HHMI Janelia has launched Beautiful Biology, a… beautiful initiative that:
“(…) aims to cultivate interest and curiosity in the life sciences through this portal of stunning images showcasing the largely invisible biological world.”
From their About page.
This is very much aligned with the motivation behind the Ocean: hidden life photo exhibition and the Cifonauta database itself—so I’m excited (no surprises).
The website is gorgeous. It has different view modes, like the Visual spectacle, an endless screen saver with clickable images, and the Scroll and Explore, a series of (outstanding) visual lectures on major concepts of biology.
You can also explore the collection through standard text categories or visually (!), through cell structures, body parts, or organism types.
Each image has an informative and well-crafted description, and even annotations highlighting specific features, so Beautiful Biology also stands out as an extraordinary educational resource.
I’m happy that three of my images are featured there:
- Moss Animal Muscles (the bryozoan larva above)
- Neon Shuttlecock (the skeleton of a pluteus larva)
- A Wave of Division (the famous mitotic wave)
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