Forgotten treasures: the only Scientific American cover featuring plankton collection !

The lost art of scientific illustration: The copepods of Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913)

Diatoms from 77° North

Just got samples from the Arctic in August. So far, odd! The little tintinnid ciliate species ruled the summer. Plus, there seems to be for the USA - good day!

The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration: Yoshine Hada's illustrations of dinoflagellates in Kofoid, C.A. 1931. Protozoan Fauna of Mutsu Bay. Subclass Dinoflagellata, Tribe Gymnodinioidae. Sci. Rpts Tohoku Imperial Univ, 4th Ser., Biology, Vol. VI, No. 1, pp 1-43.

The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration: Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....

The lost art of scientific illustration: Rosel von Rosenhof, A. J. (1755). Die Historie der Polypen der siissen Wasser und anderer kleiner Wasserinsecten hiesiges Landes. Der monatlichherausgegebenen lnsecten-Beliistigung, 3, 433-624.

The lost art of scientific illustration: from August Brauer's deep-sea fish

Lost art of illustration: Géza Entz jr. 1908 Tintinnid cilates

The lost art of illustration: Greenland Seascape by Ernst Vanhöffen (1897)

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine theconversation.com/babies-can-g...

New OA article on the Artistic and Scientific Exploitation of Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus) www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...

Update on the magnificent vine in the Old Town of Nice- summer was good for it

Simply Brilliant! I wish he would come to Nice!

Never tire of looking at the wee bugs in the 1828 print by William Heath. Pretty sure some protists are in there. Look carefully - you'll find what you're looking for! #protistsonsky

AI image generators still do not know what a tintinnid ciliate of the marine plankton is - safe for the moment, can not quite yet replace me... #protistsonsky

These dinky snails (0.5 cm) popped up in my freshwater aquarium - anyone know their name?

Cleaning emails, forgotten pic from June 2021: Stars from the deep (250 m) Medusetta, acantharia #protistsonsky

Wild one you've likely never heard of: Didinium Gargantua! article free for next 50 days authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOqb56A9x... #protistsonsky

www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n... Coming soon - The Anti-Climate Change League -

Despite everything - the vine keeps growing - simple pleasures remain intact

Important: Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In these srcewed-up times, don't forget to watch flowers grow- just might save your sanity!

Depicting the drifting world for some now #UNOC #protistsonsky

Great artwork by Dave Montagnes! #protistsonsky

Farooq Azam symposium for his 85th birthday show of global respect and friendhip

Tiny Mermaid Ring Found! From the Tropical Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica). The tiny ring, hand crafted of living diatoms, is evidence of the existence of very small mermaids. Based on the ring size, the mermaids are about 2 - 3 cm long, explaining why they have remained unobserved.

Hats Off to ciliate cysts! Radiosperma thingy about 100 µm across - why for go to so much trouble? #protistsonsky

Dose of Protist Art: Chatton's chapter 1952 "Classe des Dinoflagelles ou Péridiniens" in Traité de Zoologie, Tome 1A. Fig. 1 Euglena intermedia; Fig. 2 Gyrodinium melo; Fig. 3 Amphidinium corpulentum; Fig. 4 Warnowia maculata; Fig. 5 radiolarian Auloceros elegans #protistsonsky

Blue Period Profile of Dinophysis #protistsonsky

Alot of protistology has gone on in Villefranche Bay since the 1850's, especially in the two buildings in the inset - now the Station Zoologique first illustrated by Albanis Beaumont in his 1787 book 'Voyage Historique... All about him and others in www.openscience.fr/Special-issu... #protistsonsky

teeny tiny victories: 1st & only time my beasties on the cover of Science - take them when they come! #protistsonsky

Once upon a time, looking good was important to protistologists. #protistsonsky

If you care about the NSF and science, now is the time to make your voice heard! The evolution tri-societies are running a Week of Action for NSF! We MUST make some noise -join us!! @sse-evolution.bsky.social members will see the below email in their inbox today, spread the word! Pls RT!

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

New image gallery- Meunier's 1910 Arctic Microplankton plates (all 37 with legends) - there be some oddities up there! #protistsonsky gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/A...

"A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library" blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... Important changes for BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social which can no longer be hosted at #Smithsonian and needs a new home.

In the long History of Bad Ideas: Domesticating Apes (1886), Electing Trump President, not once but TWICE

The only Pope to have ever mentioned plankton- he will be missed! Obviously also Advocate for protecting migrants, homeless, vicitims of senseless wars.

Tuffen West's wonderful artwork- plate 3 in Hogg's 'The Microscope...' 1867 ed. Actual size 10 x 16 cm. More Tuffen West: www.openscience.fr/Tuffen-West-...

'nuff said! france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...

On Per Theodor Cleve (1840-1905) the amazing part-time protistologist: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a... #protistsonsky

NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

Latest bits of history Folly: 1795 print of Villefranche (drawing by Albanis Beaumont, aquatint ectching by Cornelis Apostool) showing what is now the Station Zoologique

The guy in the white shoes was doing something new & hot in 1950 aboard the Galathea: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Arctic Plankton Designs: to float or to stick? #protistsonsky

So simple white on black and so nice! Enzt, G. jr. 1909. Studien über Organisation und Biologie der Tintinniden. Archiv fûr Protistenkund 15:93-226.

Presumptive ciliate cysts from the artic plankton: one looks like it was designed to sink, the other as if to stick to stuff- from the same sample - for all I know could be the same species bet hedging! Wonders never cease (I wonder what they are) #protistsonsky

Forgotten Wonders (wonder how they do that): the lorica or shell of Codonella acuta from Kofoid 1930 (85-105 µm long), nicely decorated with coccoliths