Delighted - I've been selected for a grant by my hometown branch of the Sir Thomas White's Charity for a grant. Hoping to put the money to good use - a new #microscope for starters.

Had a nice opportunity to photograph some of the nighttime fauna in my garden. Lovely surprise appeareance by one of the Megalepthyphantes, which will either be M. nebulosa or the other still undescribed species that has been showing up in UK records these past few years. #iNaturalist

Every time I go out, I think "I won't take my camera, I doubt I'll run into anything interesting" and then proceed to spend the entire time kicking myself after I run into something interesting and am forced to photograph it on my phone instead.

I'm a massive fan of data - and one of my favourite things is this nifty interactive sunburst diagram #iNaturalist generates for you at the end of the year showing the taxa you found. Visible at the top there in brown are the Chromista, of which most of my records are the #Foraminifera.

Coming to the end of my experiments for my Dissertation, and I can't wait to not have to spend my time in the lab sealing amphipods away in these handmade "teabags". On the bright side, spending my evenings sewing actually turned out surprisingly enjoyable.

One of my favourite times of year is December 1st, when the Yogscast Jingle Jam starts up - fantastic to have running on the second monitor whilst working and they raise huge amounts of money for charity. jinglejam.tiltify.com

One of the coolest opportunities I've ever been given was working through deep sea sediment at UCL as part of a NERC DTP Research Experience Placement - I've still got hundreds of photos of forams to be identified, but seeing deep sea species like these is something I won't forget any time soon.

Some of the first foraminifera I came across - at the time, I didn't expect them to become one of my favourite taxa. Right back at the start as I was learning to photograph microfauna, and clearly before I learnt how lighting works.

Likely going to use this space to post some of my favourite organisms I end up photographing either when I'm just out and about, or in the rare instance I drag myself out to do some proper photography.