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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last chance to apply for a £2000 bursary supported MScRes to investigate Phages as Plant Protectants. Kindly supported by Friends of Treborth. Please DM me or email me at Bangor University for more details and to apply. Deadline 19th October

Black and white ink drawing of two phage particals surrounding a heart shaped blob of soil containing a seedling

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DAY 484 SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MScRes bursary of £2000 supported by Friends of Treborth to investigate phages as plant protectants. Deadline 19th October. Please contact me to apply

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

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1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

DAY 481 SPECIES 481 - Trachelius ovum STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen T. ovum (Neck egg) is a large freshwater ciliate shaped like an egg or balloon with a small snout. first described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831 #sciart #paint #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DAY 475 SPECIES 475 - Oxytoxum scolopax STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen Consistency is hard, often I'm trying to replicate something that worked well in the past and cant pull it off. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DAY 474 SPECIES 474 - Ceratium hirundinella STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen C. hirundinella is a freshwater dinoflagellate. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #protistsonsky

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MScRes bursary of £2000 available at Bangor University to study Bacteriophages as natural biocontrols for plant pathogens. Deadline is 19th October. Please contact me for more details #PhageSky #MicroSky

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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Persicaria in Purple 4/2025 11 X 8 [27.9 X 20.3 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #pollen

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some of the smallest 😎 viruses on Earth are all around us. Three or four genes 😍 each, in nearly every environment. We keep finding thousands by sequencing, yet don't know who they infect, can't easily isolate them, or even how the few we have infect a cell. Our new preprint takes this on 🧵👇

Schematics of how single strand RNA and DNA phages infect bacteria with F-pilus

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sharaine works at Porton Down, in what is sometimes called our 'top secret lab'. 🔬 🧪 Go behind the scenes and find out about her work on phages - a possible alternative treatment for antibiotics. 🧫

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

DAY 468 SPECIES 468 - Gonyaulax digitale STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Tombow pencil G. digitale is a marine single celled dinoflagellate with a heavy armored outer wall. Its covered in deep pores that give it the look of a thimble #sciart #paint #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DAY 460 SPECIES 460 - Cornutella profunda STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen C. profunda (Deep little horn) is a radiolarian that builds a cone shaped lattice shell and lives deep in the sea at mostly 500-3000m depths #sciart #watercolor #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

DAY 459 SPECIES 459 - Vampyrella pendula STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen Vampyrella pendula is an amoeboid protist that likes to eat filamentous green algae. It drills a hole through the algal cell wall and then slurps out it's innards #sciart #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14/07/2026

New ink painting - a little different from my previous phage art artologica.etsy.com/listing/4537... #sciart

ink painting of blue phages lined up on black bacterial cell

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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

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Bacteriophage Lab of Institut Pasteur @phagepasteur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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...

In this example, we're showing the improvement in the percentage of annotated genes from prophage "Maintenon" from Clostridium innocuum (doi: 10.1186/s40168-023-01541-x) using the phageFACTor pipeline

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 28/06/2026

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

set of 3 bacteria paintings in blue and green watercolor

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/06/2026

New #sciart! Phages in Ink on yupo artologica.etsy.com

blue and black ink painting of bacteriophage

blue and purple ink painting of bacteriophage

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/06/2026

There are other things that I should be doing #sciart

A geometrically shaped virus in blue watercolor on a mottled background

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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

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The Thormann Lab @thethormannden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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

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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ink 10/20/2019 Speedball 107nib 6" X 8" [15.2 X 20.3 cm] #sciart #gawoski #dinoflagellate

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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.

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

DAY 348 SPECIES 348 - Actinosphaerium eichhornii MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen A. eichhornii is a large freshwater protist known as one of the sun animalcules due to its radiating needle like axopodia #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

DAY 347 SPECIES 347 - Opalina ranarum MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & DS watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil O. ranarum is a large, flat, oval shaped protist that doesn't have a mouth. It lives in the colon and cloaca of frogs and toads #sciart #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

DAY 344 SPECIES 344 - Euglena sanguinea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen E. sanguinea is a single celled protist known for its blood red blooms and toxicity #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

DAY 342 SPECIES 342 - Phacus longicauda STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen P. longicauda is a solitary photosynthetic protist with a distinctive flattened leaf shaped body #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

During my PhD, @milja001.bsky.social and I started counting phage genomes, and tried to make them available in useful formats with useful metadata. We also described the extent of sequenced phage genomes at the time. Five years on, we've had a look at what's changed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

DAY 340 SPECIES 340 - Botrydium granulatum STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen B. granulatum is a yellowish green alga that appears as tiny, 2 mm pinhead sized spheres on damp mud or clay #sciart #watercolor #painting #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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