John Dolan
@tintinnman.bsky.social
Oceanography, Family, Old Books, Living Well, Time Travel
The lost art of scientific illustration: The copepods of Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913)
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The lost art of scientific illustration: The copepods of Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913)
Diatoms from 77° North
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Diatoms from 77° North
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!
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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!
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.
November 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration:
Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....
Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Lost Art of Scientific Illustration:
Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....
Belon, P. 1551. L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins avec la Vrai Peincture....
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.
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.
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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.
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.
The lost art of scientific illustration:
from August Brauer's deep-sea fish
from August Brauer's deep-sea fish
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The lost art of scientific illustration:
from August Brauer's deep-sea fish
from August Brauer's deep-sea fish
Lost art of illustration: Géza Entz jr. 1908 Tintinnid cilates
October 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Lost art of illustration: Géza Entz jr. 1908 Tintinnid cilates
The lost art of illustration: Greenland Seascape by Ernst Vanhöffen (1897)
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The lost art of illustration: Greenland Seascape by Ernst Vanhöffen (1897)
Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Victor Hensen coined the term "Plankton" in 1887. By 1910 it was an industry (still is)! Steuer's book ran 722 pages!
Reposted by John Dolan
Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine
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September 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Babies can get hepatitis B at birth. Here’s why Trump is wrong about delaying the vaccine
theconversation.com/babies-can-g...
theconversation.com/babies-can-g...
New OA article on the Artistic and Scientific Exploitation of Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus)
www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...
www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...
September 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New OA article on the Artistic and Scientific Exploitation of Baartman (aka the Hottentot Venus)
www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...
www.openscience.fr/Exhibitions-...
Update on the magnificent vine in the Old Town of Nice- summer was good for it
September 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Update on the magnificent vine in the Old Town of Nice- summer was good for it
Simply Brilliant! I wish he would come to Nice!
September 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Simply Brilliant! I wish he would come to Nice!
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
August 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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
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
August 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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
These dinky snails (0.5 cm) popped up in my freshwater aquarium - anyone know their name?
August 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
These dinky snails (0.5 cm) popped up in my freshwater aquarium - anyone know their name?
Cleaning emails, forgotten pic from June 2021: Stars from the deep (250 m) Medusetta, acantharia #protistsonsky
July 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Cleaning emails, forgotten pic from June 2021: Stars from the deep (250 m) Medusetta, acantharia #protistsonsky
Wild one you've likely never heard of: Didinium Gargantua!
article free for next 50 days
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#protistsonsky
article free for next 50 days
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#protistsonsky
July 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Wild one you've likely never heard of: Didinium Gargantua!
article free for next 50 days
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOqb56A9x...
#protistsonsky
article free for next 50 days
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOqb56A9x...
#protistsonsky
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Coming soon - The Anti-Climate Change League -
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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July 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Coming soon - The Anti-Climate Change League -
Coming soon - The Anti-Climate Change League -
Despite everything - the vine keeps growing - simple pleasures remain intact
June 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Despite everything - the vine keeps growing - simple pleasures remain intact
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
June 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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/...
In these srcewed-up times, don't forget to watch flowers grow- just might save your sanity!
June 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In these srcewed-up times, don't forget to watch flowers grow- just might save your sanity!
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Great artwork by Dave Montagnes! #protistsonsky
June 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Great artwork by Dave Montagnes! #protistsonsky