Dives in Bermuda a couple times ---> changes research focus so that I ✨️have✨️ to dive for sample collection, and literally no other reason 🤩😍🤩😍

Every time I'm here it feels more and more like my home away from home 😊

Back in Bermuda @biosstation.bsky.social again for fieldwork!!! I am here alone, despite my prolific attempts to convince people to join me on this trip 😜

it has been a real pleasure to co-run the Life of Retaria with such a lovely group of organizers 💕Happy two years of the Life of Retaria Seminar Series!!!! 🎉 it feels right that our paper should come out around the anniversary!

@ambonacolta.bsky.social and I co-hosted (and gave talks in) a special symposium for @protistologyopen.bsky.social today. It was super fun to put this together, & glad all of these amazing scientists were able to join us!! @mixotrophe.bsky.social

just a lil cytoplasmic streaming for your Monday 😌 #protistsonsky

The colors are so good 😍 Ok ok ok last one 😂 here's my 1987 time trial bianchi!!! Also super light, and also rides like a dream. Ive had it for 16 years now 🥹

steel really DO be real ;-) here's my very beloved vintage MTB frame that I turned into a gravel bike! The older ones are cooler <3

I organized a writing retreat for the Keeling Lab at the Hakai Institute for this weekend. Gonna be hanging out in this yurt for the next two days 😀📝📖📃📚

yes 😊 they are single celled organisms that are often very beautiful and complex, like this one!

I've been knitting on my bus rides to work enough in the last year that I finished a sweater with fish on it 🐟 still waiting for the knitters that sell knitting patterns to develop protist colorwork sweater patterns...

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! doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

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 🤗