Fereidoun in 2003
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....
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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:
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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!
Forgot his pic! Yoshine Hada in 1941 (age 36)
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
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New OA article on the Artistic and Scientific Exploitation of Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus)
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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!
nice pic!