It is in press... After 15 years and some issues including bribery, insults, threats and more than enough to create at least 6 seasons of the TV serie "THE BOOK"... I hope it helps the community...
@PavelTomancak
#lightsheet
#microscopy
#spim
After 1 1/2 year, 641 abstract reads,70 full text HTML and 240 PDF in
@biorxivpreprint
our paper "Taxonomic revision of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka Glass... " has been accepted for publication in
@Nat_SCA
Journal of Natural Science Collections... 7 years in the making!!!
MICROSCOFFEE the first Vintage thread...so it took me a whiel but here it is. I bought a FTM
#Coffee
machine from Hungary and yes it looks like a Art Deco
#microscope
...but...
And we are live! So if you want to test as many
#SPIM
#lightsheet
#microscope
as you can and try as many samples and species you want Apply! RT welcome.
@Prokaryota
Because lecturer and senior lecturer sounds like looser so they are now called Assistant and Associate so they can have Professor in their title...Like every stuff called Institute so they sound like MIT!
Our research team is very very sad. We lost this morning one of our lead engineer Kevin McCarthy. He was a kind man, the engineer brain behind our Naiad 3D bioprinters. It is very harsh, hard...
#cancer
RIP Kevin.
So I am slowly getting ready to share my
#plasticoscopy
project. how to build 52 imaging systems with
@LEGO_Group
. I need to clean a few lenses and take good pics! Brace yourself people it is going to be brutal! Next week the one part build!
The Weird and Wonderful Microscope \design.. Art and canvas
#Microscopy
A rare painting of an electron microscope operator centerpiece rather than on the side table "mand and Microscope" by Clifford Hooper Rowe 1904 -1989 who painted workers men and women alike check it out!
Two years ago I wrestle a burglar and he was in court last week and I thought science was a slow process
I'll press charges,' trapped burglar told his black-belt victim
A bit of DIY microscopy for everyone, I finally found the water drop Meccano microscope design I saw years ago. So here it is...I love the water drop lens!
@beniroquai
@HenriquesLab
@RetoPaul
Difficult to do a cylindrical lens!
#BlaschkaEveryday
will start the Haeckel week. A Blaschka neigbhour based in Leipzig published Das Protistenreich (1878) and they copied a few including Heliosphaera actinota (645). Each hexagon is made of individual segment. Model from
@NHM_London
Pictures Guido Mocaficco.
#BlaschkaEveryday
is illustrating the legacy of J.Leydi and L. Blaschka with Diffuglia pyriformis [632, pear shaped protozoan] notice the broken glass pieces glued to the body. Model from
@NHM_London
, chromolithographs
@BioDivLibrary
and drawing from
@corningmuseum
. Enjoy!
#BlaschkaEveryday
is on an octopus week. Argonauta argo (549) the Paper nautilus by Vérany, Mollusques méditerranéens (1851) was illustrated without is paper shell so the Blaschka never made it...too bad. Models from
@NHM_London
(very blue!) and
@Cornell
...and this will be my last entry for this
#lockdown
season of
#blaschkaeveryday
. I am off for a month with my wife and 3 kids to get some fresh air away from the ICU unit (my wife), horrible homeschooling ( my kids) and my office...Thanks for your likes and comments made this...
Well done
@zeiss_micro
your new microscope is nice but maybe your graphic designer should check how to spell Fluorescence instead of a pastry base beam such as "Flour" escence! A new diagram for my course!
Thank you so much for all your comments! Will drop a thread next week on how to close a lab and my next blog post with
@Zeeks_Art
in December can give you clues. But now it is time to walk along my old time friend the soothing sea.
#LSFM2020
Registration is live . We want to have a positive impact with gender balance, less carbon and promoting the future generation. So join us and you can vote for your favorite talk and win prizes!
