Scientist / Mycologist: fungi, spores, mycelium, mushrooms, bioluminescence, fluorescence, microscopy, time-lapse imaging, vintage technology.
Edinburgh
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Awesome music video from Patricia Kokett featuring some of my fungi imaging. well done to everyone involved, it was great fun filming!
youtu.be/r_yN_8CW1hE?si=qbO8…
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Interesting when the colour of the contaminant matches your clothing… yet to have a proper look and attempt to identify, possibly a species of Fusarium? (it’s malt extract agar) @ContamClub #microbiome #agar #biology #fungi
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We were visited today by a beautiful creature i have never seen before: “Hummingbird Hawkmoth” it loves the wild Valerian that is all over the garden! I heard they have an amazing memory and return to flowers at specific times of day…@georgecmcgavin
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This Petri dish is a micro-universe! @ContamClub To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
(William Blake)
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Patrick Hickey Ph.D. retweeted
Well, the cat is out of the bag. I don't think the evidence supports the 'wood-wide web' view of forests. I am a skeptic. More details coming. Thx @GabrielPopkin for giving space for other voices nytimes.com/2022/11/07/scien…
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Patrick Hickey Ph.D. retweeted
The wood-wide web is everywhere: hit TV shows, bestselling books, kids' books, K-12 classrooms. It's probably the most popular idea to emerge from forest science in the last 25 years. But is it real? My investigation for @NYTScience nytimes.com/2022/11/07/scien…
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Patrick Hickey Ph.D. retweeted
Viability of fungal [Marasmiineae] rhizomorphs used in bird nest construction in tropical rainforests
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ALT Hyphal growth from plated rhizomorphs showing viability of four Marasmiaceae species. Each column represents a different species—from left to right: C. sp. 2, M. (chrysocephalus, M. neocrinis-equi and M. sp. 2. The top row shows the sexual fruiting body for each species)
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Today’s partial eclipse viewed from Edinburgh; our 2 year old daughter held sunglasses and a polarising filter in front of the camera, creating some interesting effects! @astro_timpeake #Eclipse2021 #SolarEclipse #PartialEclipse
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Patrick Hickey Ph.D. retweeted
💫This is always one of my all time fave's ! @patrickhickey @royalsociety #TheBigDraw @The_Big_Draw My two children attended that day and their names are on their dish too 🤗💙🔹🔵🟦💙
Science and Art ❤️Living microbial paintings created with coloured, bioluminescent microbes with Dr. Patrick Hickey for the 2015 @The_Big_Draw at @royalsociety 👋
Attendees made their own biological artwork using safe, natural bacteria and fungi🖌️bit.ly/3yEtJEh
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Amazed to see both the ISS and Starlink-26 constellation racing across the sky, viewed from Edinburgh, 18 May ~00.20. Our son delighted to be woken up to see glittering trail of satellites + wave to astronauts!
@astro_timpeake
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@SpaceX
sfx: @finiflex
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I was recently asked by the BBC to contribute to an article discussing the much debated question “is it safe to eat mouldy food”. I’m pleased that they quoted me on this important (yeast) fungus fact:
“Without fungi, beer and pizza wouldn’t exist”
bbc.co.uk/food/articles/moul…
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Time-lapse sequence of "pink" supermoon last night, viewed from our street in Edinburgh. Greetings! @astro_timpeake Thanks to John @finiflex for the space-age sound sample! #Supermoon
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Panellus stipticus (bioluminescent fungus) meets unidentified contaminant, perhaps red yeast? Interesting pattern of bioluminescence where the colonies make contact. Further investigations underway...
@ContamClub @_ASCUS @MerlinSheldrake
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A friend thought he was growing tomato plants and magic mushrooms cropped up! edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edi…
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Fungus growing on an old CD (compact disc, incidentally containing fungi confocal image data) in storage for 20 years! potential plastic eating mould... further analysis underway; might try and isolate a culture... @MerlinSheldrake @ContamClub
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