Julia Sigwart
@sigwartae.bsky.social
Professor of molluscan weirdness
Senckenberg / Queen's Marine Lab
chair IUCN MIRLA
🐚 surveying the sea in the time domain 🐚
Download my book! http://bit.ly/whatspeciesmean
Senckenberg / Queen's Marine Lab
chair IUCN MIRLA
🐚 surveying the sea in the time domain 🐚
Download my book! http://bit.ly/whatspeciesmean
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[New Paper] reporting 8 distinct mollusc eggs from abyssal and hadal depths of Aleutian Trench is now out in Progress in Oceanography! With a potential Dumbo Octopus egg + at least 5 snail eggs!
OPEN ACCESS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
OPEN ACCESS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
[New Paper] reporting 8 distinct mollusc eggs from abyssal and hadal depths of Aleutian Trench is now out in Progress in Oceanography! With a potential Dumbo Octopus egg + at least 5 snail eggs!
OPEN ACCESS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
OPEN ACCESS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social
🚨🔬 Job alert! 🔬🚨
3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...
3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...
Jobs for Specialists | Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
www.senckenberg.de
June 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
🚨🔬 Job alert! 🔬🚨
3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...
3 vacancies for technical assistants in marine invertebrates at Senckenberg (Frankfurt). Digitisation, collections care, and new species! Deadline 15 July
www.senckenberg.de/en/career/jo...
Giving different chatbots the prompt "draw a chiton wrapped around a ball" - ChatGPT is like a lazy student. Other chatbots are out of their depth and kind of panicking with the assignment.
April 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Giving different chatbots the prompt "draw a chiton wrapped around a ball" - ChatGPT is like a lazy student. Other chatbots are out of their depth and kind of panicking with the assignment.
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Vote for the 2025 International Mollusc of the Year! Choose from five amazing finalists. Your vote helps sequence the winning genome. Cast your vote by March 31: https://moty.senckenberg.science
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Vote for the 2025 International Mollusc of the Year! Choose from five amazing finalists. Your vote helps sequence the winning genome. Cast your vote by March 31: https://moty.senckenberg.science
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world." - Susan B. Anthony
On yer bike for International Women's Day!
💜🚲💜🚲💜
Video in German but English subtitles (full documentary)
On yer bike for International Women's Day!
💜🚲💜🚲💜
Video in German but English subtitles (full documentary)
Heute ist Internationaler Frauentag ✊
"Das Fahrrad hat mehr für die Emanzipation der Frauen getan als irgendetwas anderes auf der Welt."
Susan B. Anthony
"Das Fahrrad hat mehr für die Emanzipation der Frauen getan als irgendetwas anderes auf der Welt."
Susan B. Anthony
Die Pionierinnen des Fahrrads - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Die Erfindung des Fahrrads gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts leistete einen enormen Vorschub zur Emanzipation der Frau. Die ersten Mutigen entdeckten die Freiheit, allein zu reisen und leisteten Außerge...
www.arte.tv
March 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world." - Susan B. Anthony
On yer bike for International Women's Day!
💜🚲💜🚲💜
Video in German but English subtitles (full documentary)
On yer bike for International Women's Day!
💜🚲💜🚲💜
Video in German but English subtitles (full documentary)
Chiton fashion = win
you're both wrong. this is the only chiton we should be modelling ourselves on
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Chiton fashion = win
We all need something to cheer us up ... so let's meet some molluscs!
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
March 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We all need something to cheer us up ... so let's meet some molluscs!
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
VOTE NOW! Mollusc of the Year 2025
Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet
Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon
Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus
Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector
YOU decide - we do its genome
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social
Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet
Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon
Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus
Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector
YOU decide - we do its genome
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
VOTE NOW! Mollusc of the Year 2025
Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet
Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon
Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus
Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector
YOU decide - we do its genome
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social
Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc
Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet
Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon
Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus
Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector
YOU decide - we do its genome
moty.senckenberg.science
@cgreve.bsky.social
New open access paper with Kasia Voncina, who designed new primers to successfully get COI barcodes from old chitons in museum collections
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
March 2, 2025 at 7:09 AM
New open access paper with Kasia Voncina, who designed new primers to successfully get COI barcodes from old chitons in museum collections
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Evolutionary history of molluscs was contentious for decades due to conflicting genetic data vs morphology and fossils. Our tree resolves previous controversies; also provide key insights on what the ancestral mollusc looked like!
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Evolutionary history of molluscs was contentious for decades due to conflicting genetic data vs morphology and fossils. Our tree resolves previous controversies; also provide key insights on what the ancestral mollusc looked like!
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one @sigwartae.bsky.social
Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Here is the mollusc tree. (We fixed it, you're welcome.) 😇 @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @kmkocot.bsky.social
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@squamiferum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Thanks to the teams at the Soleil Anatomix and DISCO beamlines for hosting us and @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social this week! We learned lots of new tricks and are looking forward to working through the data together soon! There are always fun new ways to look at old chitons 💛
February 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Thanks to the teams at the Soleil Anatomix and DISCO beamlines for hosting us and @sigwartae.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social this week! We learned lots of new tricks and are looking forward to working through the data together soon! There are always fun new ways to look at old chitons 💛
Meet our new fossils: Punk and Emo (their real names)
New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs
out now in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs
out now in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Meet our new fossils: Punk and Emo (their real names)
New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs
out now in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs
out now in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Deadline extended until 22 Jan!