#LSFM2020
...Today is the last day to apply (and wish me a happy birthday?!) We will have talks, poster session with prices and a "Sample Prep Clinic" with Kate McDole,
@montserrat_coll
and I; company and projects demos such as the
@MesoSpim
and the Flamingo!
@RoyalMicroSoc
#BlaschkaEveryday
...The Blaschkas liked E. Haeckel so much that they often gave him credit for specie he DID not describe...Here is an example Physophora magnifica [213, but a twin Physophora hydrostatica (212) ; Forskål]. Models from
@corningmuseum
@Cornell
@MuseumGeneve
#BlaschkaEveryday
E.Haeckel was a major figure in the description of the Radiolarians and his book from 1862 [
@BHL
] provided the Blaschka with essential coloured chromolithographs. Eucyrtidium cranoides (644) one of the less known model from
@NHM_Wien
pic from Guido Mocaficco
Job alert! We are looking for a young engineer, or MSc, or PhD or anybody who like to tinker and built optical instruments for diagnostic and health care with AI to spice it up. RT and send it around.
The Weird and Wonderful microscope design
In the 1950's a French company Locquin created the Stabifocal. A strange but very stable system looking like a kind of Star Wars droid... Defined by Manuel del Cerro and Dietmar Krause as a "dead end"!
Another great example of light sheet Macroscopy in winter, single snowflake microscopy (SISNOMIC). You can notice the drift due to a slow camera setting... poor temporal resolution.
#lightsheet
For the last few years we look into how to turn our lab plastic waste into panel to build affordable scopes and other stuff... We are one step closer...
#plasticwaste
#labwaste
#BlaschkaEveryday
. The final of the Joseph Leydi masterpiece transformed in glass by L.Blaschka. Euglypha ciliata [633] Check the three layers of glass, patterned glass and spikes. Models from
@DublinDeadZoo
, Guido Mocaficco, chromo from
@BHL
and drawing from
@corningmuseum
thanks to
@kirtiprakash25
and
@royalsociety
I was allowed to write a little story on the "Biology of imaging" a light story on spending too much time on microscopes and in museums. Enjoy!
My friends
@PaoloViscardi
and
@KeeperNH
at the
@DublinDeadZoo
have spent most part of the 2 lockdowns moving giraffes, hippopotamus to reach to the sky and dust an old whale skeleton. Follow them and dig into 6 months of a very different biology! Go on guys nearly there!
Hi
#LSFM
#SPIM
#Lightsheet
aficionados, after many years of pushing for conferences and workshops on Light Sheet Microscopy, 2023 is the time for a change...Anybody wants to organize a LSFM conference this year! Please share, retweet and reach out, will be happy to help!
#blaschkaeveryday
is still at B. like Blainville with a reference to a well-known French Biologist Cuvier with this magnificent Rhizostoma cuvieri made by the Blaschkas only from 1868 onwards but named did change to Rhizostoma pulmo (238)...
So here is the Legoscope with LED lights from an old toy, a small breadboard, a camera attachement and I need to get the Pi camera for light show and maybe a flow system...
#Blaschka
of the week, another lovely nudibranch...n.443, Flabellina ianthina (Angas 1864) now...Pteraeolidia ianthina. We are revising the Blaschka taxonomy coming soon...Stay tune!
It is
#CephalopodWeek
, so here is one for you from Jean-Batptiste Verany book (see
@BioDivLibrary
) copied in glass by Leopold Blaschka (pic from Guido Mocafico) and plagiarized by Ernst Haeckel.. it is Octopus Vulgaris
#BlaschkaEveryday
Jean-Baptiste Verany published in 1851: 1851 Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. Mollusques Méditerranéens...
@BHL
with gorgeous chromos and the Blaschka copied nearly the entire book in glass starting with Octopus vulgaris (577) not all in a perfect state...
#blaschaeveryday
is looking at the unusual. In their last german catalogue [1885] 2 models were listed as "observed from Nature". 654..."Struggle of an Actinia mesembryanthemum with Sagartia troglodytes" see it live!
