@godi.bsky.social🌊 We celebrated #CoccolithophoreDay at the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb!
Our team from the Ruđer Bošković Institute brought the fascinating world of coccolithophores to life through microscopy, VR, puzzles and hands-on activities for all ages! 🔬
@smartalyk.bsky.socialDAY 492
SPECIES 492 - Balantioides coli
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen
B. coli is the largest single celled protozoan parasite that can infect humans and the only known ciliated parasite to do so.
@micromotility.bsky.socialPlease enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey!
Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@tintinnman.bsky.socialHappy to say that 250 years of Tintinnid Studies is on the cover of Acta - (OK, I know it's not RollingStone...) - still nice - #protistsonsky ilnk to both artcles together:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@smartalyk.bsky.socialDAY 491
SPECIES 491 - Tripos ranipes
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor. Sakura & Pentel pen
T. ranipes (Frog foot) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
@jujumathieu.bsky.socialMy favourite long neck choano found again in Mediterranean sea. Finger crossed to get it grow this time! 🤞
#protistsonsky
@fburki.bsky.social
@blarson.bsky.socialA colleague just thoughtfully dropped this off for me. I had never heard of it before, but it turns out to be a fantastic little resource for protist identification. Nice drawings with good descriptions of behavior and sampling tips.
@ktjurdzinski.eurosky.socialGlad to see our paper on differences in bacterial and protist diversity patterns of brackish (Baltic) plankton out in @commsbio.nature.com!
Thanks to @doubleanders.bsky.social and all the co-authors.
@smartalyk.bsky.socialDAY 490
SPECIES 490 - Oxyrrhis marina
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura & Writech pen
O. marina is a marine heterotrophic dinoflagellate widely used as a model organism in protist ecological and evolutionary research
@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
@nicolecoots.bsky.socialepibiotic diatoms bothering a copepod. thought it was pretty 😌 pictures taken on a recent sampling trip to Curacao
@alicegros.bsky.socialCool science alert!!
A dream come true at #ALPOLE Sion with @embl.org's Advanced Mobile Lab: hiking, sampling and learning from amazing scientists. And bringing back a tooooon of microscopic pets 🔬🧪
Thanks everyone and thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social 🥹#ProtistsOnSky
@smartalyk.bsky.socialDAY 489
SPECIES 489 - Sphenoderia lenta
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
S. lenta is a testate amoeba: a single celled amoeboid organism living inside a self built shell.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
@jeukmicro.bsky.socialAre you an ISOP member? Did you know one of your membership benefits is FREE publishing in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
#protistsonsky
@tintinnman.bsky.socialHaeckel's (1877) would-be sponge now known to be a large benthic foram. It makes its wonderful shell out of smaller forams and radiolarians. Not a sponge but still a great drawing - Lost art of scientific illustration -
#protistsonsky
@smartalyk.bsky.socialDAY 488
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
@jeukmicro.bsky.socialCongratulations, Chuanqi Jiang, et al.! Their paper, "Decoding the Nature of the Peritrich Stalk: A Distinctive Organelle in a Large Group of Ciliated Unicellular Eukaryotes," won the 2025 Trager Award for Best Paper.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
#protistsonsky
@jeukmicro.bsky.socialCongratulations Anders Alfjorden, et al.! Their paper, "Identification of a new gregarine parasite associated with mass mortality events of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) in Sweden," won the 2024 Trager Award
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
@dackslabecb.bsky.social