Nominate your under-appreciated molluscs now 🐌🐌🐌
Nominate your under-appreciated molluscs now 🐌🐌🐌
Nominate your favourite mollusc for
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
January 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Deadline extended until 22 Jan!
Nominate your under-appreciated molluscs now 🐌🐌🐌
Nominate your under-appreciated molluscs now 🐌🐌🐌
Do you like monplacophorans? Of course you do. Want to see one on the inside in 3D? Well check this out
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Inside out Monoplacophora: revisiting Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 using µCT scanning
Abstract. Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957, first collected in the 1950s, was presented as a critical species for understanding animal evolution, particula
academic.oup.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Do you like monplacophorans? Of course you do. Want to see one on the inside in 3D? Well check this out
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
A friend in a different city (same time zone) texted me at about 2 pm new year's eve -- and for a hot second I thought, "is it already night time there?"
Soon.
Happy new year!
Soon.
Happy new year!
December 31, 2024 at 8:48 PM
A friend in a different city (same time zone) texted me at about 2 pm new year's eve -- and for a hot second I thought, "is it already night time there?"
Soon.
Happy new year!
Soon.
Happy new year!
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Nominate your favourite mollusc for
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
December 19, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Nominate your favourite mollusc for
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
A festive gift for your ears!
Check out the new episode of my podcast "weird species" with Dr Lisa Levin ... aka Deep Sea Brain aka Xeno, Warrior Princess!
open.spotify.com/episode/6PDa...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @sgn.one
Check out the new episode of my podcast "weird species" with Dr Lisa Levin ... aka Deep Sea Brain aka Xeno, Warrior Princess!
open.spotify.com/episode/6PDa...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @sgn.one
Weird Species #5: Deep sea brains – Xenophyophores
Weird Species · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM
A festive gift for your ears!
Check out the new episode of my podcast "weird species" with Dr Lisa Levin ... aka Deep Sea Brain aka Xeno, Warrior Princess!
open.spotify.com/episode/6PDa...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @sgn.one
Check out the new episode of my podcast "weird species" with Dr Lisa Levin ... aka Deep Sea Brain aka Xeno, Warrior Princess!
open.spotify.com/episode/6PDa...
@oceanspecies.bsky.social @deepstewardship.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @sgn.one
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
🤩 At the #Collections Club community #scientists initiative at the #FieldMuseum, volunteers have processed over 300,000 #scientific #specimens, records & objects to make valuable #data accessible to #researchers worldwide. 👏
More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇
More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇
Community scientists digitized over a quarter-million items and records at the Field Museum
Volunteers and members of the “Collections Club” of the Field Museum provide a blueprint for how community scientists can help researchers around the world.
blog.pensoft.net
December 19, 2024 at 4:14 PM
🤩 At the #Collections Club community #scientists initiative at the #FieldMuseum, volunteers have processed over 300,000 #scientific #specimens, records & objects to make valuable #data accessible to #researchers worldwide. 👏
More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇
More about the latest paper in our #journal via the @pensoft.net blog 👇
Nominate your favourite mollusc for
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
December 19, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Nominate your favourite mollusc for
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
International Mollusc of the Year 2025
🐌🦑🐚🦪🐙🌀
A public vote decides the winner from 5 finalists and we sequence its genome!
Just fill in this nomination form by 7 January
docs.google.com/forms/d/1MRn...
@cgreve.bsky.social @oceanspecies.bsky.social @sgn.one
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Highlighting this key work involving the IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group 🪸, members of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social, the IUCN SSC Marine Invertbrate Red List Authority @sigwartae.bsky.social and other amazing partners iucn.org/press-releas...
Over 40% of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List
Baku, Azerbaijan, 13 November 2024 (IUCN) – Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global a...
iucn.org
December 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Highlighting this key work involving the IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group 🪸, members of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social, the IUCN SSC Marine Invertbrate Red List Authority @sigwartae.bsky.social and other amazing partners iucn.org/press-releas...
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Our work can be complex, but Ze Frank has also found a way to make it really funny! Check out this hilarious video about what it is we do here at the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7k...
Many thanks to Ze Frank, we truly are 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 by your work and ongoing support!
Many thanks to Ze Frank, we truly are 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 by your work and ongoing support!
True Facts: How A Species Gets A Name!
YouTube video by Ze Frank
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Our work can be complex, but Ze Frank has also found a way to make it really funny! Check out this hilarious video about what it is we do here at the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7k...
Many thanks to Ze Frank, we truly are 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 by your work and ongoing support!
Many thanks to Ze Frank, we truly are 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 by your work and ongoing support!
Reposted by Julia Sigwart
Highlighting the work of Dr Mei Lin Neo, a valued member of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social and Professor Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social
Over HALF of all giant clam species are at risk of global extinction. Learn more about some of these marine giants in this @thestraitstimes.bsky.social article: www.straitstimes.com/singapore/on...
One of S’pore’s three remaining giant clam species has not been seen since 2003: NUS scientist
A global review highlighted the urgency of taking action to save these animals from extinction. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Highlighting the work of Dr Mei Lin Neo, a valued member of the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee @sscmarine.bsky.social and Professor Julia Sigwart @sigwartae.bsky.social