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Or M. Bialik<p>Globigerinoidesella fistulosa is one of the crazier looking <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> we had in the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a>, it has these digits growing out of it, and it all seems to be related to changes in growth patterns relative to its ancestor.</p><p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/heterochrony-in-the-evolution-of-the-planktonic-foraminifer-globigerinoidesella-fistulosa-from-the-trilobatus-sacculifer-plexus/8BF3CB9DF4A2FCFA0AA10E1DBED62686" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridge.org/core/journals/pa</span><span class="invisible">leobiology/article/heterochrony-in-the-evolution-of-the-planktonic-foraminifer-globigerinoidesella-fistulosa-from-the-trilobatus-sacculifer-plexus/8BF3CB9DF4A2FCFA0AA10E1DBED62686</span></a></p>
Dewi Langlet<p>I'm happy to share this new paper describing long-term kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera.<br><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225002883" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S2589004225002883</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbiosis</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/kleptoplasty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptoplasty</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-</span><span class="invisible">marine-dual-layer-reveals.html</span></a></p><p>A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413054122" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413</span><span class="invisible">054122</span></a> </p><p>"This species has a remarkable hidden feature—an inner shell made of calcium carbonate beneath its outer layer of gathered particles... [this] made them an excellent recorder of environmental conditions."</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protists</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a></p>
Niels de Winter<p>Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planktonic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planktonic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> Mg∕Ca and stable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxygen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/isotope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>isotope</span></a> from 15 Ma to recent <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@EGU_BioGeo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EGU_BioGeo</span></a></span> <a href="https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/1095/2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/</span><span class="invisible">1095/2025/</span></a></p>
Michael Hesemann<p>These days we have passed the 23,000 mark in our database. A big thank you to our contributors from all over the world for sending sediments, specimens, images and help with identifications. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microfossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microfossils</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarineScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarineScience</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>New research on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> sheds light on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> energy sources <a href="https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/foraminifer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whoi.edu/press-room/news-relea</span><span class="invisible">se/foraminifer/</span></a></p><p>Array of metabolic pathways in kleptoplastidic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a> supports <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/chemoautotrophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemoautotrophy</span></a> in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae248/7923457" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/ismej/article</span><span class="invisible">/19/1/wrae248/7923457</span></a> by Fatma Gomaa et al. </p><p>"This species takes up unrelated organism’s <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/chloroplasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chloroplasts</span></a> — <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/organelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organelles</span></a> that perform <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a>... We know <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/kleptoplasty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptoplasty</span></a> is happening here, but we needed to understand why this foraminifer is so successful in the dark, without oxygen"</p>
Ilja Kocken<p>On January 11th I had my PhD defence on ‘Clumped isotope thermometry in deep time palaeoceanography’ in the senate hall of @UtrechtUniversiteit@mastodon.online!<br>The thesis will be available in half a year <a href="https://doi.org/10.33540/1425" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.33540/1425</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> so that I can try to wrap up some papers, but if you're interested just send me a PM or email and I'll gladly send it to you! I have a few paper copies of the book available, but I can easily send the PDF!<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDlife</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDone</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/clumpedisotopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clumpedisotopes</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/palaeoclimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palaeoclimate</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paleoclimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleoclimate</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foraminifera</span></a></p>