If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
A fun set of talks this Sunday at the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center (Lawrence, Kansas)! 🍄🧪🔬🦠🌿
Join us at 1:30 PM for prairie restoration & ecology talks.
Helen Alexander will talk about tallgrass prairies, and I’ll share about restoring mycorrhizal fungi—with microscopes & live fungi to explore!
Join us at 1:30 PM for prairie restoration & ecology talks.
Helen Alexander will talk about tallgrass prairies, and I’ll share about restoring mycorrhizal fungi—with microscopes & live fungi to explore!
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A fun set of talks this Sunday at the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center (Lawrence, Kansas)! 🍄🧪🔬🦠🌿
Join us at 1:30 PM for prairie restoration & ecology talks.
Helen Alexander will talk about tallgrass prairies, and I’ll share about restoring mycorrhizal fungi—with microscopes & live fungi to explore!
Join us at 1:30 PM for prairie restoration & ecology talks.
Helen Alexander will talk about tallgrass prairies, and I’ll share about restoring mycorrhizal fungi—with microscopes & live fungi to explore!
This microscopic process has been very challenging to visualise in live animals, so Dr. Sabrina engineered a “vessel-on-a-chip” that could be imaged with high-powered microscopes. She captured how a single cell moves to split the vessel interior for the first time with these techniques!
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This microscopic process has been very challenging to visualise in live animals, so Dr. Sabrina engineered a “vessel-on-a-chip” that could be imaged with high-powered microscopes. She captured how a single cell moves to split the vessel interior for the first time with these techniques!
💡🤔Choosing the right light sources & filters for fluorescence imaging can be tricky.
🌈With NIS-Elements, you just enter dye names, and the software selects the best setup - either for widefield or confocal microscopes.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/47qbEMl
🌈With NIS-Elements, you just enter dye names, and the software selects the best setup - either for widefield or confocal microscopes.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/47qbEMl
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
💡🤔Choosing the right light sources & filters for fluorescence imaging can be tricky.
🌈With NIS-Elements, you just enter dye names, and the software selects the best setup - either for widefield or confocal microscopes.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/47qbEMl
🌈With NIS-Elements, you just enter dye names, and the software selects the best setup - either for widefield or confocal microscopes.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/47qbEMl
i did NOT know that about the microscopes!
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
i did NOT know that about the microscopes!
I’m delighted to see others delighting in tonight’s sky show
what they’re seeing is excitation (light absorbed by “tuned” kinds of matter) & emission (“excited” matter relaxing by releasing light of a different color)
the advanced research microscopes I use every day work on the same principle
what they’re seeing is excitation (light absorbed by “tuned” kinds of matter) & emission (“excited” matter relaxing by releasing light of a different color)
the advanced research microscopes I use every day work on the same principle
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I’m delighted to see others delighting in tonight’s sky show
what they’re seeing is excitation (light absorbed by “tuned” kinds of matter) & emission (“excited” matter relaxing by releasing light of a different color)
the advanced research microscopes I use every day work on the same principle
what they’re seeing is excitation (light absorbed by “tuned” kinds of matter) & emission (“excited” matter relaxing by releasing light of a different color)
the advanced research microscopes I use every day work on the same principle
I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!
I used to think I wanted to be a scientist, but when I really reflect, I just wanted to look at random things through fancy microscopes.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I think all imaging scientists and microscopy core facility personnel already know we have the greatest jobs in the world, but it's nice to see it written. #microscopy #imaging 🔬😊💯 Vanderbilt friends, come see us to "look at random things through fancy microscopes"!
Refraction in Microscopes V.2
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Refraction in Microscopes V.2
I used to think I wanted to be a scientist, but when I really reflect, I just wanted to look at random things through fancy microscopes.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I used to think I wanted to be a scientist, but when I really reflect, I just wanted to look at random things through fancy microscopes.
6F loved their visit to Christ Church Secondary Academy where we completed heart dissections and used microscopes. Thanks for having us! #ywcpsy6 #ywcpsscience
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
6F loved their visit to Christ Church Secondary Academy where we completed heart dissections and used microscopes. Thanks for having us! #ywcpsy6 #ywcpsscience
Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d038c95f-c3ae-41e2-9ee3-9fbfc4e07769
#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d038c95f-c3ae-41e2-9ee3-9fbfc4e07769
#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d038c95f-c3ae-41e2-9ee3-9fbfc4e07769
#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d038c95f-c3ae-41e2-9ee3-9fbfc4e07769
#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
Still remember that my very-fist days uni professors made us draw what we saw in the microscopes when assessing the water dropplet biodiversity. Obviously, it was out of phase, but reading this post has made me appreciate the philosophy of the approach!
open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/b...
open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/b...
What Makes an Experiment Beautiful?
A beautiful experiment is not just a reflection of human ingenuity but also efficient science.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Still remember that my very-fist days uni professors made us draw what we saw in the microscopes when assessing the water dropplet biodiversity. Obviously, it was out of phase, but reading this post has made me appreciate the philosophy of the approach!
open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/b...
open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/b...
