Personal crises keep you awake at night? the current political climate doesn't let you sleep? your children turn night into day?
Grow up some Chlamydomonas cultures, grap the closest microscope, and start counting.
1 green algae, 2 green algae, 3 green algae, ...
#microbiology #algae #microscopy
And when you wake up the next day, don't forget to keep fighting against prejudice, injustice and #fcknzs. And remember that you love your children
The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals
https://www.biographic.com/the-secret-sex-lives-of-deep-dark-corals/
"A unique fjord in Chilean #Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water #corals that typically live thousands of meters below the surface... Instead of partnering with #algae within its cells for food, #Desmophyllum catches #plankton with stinging tentacles... cold-water corals live throughout the world’s oceans, providing habitat at least as critical as that of tropical #CoralReefs"
Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 
Most aquatic scientists, particularly those working on #algae are familiar with the name Hans Utermöhl. His name is synonymous with the "Utermöhl method" of settling #phytoplankton in a slide-off sedimentation chamber, with the base chamber assessed using an inverted light #microscope (which he helped develop). Every phytoplankton taxonomist uses this technique. He was foundational in the #German #limnology research community. #science
https://academic.oup.com/plankt/article/44/3/345/6562679
Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become a full professor on Stanford's biology faculty. 
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Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on Stanford's biology faculty. She literally wrote the textbook on Californian seaweed &…
