Patrick Hickey Ph.D.
@patrickhickey
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Scientist / Mycologist: fungi, spores, mycelium, mushrooms, bioluminescence, fluorescence, microscopy, time-lapse imaging, vintage technology.
Edinburgh
Joined November 2008
Awesome music video from Patricia Kokett featuring some of my fungi imaging. well done to everyone involved, it was great fun filming! https://t.co/o46jbxjeSc
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Interesting when the colour of the contaminant matches your clothing… yet to have a proper look and attempt to identify, possibly a species of Fusarium? (it’s malt extract agar) @ContamClub #microbiome #agar #biology #fungi
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Hi George, it was late June last year. We have not been weeding out the valerian plants with the hope that they will return this year to drink our plentiful supply of sweet nectar!
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This Petri dish is a micro-universe! @ContamClub To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour (William Blake)
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Well, the cat is out of the bag. I don't think the evidence supports the 'wood-wide web' view of forests. I am a skeptic. More details coming. Thx @GabrielPopkin for giving space for other voices
nytimes.com
From Ted Lasso to TED Talks, the theory of the “wood-wide web” is everywhere, and some scientists argue that it is overblown and unproven.
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The wood-wide web is everywhere: hit TV shows, bestselling books, kids' books, K-12 classrooms. It's probably the most popular idea to emerge from forest science in the last 25 years. But is it real? My investigation for @NYTScience
nytimes.com
From Ted Lasso to TED Talks, the theory of the “wood-wide web” is everywhere, and some scientists argue that it is overblown and unproven.
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Stranger Fungi https://t.co/QElG94nk5J via @YouTube
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Viability of fungal [Marasmiineae] rhizomorphs used in bird nest construction in tropical rainforests https://t.co/9mDyY1SgWx
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We were visited today by a beautiful creature i have never seen before: “Hummingbird Hawkmoth” it loves the wild Valerian that is all over the garden! I heard they have an amazing memory and return to flowers at specific times of day…@georgecmcgavin
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Today’s partial eclipse viewed from Edinburgh; our 2 year old daughter held sunglasses and a polarising filter in front of the camera, creating some interesting effects! @astro_timpeake #Eclipse2021 #SolarEclipse #PartialEclipse
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💫This is always one of my all time fave's ! @patrickhickey @royalsociety #TheBigDraw @The_Big_Draw My two children attended that day and their names are on their dish too 🤗💙🔹🔵🟦💙
Science and Art ❤️Living microbial paintings created with coloured, bioluminescent microbes with Dr. Patrick Hickey for the 2015 @The_Big_Draw at @royalsociety 👋 Attendees made their own biological artwork using safe, natural bacteria and fungi🖌️ https://t.co/4ZLIepQqdn
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Amazed to see both the ISS and Starlink-26 constellation racing across the sky, viewed from Edinburgh, 18 May ~00.20. Our son delighted to be woken up to see glittering trail of satellites + wave to astronauts! @astro_timpeake
@ISS_Research
@elonmusk
@SpaceX sfx: @finiflex
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I was recently asked by the BBC to contribute to an article discussing the much debated question “is it safe to eat mouldy food”. I’m pleased that they quoted me on this important (yeast) fungus fact: “Without fungi, beer and pizza wouldn’t exist” https://t.co/6O3V1xXUpA
bbc.co.uk
Sometimes food mould is celebrated and sometimes it's toxic. So how can you know which food is safe to eat? Follow our guide
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Time-lapse sequence of "pink" supermoon last night, viewed from our street in Edinburgh. Greetings! @astro_timpeake Thanks to John @finiflex for the space-age sound sample! #Supermoon
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Fungi expertly transport material around themselves. This time-lapse shows traffic through a fungal network. DNA-containing nuclei are stained green. Pulses of nuclei – ‘nuclear comets’ – travel in hordes through the mycelium (of Neurospora crassa). . 📹©@patrickhickey (1/2)
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Panellus stipticus (bioluminescent fungus) meets unidentified contaminant, perhaps red yeast? Interesting pattern of bioluminescence where the colonies make contact. Further investigations underway... @ContamClub @_ASCUS @MerlinSheldrake
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A friend thought he was growing tomato plants and magic mushrooms cropped up!
edinburghlive.co.uk
Mr Duffy said: “I thought it would be safest to put them in the compost bin before they slipped into the wrong hands."
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Some fungi, like Aleuria, synchronise spore ejection creating a jet of air—a ‘cooperatively generated wind’—which carries them around obstacles. Spores of some species can reach speeds of 100 km/hr—among the fastest movements achieved by any living organism. . 📹©@patrickhickey
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Fungus growing on an old CD (compact disc, incidentally containing fungi confocal image data) in storage for 20 years! potential plastic eating mould... further analysis underway; might try and isolate a culture... @MerlinSheldrake @ContamClub
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