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Ellie Jameson
@elliejameson.bsky.social
Lecturer at Bangor University. Environmental virologist, working on phages. Scientific illustrator. Shop: http://redbubble.com/people/Jellie Website: https://elliejameson.wordpress.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM-pdh9jd
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DAY 475
SPECIES 475 - Oxytoxum scolopax
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

Consistency is hard, often I'm trying to replicate something that worked well in the past and cant pull it off.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
September 23, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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DAY 474
SPECIES 474 - Ceratium hirundinella
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

C. hirundinella is a freshwater dinoflagellate.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #protistsonsky
September 22, 2026 at 7:17 AM
MScRes bursary of £2000 available at Bangor University to study Bacteriophages as natural biocontrols for plant pathogens. Deadline is 19th October. Please contact me for more details #PhageSky #MicroSky
September 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Persicaria in Purple 4/2025 11 X 8 [27.9 X 20.3 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #pollen
September 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Some of the smallest 😎 viruses on Earth are all around us. Three or four genes 😍 each, in nearly every environment. We keep finding thousands by sequencing, yet don't know who they infect, can't easily isolate them, or even how the few we have infect a cell.

Our new preprint takes this on 🧵👇
September 19, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Sharaine works at Porton Down, in what is sometimes called our 'top secret lab'. 🔬 🧪

Go behind the scenes and find out about her work on phages - a possible alternative treatment for antibiotics. 🧫
September 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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DAY 468
SPECIES 468 - Gonyaulax digitale
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR Watercolor, Tombow pencil

G. digitale is a marine single celled dinoflagellate with a heavy armored outer wall. Its covered in deep pores that give it the look of a thimble

#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
September 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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DAY 460
SPECIES 460 - Cornutella profunda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

C. profunda (Deep little horn) is a radiolarian that builds a cone shaped lattice shell and lives deep in the sea at mostly 500-3000m depths

#sciart #watercolor #protistsonsky
September 8, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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DAY 459
SPECIES 459 - Vampyrella pendula
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek Watercolor, Sakura pen

Vampyrella pendula is an amoeboid protist that likes to eat filamentous green algae. It drills a hole through the algal cell wall and then slurps out it's innards

#sciart #protistsonsky
September 7, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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DAY 440
SPECIES 440 - Algirosphaera robusta
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

A. robusta is a species of single celled marine alga that often lives 50–150m deep in a low light zone. The cell is covered with microscopic lime plates

#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
August 19, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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DAY 434
SPECIES 434 - Pteridomonas danica
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

P. danica is a tiny bacteria feeding marine protist. It has a long anterior flagellum and a crown of stiff slender tentacles. It reminds me of Sputnik 🚀

#sciart #protistsonsky
August 13, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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DAY 433
SPECIES 433 - Cafeteria roenbergensis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen

C. roenbergensis is a tiny single celled marine organism

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
August 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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DAY 431
SPECIES 431 - Ophiocytium capitatum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

O. capitatum is a species of yellow-green algae found in fresh water shown partially covered in iron deposits

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
August 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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DAY 428
SPECIES 428 - Proteromonas lacertae
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

P. lacertae is a single celled protozoan that lives in the rectums of reptiles, mainly lizards.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
August 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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DAY 413
SPECIES 413 - Perkinsus olseni
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen

P. olseni is a protozoan parasite that infects marine molluscs.

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 23, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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DAY 409
SPECIES 409 - Haemoproteus columbae
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura & Writech pen

H. columbae is a protozoan blood parasite that infects pigeons and doves worldwide

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 20, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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DAY 406
SPECIES 406 - Teranympha mirabilis
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow Pencil

Teranympha mirabilis is a protist that lives in the hindgut of the Japanese termite R. speratus

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 16, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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New ink painting - a little different from my previous phage art artologica.etsy.com/listing/4537... #sciart
July 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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DAY 404
SPECIES 404 - Dientamoeba fragilis
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil

Dientamoeba fragilis is a microscopic, single celled protozoan parasite that lives in the human large intestine

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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DAY 392
SPECIES 392 - Oxyphysis oxytoxoides
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil

O. oxytoxoides is a marine dinoflagellate with an elongated spindle shape. At the top is its peduncle (new word 😮) that it uses to feed on other protists

#sciart #protistsonsky
July 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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We’re happy to introduce phageFACTor (Functional Annotation and Curation Tool)

👩‍💻Developed by Tanaïs Moreau, our most recent PhD candidate, and building on Phold, we were able to improve annotation of prophage genes by as much as 50% 🧬

You should check it out github.com/TMs-code/pha...
July 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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DAY 391
SPECIES 391 - Pseudoblepharisma tenue
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

P. tenue is a ciliate that was rediscovered from a 1926 description that sat forgotten for 95 years

#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
July 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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No IRL art events for the next few months, so I added some itty-bitty watercolors to my ko-fi shop #sciart ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044F
June 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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New #sciart! Phages in Ink on yupo artologica.etsy.com
June 26, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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There are other things that I should be doing #sciart
June 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM