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Simon Sublime
@SimonSublime
Bacteriologist, Liberal Scientist, Art & Science
exploringtheinvisible.wordpress.comJoined May 2009
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Still Life [?]: a vase of flowers exploringtheinvisible.com/2021/09/12/sti
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Adaptation: a creative collaboration with urban Herring Gulls exploringtheinvisible.com/2021/09/08/ada
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The Protist Paintings: Rotifers. Extraordinary paintings made by freshwater microbes exploringtheinvisible.com/2021/09/08/the
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An impromptu calendar. A Stolen Spring (Part 1) : a tale of untreatable depression and enforced homelessness, during the pandemic.
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Knotted Light [exploring a novel and sustainable microbiologically derived cotton]. The process begins with a photoautotrophic seed which is cultured, using little more than sunlight, water & air (photosynthesis), harvested, & then converted into a material that is cotton-like.
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Special K: an aesthetic of a controlled drug (Ketamine, DIC microscopy, 100-times magnification). A new #sciart project exploring the capricious aesthetic of the controlled drug Ketamine (an anaesthetic, recreational drug, & a possible therapy for treatment-resistant depression
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Great science art is everywhere! Check out
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Artists on twitter roll call!
Quote this and retweet with your art, tag some artists and keep this going if you're up for it! #ArtistsOnTwitter @LizahvdAart @markowenmartin
#selfpromotionsaturday
Shop: rdbl.co/3rOmEgT
Coloring book: bit.ly/TypesSci
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Ocean Eyes: "walkin' through a world gone blind" Tears of frustration. (psychic human tears (mine), DIC microscopy, 100-times magnification). Been done before but an expression of my mood today. Black Dog is scratching at the door.
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Snow Over Springfield Farm (2021). Using algorithmic photography to track the fall of individual snowflakes as they fall to Earth.
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In order to stay hydrated, sea snakes drink a thin layer of fresh water that collects on the surface of the ocean, called a "lense", after rain storms and do not drink sea water as previously thought [read more: ow.ly/3gS750vBo7u]
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A bit of bacterial guerrilla propaganda to highlight their importance for all other life. The "red paint" is actually the living and red pigmented Serratia saracens.
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Biological Singulatory. A minute speck of totipotent water vibrates to the frequency of the Earth's Microbiome . Like a virus, it needs a compatible host to replicate and evolve. Its host though is an extraterrestrial planet, I dream!
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It is entirely possible to grow, sustainably, a pair of denim jeans (textile and dye) from just two different kinds of bacteria (or perhaps a denim face mask)
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[m] Self Portrait: this self portrait has not been painted by my visible self but by the bacteria of my gut microbiome. Mixed with watercolours on growth agar & incubated overnight, my bacteria swarm over the media to move the paints, painting, illustrating their power & impact.
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A pigeon flying against a clear sky, taken with an infrared camera. A living, warm blooded, and respiring being against the extreme coldness of space.
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A mesh of plastic microfibres trawled from our local river, the Churnet. Utterly depressing.
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A small poem for Autumn. Tracks made by microscopic animalcules in a minute drop of a small leaf covered woodland puddle. The process of decay and regeneration has already begun.
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How beautiful and telling!
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My dad is making me clear out his old books 
but... behind them in the pages & on the shelves I found HUNDREDS of clay nests (mud dauber wasps??) The little pots are so beautiful! I've kept those that didn't smash. Look at this...
but... behind them in the pages & on the shelves I found HUNDREDS of clay nests (mud dauber wasps??) The little pots are so beautiful! I've kept those that didn't smash. Look at this...Show this thread
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Growth of fungal mycelium. If you teased apart the mycelium found in a teaspoon of soil and laid it end to end, it could stretch between 100m to 10km. Soil would be sluiced off by rain were it not for the dense mesh of fungal tissue that holds it together.
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A small membrane-bound protein called MspA is necessary for the stability of the S. aureus membrane. Without it, S. aureus can’t secrete cytolytic toxins, protect itself from many aspects of the innate immune system & control iron homeostasis. #IAIJournal skyw.io/He7P0a
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‘If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water’ Loren Eiseley (1957). Tracks, and biological frequencies and wavelengths, made by microbes in scant micro litre samples of many different natural waters. An incomplete national atlas of invisible microbiological life.
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Government spent just £2k every 18 months for last 10yrs “promoting” The Countryside Code.
We need *more* access to nature/land in England, not less; greater right-to-roam & a well-funded, long-sighted public information campaign on responsible access.
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(3) Finally, BioBespoke lace, impregnated with a strain of E. coli from my own gut microbiome (all purple).
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(2) Self-healing lace empowered by spores of Bacillus mycoides, which heals (the swirling tendrils) when material is cut. BioChromatic lace, embued with pigment producing bacteria, Serratia marcescens (red) & Chromobacterium violaceum (purple) (collaboration with Anna Dumitriu).
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(1) Living Lace. Examples of types BioLace with bacterially endowed functionality. Photosynthetic lace impregnated by Oscillatoria animals (a collaboration with Victoria Geaney, RCA).
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Absolutely shameless
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The scapegoating of Public Health England is a shameless attempt to divert attention from the failure of the government. @PHE_uk do wonderful work with a very limited budget and excellent scientists. It has less budget than the millions wasted by @MattHancock in PPE purchase.
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The day the slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, escaped its confinement and explored my library!
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Since first looking down a microscope at plankton in the early 1980s....the wonderful movement of Bacillaria paxillifera ⬇️ has never failed to make me stop, wonder and say wow! twitter.com/rmartinledo/st
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27th July, 2020. Pissing it down most of the day. Fourth day of Cricket Test Match between England & West Indies abandoned by the rain. It's easy to be frustrated by it but also an opportunity to admire its necessity through art.
Here rain drops impact onto a thin film of carbon.
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It's a brilliant idea. In the tropics we have an excess of coconut shells all over the place. This would be a good use for them.
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CocoDish is a sustainable, reusable & entirely natural vessel for culturing bacteria based on the Coconut. Here is a Coco Dish with a culture of the light producing bacterium P. phosphoreum. Nature grown, no need for plastic & suitable for environmentally conscious labs.
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Biosciences labs are estimated to produce as much as 5.5 million metric tonnes of plastic waste every year representing around 2 percent of the global waste due to this material. In response to this, I have developed the Coco Dish.
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Life sciences have a dependence on single use plastics e.g. disposable pipette tips and Petri dishes, becoming indispensable in biological research. Here is a naturally grown and sustainable Petri dish for use in bacteriology.
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Sheep Shit!! ( or Exploring the Aesthetics of the Ovine Microbiome). 100-times magnification, DIC microscopy and algorithmic photography.
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River MicroTriptych. Flow (straight lines) and microscopic infusorial animalcules (squigles). Media: River water, 100-times magnification, DIC microscopy and algorithmic photography.
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Chuffed to see work with #SPACER_ and namechecked in the LRB: 'All hail the microbe' lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/ #sciart
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A frenzy of motile bacteria moving with "purpose". Part of my microbiome. 1000-times magnification, DIC microscopy.
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Beat, I never heard of a black Pseudomonas isolate: A black-pigmented pseudomonad isolate with antibacterial activity against phyllospheric pathogens - ScienceDirect
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Life In A Drop. Microorganisms and their activity tracks in a minute speck of pond water. Exposure time 51 sec. DIC Microscopy (100-times magnification) and algorithmic photography.
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