No puns for Soap Operas + Body Language last round. Fresh start:

🎭 New pun theme: SPONGES
Reply with your best pun. Most likes at 2:00 AM PDT wins 60 pts (ties split).

#PunBattle #punny #Sponges #cozy #dadjokes #gamesky

Day 2 of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town 🇿🇦 The participants finally meet the #sponges from the Iziko Museum collection, all collected in South Africa 🪸 Lots of excitement and curiosity 😀 @biodiversa.eu @dsbsoc.bsky.social

A successful 1st day of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town, South Africa 😀 An intro to #deep-sea biology and #sponges, and the first practical on Image-based identification using BIIGLE. @biodiversa.eu @dsbsoc.bsky.social

Branched-chain amino acid assimilation enables mixotrophy of ammonia-oxidizing archaeal sponge symbionts
#microbiology #archaea #sponges #MicroSky
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

4-Sep-2026
#Archaea as "flexitarians": #ammonia-oxidizing #microbes also feed on amino acids
The tiny helpers of marine #sponges also use organic #aminoAcids

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1142406

#science #ecology

“Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.” — Dr. Asa Don Brown

#children #mothers #sponges #MIT #interaction