Joe Taylor

A variety of delicious diatoms from recent marine plankton samples.
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Look at this handsome Harpacticoida copepod!

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A table with a pink tablecloth. A monitor to the right, microscopes in the middle, and a giant plankton net on the left.

All set up and ready to go! #marineplankton #scicomm 🦑🧪

Do the dance, do the algal dance.

Bryozoa, or sea mats, are colonial animals. Depending on the species, they can have planktonic larval stages that look like the first video (a coronate larva), or the second video (a cyphonautes larva). Both are super fun to watch!

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With many thanks to @zlatogursky.bsky.social and @dumack.bsky.social, it looks like this one is solved. My initial hunch was wrong. This is likely an amoebozoan in the genus 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮. I really appreciate their curiosity and expertise 🤩😍. Found these relevant drawings (tinyurl.com/2me5ywvs):

My samples are still full of tintinnid ciliates! This one is poking out of its lorica to show us its lovely single-celled body.

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Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky

A male Centropages hamatus copepod under UV light.

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Hi Bluesky microbiology/limnology/hydrology/field folks!

Has anyone used this style of cordless drill peristaltic pump for sample collection or field filtration?

The design checks a lot of our boxes (replaceable tubing, decent suction height, compact batteries), but doesn't seem widely available.

This beautiful little ice fish (Channichthydae) is taking advantage of being in a bucket full of copepods to help himself to many snacks. This is called “net feeding” & can scew gut content analyses in net caught organisms. Ice fish are the only fish without hemoglobin #oceanography #zooplankton 🌊🐧🇦🇶

Not a great stack, but it gives you an idea of the glorious architecture of a Lagena sp. Foraminifera.

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The delightful contract and stretch of a Trematode flatworm, no doubt on the hunt for a host to enact its parasitic ways.

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We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

Lots of Tintinnina in my sample this week! These are ciliates with a little ‘cup’ calls a lorica.

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I /think/ this might be Thalassiophysa hyalina. I’d love to get a yay or nay from fellow plankton peeps. Plankton sample, southern North Sea, Norfolk coast UK. Apical axis = 64.1 um #marineplankton 🦑 #protistsonsky

Super duper cute!! A gorgeous gastropod (sea snail) veliger larva.
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The sweetest little sea snail larva.

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Beautiful Bacillaria paxillifera, a colonial diatom, from today’s sample.
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