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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

💯% going the right way. I’m excited that the @earlhaminst.bsky.social recognizes the critical importance of protists for science and society #protistsonsky

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Nucleariids are a group of single-celled amoeboid organisms which are related to Fungi. One species, Fonticula alba, was initially classified as a type of slime mould, because it behaves like slime moulds by forming multi-cellular aggregates and fruiting bodies 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

At first glance, this Ephelota sp. looks pretty static, but in timelapse, you can see the cell and the tentacles are very busy! #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Super excited to see a new-to-me species in my sample this week! I believe this is Phalacroma rotundatum, a heterotrophic dinoflagellate. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A little Roomba for hump day! I love the way the darkfield lighting shows the vortex created by this larval gastropod’s vela (the ciliated ‘wings’). #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sometimes, looking under the microscope is like looking at a teeny tiny garden! These are suctoria ciliates from the genus Ephelota. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don’t know what this is (marine plankton sample) but I’m here for it! #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The moving tentacles of an Acineta sp. suctorian ciliate in timelapse. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A busy sample from Walton-on-the-Naze at the weekend. Lots of barnacle nauplii, and copepod nauplii and adults. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Whaaaaa! What a cutie! A Batillipes sp. tardigrade from my latest plankton sample 🥹. #marineplankton 🦑 #zooplankton

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The sand mason worm larvae are still about in my plankton samples. Such photogenic little creatures! #marineplankton 🦑 #zooplankton

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Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Flabellospora acuminata - in a foam sample from northern hessia from last december. #AquaticHyphomycetes

Star shaped conidium of Flabellospora acuminata.

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Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🌊 Exciting #PhDPosition in #PlanktonEcology at the University of Koblenz, Germany! Work on marine protists with a mix of 🔬 wet lab and 💻 bioinformatics in a 3-year, 60% position. 📅 Apply by 20 May 2026 Please repost/share 🙌 Link: tinyurl.com/yu27knau #Protists #MicrobialEcology #PhD #Ecology

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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

GOOD NEWS! Our BRILLIANT Red-ALERT CDT (@redalertcdt.bsky.social) has funding for one more home studentship at the University of Bath so we're re-advertising this project! New deadline: May 18th Come explore protist and invertebrate diversity with us!

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

New #ISEPpapers by @ankarn.bsky.social et al.! Living together: evolutionary and ecological dimensions of #protist endosymbiosis academic.oup.com/microlife/ar... #Protists #Microbes #Symbiosis #Evolution

illustration of five different microbial cells and some of the chemicals they exchange with their environment

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Anna Karnkowska @ankarn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Really excited to share our new paper from @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social protist team! 🎉 We dive into protist symbioses and show how these interactions shape ecosystems and have played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotes 🦠

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UKCEH Molecular Ecology @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Check out our latest paper, work led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social titled "River Microbiomes as Sentinels of National-Scale Freshwater Ecosystems" 🦠🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @susheelbusi.bsky.social @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social @joedtaylor.bsky.social @danread.bsky.social

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I look at these kinds of protists ALL THE TIME. I have never seen them in situ like this. One cell. Absolutely remarkable. #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A variety of delicious diatoms from recent marine plankton samples. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Look at this handsome Harpacticoida copepod! #marineplankton 🦑

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Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New paper out today in the ISME | International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal and the first product from our ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab) working group on Fungal Dispersal. Check it out! academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi

Abstract. Fungi comprise millions of species that play numerous varied roles in Earth’s natural and managed ecosystems, engaging in a multitude of positive

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

All set up and ready to go! #marineplankton #scicomm 🦑🧪

A table with a pink tablecloth. A monitor to the right, microscopes in the middle, and a giant plankton net on the left.

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Do the dance, do the algal dance.

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Bryozoa, or sea mats, are colonial animals. Depending on the species, they can have planktonic larval stages that look like the first video (a coronate larva), or the second video (a cyphonautes larva). Both are super fun to watch! #marineplankton 🦑

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

With many thanks to @zlatogursky.bsky.social and @dumack.bsky.social, it looks like this one is solved. My initial hunch was wrong. This is likely an amoebozoan in the genus 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮. I really appreciate their curiosity and expertise 🤩😍. Found these relevant drawings (tinyurl.com/2me5ywvs):

Drawings of the amoeba Cochliopodium vestitum

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My samples are still full of tintinnid ciliates! This one is poking out of its lorica to show us its lovely single-celled body. #marinebiology #zooplankton #microscopy #plankton #ciliates

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A male Centropages hamatus copepod under UV light. #marineplankton 🦑

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Nathan Ernster @nathanernster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hi Bluesky microbiology/limnology/hydrology/field folks! Has anyone used this style of cordless drill peristaltic pump for sample collection or field filtration? The design checks a lot of our boxes (replaceable tubing, decent suction height, compact batteries), but doesn't seem widely available.

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This beautiful little ice fish (Channichthydae) is taking advantage of being in a bucket full of copepods to help himself to many snacks. This is called “net feeding” & can scew gut content analyses in net caught organisms. Ice fish are the only fish without hemoglobin #oceanography #zooplankton 🌊🐧🇦🇶

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Not a great stack, but it gives you an idea of the glorious architecture of a Lagena sp. Foraminifera. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The delightful contract and stretch of a Trematode flatworm, no doubt on the hunt for a host to enact its parasitic ways. #marineplankton 🦑

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Lots of Tintinnina in my sample this week! These are ciliates with a little ‘cup’ calls a lorica. #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I /think/ this might be Thalassiophysa hyalina. I’d love to get a yay or nay from fellow plankton peeps. Plankton sample, southern North Sea, Norfolk coast UK. Apical axis = 64.1 um #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Super duper cute!! A gorgeous gastropod (sea snail) veliger larva. #marineplankton 🦑

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The sweetest little sea snail larva. #marineplankton 🦑

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Soilwatching #adventcalender door 23 🎄🍄 Www.Instagram.com/soilwatching

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Beautiful Bacillaria paxillifera, a colonial diatom, from today’s sample. #marineplankton 🦑

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#worldsoilday ! Join us on at Soilwatching, diving into the hidden world under our feet - liana forests of fungal hyphae, bacteria swimming as the fastest organisms on earth, and protists jostling their food. our movies: lnkd.in/dQSHpYy4 fun facts and an advents calendar: lnkd.in/dpdRxEwi

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Door 10 of our soilwatching #adventkalender www.instagram.com/soilwatching

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Soilwatching #adventkalender door 11 🌟 www.instagram.com/soilwatching

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Soilwatching #adventkalender Door 12! 🎄 www.Instagram.com/soilwatching