#bacteriology

[mugene-art]

https://mugeneartshop.etsy.com

⬆️ Diatom and bacteria art prints now available!!

See how I made the original pieces: P. dendritiformis, Eating Iron, Microcosms

[joydoesathing]

not fandom art but my classmate dared me to make human designs of bacteria from our college lecture 🦠

what being a medlab science student that happens to draw results into eventually

[jstor]

Explore the world of early bacteriological research with this historical footage from the Wellcome Trust, now available on JSTOR. This short film, dating back to between 1910 and 1919, showcases the movement and agglutination of typhoid and cholera bacilli, providing a rare glimpse into the origins of modern bacteriology. Believed to be one of the earliest surviving film records of this type, it highlights cultures possibly from the Bombay Plague Laboratory (now the Haffkine Institute for Training, Research & Testing). Dive into this unique piece of scientific history. Clip: Bacillus Typhosus (Typhoid and Cholera Bacilli). Wellcome Collection.

[bacterialheadcanons]

If Teru Minamoto was a bacterium, he would be Geobacter Sulfurreducens!

Character Photo Credit: Aida of Aidairo

Bacteria Photo Credit: Anna Klimes and Ernie Carbone, UMass Amherst

FUN FACT: Like all Geobacter species, Geobacter Sulfurreducens is capable of electron transfer. Similarly, Teru exorcises supernaturals with lightning (ELECTRICITY, do you see where I’m going here?)

Additonally, Geobacter Sulfurreducens was initially isolated in Oklahoma, “from materials found around the surface of a contaminated ditch.” I think that sounds appropriately miserable for someone like Teru </3

[phospadparadscha]

my mass attack for artfight 2025!!!!!!!! I do a mass attack every year and this time I couldn't let af end until i drew every germ in the microcosmos. My petri dish looks crazy guys. Link to all the characters and their respective credits can be found here and the link to the HQ png (which was too big for tumblr) can be found here.

[savi-shiji]

CALLOUT POST: @mickemz01 is a VIRIST/VIROPHOBE !! they HATE viruses and think they should all DIE !!!

a little backstory, we were in a call and they said clorox kills 99% of bacteria, and then confused bacteria 4 viruses ?? (really common virophobic tactic btw if u don't know. virists like 2 say that viruses r living creatures, just that they're single cellud (which is BACTERIA !!). viruses aren't living, they're just protein !!!! they don't feel, they can't know that turning into a breeding factory is wrong so being against them is like literally problematic ://)

I can kind of forgive them bc they're also a bacteriist/bacteriophobe like me, and it's difficult 2 find like-minded people these days !! (if u don't know bacteria r alive so they know when they're being evil and fucking u up which means they're genuinely horrible people and should all be wiped off, hesce why I donate 2 clorox corp) (I thnik they're a bacteriophobe bc they brought up clorox btw without condemning it, usually bacteriophiles love 2 suck up 2 bacteria any chance they get LOL) but yeah it's just disappointing 2 see them say something like that. I really hope it came from a place of ignorance and not virism, and hopefully they apologise 4 it and make up 4 it. but yea that's basically it ://

TL;DR: @mickemz01 is a virist and hasn't apologised 4 their actions, so please block them or avoid interacting w/ them until they've responded

[a-muslimah-studies]

Late night study session 🌖✨

[6ear9er]

Question of the day: What is your favorite bacteria fact? I can tell you liked the last bacteria question!

(Also, sorry for being gone for a full business week! I had a very busy time the past 5 days, but DQ’s will be back for real now.)

HIIII DQ <3<3<3 NO WORRIES AT ALL!!!! —

So, I’m not great with favorites, but one thing I find really fun is there’s actually a genus of bacteria called vampirococcus, like “vampire”, and it’s called this because it attaches to other microbes as prey and sucks the cytoplasm out of them like a vampire 😭

From “Predatory prokaryotes: Predation and primary consumption evolved in bacteria” by Ricardo Guerrero et. al, this picture and description:

“FIG. 3. Topological relations among predatory bacteria. (Top) Vampirococcus attaches to the cell wall of several species of Chromatium and divides epibiotically while degrading the host cytoplasm. […] (Drawings by Christie Lyons.)”