paper is out in Environmental @MicrobiomeJ ! I am delighted to share our last work with @DevoogdNicole, on the transmission of bacterial communities during the first stages of the #freshwater #sponge Spongilla lacustris! environmentalmicrobiome.biom…
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These tentacles 🤩! The ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus cultured in our ctenophore facility @Alexandre4_Jan #ctenophores @MSarsCentre @UiB uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/…
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A herd of shrimps, eating Petco mystery pellets, looms yonder.
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