Camera trap for microscopic aquatic life. Is it possible? How?
#microscopy #micrography #pondlife #aquaticlife #microscopicorganisms #microscopiclife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #cameratraps #wildlifetraps #diatoms #ciliates #amoebas #algae
#diatoms
Diatoms in Arctic ice glide through the ice at temperatures down to -15 C.
Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/tiny-arctic-organisms-are-defying-the-rules-of-biology/
Original paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423725122
Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms
Life finds a way: algae alive at -15C in Arctic ice:
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/09/extreme-life-arctic-ice-diatoms-ecological-discovery
The paper:
"Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell", Zhang el al. 2025
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423725122
Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/09/extreme-life-arctic-ice-diatoms-ecological-discovery
#HackerNews #ExtremeLife #ArcticIce #Diatoms #EcologicalDiscovery #ScienceNews
Mineral Monday: Diatoms Diminish Dolomite By Huifang Xu Laboratory syntheses results demonstrate that the dissolved silica can catalyze dolomite precipitation. More diatoms = Less dolomite. #MSACommunications #MineralMonday #dolomite #diatoms #sedimentology #chemicalweathering
Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into the record books https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-uncover-extreme-life-arctic.html
Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423725122
"When they compared #Arctic diatoms with temperate relatives gliding along glass, the polar species moved much faster, hinting at an evolutionary advantage... Could they be moving resources through the Arctic food web?"
"Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low #temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell"
@skyfaller @nancywisser I wonder how the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Philadelphia came to be the publisher of a book about #Montana’s #diatoms. Where are all the Montanan academic presses?
They oughta be ashamed that they let some east coast press publish the definitive work about their state’s diatoms, written by the curator of the Montana Diatom Collection! Is there no state pride in Big Sky Country??
When I ordered "Fishes of the Wissahickon" from Drexel, they accidentally sent me "Diatoms of Montana and Western North America: Catalog and Atlas of Species in the Montana Diatoms Collection" by Loren Bahls instead. They're sending the correct book, but they don't want me to return "Diatoms of Montana".
What should I do with "Diatoms of Montana"? It's two volumes, pretty thick. If I lived in Montana I'd probably hang on to it, but I'm not that into diatoms or Montana.
Team of #HZDR & #CNRS explains how #diatoms interact with #uranium. As algae can be the starting point for the accumulation of harmful substances in the food chain, the results help to better understand the impact of the release of uranium on natural cycles.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/diatom-uranium
Image: B. Schröder/HZDR
How #diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean https://phys.org/news/2025-08-illuminates-diatoms-southern-ocean.html paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GB008457
"An area of the remote #SouthernOcean that's long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of turquoise-colored light appears to be full of silica-rich diatoms"
🚨 ALERT: Scientists discover microscopic ocean drama! 🤯🔬 After 60 years of intense observation, it turns out #diatoms and #dinoflagellates have been battling for biomass supremacy in the North Atlantic. 🌊 Clearly, Mother Nature is more compelling than any Netflix series. 🎬🍿
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675 #oceanlife #marinebiology #naturediscovery #sciencealert #HackerNews #ngated
Shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over 6 decades
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675
#HackerNews #Diatoms #Dinoflagellates #NorthAtlantic #MarineBiology #ClimateChange
Shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over 6 decades
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675
#ycombinator #Diatoms #Dinoflagellates #Biomass #Latitude #Phytoplankton #Biogeography #Ocean_temperature #Plankton
3-Jun-2025
Study resolves diatom tree of life, could offer clues to Earth's puzzle
Research finds #diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of #speciation 170 million years ago.
After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in #BalticSea mud, researchers bring prehistoric #algae back to life https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-oxygen-baltic-sea-mud.html
Resurrection of a #diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae252/7942337
"Such deposits are like a time capsule containing valuable information about past ecosystems and the inhabiting biological communities, their population development and genetic changes"
Wonderful opportunity - APPLY!! #diatoms #microsky #protistsonsky
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wph3otrc2bw6kfgncntuv6ki/post/3ll4vv6o6ns2g
We just phenotyped 9 diatom species using the most advanced version of the Phenoplate yet: 384 samples measured at the same time!
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/photobiology/articles/10.3389/fphbi.2025.1528646/full
#photosynthesis #diatoms
Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
When we think of #nutrients that limit #algae growth, it is usually nitrogen or phosphorus, which is absolutely true, but occasionally, other factors become important. One is hydrated silica dioxide, which is necessary for #diatoms to produce their glass "frustule" shells. In both lakes and oceans, #silica can be drawn down to the point it prevents reproduction. So, in some locations "dissolved sand" can actually limit algal growth. #Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44587-4
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