for the fans of 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 (🙋‍♂️)
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky

A global mitochondrial genomic atlas illuminates freshwater microeukaryote diversity #microsky #protistsonsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

you're right! I found some more info about this sample, it was more likely #Stylonychia mytilus, here's a picture of a whole cell, sadly being fed with chlamy (?) as food... (no scalebar sorry!) #ciliates #protistsonsky

DAY 480
SPECIES 480 - Achlya bisexualis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

A. bisexualis is an aquatic, fungus like water mold. It's more closely related to brown algae & diatoms than to true fungi

#sciart #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

DAY 479
SPECIES 479 - Stentor roeselii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

S. roeselii is a trumpet shaped freshwater protist. Found globally in still or slow moving freshwater habitats.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

DAY 478
SPECIES 478 - Tintinnopsis campanula
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen

T. campanula is a single celled planktonic ciliate shaped like a bell.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

Great to see this, Omaya! The search for the missing diversity of unicellular relatives of animals is gaining momentum, and it’s fantastic to see more labs joining the hunt. New #ichthyosporeans would be exciting!! new holozoan lineages too! #protistsOnSky #missingrelatives

DAY 477
SPECIES 477 - Acineta tuberosa
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

A. tuberosa is a stalked aquatic protist that lives attached to crustaceans, algae, and other aquatic substrates.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

Very cool! Came across unclassified Cladophorales a few times in my coral data 🪸

“Lithochloron, a new genus of green algae residing in coral skeleton (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta)” from Verbruggen et al

#ProtistsOnSky

#protistsonsky

Proud to contribute the World’s Hottest Mitotic Spindle™️ to this incredible study

@fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky

#protistsonsky #bioinformatics

DAY 476
SPECIES 476 - Dendrocometes paradoxus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & DS watercolor, Sakura pen

D. paradoxus is a single celled suctorian ciliate that lives attached to the gills of amphipods, small shrimp like crustaceans.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protistsonsky

thank you for the thoughtful coverage @npr.org ! really enjoyed talking with Ari & @oliverio.bsky.social #protistsonsky

Plate 1 from Losana, M. 1825. De animalculis microscopicis. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 29:189-200. His illustrations of Proteus (amoeba) spp. 1-21 of 69! Just to show that not all old scientific illustrations deserve the tag "Art"!! #protistsonsky

DAY 475
SPECIES 475 - Oxytoxum scolopax
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

Consistency is hard, often I'm trying to replicate something that worked well in the past and cant pull it off.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

#protistsonsky (not to mention protistsonfire)

Discovery of an Undocumented Symbiosis Between Arcellinida and a Flagellate Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics - Ani et al. (2026)

Free link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QBTIVR...

#ProtistsOnSky

Busy week for #ProtistsOnSky
After some planning with Tom Battin & @nikobiota.bsky.social
The #Alpine #Microbial Workshop is finally here in #Sion!
We're grateful to all funders @sciencesunige.bsky.social #EPFL @embl.org & many supportive foundations & all our collaborators who made this possible.

The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont
#microbiology #endosymbionts #plastids #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@commsbio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s42...