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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy to say that 250 years of Tintinnid Studies is on the cover of Acta - (OK, I know it's not RollingStone...) - still nice - #protistsonsky ilnk to both artcles together: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Was one of the texts for Protozoology, taught by Greg Antipa at San Francisco State University- my entry point!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Purchase instructions please

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Haeckel's (1877) would-be sponge now known to be a large benthic foram. It makes its wonderful shell out of smaller forams and radiolarians. Not a sponge but still a great drawing - Lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DAY 478 SPECIES 478 - Tintinnopsis campanula STAGE: Protists MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen T. campanula is a single celled planktonic ciliate shaped like a bell. #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Need a Rosetta Stone... Let AI have a try at finding the hidden message!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Plate 1 from Losana, M. 1825. De animalculis microscopicis. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, 29:189-200. His illustrations of Proteus (amoeba) spp. 1-21 of 69! Just to show that not all old scientific illustrations deserve the tag "Art"!! #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1755 Rosen von Rosenhof's plate showing Stentor ciliates attached to a duckweed leaf (inset fig. K detail). Green arrow to actual size of leaf; the plate is 20 cm tall. Lost art of Scienftic Illustration! #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Check out this new graphic book on climate change by David Montagnes! www.amazon.com/Biblical-Pro...

Montagnes giving a talk on his book, done in the style of stained glass windows, in the lovely church, St. Columba's by the Castle (Edinburgh). "The story is not joyfull, but it must be told to change the ending"

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New aquisition! plate by August Johann von Rosenhof from his 1755 Histoire der Polypen und anderer kleiner Wasserinsecten. Lost art of scientific illustration!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Curious & curiouser - I bought a Foram scatter slide to show my grandaughter wee beasties and a wee beastie called Peneroplis is in it. Haeckel showed in it his Kunstformen catching prey, and I had written about the odd illustration! A Truly Small World... #protistsonsky doi.org/10.61551/gsj...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sadly, no protists but Mixotrophy rules! Checkout the finalists, www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great plate of some of my favorite "µm bugs" that are very, very difficult to photgraph with their crazy anatomies. Borgert, A. 1901. Die tripyleen Radiolarien des Mittelmeeres. Mitth. Zoolog. Station zu Neapel, 14:239-246. #protistsonsky Lost Art of Scientific Illustration

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

From Haecker 1908 Valdivia reports: unpack this figure of radiolaria (sensu Haeckel): taxonomic groups, depth distribution in sea, relative sizes, names -> all in 1 figure. Lost art of scientific illustration!!!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"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??

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This says it all : Happy Birthday America

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🎖️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. ⤵️ bit.ly/4y5lcZU

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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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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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.

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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...

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

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...

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NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos

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

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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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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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....

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

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. MicroSEA course integrates lectures, field sampling, and lab-based practicals in advanced techniques, such as flow cytometry, microscopy, culturing, and molecular analysis.

The main objectives of MicroSEA course are:

Fostering a deep understanding of marine protist diversity, ecology and biology;
Providing hands-on training in advanced single-cell methods that are not commonly available in university programs;
Building participants' confidence in designing and conducting research projects from field to data analysis;
Promoting international collaborations and peer networking among students and speakers/trainers.
The course will take place at the Station Biologique de Roscoff - SBR (France) - 7th to 12th of June, 2026 (arrival on the 6th, departure on the 13th).

20 participants will be selected, including 10 from EuroMarine member institutes.

https://opbc.sciencesconf.org/

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So sad but a gret pic of Markus

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

An old -new job possibility? Itinerant Microscopist! Keeping kids away from screens, one sample at a time!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Women have worked on Tintinnid Ciliates for quite a while now: Shiena Marshal (1886-1977), Karen Gaarder (1902-1987), Estela Sousa (1921-2000) #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Mystery Radiolarian? - Found this in a sample from the south Pacific about 10 years ago - Still asking if anyone knows its name? #protistsonsky

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