The sweetest little sea snail larva. #marineplankton 🦑

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Beautiful Bacillaria paxillifera, a colonial diatom, from today’s sample. #marineplankton 🦑

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Everything you always wanted to know about... Aphelids.. but were afraid to ask.🦠🔬🧬?🍄?

I rarely get to see large ciliates like this in my plankton samples, so this is a real treat. Ciliate ID is definitely a weak spot for me. I’m thinking Hypotrichia? #marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑

A mix of lichens including a Xanthoria (I think) a couple of Physcia spp, and others. All hanging out on a tree branch. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends while #hiking

You beautiful, slinky worm, you! A Xenacoela - I don’t know much about these guys, but I think this one is gorgeous! Thanks @microbe_guru for the ID. #marineplankton 🦑

This Tintinnina ciliate is having a good stretch out of its lorica (its little ‘cup’)! #marineplankton 🦑

wow... crawling motility in Asgard #archaea!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... look at these crazy moves!! Let's face it, what these cells want for Christmas is #cilia... the best type of motility appendage...

A lovely Thalassiosira hendeyi from a recent sample. #marineplankton 🦑

Our consensus statement led by @jgi.doe.gov on standards for technical reporting in #environmental and host-associated #microbiome studies #STREAMS @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a pleasure to be part of this work with the lead of Shuting Liu - putting together the data from all the team to show the daily cycles of bacterioplankton in the Sargasso Sea www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Weird word of the day: "kleptosquamy." The testate amoeba Awerintzewia cyclostoma steals scales from other amoeboid organisms to build its own shell. This one has robbed Quadrulella, Netzelia, various euglyphids, and even an Acanthocystis. Kleptosquamy! #amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #biology #nature

Would you rather have your work understood by (and hopefully inspire) 100 children or read by 5000 academics to cite in papers read only by other academics? 🤷 Which has more real-world impact? I know which I'd chose- We need to get better at outreach.

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Study fungi, algae, protists or parasites? Check out the “Eukaryotic Microbes in Health and the Environment” symposium at #Microbio26. Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts @BSPparasitology @ProtistologyUK @BritSocMedMyc @BritMycolSoc @bps_algae

Always a pleasure at the UKCEH PGR Get Together - some amazing PhD projects going on here! Great opportunity to chat about the parasites lurking in Windermere zooplankton populations too... 🦠 @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social

@lrwalsh.bsky.social presented a poster titled "Living Rent Free: Freshwater Zooplankton and their Parasites" 🌊

the #BESAG committee had a great time and hope you did too. Thank you to keynote speakers, workshop leaders, talk presenters and all the participants. Thanks to the sponsors, @funecology.bsky.social and to @zslofficial.bsky.social for hosting us! we hope to see all of you again next year!💧🌍🧪

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Hi #freshwater scientists! The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are advertising for a senior freshwater ecologist...could this be you? ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #job #science #ecology 💦🦦🦠🐟🚣‍♂️🚣‍♀️🧪

Organic matter degradation by oceanic fungi differs between polar and non-polar waters www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

When you see a paper in a top journal that claims to be doing a global map of richness of a taxonomic group yet there are huge lacunae in the global map of samples from which they have done some fancy interpolation you have to be just a little bit sceptical

Degradation of extracellular polymeric substances shapes microbial community diversity journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #jcampubs

Host niche partitioning and coexistence in Amoebophrya and Parvilucifera parasitoids infecting dinoflagellates academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

there is still time to join us for our annual #BESAG conference! in London (ZSL), 15/16 Sept! Check out our amazing prices for #ECRs! #aquatic #marine #freshwater 🌍🧪💧🌊

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #ISEPpapers! High Protistan Parasite Occurrence During Fall in a Warm, Low Sea Ice Year in the Eastern #BeringSea: Tanika Ladd et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Ecology #ClimateChange #SeaIce

Marine Fungi are found everywhere in the ocean. They are recyclers, a goldmine of compounds and symbiotic with other marine life. I chat about Marine Fungi in the BBC programme 'Secrets of the Sea'. Follow the link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

I am at the International Congress for Conservation Biology. So many great talks. I will be talking about aquatic fungal conservation on Wednesday at 3:27pm in P4. Aquatic fungi are data deficient and incredibly important for ecosystem functions. How can we conserve them? #ICCB2025

How does a single cell with no brain, no eyes, no limbs and only pseudopodia build such ornate structures.😍 protists are amazing🦠🦠

But why does an amoeba need horns on its shell? They're quite carefully made, with flat plates neatly glued around them (possibly scales from another organism). The spheres around the mouth are siliceous resting cysts of chrysophyte algae. #ProtistsonSky #MEvoSky #Amoebae #Peatlands

It's great to see the abstracts coming in for talks at #BESAG2025! We still have some spaces, and would love to see you there! 🧪💦 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

This is amazing, A SINGLE CELL that builds a shell from diatoms😍🦠🔬

Calciopappus rigidus! I thought I would never see it alive! So, first it was eating bacteria while the spines were fully open. When it finished it swam away with the spines retraced - looking like a professional scuba diver! #Cocco-Channel #hrzz #protistsonsky For comparison I attach the SEM photo.

Huge news for the lady slipper orchid - the first new wild plant for 100 years found in the UK! 🌱 We've been involved in a partnership to recover this precious species for years! Check out these wild plants (left) and a tiny young seedling from our in vitro lab (right) 👇 pa.media/blogs/pa-edi...

Researchers with ADHD discuss its peaks and valleys and how they structure their work lives to succeed https://go.nature.com/3HDMHDN

New paper out with collaborators from Tianjin University: "Village ponds are hotspots of CO2 and CH4 emissions regulated by biological communities" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First published paper! I'm thrilled to be a co-author of this work by Jara-Zapata et al., which reports for the first time the presence of the genus Aplanochytrium on the Chilean coast, expanding its geographical distribution 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

Slightly bias but this looks like a great meeting 🦠🦠💧💧🍄