The little #worms in this movie that you see #crawling about are actually tracks outlining the motion of microscopic #algae. Some move fast and have wormy red (fast!) lines, some move slow and have stumpy blue (slow) lines. I've got nothing on @micromotility, but I absolutely enjoy making movies of algae swimming around and thinking about what is causing them to move a particular way!
@Burnsajohn haha love the video (imagej??) Much less look up at the stars, more look down at my microscope... And all the twinkling critters 😋
@micromotility Did I say preprint? I meant eLife pub!
@Burnsajohn thanks! Glad you think it might be useful! (Just let me know if anything in the paper is unclear!) Our hope is that people will start applying it to different organisms... 😃 Protists preferred of course...
@micromotility That paper is actually the reason I took this video and the paired treatment. I read it and thought "I wonder if the algae move differently when they are stressed (or when stress is mimicked by a small molecule)?" I think they do! And I'm planning to explore that more in the future, so thank you! I will be in touch about it if I get the project funded 😬
@micromotility 😁 Yeah, imagej--TrackMate. An old friend for some basic analyses. But! I am *really* interested in your microfluidic trap preprint. I think considering movement as a phenotype is very relevant to some cell signaling work I'm doing in microalgae! I can even see differences at the scale of this movie.