The ghost emoji 👻 is back! This is a flatworm (Platyhelminthes) larva from the order Polycladida and it is called a Müller’s larva. #marineplankton 🦑

I did a thing and reviewed a book! #marineplankton 🦑 www.britishwildlife.com/seashore-pla...

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Seashore Plankton Julian Cremona The subtitle to Julian Cremona’s latest book, Seashore Plankton, is ‘A Practical Introduction to Biology and Identification’, and if this was a promise, it certainly d...

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That was too many copepods for one person to cope (pod) with! We have a bit of an Acartia discaudata bloom here on the North Coast atm. #marineplankton 🦑

@elizabethbeston.bsky.social of the Plankton Project has reviewed Sea Plankton. Available from @pelagic.bsky.social. Read the review: www.britishwildlife.com/seashore-pla...

A very difficult sample today. No matter where I went on the pier, my net was determined to go under it!! But it was made better by the coolest kid in a bow tie asking lots of questions about plankton. He was epic. #marineplankton 🦑

Afloat, awash - Norfolk coastal plankton are at the bottom of the foodchain, but they don't know it. A nematode, a mite, a snail, a diatom, many copepods - shimmering a few hours ago in the blue-grey sea; twitching, shivering, fated now under the microscope sans merci as their droplet-world dries.

How can we analyse thousands of plankton samples in seconds? Meet the FlowCam! 🌊🔬 As part of his Molly Spooner Studentship at the Marine Biological Association, Sam Upton is using high-speed FlowCam technology to automate particle imaging. #MarineBiology #FlowCam #Plankton #LabTech

That face! 🥹 Sea snail (gastropod) veliger larva. #marineplankton 🦑

I don’t know if it’s the relentless heat, the mould growing on my son’s bed slats, or the menopause, but I’m getting that feeling when I want to throw everything out. The walls are closing in on me!!

As always, thanks for letting me nerd-out and talk about plankton!

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When we get a mouthful of seawater how many animalicules do we take in with it? They are spawned in almost infinite numbers, but if they fail then so do we. @elizabethbeston.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social Thanks to the Anglian and Iceni microscopy groups for the opportunity to look at them.

When you grow a foot and can’t wait to use it… A baby bivalve in timelapse. #marineplankton 🦑

If you want, you can listen to Kayleigh Poacher and I rock pooling on BBC Radio Norfolk (via the BBC sounds app). Go to her show today, live from West Runton, and the rock pooling is about 2 hours and 45 mins into the show. Beadlet anemones, brittle stars, and crabs are the stars of the segment!

A Halacaridae mite from my latest sample. Totally handsome! #marineplankton 🦑

Hubs decided to make our floof of a cat a parody LinkedIn profile.

A colony of Zoothamnium, a stalked ciliate. #marineplankton 🦑

I’m back on BBC Radio Norfolk tomorrow! A few weeks back I prerecorded a segment with Kayleigh Poacher rockpooling at West Runton. It’ll be on sometime between 10am and 2pm.

My tummy is very very full. Birthday lunch for @jbeston.dev at Zak’s in Norwich.

Marine scientists warn that continued warming of UK waters is likely to cause major changes to plankton, the tiny drifting plants and animals that form the foundation of marine food webs and feed the fish that end up on our plates. www.mba.ac.uk/uk-seas-face... #MarineBiology

UK seas face major food chain disruption as plankton shift, scientists predict | Marine Biological Association

Marine scientists warn that continued warming of UK waters is likely to cause major changes to plankton, the tiny drifting plants and animals that form the foundation of marine food webs and feed the ...

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Disclosure Day. Very much enjoyed.

I’ve just realised I have a backlog of spring plankton videos to share! I love this one of a sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) as you can really see the ctenes (the combs that give comb jellies their name) working and the iridescent glow bouncing off them. #marineplankton 🦑

I had a lovely time with some super folks at our plankton party today with @norfolkwt ! #marinebiology #zooplankton #microscopy #plankton #scicomm

Morning! Doing a family plankton session today with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, so I was up early to wade in the cool waters and collect a sample. #marineplankton #scicomm 🦑

A cute little gastropod veliger larva. I see these varieties only occasionally, and I wonder, are they Nudibranch larvae? Or just early larvae of any gastropod? Anyone know? #marineplankton 🦑

Our new MSCA-Doctoral Network project ML4Plankton will kick off soon. 14 PhD students will start in March 2027 to work on plankton big data, i.e., machine learning. Get in touch if you are interested. Coordinator: Sakina-Dorothée Ayata @norwichmicro.bsky.social www.normalesup.org/~ayata/DN_ML...

Good morning from North Norfolk! It’s sample day and it’s finally been an easy one! No wind and almost sediment free! #marineplankton 🦑

A bimbling little Podocopida ostracod. Cute! #marineplankton 🦑

Seb chats with Dr Clare Ostle about an incredible ocean journey. A microscopic diatom (Neodenticula seminae) usually found in the Pacific suddenly re-appeared in the Atlantic - for the first time in nearly a million years!  #ContinuousPlanktonRecorder

What the hell was I doing in 2015 to miss the genius that is ‘Catastrophe’??

It was a busy plankton sample this week. Lots of copepod larvae! #marineplankton 🦑

This bivalve veliger larva looks delightful under darkfield illumination! #marineplankton 🦑 #shellfishsunday