Copepod female as seen through a microscope at 100x total magnification. Lateral view. The background is turned black. The copepod is currently carrying two pale greenish egg sacs.
Another copepod for you! <3
I just think they‘re very neat.
This one‘s Eucyclops sp.
#pondlife #microscopy #crustacean #copepod
Onychophore-closeup against a black background.
Another Onychophore post! :)
This time the whole animal from the side.
I’m surprised by how well the colours got preserved. Apparently it has been collected a couple decades back and stored in ethanol ever since
#onychophore #photography #macrophotography
A helluva chonk of a bristle worm! This is the larva of a polychaete from the genus Scolelepis and it was hard to miss!
#marineplankton 🦑
Closeup of A. branchialis against a black background. It is very clearly segmented. Every 5 segments is a chaetiger (bristle-carrying segment). Later (on from chaetiger 11 or 12) the worm has very pronounced branchiae that were definitely not a nightmare ar all to draw the black background around, I promise you. :)
Haven’t posted a polychaete in a while… :)
This one’s Arenicolides branchialis. I love this very deep and dark iridescent green colour it has. In person it looked almost black.
#polychaete #worm #WormWednesday
But omg. I’m gonna be SO good at colouring stuff when I’m finished with my thesis… You won’t even believe it!
I’m gonna be the personification of the bucket tool!
I hope, the people whom I’ve told “I’m doing 3D reconstruction of animals with a microCT scanner to visualise their anatomy and morphology” never find out that most of that is just me colouring in pictures like in a colouring book.
Overgrown copepod (habitus) at 40x, dark field. Image taken through eye piece of microscope with my phone. Background edited to be completely black.
This is what the copepod looked like, by the way.
#copepod #crustacean #microscopy
Photo stack taken with my iPhone through an eye-piece at 200x + digital crop. Algae and peritrich(?) ciliates attached to a copepod.
Single shot, but everything else is the same as last image. Cropped more to focus on the two ciliates.
First proper microscopy session with the new scope! Experimenting with the light to get a DIC-like effect. This is what I got so far. I’m quite happy, but it only really works on the 20x objective! ^^
Images show stuff growing on a copepod.
#microscopy
✨Kelp embryos looking extra photogenic under the confocal today 🌱🔬 Young Egregia menziesii embryos developing from the megagametophyte 📸 Image by Siobhan Braybrook #FluorescentFriday
Sadly not. It was just something lying around neglected in the university collection. (Probably for ages as well) :(
I believe it was calcareous (it felt wrong for silica), but I’m not sure. I’m not good with sponges. Haha
Macro photo of the head Peripatoides novaezealandicae from ventral. You can see the “teeth” very well. And if the upload quality is enough the structure of the cuticle (better than on the mCT scan). You can even see what I have called the “thingies on the thingies”.
Yet again the same worm. Regular photo this time. I just finished turning the background black. :)
The little “paws” are very cute, but the mouth is terrifying.
#photography #macro #worm #onychophora
Screenshot of a digital 3D model. 3D reconstruction made from Micro-CT scan of an Onychophore.
Same Onychophore (velvet worm) as yesterday, but from the outside. It looks so alien! :D
#biology #worm #3D
Sagittal cut. I love how you can see the antennal nerve. Also the brain is very cool.
Transversal cut.
I love visual science! Made these today.
What you can see are two cross-sections of an Onychophore from different angles.
I guess I cheated a bit because the right side is also oblique illumination, rather than regular brightfield, but I don’t know where my oblique filter I made for the SW380T is
Nematode under my new microscope (Olympus BX41) at 200x magnification + digital crop
The same nematode under my old scope (Swift SW380T) at the same magnification
Definitely an upgrade over my old scope! (The same nematode under both scopes)
Left: new scope
Right: old scope
P.S. photos are taken through an eye piece with my phone. I’m still gonna get an adapter for my camera, so I should get results even better! :D
#microscopy #microscope #nematode
Photo of the nose piece/objective turret of my microscope with three objectives (from right to left: 4x, 10x, 20x. All Olympus UPlanFL N)
They are here, finally. Let’s gooooo!
I would assume, you win an n-month subscription of that guilty feeling when you know you should have cleaned them right after use, but you didn’t so now you take a new one, until all are used and you have to clean them all again?
I have an idea. You could link stuff with metal “guide rails” and then have a sort of car with metal wheels be guided by those rails. And it fits many people for maximum efficiency. Idk what you would call such a thing though. Might need to train some LLM to come up with a name.
Wait…
“TRAIN”! :0
I have two of those from my childhood “treasure” collection. Where’s my wealth? :0
I’m ashamed to admit that I know what these are from watching too many asmr videos to try to fall asleep lol
Me too haha
I guess I’ll have to wait and see 😅
Wait. Nevermind. My microscope came with a DAPI cube and mercury light. I think that should work? :D
My first ever UV microscopy image! This is a Halacaridae mite, but I think it might just be an exoskeleton. It glowed gloriously under the UV light source!
#marineplankton 🦑
Beautiful! What do you use as a lightsource?
I have a small 365nm flashlight and would love to be able to do this, but I think it is probably far too weak for microscopy?
(Still waiting for my objectives, so I cannot try, sadly)
I am horrified by every aspect of this
Four photos of the deep sea acorn worm Tergivelum cinnabarinum leaving a distinct, spiral-shaped feeding trail on the sediment. Photo from: Jones, D. O., Alt, C. H., Priede, I. G., Reid, W. D., Wigham, B. D., Billett, D. S., Gebruk, A. V., Rogacheva, A. & Gooday, A. J. (2013). Deep-sea surface-dwelling enteropneusts from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: their ecology, distribution and mode of life. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 98, 374-387.
Tergivelum cinnabarium is species of deep sea acorn worm which is noted for being a big fan of Junjo Ito's Uzumaki
#Invertebrate 🧪
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will this shrimp be an enrichment to your life, your surroundings, and everything else? Hell yes!
I’ve also checked the address for typos a billion times by now and it is definitely correct. I don’t know what their problem is.
FedEx still hasn’t managed to deliver my package because apparently my address doesn’t exist. (Spoiler: It does which I happen to know because I live there)
They have now called me to confirm the address *again* and said, it will be delivered on Monday.
Wish me luck that they find it this time 😑
