#ImageOfTheWeek
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We worked with #textile students from Exeter College to produce these amazing embroidery artworks to raise awareness of the threat of fungal infections. The students worked with members of the Centre to understand the science used in medical #mycology.

#publicengagement #Exeter
June 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🔬 #imageoftheweek: Aspergillus fumigatus is a common mould found in soil, compost & indoors. Most people breathe it in daily & for those with weakened immune systems, it can cause serious illness. Drug-resistant strains are an emerging threat.

📸 Kevin Mackenzie, Mark Stappers, Tina Bedekovic
August 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🎆 Fungal fireworks! 🎆

This #imageoftheweek shows Trichophyton, the fungus behind athlete’s foot & ringworm. It is a mould, which forms spores that germinate and grow long, thin strands called hyphae.

📸 Mark Stappers, Ian Leaves and Darren Thomson, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
#imageoftheweek

Rhizopus delemar (blue) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (yellow colour, but pink if inside the fungus.)

This image shows how bacteria interact with fungi - through direct contact and interdependent relationship (endosymbiosis).

Credit: Dr Corzo Leon.
July 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🔬 #imageoftheweek ¦ Candida albicans goliath cells

Goliath cells are oversized, ultra-sticky yeast cells formed when Candida albicans is starved of zinc. They cling to plastic and build biofilms, making them a potential culprit in hospital infections. 🧫
🔗 buff.ly/JikHPLM
📸 Iana Kalinina
October 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our first #imageoftheweek here on Bluesky is this herm depicting the god Dionysus both as a youth and as an old man. The two-faced style resembles Janus, the Roman god of the new year. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky

1st Century CE, Rome, Palatine Museum. 📸 by Alf van Beem on Wikimedia.
January 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#ImageofTheWeek by Sergio Patrón, Rosario Becerra, and Karen De Icaza from Hospital Infantil de México “Federico Gómez” in Mexico City.Which is the most likely vascular ring cause? ow.ly/QMiC50VKr4C

#cardioed #ESCYoung
May 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Radio #ImageoftheWeek 📡 Construction of the first NSF Very Long Baseline Array (NSF VLBA) antenna - Pie Town, NM - circa 1986.

See more VLBA photos from the Archives: nrao.edu/archives/col...

📸 Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO

#Throwback #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #VLBA #VeryLongBaselineArray #NRAO
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#ImageofTheWeek by Astrid Declercq and Hans Vandekerckhove from AZ Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium.
A man in his 50s presented after an accidental fall from height at work. What incidental diagnosis was made? ow.ly/7OZQ50Vh4oE

#cardioed #ESCYoung
March 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🧫 #ImageOfTheWeek The Fungal Zoo
From budding yeasts to spore-launching conidiophores and invasive hyphae, this image captures the diverse forms of pathogenic #fungi.

📸 @darrenthomson.bsky.social @forestcita.bsky.social, Dr Tina Bedekovic, Dr Mariano Malamud Guillan & Dr Alyssa Hudson
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#ImageOfTheWeek by Ram Manohar Talupula and Ramesh Babu Pothineni from Aster Ramesh Hospitals, Vijayawada, India.

What is the calcific mass? https://ow.ly/jzz950Xkag6

#cardioed
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Today's #imageoftheweek is this delightful sculpture of Odysseus escaping from the cyclops Polyphemus' cave under one of his rams! Either that's a very small Odysseus or a very, very big sheep. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky

Roman, 1st or 2nd century CE, now in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.
February 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A garden-like Candida albicans biofilm (green) formed from a population of Goliath cells (pink), captured in 3D by Dr Iana Kalinina.

#fungalinfection
#fungi
#immunology
#microscopy
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July 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#ImageOfTheWeek by Anish Adhikari and Caleb Wutawunashe from Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, USA.

What aortic valve abnormality is shown on TEE? ow.ly/2tAt50X4WJg

#cardioed
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🧪 #imageoftheweek Cutting-edge science in action at #Candida25

Talks from Catrin Williams, Hugh Gifford, Arnab Pradham, @harry-osborne.bsky.social @seanaduggan.bsky.social & @jusher.bsky.social revealed new disease models, fresh insights into Candida glabrata ⬇️ 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This beautiful #imageoftheweek was captured by Vanessa Francis and shows the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans (stained purple) in the airways #science #microscopy #health #research #mycology
June 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Our #imageoftheweek today is this beautiful sculpture head from Gandhara (3rd-4th c. CE), representing either Hercules or the bodhisattva Vajrapani. Iconography of Vajrapani in Gandhara was heavily influenced by Greek imagery of Hercules, leading him to be depicted as a muscular man with a club.
March 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#ImageOfTheWeek by Ayman Elshiekh, Mansour Salama, & Mosaad Elbanna from Lister Hospital, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, UK

A patient in her late 50s was admitted w/ sepsis & flank pain. She was found to have a psoas abscess, which has been drained
What is your diagnosis? ow.ly/MH2I50V6Ihx
February 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#ImageOfTheWeek by Grigoris Avdikos, Dimitris Kourasis and Spiros Papaioannou from Athens Navy and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece.
A 68-year-old man with atrial flutter had TEE before cardioversion; an unexpected aortic mass was found.

What’s your diagnosis? bit.ly/3UiTmGS

#cardioed
August 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🔬 #imageoftheweek ¦ Bud scars (circular spots) on the surface of Candida albicans mother cells, mark the site where a daughter cell has emerged and separated from a mother cell.

📸 Tina Bedekovic

#microscopy #candida #fungi #mycology #research #health #science
September 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Dessine moi une ville : #ImageOfTheWeek du wiki #OSM http://bit.ly/1nVkgNR
December 13, 2024 at 7:26 AM
It’s always fun to find out my #fanart made image of the week! readers of Midnight Tides might recall this moment. I call it “the long dark night of Trull Sengar” #malazanbookofthefallen #malazan #midnighttides #malazanempire #malazanmonday #imageoftheweek

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November 25, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Today's #imageoftheweek comes from the scrapbooks of the modernist poet, H.D. These photomontages collage together images of ancient art with scenes from the poet's life and pictures of people she knew. #ClassicsSky #AncientBluesky #ClassicalReception

Image from the Beinecke Library on Flickr.
February 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Today's #imageoftheweek is a fascinating anachronism. Willem van Haecht's 'Apelles Painting Campaspe' (1630) shows Alexander the great's lover being painted by his favourite artist in a room filled with contemporary baroque paintings. Can you recognise any of them? #ClassicsBluesky #ClassicsSky
April 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
During its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Rubin is expected to capture about 10 million supernovae 💥

The Universe is about to get a lot more exciting 😎

This photo was this week's NOIRLab #ImageOfTheWeek
📷: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek

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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM