If you want to know a bit about Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan - Mr. Marine Microbial Ecology of the Station Zoologique in Villefranche, who sadly left us in January: a short obit @ doi.org/10.1002/lob....

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

Probably never happened to you - getting stuck inside your house because of a misplaced diatom...

So sad but a gret pic of Markus

An old -new job possibility? Itinerant Microscopist! Keeping kids away from screens, one sample at a time!

Old books can provide relief from war news => Looks a lot like what I see in samples from my aquarium filter! Fig. 1 infusion of a flower from 1765 Wrisberg's "Observationum de Animalculis Infusoriis" #protistsonsky

250 years ago studies of tintinnid ciliates began. Here are the guys who started it...New artcle about the pioneers is out in open access: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a...

Women have worked on Tintinnid Ciliates for quite a while now: Shiena Marshal (1886-1977), Karen Gaarder (1902-1987), Estela Sousa (1921-2000) #protistsonsky

Mystery Radiolarian? - Found this in a sample from the south Pacific about 10 years ago - Still asking if anyone knows its name? #protistsonsky

Time for celebration - submitted! Prudence dictates waiting for reviews before popping the cork.....

Lost Art of Scientific Illustration: A.L. Clément's 'Animals found between 1500 and 2000 m depth', in Filhol's 1885 "La Vie au Fond Des Mers" on expeditions of the Travailleur and the Talisman.

The lost art of Scientific Illustration: some fancy rotifers from C. G. Ehrenberg's 1833 "Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntnifs grofser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes"

The cold water tintinnid ciliate Parafavella elegans & some diatoms from the Chukchi Sea last summer- almost the end of the Arctic samples....

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...