Savannah Mapes 🔬

a phytoplankton enthusiast, enthusiastically sharing the wonders of microscopic marine flora #harmfulalgae #PhycologyFriday

10yrs ago - we dreamed of sharing live microscopy images w large groups. That was seed of “Projection Microscopy” 📽️+ 🔬= ❤️ So happy we can finally release it in product form. @TeamFoldscope Kickstarter campaign. If you can - please support our efforts to democratize science.

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 TinyLife Microbe Stickers are now available!! Store: etsy.com/shop/tinyLifeM… Dive into the beautiful world of microbes w these adorable stickers Many thanks to my lab group for supporting my art 🦠❤️ yay! #MicrobeStickers #Algae #Phytoplankton #Diatoms

(2/n) This story begins almost 12 years ago - while I was trying to setup a culture to play with gas vesicles in cells - with name changes I ended up getting the wrong cultures. I left the bottles on my office shelf and months later found strange patterns.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2015…

(1/n) In case you still want to make some Diwali Rangoli - and want to explore a new kind of "topological trap" in spiral active matter - enjoy this hypnotic thread from latest story from the lab #DFD2023 Read details here: arxiv.org/abs/2305.12572

This year I started a master in teaching (part time) as I love education and need to widen my professional perspectives. For the "educational innovation" course we learned to use augmented reality! Here an example of what we did with microalgae #phycology #algae #metaclass #app

@HABhaley Congratulations!!!🥳👏🏻

@EJ_Cheung My baaaaby 💕 borrow only!

@EJ_Cheung 🤤

"Cyanobacteria" (when usually the media are just referring to Microcystis) are getting a bucket of bad press at the moment. Just a reminder that without cyanobacteria there'd be no plants and we'd never have evolved because there wouldn't be a suitable atmosphere. End of PSA.

Sooo excited this is out! A nice culmination of a longterm journey through science together w my academic sister @Euastrum naming a genus new to science after one of our academic parents! And it all started @JoshuaTreeNPS #accomplished #biocrust #drylands

The invisible 5-fold symmetry traced by Earth and Venus as they orbit the Sun. 📽: Matthew Henderson

@VIMS_News @hokuleacrew @planktoscope @fairscope_

VIMS and @hokuleacrew are partnering to monitor phytoplankton and water quality as the PVS circumnavigates the Pacific in the canoe Hōkūleʻa on their Moananuiākea Voyage. VIMS student Savannah Mapes was on site in Seattle to train the crew to use data collecting equipment.

Dive into his recent research with @UCSDJacobs and @WHOI that studied how the plankton species Lingulodinium polyedra was able to create a historic red tide and bioluminescence display in 2020. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/historic-…

All you need is a jar of local water and a microscope—you may even find new species. Welcome to Algae Obscura. atlasobscura.com/articles/algae…

Throwing it back to the days of developing PlanktoScope prototype at the @PrakashLab - @Stanford, little did I know that Manu Prakash mention of PlanktoScope #100 would one day turn into reality! 🌱 @ManuPra18599785 @fairscope_ @planktoscope #DreamsComeTrue

New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their body trib.al/ryt6v5q

An incredible time with PICES team testing community-driven monitoring tools on the water in Lombok. Planktoscope is always best used on deck.

@DustinGrowick @caveatnyc a heliozoan! 🌞🔬