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Lightsheet microscopy demo

First day of Lightsheet Z.1 demo @Sars_Centre imaging live embryos of marine worms.

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Histoire de la Thécidie

Another hunt for a historical work ended successfully at @BioDivLibrary :)

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Arduino is cool

Ok, now I understand why Arduino is cool.

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OpenSPIM assembly

#OpenSPIM laser ready to be powered on #LISH2014

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Brachiopods and Japanese art

I visited Japan solely for the purpose of studying the Brachiopoda of the Japanese seas, and this step led to my accepting the chair of zoology in the Imperial University at Tokyo. Gradually I was drawn away from my zoological work, into archaeological investigations, by the alluring problem of the ethnic affinities of the Japanese […]

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Search PLOS articles using DuckDuckGo

Last year I decided to experiment with DuckDuckHack, the developer platform for the search engine DuckDuckGo. The idea was to use the instant answers to find scientific articles as a quick Google Scholar shortcut. It’s feasible, in principle, but I decided to try something simpler. A plugin that uses the PLOS API to search their […]

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A galaxy for insight

By empowering readers and observers with transparent access to the means by which conclusions are reached, rather than assembling them in an audience to hear the Authorities deliver the catechism from on high, we are all of us becoming scientists in this way, entering into a democracy of the intellect that is already bearing spectacular […]

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An idea is a network

Connecting vs Protecting. Excellent!