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Glial cells

This is a photo I took of glial cells observed with fluorescence microscopy 🤩 The fluorescent cube is GFP, and it highlights the cell's cytoskeleton. Beautiful

I want to take a sample of my phonescreen and put it on an agar plate, but I'm scared I'll never touch my phone again 😂

Fungal Spores 800x magnification

Specifically *Lactifluus volemus var. flavus, aka: "fishy milkcap", and boy are they right. The smell was so strong, I smelled it before I located the fruitbodies themselves. They're a choice edible, but I wasn't 100% sure of identification until the spores were matched. Too late to eat them now. (edited)

Vorticella 800×

A small protozoan that feeds on bacteria. Note the stalk it uses to attach to substrate.

More tinies!

Dunno what this guy is, but I found a ton of them in a saltwater sample. They have a little pointy tail and cilla that seem to feed into it somewhere.

Pyrocystis fusiformis

This is bioluminiscent algae from my bought culture at home. I also recorded timelapse of their chloroplast contraction to nucleus.

Lens crush </3

He did not deserve this.