I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.
UC Davis entomologist and invertebrate specialist Geoffrey Attardo will lead a free-and-family-friendly workshop, “Life Begins in Water: A Workshop on Restoring Healthy Wetland Communities,” on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Capay Open Space Regional Park, Yolo County.
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
UC Davis entomologist and invertebrate specialist Geoffrey Attardo will lead a free-and-family-friendly workshop, “Life Begins in Water: A Workshop on Restoring Healthy Wetland Communities,” on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Capay Open Space Regional Park, Yolo County.
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/free-wo...
If we're looking at making brain uploads or emulations, modern connectome mapping technology requires microscopes to examine tissue samples since diffusion MRI and similar scanning isn't fine grained enough to map at nano-scales. fastest way to make the map? lots of dissections.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If we're looking at making brain uploads or emulations, modern connectome mapping technology requires microscopes to examine tissue samples since diffusion MRI and similar scanning isn't fine grained enough to map at nano-scales. fastest way to make the map? lots of dissections.
Unless the alternative is shaking hands with Pete Hegseth
(who doesn't believe in germs because he's never seen them,
even though he went to a well-funded public school where he almost certainly saw microbes in microscopes in science class some year.)
(who doesn't believe in germs because he's never seen them,
even though he went to a well-funded public school where he almost certainly saw microbes in microscopes in science class some year.)
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Unless the alternative is shaking hands with Pete Hegseth
(who doesn't believe in germs because he's never seen them,
even though he went to a well-funded public school where he almost certainly saw microbes in microscopes in science class some year.)
(who doesn't believe in germs because he's never seen them,
even though he went to a well-funded public school where he almost certainly saw microbes in microscopes in science class some year.)
Not right now, but maybe if I learn how to save up for microscopes again.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Not right now, but maybe if I learn how to save up for microscopes again.
There are no more summer lifeguard jobs
There are no more art museums to guard
The lab is out of white lab coats
Cause there are no more slides and microscopes
But there are still careers in combat, my son
There are still careers in combat, my son
There are no more art museums to guard
The lab is out of white lab coats
Cause there are no more slides and microscopes
But there are still careers in combat, my son
There are still careers in combat, my son
Careers in Combat
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
There are no more summer lifeguard jobs
There are no more art museums to guard
The lab is out of white lab coats
Cause there are no more slides and microscopes
But there are still careers in combat, my son
There are still careers in combat, my son
There are no more art museums to guard
The lab is out of white lab coats
Cause there are no more slides and microscopes
But there are still careers in combat, my son
There are still careers in combat, my son
I squeezed out water from a piece of moss & had a look at the life held within, through one of my microscopes & I saw a Tardigrade in the sample, I'm all of its cute micro wonder. Just such a special moment.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I squeezed out water from a piece of moss & had a look at the life held within, through one of my microscopes & I saw a Tardigrade in the sample, I'm all of its cute micro wonder. Just such a special moment.
Grant reviewers hate the uncertainty that word implies; "What if they just take a bunch of videos with their microscopes?" Well, we would do that....... and some other stuff...... the idea that we would not discover something new along the way is laughable. The "other stuff" would be pretty cool.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Grant reviewers hate the uncertainty that word implies; "What if they just take a bunch of videos with their microscopes?" Well, we would do that....... and some other stuff...... the idea that we would not discover something new along the way is laughable. The "other stuff" would be pretty cool.
“Hmm chocolate microscopes?”
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“Hmm chocolate microscopes?”
That's true to some extent. Microscopes did exist though. It's just that yeah, there weren't exactly continuing education requirements for doctors, or even necessarily licensure. Basic forms of germ theory were proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, however.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
That's true to some extent. Microscopes did exist though. It's just that yeah, there weren't exactly continuing education requirements for doctors, or even necessarily licensure. Basic forms of germ theory were proposed by Girolamo Fracastoro in 1546, however.
About a decade ago, I worked on a technology to build incredibly tiny laboratory grade microscopes. A lot of wealthy people thought we should "sell" these to developing nations. I got tired of explaining to that Africa doesn't have a microscope shortage. I could have easily lied and made seed round!
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
About a decade ago, I worked on a technology to build incredibly tiny laboratory grade microscopes. A lot of wealthy people thought we should "sell" these to developing nations. I got tired of explaining to that Africa doesn't have a microscope shortage. I could have easily lied and made seed round!
Hardware back doors can be found by examining ICs with electron microscopes. Doesn't cost much.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hardware back doors can be found by examining ICs with electron microscopes. Doesn't cost much.
Pretty sure they couldn’t see dna in microscopes until then. So, whoever really did the work probably had no real opportunity to discover it until then.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pretty sure they couldn’t see dna in microscopes until then. So, whoever really did the work probably had no real opportunity to discover it until then.