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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 13h

The lost art of illustration: Greenland Seascape by Ernst Vanhöffen (1897)

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 1d

Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!

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Kenny @kenny0911.bsky.social · 13d

Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine
theconversation.com/babies-can-g...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 17d

New OA article on the Artistic and Scientific Exploitation of Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus)
www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 27d

Update on the magnificent vine in the Old Town of Nice- summer was good for it

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Simply Brilliant! I wish he would come to Nice!

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 18

nice pic!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yes they exist! Not many species but sometimes they can be abundant. They don't have the ornate lorica of many marine types and most are also relatively small (ca. 100 µm long). Pic is Tintinnidium fluviatile from Fauré-Fremiet (1924).

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 6

I know what you're thinking: looks like he used an AI image generator...

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Never tire of looking at the wee bugs in the 1828 print by William Heath. Pretty sure some protists are in there. Look carefully - you'll find what you're looking for! #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 5

Plz support your society journals - go first to your peps not IF first!

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 3

AI image generators still do not know what a tintinnid ciliate of the marine plankton is - safe for the moment, can not quite yet replace me... #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 2

These dinky snails (0.5 cm) popped up in my freshwater aquarium - anyone know their name?

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 23

Cleaning emails, forgotten pic from June 2021: Stars from the deep (250 m) Medusetta, acantharia #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 14

team work! go rhizaria!!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 8

Wild one you've likely never heard of: Didinium Gargantua!
article free for next 50 days
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOqb56A9x...
#protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 8

www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
Coming soon - The Anti-Climate Change League -

100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 27

Despite everything - the vine keeps growing - simple pleasures remain intact

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Important: Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice

Scientific research seeks to extend knowledge and understanding, an activity that perhaps more than any other advances society and humanity. In essence, it is the search for truth. But, because it se....

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 10

In these srcewed-up times, don't forget to watch flowers grow- just might save your sanity!

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 9

Depicting the drifting world for some now
#UNOC #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great artwork by Dave Montagnes! #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 5

Farooq Azam symposium for his 85th birthday show of global respect and friendhip

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 30

Tiny Mermaid Ring Found! From the Tropical Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica). The tiny ring, hand crafted of living diatoms, is evidence of the existence of very small mermaids. Based on the ring size, the mermaids are about 2 - 3 cm long, explaining why they have remained unobserved.

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 28

Hats Off to ciliate cysts! Radiosperma thingy about 100 µm across - why for go to so much trouble? #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 26

Blue Period Profile of Dinophysis #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 20

Alot of protistology has gone on in Villefranche Bay since the 1850's, especially in the two buildings in the inset - now the Station Zoologique first illustrated by Albanis Beaumont in his 1787 book 'Voyage Historique... All about him and others in www.openscience.fr/Special-issu...
#protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 18

teeny tiny victories: 1st & only time my beasties on the cover of Science - take them when they come! #protistsonsky

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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · May 10

Once upon a time, looking good was important to protistologists. #protistsonsky

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · May 6

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

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