August 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Forams are amazing. And now some great new research is looking at how they may preserve a record of ancient climate change. Stunning science!
"this group of foraminifera evolved very early in Earth's history, which means we now potentially have tools to reconstruct water temperatures as far back as 350 million years, well before the first dinosaurs walked the earth" ⚒️🧪 phys.org/news/2025-02...
Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments
A new study led by an international team, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has discovered that a common marine organism could provide new ways to monitor ocean health an...
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March 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Forams are amazing. And now some great new research is looking at how they may preserve a record of ancient climate change. Stunning science!
I absolutely adore Forams but let’s be honest - they don’t do that! (Video - don’t blink)
September 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
I absolutely adore Forams but let’s be honest - they don’t do that! (Video - don’t blink)
Forams can look like plaited loaves! This is a foraminifera from the Subclass Rotaliana. Forams are amoeba-like protists that have little shells. Photo is a stack with the background removed. 🦑
January 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Forams can look like plaited loaves! This is a foraminifera from the Subclass Rotaliana. Forams are amoeba-like protists that have little shells. Photo is a stack with the background removed. 🦑
Fusulinid forams in Hueco Fm. limestone, Franklin Mountains State Park, Texas. ⚒️
October 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fusulinid forams in Hueco Fm. limestone, Franklin Mountains State Park, Texas. ⚒️
A couple of beautiful foraminifera from some recent samples. I just love the architecture of forams! 🦑 #protistsonsky
March 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A couple of beautiful foraminifera from some recent samples. I just love the architecture of forams! 🦑 #protistsonsky
#ProtistsOnSky forams!
Wow. Foraminifera!
ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
March 13, 2026 at 12:18 AM
#ProtistsOnSky forams!
This leggy thing is another foraminifera! It’s called Leptohaylis sp. Forams really do come in all shapes! 🦑 #protistsonsky
January 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This leggy thing is another foraminifera! It’s called Leptohaylis sp. Forams really do come in all shapes! 🦑 #protistsonsky
#UrbanGeology, speciaal voor @jellereumer.bsky.social
Verschillende forams in allerlei doorsneden (Ekoplaza Haarlemmerstraat Amsterdam), Bryozoa uit het Carboon (Zutphen) ⚒️
Verschillende forams in allerlei doorsneden (Ekoplaza Haarlemmerstraat Amsterdam), Bryozoa uit het Carboon (Zutphen) ⚒️
February 27, 2026 at 9:22 AM
#UrbanGeology, speciaal voor @jellereumer.bsky.social
Verschillende forams in allerlei doorsneden (Ekoplaza Haarlemmerstraat Amsterdam), Bryozoa uit het Carboon (Zutphen) ⚒️
Verschillende forams in allerlei doorsneden (Ekoplaza Haarlemmerstraat Amsterdam), Bryozoa uit het Carboon (Zutphen) ⚒️
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Agglutinated forams (forams that make their shells by adding or agglutinating sorrounding stuff) make their shells by gluing things they find around them: sand, minerals, and skeletons of other organisms! This includes other forams, sponge spicules, even radiolaria! 😱😱
Globeriginid pseudopods looking like sea urchin spines
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June 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Globeriginid pseudopods looking like sea urchin spines
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A chert shard, showing perfect cross-sections of forams. Tiny spirals, nature's hidden order.
A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕
A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕
December 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
A chert shard, showing perfect cross-sections of forams. Tiny spirals, nature's hidden order.
A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕
A possible abortive point, maybe kept for its beauty?
#FossilFriday 🧪⚒️🦕
Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Forams are super cute, but some of them are just spooky 🎃Did you know some forams make their shells gluing “skeletons” of other fossils?
When I started working on forams years ago I was dismayed to hear that they dont procreate in the lab making calibrating paleo-proxies (like Mg/Ca) really hard. Thanks to this paper by Julie Meilland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - that has all changed! A revolution is about to happen!
February 26, 2024 at 10:15 AM
When I started working on forams years ago I was dismayed to hear that they dont procreate in the lab making calibrating paleo-proxies (like Mg/Ca) really hard. Thanks to this paper by Julie Meilland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - that has all changed! A revolution is about to happen!
Bermuda cave sampling today with @blancobercial.bsky.social for these little monsters (lovely forams)! Thank you Leo, @chalkyoceans.bsky.social, @biosstation.bsky.social !
@exoceanlab.bsky.social
@exoceanlab.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Bermuda cave sampling today with @blancobercial.bsky.social for these little monsters (lovely forams)! Thank you Leo, @chalkyoceans.bsky.social, @biosstation.bsky.social !
@exoceanlab.bsky.social
@exoceanlab.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Alert: forams in culture! #protistsonsky
When I started working on forams years ago I was dismayed to hear that they dont procreate in the lab making calibrating paleo-proxies (like Mg/Ca) really hard. Thanks to this paper by Julie Meilland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - that has all changed! A revolution is about to happen!
February 27, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Alert: forams in culture! #protistsonsky
#FossilFriday E. Haeckel's illustrations of forams wp.me/p3ihHu-cX #ForamFriday⚒️🧪
August 9, 2024 at 8:34 PM
#FossilFriday E. Haeckel's illustrations of forams wp.me/p3ihHu-cX #ForamFriday⚒️🧪
I just found what I thought were deleted photos from our 2023 field season of #forams grown in "The Bad Water" (pCO2 = 800ppm). The forams weren't happy, but the symbionts were! Here, we captured the moment the organic template formed in the final chamber of Orbulina universa for #transcriptomics
April 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I just found what I thought were deleted photos from our 2023 field season of #forams grown in "The Bad Water" (pCO2 = 800ppm). The forams weren't happy, but the symbionts were! Here, we captured the moment the organic template formed in the final chamber of Orbulina universa for #transcriptomics
#Fossilfriday Forams from the Upper Cretaceous vs. the post-impact foraminifera from the Paleogene. (Images from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History)
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January 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#Fossilfriday Forams from the Upper Cretaceous vs. the post-impact foraminifera from the Paleogene. (Images from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History)
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December 18, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
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December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Benthic forams in the news www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
Some 3d prints I made of forams and rads for tomorrow’s marine sediment lecture
November 27, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Some 3d prints I made of forams and rads for tomorrow’s marine sediment lecture