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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Ok, plankton people, could you help me put names on the species my son just married for life?
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mariannedenton.bsky.social
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73 days ago
What a good son.
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
He was definitely going for phytoplankton. I'm more a zooplankton type, but he said the phytos "are the foundation of all life on Earth and nobody gives a fuck about it."
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
He's going through your identifications now and connecting them to what's on his arm.
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
He is so right!
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
😍 Desmids and diatoms oh my!
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Pediastrum, Pseudokirchneriella, Staurastrum are some of the genera.
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
I am tell my son. He is going to need to work on pronunciation.
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
May I ask why he got phytoplankton tattoos? I think they’re fabulous. I’m just curious what his motivation was.
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
He realized how important they are to life on Earth and wanted other folks to know it.
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Tell him thank-you!
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benconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Also they look cool
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Ack I was wrong about pseudokirchneriella. I mixed it up with scenedesmus. I am rusty.
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kirkwoodlab.bsky.social
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73 days ago
They look like the drawings from Prescott (an algal ID book).
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drlimnology.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Yes these are definitely fr Prescott. Who used to work out of flbs!
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Sorry, what’s fibs?
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drlimnology.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Flathead Lake Biological Station.
Flathead Lake Biological Station
https://g.co/kgs/pb8raEZ
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drlimnology.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Started thumbing through this and you’ll find the source images and IDs!
https://g.co/kgs/f3fSVnX
How to know the fresh-water algae
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fad1.bsky.social
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73 days ago
“An inordinate fondness for desmids” to paraphrase C Darwin.
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doctorzen.net
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73 days ago
I am guessing you mean scientific Latin species names, right?
Not, “The middle left one is Larry.”
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richardconniff.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Yes
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eleritmlh.bsky.social
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73 days ago
and now the middle left one is forever known as "Larry the Diatom"
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toofmullets.bsky.social
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73 days ago
Great tattoo
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lolamarina.bsky.social
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73 days ago
That’s impressive!
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jaypeam.bsky.social
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73 days ago
The cluster of four cells near the top right is Scenedesmus quadricauda
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Flathead Lake Biological Station https://g.co/kgs/pb8raEZ
https://g.co/kgs/f3fSVnX How to know the fresh-water algae
Not, “The middle left one is Larry.”