found this lil guy in a sand sample recently 😍🦑
#protistsonsky

Made some cyanotype prints from a figure I pulled from @sandinmm.bsky.social 's 2019 paper on the morpho-molecular classification of Nassellaria. #protistsonsky

Those SEMs are so stunning, they were just begging to be turned into art!
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Gave a talk about mixotrophy earlier this month to the Thetis Island Nature Conservancy. My postdoc has been so 100% focused on research that I almost forgot how much fun scientific outreach can be!!! 🤩

Anybody know what this marine invert is? It's from an epipelagic plankton net tow in the middle of the Atlantic #invertID

A spumellarian (Tetrapyle?) and its symbionts 😌 left: brightfield, middle: DAPI, right: symbiont FISH probes

#ProtistsOnSky

fourth and final chapter of my PhD is out! 🚨 We used single cell metabarcode sequencing to describe the diversity of organisms associated with polycystine radiolarians near Bermuda. we found that polycystines associate with a really wide diversity of phytoplankton, compared to other radiolarians! 🤩

Seattle, WA Stand Up for Science rally yesterday with some really inspiring speakers @standupforscience.bsky.social

The colors of Quadra Island 🤩

there are some pretty wacky protists in R. tibialis... go check out our supplemental videos ;-) #protistsonsky

the third chapter of my PhD is now published! 🚨 We describe the protist symbiont diversity of the termite species Reticulitermes tibialis. This project was performed in a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) which was super fun 😊 #protistsonsky authors.elsevier.com/a/1kaMa56A9x...

Keeling Lab Writing Retreat on Quadra Island is going down this weekend. It's so beautiful here, can I stay? 😍

First week as a postdoc in the Keeling Lab at UBC ✅️ i love all of the protist decorations here 😍

Found this dino (some member of Dinophysiales?) in an old sample that @blancobercial.bsky.social sent me almost a year ago.... looks to have some kind of infection 😵 #protistsonsky

Decided not to prescribe to the very academic, black-cloth-with-gold-lettering, printed version of my dissertation and instead had my favorite radiolarian photo that I took during my PhD be the cover art of the document ✅️ feels good to hold my hard work in my hands, too 🤗