@DublinDeadZoo
@AmgueddfaCymru
From a dark and cold beach we wish you something shape like a 2022 better fit than 2021 and at least above a 2020. Stay safe, keep in touch with your loved ones, your students, your colleagues and even your enemies.
#blaschkaeveryday
is finishing its base week with shells. Leopold and Rudolf molded plaster base so they look like shells seen on engravings as they did not have a local supplier. Serpula contorduplicata (343) [
@Cornell
@DublinDeadZoo
] but also Adamsia palliata (33)
@Cornell
Today is a good day. thanks to
@PaoloViscardi
and JD and the
#blaschka
"Hi Emmanuel,
Im pleased to say that your paper has been accepted. Thank you to you and the co-authors for all your hard work on this paper, I know it has been a long process for you all."
Coming soon!
#blaschkaeveryday
Nudibranch alley! The most influential scientists were Albany Hancock and Joshua Alder they published in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol.5 1866
@BioDivLibrary
a wonderful illustrated nudibranch article. The Blaschka kept pages in their...
Our newest rig is a rather unusual one and the sample chamber is a rather big one! And the thickness of the light sheet is not in microns but it is going to be something of a dive!
#lightsheet
Collaboration with
@PickeringLabUCD
#InternationalWomensDay
I would like to pay tribute not to the famous but to the ones in the shadows...All the female lab technicians, a large silent and very supportive force throughout many careers, pillars of many labs, the ones that solve your problem in a blink of an eye...
#blaschkaeveryday
or 2. Here is a simple but efficient comparison on the evolution of base from decorated plaster to flat board. Corynactis viridis (57) early 1870's and late 1880's
@Cornell
and I add the original Gosse!
#BlaschkaEveryday
continue its wormy path. Leopold relies also on Lang, Arnold illustrations. He used black and white background to illustrate the animals (see
@BioDivLibrary
). Thysanozoon Brocchii [319] spiky model from
@DublinDeadZoo
, pics from Dean Just. drawing
@corningmuseum
#blaschkaeveryday
of the week. This week will be a double "B" Bill... Blainville/Blaschka. For their first catalogue they copied extensively everything they could from this book like Cassiopea frondescens, the upside down jellyfish
@BioDivLibrary
@corningmuseum
@NtlMuseumsScot
Blaschka of the week.
#blaschka
Ward number 299. Eurylepta superba (Schmarda) but nowadays Pseudobiceros undulatus (Kelaart) lovely tiny platyhleminthes
The Weird and Wonderful microscope design,
Probably my favorite microscope...I may wamt to do a copy later...Thomas Winter Exhibition microscope with a vertical sample wheel...in ivory! 1810
Term is finished so LEGO time....Legoscope done on a mini honey comb breadboard next LeGo UM, pumpy mcface, rebuilding the original LegoLISH and then the long awaited fully functional LEGOSPIM!
@PavelTomancak
So
@HenriquesLab
will have plenty to show in January
So cool I will be talking at LSFM2019 conference! Thanks
@PampaLsfm4life
who is organizing a session on"Open Lightsheet Tools" with
@beniroquai
, the Lego LISH crowd...I am also moderating and bringing loads of stuff...Be there!
#blaschkaeveryday
will be on lockdown for another 2 weeks so more to come. To finish our cephalopod week here is a bloom of them. Let's thanks once more Jean-Baptiste Verany and the Blaschka father and son...stay safe and stay sane within reasonable lockdown situations
#LSFM2020
Day 3 Session Light Sheet Engineering with our chair
@RetoPaul
. First
@eremacham
on How thick is your light sheet! Nice explanation and diagram...
#BlaschkaEveryday
. The Blaschka and E. Haeckel exchanged letters and probably visited each other. Rudolph admits to keep his book "Das system der medusen" on its bedside cabinet [see
@BHL
]...