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John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 2d

The lost art of scientific illustration: The copepods of Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913)

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 3d

Diatoms from 77° North

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 6d

Just got samples from the Arctic in August. So far, odd! The little tintinnid ciliate species ruled the summer. Plus, there seems to be for the USA - good day!

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 8d

Forgot his pic! Yoshine Hada in 1941 (age 36)

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 9d

The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration: Yoshine Hada's illustrations of dinoflagellates in Kofoid, C.A. 1931. Protozoan Fauna of Mutsu Bay. Subclass Dinoflagellata, Tribe Gymnodinioidae. Sci. Rpts Tohoku Imperial Univ, 4th Ser., Biology, Vol. VI, No. 1, pp 1-43.

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 13d

The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration:
Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 19d

The lost art of scientific illustration:
Rosel von Rosenhof, A. J. (1755). Die Historie der Polypen der siissen Wasser und anderer kleiner Wasserinsecten hiesiges Landes. Der monatlichherausgegebenen lnsecten-Beliistigung, 3, 433-624.

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · 23d

The lost art of scientific illustration:
from August Brauer's deep-sea fish

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Oct 10

Lost art of illustration: Géza Entz jr. 1908 Tintinnid cilates

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Oct 9

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Oct 8

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

Kenny @kenny0911.bsky.social · Sep 26

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

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!

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).

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

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Aug 2

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jul 14

team work! go rhizaria!!

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

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.

www.npr.org

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

John Dolan @tintinnman.bsky.social · Jun 9

Depicting the drifting world for some now
#UNOC #protistsonsky

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