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Pacific Plankton

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Plankton Enthusiast, Naturalist, Artist, Video Micrographer, Human

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Damon Tighe @damontighe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Lead an event with the Microscopical Society of SF today on using #Foldscopes in the field. Here is a Peziza #fungus we looked at using the 340x lens. Amazing what origami, a ball lens, and good engineering can do #microscopy #mycology #mushroom #DIYbio #biology #microscope #ascomycete #peziza
340x microscope image of Peziza asci - long tubes with 8 spores in each Foldscope origami with a ball lens system that you can use traditional microscope slides in Microscope slide with mushroom tissue smashed on it and the mushroom at the bottom of the frame Damon Tighe looking through a foldscope
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TeamFoldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
And nature journaling with a #Foldscope can take it to a whole new level!
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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Sphagnum moss Imaged live on the FV4000, a new, paradigm shifting, laser scanning confocal microscope from Evident LifeScience (aka Olympus). Green is from the Hyaline Cells and the red from the [chloroplasts in the] Chlorophyllose cells #sciart #microscopes #moss (scale noted in the Alt-text)
Sphagnum moss 'leaf' tip 
HFW (horizontal field width) 97µm (the distance from edge to edge horizontally)Sphagnum moss leaf emphasizing the two cell types  
HFW (horizontal field width) 97µm (the distance from edge to edge horizontally)Sphagnum moss leaf bundle
HFW (horizontal field width) 1241µm (the distance from edge to edge horizontally)Sphagnum moss group of 'leaf' tips
HFW (horizontal field width) 1241µm (the distance from edge to edge horizontally)
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Science Communication Lab @scicommlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2018
Have you check out our #microscopy series yet? We have an extensive library covering from the history of #microscopes to specialized techniques 🔬 ow.ly/oX1G30lxUcH
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Microscopy Series Table of Contents • iBiology
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
BOSTON BABY
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Pacific Plankton @pacifiplankton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Playing with a new camera
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Pacific Plankton @pacifiplankton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I am heading out on a slow walk tomorrow looking for more little beautiful things.
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Pacific Plankton @pacifiplankton.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Had a great time last night playing with microscopes in bars
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Pacific Plankton @pacifiplankton.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Fishing folk at ocean beach
Beach fishing at sunset
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Pacific Plankton @pacifiplankton.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Yesterday I collected plankton in San Francisco
A Plankton net in the waterA Plankton net being pulled out of the water, looking straight down into the netA closer view of the Plankton in the bottom of a Plankton net just pulled from the water
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