DAY 440 SPECIES 440 - Algirosphaera robusta STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen A. robusta is a species of single celled marine alga that often lives 50–150m deep in a low light zone. The cell is covered with microscopic lime plates #sciart #paint #protistsonsky
Ellie Jameson
@elliejameson.bsky.social
Lecturer at Bangor University. Environmental virologist, working on phages. Scientific illustrator. Shop: http://redbubble.com/people/Jellie Website: https://elliejameson.wordpress.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM-pdh9jd
DAY 434 SPECIES 434 - Pteridomonas danica STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen P. danica is a tiny bacteria feeding marine protist. It has a long anterior flagellum and a crown of stiff slender tentacles. It reminds me of Sputnik 🚀 #sciart #protistsonsky
DAY 433 SPECIES 433 - Cafeteria roenbergensis STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen C. roenbergensis is a tiny single celled marine organism #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 431 SPECIES 431 - Ophiocytium capitatum STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen O. capitatum is a species of yellow-green algae found in fresh water shown partially covered in iron deposits #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 428 SPECIES 428 - Proteromonas lacertae MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen P. lacertae is a single celled protozoan that lives in the rectums of reptiles, mainly lizards. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 413 SPECIES 413 - Perkinsus olseni MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen P. olseni is a protozoan parasite that infects marine molluscs. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 409 SPECIES 409 - Haemoproteus columbae MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura & Writech pen H. columbae is a protozoan blood parasite that infects pigeons and doves worldwide #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 406 SPECIES 406 - Teranympha mirabilis MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow Pencil Teranympha mirabilis is a protist that lives in the hindgut of the Japanese termite R. speratus #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
New ink painting - a little different from my previous phage art artologica.etsy.com/listing/4537... #sciart
DAY 404 SPECIES 404 - Dientamoeba fragilis MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil Dientamoeba fragilis is a microscopic, single celled protozoan parasite that lives in the human large intestine #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 392 SPECIES 392 - Oxyphysis oxytoxoides MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil O. oxytoxoides is a marine dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shape. At the top is its peduncle (new word 😮) that it uses to feed on other protists #sciart #protistsonsky
We’re happy to introduce phageFACTor (Functional Annotation and Curation Tool) 👩💻Developed by Tanaïs Moreau, our most recent PhD candidate, and building on Phold, we were able to improve annotation of prophage genes by as much as 50% 🧬 You should check it out github.com/TMs-code/pha...
DAY 391 SPECIES 391 - Pseudoblepharisma tenue MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen P. tenue is a ciliate that was rediscovered from a 1926 description that sat forgotten for 95 years #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
No IRL art events for the next few months, so I added some itty-bitty watercolors to my ko-fi shop #sciart ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044F
DAY 378 SPECIES 378 - Naegleria fowleri MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen N. fowleri is a microscopic single celled amoeba found in warm freshwaters and soil worldwide #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 376 SPECIES 376 - Lepocinclis acus MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen L. acus is a needle shaped photosynthetic protist known for its dual plant and animal like characteristics #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 375 SPECIES 375 - Hippocrepina indivisa MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, DS & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen H. indivisa is a single chambered foraminifera originally described in 1870 #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
As always, we end our Bachelor's practical class with an agar art contest using the bright colis from @atinygreencell.bsky.social. As always, lots of beautiful images were created. Meet the winner, the Coli Cougar, our next year's class lab book cover.
DAY 369 SPECIES 369 - Hyperammina elongata MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen H. elongata is a species of single celled foraminifera with an extended tubular shell beginning with a small chamber #sciart #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky #watercolor
DAY 364 SPECIES 364 - Anthophysa vegetans MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen A. vegetans is a common colonial golden alga often found in standing or stagnant water rich in organic matter #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 363 SPECIES 363 - Tokophrya lemnarum MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow Pencil T. lemnarum is a predatory single celled protist that anchors itself to aquatic plants or animals with a rigid stalk #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 361 SPECIES 361 - Thalassicolla nucleata MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow Pencil T. nucleata is a large, solitary, skeletonless marine radiolarian #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 358 SPECIES 358 - Distigma proteus MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil D. proteus is a euglenoid protist found in organic rich freshwater #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 357 SPECIES 357 - Saturnalis circularis MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen S. circularis is a single celled marine planktonic radiolarian. Its silica skeleton, a central sphere encircled by a ring, resembles the planet Saturn #sciart #art #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 356 SPECIES 356 - Cycloclypeus carpenteri MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen C. carpenteri is a large single celled marine protist. Its thin flat form is an adaptation to dim light in deep water #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
DAY 355 SPECIES 355 - Raphidocystis ambigua MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil R. ambigua is a spherical centrohelid heliozoan with stiff radiating arms used to capture prey #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.