This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/ It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their […]
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Images of embryos, larvae and marine invertebrates related to my research.
Nikon Small World has announced the winners of this year’s photomicrography competition. My image of a drain fly embryo made it to the Images of Distinction category!
Note: The denoising I describe in this post was done for artistic reasons and not for scientific purposes. For the proper methodology on image denoising, please follow the CARE paper. I wanted to denoise a twenty-year-old photomicrograph. It’s one of the first scientific images I created back in 2003. It’s so ancient that I used […]
The InverteFest is here. A moment to celebrate the overlooked diversity of invertebrates around us. I’m re-posting a video I made for the Cifonauta account on Instagram showing different marine invertebrates moving around under the microscope. Enjoy! Invertebrate Gallery Check the gallery below to find out the identity of each marine invertebrate in the movie […]
This image of a brachiopod larva was selected in the Nikon Small World 2021 photomicrography competition!
This is a bryozoan embryo with its blastopore facing us. The blastopore is the hole in the middle. The “balls” are the nuclei of the cells that make up the embryo. While cells have many other structures, they are not visible in this image. The only thing visible is the DNA because I stained it […]
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Chubby ribbon worm
A chubby ribbon worm juvenile #Nemertean #WormWednesday
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Larva of a lamp shell
The pelagosphera larva of #Sipuncula. Photo by Alvaro Migotto via @cifonauta http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/photo/10874/