Category: Microscopy
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Frog feet
A few days ago, a colleague of mine asked me how biologists decide which microalga is their favourite. (She’s a physicist, I guess these strange people have favourite equations or something.) That got me thinking. What’s the coolest microbial species? Of course, the answer will depend on who you ask, because the notion of “cool”…
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A bloom of Alexandrium, from every angle
When I wrote last month’s post, I didn’t expect it to be relevant this soon, yet you will see that it is a fitting introduction for this one! A few days ago at the beginning of June, while scrutinising Sentinel-2 images of the Loire river turbid plume, my PhD supervisor spotted red patches in the…
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Phycoplankton 