DAY 306
SPECIES 306 - Tripos fusus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fusus is a marine, planktonic, armored dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shaped body
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
just a lil cytoplasmic streaming for your Monday 😌 #protistsonsky
Attending Protistology Open? Check out @nicolecoots.bsky.social & I's ISOP-sponsored symposium "The Symbiotic Continuum across the Tree of Life" (April 20th @ 11 AM)! We have an amazing lineup of speakers including Ondřej Pomahač, @mixotrophe.bsky.social, & Gillian Gile #ProtistsOnSky #Symbiosis
DAY 305
SPECIES 305 - Diploconus fasces
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
D. fasces is a species of marine, planktonic protist recognized by its delicate strontium sulfate skeletal structure
#sciart #watercolor #painting #art #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
1/ ⚠️ New paper out in L&O @aslo.org 🌊 Targeted haptophyte metabarcoding + SEM revealed far more #coccolithophore diversity than broad eukaryote surveys.
🧵A thread on how Southern Indian Ocean mesoscale fronts structure these communities at fine spatial scales👇 #protistsonsky doi.org/10.1002/lno....
#ProtistsOnSky #FungiFriends
in soil, it's not just fungi entrapping worms for dinner with their hyphae, it's also the protists that feast on fungal hyphae. after all, it's a jungle...
thx to kenneth @dumack.bsky.social for this highly interesting 🧵
Our takeaway: if we want to understand forest soils, we need to look beyond fungi. Metatranscriptomics reveal important players that PCR-based approaches miss.
Really happy to share our new article: Protistan Predators Outshine Fungi in Forest Soil Activity. #ProtistsOnSky #MicrobialEcology #Soil
DAY 304
SPECIES 304 - Noctiluca scintillans
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
N. scintillans, commonly known as Sea sparkle, is known for creating brilliant blue bioluminescence in coastal waters
#sciart #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 303
SPECIES 303 - Stentor coeruleus
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. QoR & DS watercolor, Sakura pen
S. coeruleus is a large vibrant trumpet shaped freshwater ciliate visible to the naked eye
#sciart #watercolor #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
We are continuing our efforts at iterative expansion microscopy of loricate choanos. Not only does the lorica expand, it seems you can iterate expansion pretty much infinitely. Here’s our latest - incredibly, it expanded to macroscopic size! #ProtistsOnSky
Foraminifera, a protist in the shape of an ammonite.
Yes, another #foram #foraminifera from sediment sample at depth of 10 mtr. #protistsonsky This time from lake: Klinkenbergerplas /NL
#microscopy #citizenscience
#Ichthyosporea are not just the 5–6 species we and others have helped establish as models. Our recent synthesis suggests that ~95% of their species-level diversity remains uncultivated. In other words, we still know only a fraction of the map! #protistsonSky @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a new marine parasite: Characterization and distribution of Rozellomyces from the Gulf of Alaska ⛴️🔬🌊
Congrats Adarsh and all co-authors: @protistwtmostest.bsky.social, Gordon, @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social, and Naomi! #ProtistsOnSky
Meet Hexatilemonas jangsaensis a new uncultured apusomonad clade by Jeong et al. doi 10.1111/1462-2920.70282. #protistsonsky. Mark the trunk 🐘 (sleeve around base of flagellum) and laterally consumed bacterium in 🟥 .
and you know what to do #protistsonsky
I raise this glass for #protistsonsky 🍸🥚
Aerobic sister lineage of breviates has gene-rich mitochondrial genomes
#microbiology #eukaryotes #mitochondria #protists #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
@cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Honoured to join this list of high-flying scientists as Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology. I will promote eukaryotes as microbial wonders #protistsonsky A BIG thanks to the reviewers who put fwd my name and many colleagues throughout the years fems-microbiology.org/european-aca...
Cheaper and sustainable transfection is always a good thing! Thanks @frutag33.bsky.social for sharing this! #choanoflagellates #protistsonSky #nonmodels
link 👉https://pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2529738123
@pnas.org
We also directly detected plasmalogens in our beloved Chromosphaera perkinsii and Capsaspora.
#ichthyosporeans #holozoans #protistsonSky #LGT
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @prbb.org @icreacommunity.bsky.social @csic.es
Many cellular innovations later used by animals were assembled long before animals evolved.We show that aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis likely entered eukaryotes early from Myxobacteria, highlighting how bacterial genes shaped the cellular landscape from which animals emerged. 🧬✨ #protistsOnSky
My new spiritual eukaryote is ciliate in Si helmet swimming towards North pole ⚔️. Definitely an amazing reading from Bolzoni et al. "Magnetoreception in a freshwater ciliate arises from endosymbiosis." 10.1038/s41467-026-70462-8 for #protistsonsky
