Wonders of the Micro World

Pollen, plankton and palaeontology all seen through the microscope.

[gracesmicroscope]

Felicola subrostratus, the feline chewing louse. Finding this today was a first for me! 100x magnification.

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[wild-e-eep]

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

No: it's mostly weirdly hinged rectangles.

There are a few normal looking cylindrical algal filaments in there as well.

[trickstertime]

Huh? What's this?? Something is on this 5c coin???

ENHANCE

[trickstertime]

Human hair for scale

[crabussy]

thinking about diatoms again

[crabussy]

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

[crabussy]

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

[crabussy]

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

[thesem]

@viridigitus

[elodieunderglass]

This handsome fellow is Marshmallow, whom I met yesterday at the SeaLife aquarium in Sydney. Australian lungfish are wild—they can survive out of the water for several days, live for over a century, and fossil records show that they have remained virtually unchanged for 100 million years!

Although submitted for the enjoyment of the leucism channel, Marshmallow actually started out as a regular-degular grey-coloured lungfish like all his lungfish friends. But when he was about 5 years old, he started to lighten in colour, first to yellow and then eventually to the pinkish-white you see today. He has been checked over and is totally healthy, just pale.

His favourite food is bloodworms, and his favourite activity seems to be sitting at the bottom of the tank so he can stare back at all the humans that come to look at him.

Thank you so, so, so much for telling me all about Marshmallow. How lovely to meet a distant cousin and immediately like him so much!

[crossbills]

Betty Busby, "Diatom Parade" (2022), quilt [52 in x 68 in]

[gallusrostromegalus]

Please Note:

QUILT

[yugsly]

F I S H  L E G S ? (sound on!) An unreleased lil’ animation clip I did for fun a while back!

[your-url-is-problematic]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

That is AMAZING, well done OP!

[todaysbird]

skeleton rooster being sold by Tractor Supply. perhaps some of your followers with backyard chickens might be interested?? it is 300 though

[earhartsease]

@elodieunderglass one for you we think

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much for thinking of me! What a distinctive item. Nothing but respect for the creators doing all that work and still making the choice to believe that the tail has jointed fingers in it, and that the comb and wattle contain bony structures. Halloween anatomy is so great

[0aestheticallycrying]

This is what happens when you release a game after 7 years with barely any communication

[oneheadtoanother]

[stranger-nights-ahead]

It's important to me that everyone knows that standard practice is to literally count all the pollen that is collected from a cubic meter of air. Manually. With a microscope.

Someone is actually literally counting the pollen

[hellooocaffeine]

I love science

[viridigitus]

I miss doing palynology - okay so this is a fossil sample but you'd be looking at stuff like this in the modern day too.

One of our exercises was just leaving a slide on the windowsill for a day and seeing what landed on it (so much car pollution was the answer)

[qadmonster]

Some predatory mosquito larvae are capable of shooting out their gross little heads like harpoons to grab prey.

Article

[bogleech]

Holy shit how did I not know?! I'm so mad this wasn't enriching my life all along. I just knew all the jaw-shooting insects :(

[ospreyonthemoon]

I like how the link is all "oh this is gross and icky!!!" As if herons (and many other birds) dont do basically the same thing. What, sticking your neck out a lil is icky now? Cmon give the bugs a break its not gross just cause a bug is doing it

[neat-deadandlive-things]

"What the fuck?"

no, "Watch the Phacus".

Take a 30 second scrolling break to watch these little algae swim.

[ashenmind]

can make little animals out of it, etc

[a-book-of-creatures]

there are many benefits to being a geologist

[microbes-in-hats]

Pyrocystis fusiformis

Pyrocystis fusiformis is a bioluminescent dinoflagellate that glows blue in agitated water. It is often grown in homes and labs for science projects due to its easily cultivation.

Photo credit: @merismo on Tumblr

[wowcoolinterestingneatbeautiful]

The shape of a photon, particle of light: “something that hasn’t been seen before in physics”

A new quantum theory explaining how light and matter interact has also provided the first ever depiction of the shape of a single light part

We present a comprehensive second quantization scheme for radiative photonic devices. We canonically quantize the continuum of photonic eige

[teethburied]

ferrofluid on a microscope slide (source)

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