"The "British Foraminifera" of Edward Waller (1803–1873): an interesting challenge for foram workers" is finally in Open Access AND the "Supplement" with all the original scans is available. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/cushmanfound... I don't suppose that anyone recognizes the signature??

On an obscure unfinished work with wonderful illustrations: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #protistsonsky

never ceases to amaze!

Protist of the deep: Forams from the depths of the Davis Strait by Ehrenberg (1873). Lost art of scientific illustration #orotistsonsky

On the artist of the iconic sketch of Globigerina: J.J.W. Article in free access for 50 days at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nPdH56A9x... #protistsonsky

Albert Calbet - Human expertise is in danger - Tintinnid guy says he's right "If AI writes the paper, who validates the plankton?: a call to reinvest in empirical expertise before the validation gap becomes irreversible" academic.oup.com/plankt/artic...

New article on J.J. Wild - the artist of the Challenger Expedition and his portraits of protists-> lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky hal.science/hal-05682869

This says it all : Happy Birthday America

🎖️Farooq Azam, a marine microbiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Oceanography & @ucsandiego.bsky.social, has earned the prestigious 2026 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences! He was recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries on the microbial loop. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4y5lcZU

Marine Microbiologist Farooq Azam Receives Kyoto Prize

University of California San Diego marine microbiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Farooq Azam has been selected as the 2026 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences. Azam is widely recognize...

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Obscure jems: Chimmo's 1870 gallery of "Minute Organisms" from a single deep sea sediment sample. - Lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky

Wonders of Deep Sea Mud - from "Das Leben in den grössten Meerestiefen" (Haeckel 1870). Rads, Forams, Diatoms & the infamous Bathybius- Lost art of scientific illustration. #protistsonsky

On this crafty man and how he got into the Royal Society in the early 1800's. Article in the May 2026 issue of the Linnean available on the page: www.linnean.org/our-publicat...

A great place for a meeting, great people !!! Info on prelim, program, etc. protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti... #protistsonsky

First image of a deep sea organism brought up alive in 1860 - a brittle star on a sounding line from 2272 m depth. Image by George C. Wallich, published 1862. Lost art of scientific illustration.

So much we don't know about the deep sea! Why send people to the moon AGAIN? Peng, X., Zhou, P., Song, X. et al. A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The attack on sciences and humanities is about controlling the narrative, knowledge and how to question is dangerous to vested interests. eos.org/research-and...

NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.

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from "Ueber den Sarcodekörper der Rhizopoden" (Haeckel 1865) From a 1864 visit to Villefranche-sur-Mer - The lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky

Over the last nearly 100 years, these folks have made remarkable contributions to our knowledge of the microscopic wonders, Tintinnid Ciliates! Find out about these folks: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a...

We NEED Scientific Societies - don't leave yours! New Article "The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures" doi.org/10.1186/s129...

New aquisition by the Challenger Expedition artist J.J. Wild

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....

Protist lovers: Please apply for a week of rhapsody! Learn by doing: MicroSEA (Microbial Sea Eukaryotes) course is a one-week, field-based summer school to train early-career researchers in the diversity, ecology, and single-cell biology of marine protists. opbc.sciencesconf.org #protistsonsky

Probably never happened to you - getting stuck inside your house because of a misplaced diatom...

So sad but a gret pic of Markus

Curtis Suttle@virosphere.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I learned the very sad news today that Markus Weinbauer passed away. Markus shaped our views of marine viral ecology. The pic shows the lab in the early days @utmsi.bsky.social. Full marks if you recognize Markus, Steve Wilhelm @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social, Amy Chan, Feng Chen, Steve Short & me.

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: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a...

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