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October 3, 2018 5:11 AM

Nikon Small World in Motion Annual Winners 2018-2011 — beautiful microscopic movies and digital time-lapse photomicrography. (See also Nikon International Small World Photomicrography Competition Annual Winners 2017-1975).
posted by cenoxo (4 comments total)

If anyone, like myself, is looking at these and going THESE ARE MY PEOPLE!!! there's a Facebook group called Amateur Microscopy that delivers high quality microscopic photos and video to my newsfeed several times a day, with interesting and multilingual commentary/debate on what is being seen. (I have a Foldscope, so this kind of ting is very much my jam.)
posted by soren_lorensen at 5:46 AM on October 3, 2018 [4 favorites]

This is the coolest thing ever! Wow!

I kind of wish there were a little more descriptive text for those of us who aren't microbiologists, but even without, this is fabulous stuff.

Thank you!
posted by kristi at 10:26 AM on October 3, 2018

Polychaete worm of the syllidae family appears to be playing a tenor saxophone. Someone should add some Kenny G music to the video.
posted by clawsoon at 12:10 PM on October 3, 2018

PZ Myers tells us what we're seeing in the zebrafish video.
posted by klanawa at 12:19 PM on October 3, 2018 [2 favorites]