…or a diatom…

Books and chocolates of the season.

Reflections on 2024

...because this is exactly what ice screws and drills are for, right? Our adventures in getting #diatomsofscience into and out of the ice alive continue @umeaunimarine.bsky.social

Now we wait to see if our #diatomsofscience survived their adventures in our lab grown sea ice @umeaunimarine.bsky.social .

Apparently ice diatoms get into the ice because scientists add them. And of course we take portraits of our #diatomsofscience before they star in experiments.

Can we freeze our adventurous ice diatoms into lab-grown sea ice and then recover viable cells? Who knows? Follow the icy adventures of Porosira glacialis in our new experimental setup! #diatomsofscience

There was a pop up MOMA (Museum of MicroAlgae) at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. There were phytoplankton under microscopes (including some from the pond outside), bioluminescent cultures, origami and (my contribution) chocolate diatoms. It turns out people are really interested in phytoplankton.