Door 21: Winter solstice – When the world pauses
Today is the winter solstice. Here in the northern hemisphere, it’s the shortest day and the longest night, a turning point when darkness reaches its peak and... Read more.
Door 15: Poecilogony – the rare phenomenon of larval developmental variation
For benthic invertebrates, the ability to disperse is usually limited to the short time period when they are larvae. A common way is to produce huge masses of tiny... Read more.
Door 7 – Dippers in Oslo
For this December Sunday, I want to tell you about my favourite bird that also happens to be the national bird of Norway – the white-throated dipper (Cinclus... Read more.
Group of the Month April: Family Rhytidocystidae
Cover image: Rhytidocystis polygordiae from the intestines of a polychaete Polygordius sp. (Scale bar = 15 μm) from Leander & Ramey, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2006.00109.x... Read more.
Door 16: Small creatures and studying them matters
For today’s advent calendar, I want to talk about my favourite organisms, the protists. In one of my last years advent calendar posts, I talked about their... Read more.
Door 5: To sample or not to sample? – winter sampling for benthic marine invertebrates
In CEG group, we collect samples from the nature for various projects such as MeioSkag and PolyPro3 (marine invertebrates) and ANTENNA (insects). Here in the Northern... Read more.
Group of the month November: Metchnikovellidae
Cover image: Metchnikovella incurvata, a parasite of a bristle worm infecting gregarine. Picture from Galindo et al. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy205 For... Read more.
The 2024 Master, PhD and PostDoc Days at the Natural History Museum Oslo
In their daily work early career students and scientists are usually very busy with generating and interpreting data for their scientific projects. But it is equally... Read more.
Group of the month: Gregarisina
For this month’s group, I’m presenting you one of the three groups I am working with here at CEG group, the gregarines (Gregarisina, Apicomplexa). I got to know... Read more.
Door 21: Wonderful world of symbioses and a note on conserving biodiversity
Only three days until Christmas! For my final post in the advent calendar, I want to introduce our readers to an essential and complex phenomenon in nature, symbiosis.... Read more.