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Alexandre Jan
@alexandrejan.bsky.social
Ctenophore breeder for @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab at @msarscentre.bsky.social
ଳ Jellyfish photographer 🪼📷
All images are made by @alexandrejan.bsky.social (© Alexandre Jan)
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Happy #worldjellyfishday 🪼
Here is a juvenile Chrysaora colorata, one of my favourite species of scyphomedusa, native to the Californian coast.
November 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Happy #worldjellyfishday, everyone 🪼🪼🪼!

Jellyfish (and their blooms) are a fundamental part of marine ecosystems, significantly contributing to carbon transport and storage. An ocean without jellyfish would not be a healthy ocean.

@universitetsmuseet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A new paper just dropped a little while ago describing a new family for a common species of benthic ctenophore (comb jellies), Coeloplana meteoris, now known as Benthoplana meteoris. www.jse.ac.cn/EN/10.1111/j...
Benthoplanidae, a new family of benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida), based on morphological and genetic data
www.jse.ac.cn
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Happy Ctenophore Day!
These glowing ocean drifters look like jellyfish but aren’t! They’re comb jellies, shimmering creatures that light up the sea with rows of beating cilia 💙🌈
Which species can you identify? 👀 Most are raised in @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab
#CtenophoreDay #CombJelly #Ctenophore
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🌊 Happy World Ocean Day! 🌊

To celebrate the beauty and wonder of the Ocean, here is a close-up series of the jellyfish Cyanea lamarckii 🪼
These images were exhibited at the @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social inviting us to appreciate the ocean’s wonders up close.

#WorldOceanDay #jellyfish
June 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Corymorpha nutans, it is also the first jelly that appears with the stomach full. They bud from a polyp like the one in this video from @alexandrejan.bsky.social. Crazy hydrozoans!
April 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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What better time to celebrate #InverteFest than during plankton season! Check out some of the wonders we found last week while sampling in the Norwegian fjords 🔬🌊 How many species can you identify? @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
@msarscentre.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It was an honor to take part in the celebration of 200 years of knowledge at @universitetsmuseet.bsky.social, together with colleagues from across @unibergen.bsky.social departments 🎉🎂 The Burkhardt group showcased comb jellies in the Museum's majestic whale hall ✨ @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Director Alexis Powilewicz & aquarist Étienne Bourgouin from Paris Aquarium discuss the collaboration together with MSarsCentre Director @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social & @alexandrejan.bsky.social, ctenophore expert in the lab of @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social ✨🧪
tinyurl.com/yc7erub5
Michael Sars Centre partners with Paris Aquarium to introduce comb jellies to the public
The Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen and the Paris Aquarium have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to exchange expertise on comb jelly husbandry. The collaboration marks a sign...
tinyurl.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The story made the cover of @biophysj.bsky.social with a beautiful shot of Littorina littorea and Malacoceros fuliginosus by @alexandrejan.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our ctenophores say hi to Bluesky 👋🏼
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 PM