When the brain states back: spooky neuron faces I’ve found, for halloween (‘eye’ see u…) #sciart #electronmicroscopy #pareidolia

Had a blast at Artisans Asylum open studios scoping tardigrades. Made some fun timelapse too with the ciliates in the sample providing the ‘scribbles’. Def attracted nerdy types with the tardigrades, but even people who didn’t know what they were were captivated by their cute little wiggles.

Nice to see artwork from my new scope finally on paper. Gearing up for Artisans Asylum open studios this Saturday 2-7pm. I’ll be selling plankton stickers and will have a live tardigrade station! #sciart #microscopy

Boston folk, Artisans Asylum fall open studios is next Saturday, 2-7pm. I will be setting up a live tardigrade station in my studio! :) Would love to see you there. tinyurl.com/FallIntoMaking #sciart #microscopy

If anyone on here knows how to ID polychaete larva, I’d love to work with you on getting to the species level on these worms I always find in Boston harbor. I could provide a ton of photos, if I knew what to image for an ID. I know they are spionid but that’s it. #sciart #microscopy #plankton

Still looking for an id on this weird robot looking copepod I found on vacation in Maine, anyone have any ideas? www.inaturalist.org/observations... #sciart #microscopy

Polychaete larva cilia currents in timelapse. #sciart #microscopy #plankton

For #fluorescencefriday I just thought these neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus were pretty. #sciart #microscopy #confocal

Really loved this part of Plankton Performance at MIT museum. This part of Movement II: Charles river is done using timelapse and fluorescence microscopy. Note all the filamentous cyanobacteria. Big red blobs are rotifers with chlorophyll in their bellies swimming around. #sciart #experimentalvideo

If anyone is curious to see Plankton Performance at MIT Museum last Friday (my collaboration with sound artist Senem Pirler and local Boston plankton under the microscope), I just uploaded a video here: youtu.be/mIxZhLeqJoo?... #sciart #microscopy

I’m a day late for #fluorescencefriday but I had a blast at MIT museum ‘performing’ with live improvised sound by Dr. Senem Pirler. Vid shows fluorescence microscopy of the Charles river, note all the cyanobacteria. #sciart #plankton

Plankton Performance, this Friday 7pm at MIT museum. I will be collaborating with plankton from the Charles river under my leicamicrosystems.bsky.social microscope, while Senem Pirler responds to their movements and behavior with sound. mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/pla... #sciart

A rare green fluorescent flagellate, ‘swimming plant’, trails in timelapse under fluorescence microscopy. Anyone know what causes green fluorescence in marine critters? 99.9% of flagellates I find are red from chlorophyll. Sample collected from Boston harbor. #sciart #algae #plankton

Lovely vacation with my folks on Mt Desert Island in Maine. Amazing spot on the water, I brought a little scope and had a blast looking at sea life. Even the lichen next to the house had tardigrades! #sciart #microscopy

I’ll be ‘performing’ with lively plankton from the Charles river at MIT museum Sept 12th, 7pm. Composer Senem Pirler will respond to the plankton movements with sound. Would love to see you there! #sciart #microscopy

Started my vacation with a family visit to my studio, looking at water from the harbor. My sister Brit is the one that crocheted me all the adorable critters (great for workshops too). And we found a polychaete that looked like toothless! Below. #microscopy #sciart

I’m excited to announce Plankton Painting as a live audiovisual event/concert, in collaboration with Dr. Senem Pirler who will respond to the rhythms, textures, and motion of these lively organisms through sound. Boston folk, I’d love to see you there! mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/pla... #sciart

Plankton painting at MIT museum was a blast! I’m stoked that 80 ppl came, the auditorium was almost full. See paintings from today at: flickr.com/PlanktonPainting Bosmina bloom in the Charles river right now, made things interesting. #sciart #microscopy

Couple new species of plankton sticker just arrived for my workshop at @ MIT museum Saturday 11am. Boston folk, would love to see you there! You can nab one of @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social pokémon inspired rotifers too! mitmuseum.mit.edu/programs/pla... #sciart

Boston folk, I’ll be doing a plankton painting workshop at MIT museum next weekend July 12th 11-12:30pm. Come see plankton from the harbor and the Charles, and print out your timelapse creation. There will be plankton stickers! #sciart #microscopy

Excited about these insect eye prepared slides I just got. I’ve always been super fascinated by insect eyes, starting in 2007 with my first installation ‘Eye art with corpses’, insect eyes made out of cast lenses surveying a scene of death and destruction below (crushed bugs). #sciart #microscopy

Slime mold cytoplasmic streaming. Physarium Polycephalum is a multinucleate giant single cell! Super new to slime molds but I’m hooked. Fist 20 secs sped up but the rest is not, the streaming is just -super- fast. Watch for flow reversals. #sciart #microscopy

So much EM… #electronmicroscopy

I accidentally deleted the amoeba painting post, oops. Here is the video, sped up 20x, that created the paintings. They are just on a different timescale. #sciart #microscopy #protist

Timelapse of spirochete ‘Milky way’ + ciliates disturbing it. #sciart #microscopy

