@peterbraubach.bsky.social
Pathologist by day and sometimes by night. Dad of 2 👱👱 (03/18, 08/21). Bakes bread 🍞. Cares for a garden 🌻. Bikes to work 🚲. Biodiversity enthusiast. Mainly thinking about lichens here. He/him
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialTank you! The results (the spore capsule and the others) are great. The keeping still part is the main reason I do lichens instead of birds. Do you have a specific setup for this - and would you be willing to share a picture of it?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialIf you want to flip the image for cross-eyed stereo you can copy/paste the image URL in the zerene stereo viewer (zerenesystems.com/webapps/sv1....)
@theobrominated.eurosky.socialReposted by @peterbraubach.bsky.socialMoss spore capsules usually have 1 or 2 rings of peristome teeth around their open mouth. In Tortula muralis, the teeth are long & spirally twisted to form a slender tube that twists & untwists in response to humidity changes. This peristome is 1.4 mm long. Stereo pair; viewing instructions in ALT.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialVery nice stereo! Synthetic (with Zerene?) or physical with repositioning of the camera?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI will have to look this up. It feels like the most basic Zeiss model with ok colours, rolling shutter and a very low frame rate. Enough to show somebody what is going on (the scope is mine, the camera from the clinic)
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialOh very nice. I have a BX61 which I will hopefully bring back into productive use soon. Might still count as vintage :-) even with the slanted top. The BX2 (41/51/61) lacks the blockyness. I once missed a good deal on an IX81. Still sad sometimes about this.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialSedifolia-grey pigment in epithecium turning violet in K.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI haven't been #lichen posting regularly but hope to resume. Here is some Rinodina pityrea from trunk base of an old poplar.
@norwichbirder.bsky.socialReposted by @peterbraubach.bsky.socialDoes anyone happen to recognise this white fungus on the underside of Bramble (Rubus fruiticosus agg.) leaves? I've not been able to find any particularly helpful structures, but wondered if it was a mycoparasite on one of the Rubus rusts?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialMaybe @ruhrpottpilze.bsky.social can help?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialAnd oblique.
If these still show up on a thin film I might be able to pick these with fine pins (acupuncture needles) -- this would be the next experiment.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialBright field also looks good. Now mostly everything has settled to the tripod state and the mesmerizing twirling has stopped.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialThe exchange with @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social made me at least test the stereo microscopes capabilities. I so whished I could show the mind blowing 3-dimensionality of the #Aquatichyphomycetes spores in water (everything in the sample is fixed, nothing to culture unfortunately).
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI want to be sure first that I have reliable contamination free agar before trying out the "sterile zone next to a Bunsen burner" stuff.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI want to try isolating one day - one thing keeping me from it is that I have neither facilities for nor experience in casting agar plates. Everything would have to be done in my small Home-Office. And then this spore was 1 in 10k or more.
@peterbraubach.bsky.social*I adore the black Leitz Ortholux I but would never use it for day to day work... and I don't have one :-(
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI think the Olympus BX50 from the 2000's is one of the most beautiful microscope frames*. It like the clear, geometric lines. More architecture than product design.
Any other vintage BX here?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialIf you see me awkwardly handling a 3m collapsible carbon fibre pole with a kitchen strainer taped to it its to get some foam from the river.
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialI cannot really place this one. Is it some Campylospora sp. or Gyoerffyella sp. What do you think @jandbio.bsky.social @fayrnhawk.bsky.social?
@peterbraubach.bsky.socialThe autumnal Ilmenau in #Lüneburg yielded a foam sample rich in #AquaticHyphomycetes - in all forms and sizes.
Notably absent are Clavatospora longibrachiata and Articulospora tetracladia.