1 more kids plankton painting workshop under my belt. Despite the screen they just loved looking through the eyepiece, to the point where they were arguing who got to go on it next. Neighborhood block party will feature an exhibition of their prints! #microscopy #plankton

Oops I discovered a way to scope on vacation in NH. Never a break from scoping. Cladocera (etc) from Bradley lake in NH. #sciart #microsvopy #plankton

Was going to rest today but got distracted watching decomposition under the microscope. The bosmina from Chandler pond were starting to decompose, so I did timelapse of bacteria trails (and occasional ciliates). Really quite haunting watching the bacteria start to take over. #sciart #microscopy

First plankton painting workshop at Artisans Asylum went great! I hope to do many more. Everyone got time to scope and left with a print. 4th pic/painting reminds me of constellations. Anyone looking for educational art/science workshops in the northeast hit me up. #microscopy #timelapse #sciart

3 kids microscopy workshops in a row last week- whew! Still tired. But really cool getting to introduce them. #plankton #sciart

omg. my sis crocheted a bunch of plankton (etc) including a copepod! I’ve decided the sombrero worm and copepod are friends- what should I name them? Between this and Paul’s cartoons this week I’m in nerd heaven. #sciart #microscopy

Big plankton poster is printed, it was labor of love. I wanted something with the major groups and stuff we see a lot that I can point to during workshops. The zooplankton cartoons make great coloring pages too! #plankton #sciart #microscopy

Yessss. Zooplankton cartoons! :) Many thanks Paul, @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social for these amazing critter cartoons in the style of pokemon. Rotifer, ciliate, cladoceran & copepod- loving the 'speed' of the copepod, the 'ear' motion of the rotifer, etc. These bring me joy. #microscopy #sciart

🍾Our small #UExM adventure is only starting! #ProtistsOnSky We are happy to announce that the Moore Foundation will be funding our efforts in creating an Expansion Microscopy atlas of #Microbial #Eukaryotes with @gautamdey.bsky.social @UNIGE @embl.org LINK: www.unige.ch/sciences/chi... 1/4

Plankton stickersss! I managed to get some funded to go on kids timelapse prints at workshops. Illustrations by David Seamer, species printed on the back. Hoping to get even more species made! #microscopy #sciart Thanks @stickerapp.bsky.social

Super weird debris covered thing ‘walking’ on a diatom from the charles river, with another diatom attached to it, along for the ride. For the life of me could not make out what it was. #sciart #microscopy #plankton

Just got a 20x phase apo and I am STOKED. ‘Fireworks’ pic shows timelapse of chydorus (similar to daphnia) decomposing, cells oozing out and being swept away by the currents of vorticella growing on it. #sciart #microscopy

More timelapse plankton from the Charles river, first pic is w/ phase contrast. Heavy with Synura trails. I never noticed before but the Synura have this little green dot in their flagella under fluorescence, super cool. #sciart #microscopy

Charles river is very active! Quite liking how some of these ‘paintings’ turned out. Just tons of life. #microscopy #sciart #chronophotography

Final class, the Art of Microscopy. I did a presentation on plankton identification then students got to make timelapse ‘paintings’ and print them. I hope to teach with Gary again soon. 2nd pic- pollen/anther under fluorescence taken by a student. #sciart #microscopy

Spring has sprung. Lots of euglena in Halls pond right now, making the red trails around the plant debris in the second pic (timelapse). So excited the ponds aren’t frozen any more. #sciart #microscopy #fluorescencemicroscopy

Art of Microscopy at Artisans Asylum day 2! Gary did a great job instructing how to mod microscopes for colorful pics of crystals.

Only 1 left in my microscopy course! Starts saturday at Artisans Asylum in Boston. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of... #sciart

Can anyone id the growth on these fibers, collected among plankton from Boston harbor? First pic has a very interesting blob growing on it too.... I'd like to learn more about bacterial & algal growth on microplastics/fibers, and how they get incorporated into marine snow #microscopy #microplastics

The future of science in the U.S. is looking so promising.

For #fluorescencefriday I present: stoma falling into the abyss, on a dying flower. The other tech gave me beautiful purple flowers for my birthday and I just had to take a look. In microscopy I’m always interested how things tear/break/rip and otherwise fall apart... #microscopy #sciart

When someone in my neighborhood group made a plea for stickers to cover an RFK sticker in a prominent location, I knew I had to dust off my cricut. Copepods are plankton that embody the resistance to me- they make up 40% of all plankton biomass, just wildly successful creatures. #microscopy

My best friend Natasha of Wicked Cute Confections made me erotic plankton cookies for my 40th birthday and they turned out AMAZING. From suggestive diatoms to a vorticella corset, tardigrade panties, and a dinobryon peen- I’m just in love with these. Highly recommend her for any custom cookies.

My install at Cornell’s department of natural resources, featuring a ‘rotifer altar’ and an amoeba ‘painting’. Gotta keep busy. #sciart #microscopy #womenartists

Screenprinting fluorescence microscopy images in blacklight ink, part II. Still need to hone the technique, but I'm looking for more images so feel free to reach out if you have any to share. Could make a nice blacklight LED frame for ya too. Cultured cell image by Derek Sung. #sciart #biology