Want to engage and « do something » about microplastics in your own environment.
Consider joining the foldscope community that has been mapping novel sources of microplastics around the world.
microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/zCoLNt3...
02.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Fast & Curious USA 2025-2026
Fast & Curious 2025–2026 is a program that brings free professional development workshops and our paper microscopes, Foldscopes, to communities across the United States. Each session trains teachers…
🔬 Want free microscopes and training?
Educators and community leaders in the US can apply to receive free Foldscopes (paper microscopes), hands-on training, and lesson plans to use with their students and communities.
📌 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
27.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🌱 Exciting news for educators and community leaders!
We’re launching Fast & Curious 2025 — a free STEM grant program that brings Foldscopes (paper microscopes), hands-on training, and lesson plans to classrooms and communities across the US.
📌 Apply now at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
25.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔬 Connecticut College freshmen explored the microscopic world with Foldscope during their Science Leaders pre-orientation program.
📷 Featured in Connecticut College’s August in Pictures:
www.conncoll.edu/news/news-ar...
#foldscope #microscopy #scienceforall #stemeducation #connecticutcollege
22.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.
To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!
22.09.2025 02:19 — 👍 59 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 1
🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training!
📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)
✉️ Any questions? Email us at training@foldscope.com
#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope
20.09.2025 14:06 — 👍 11 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh + Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh has launched a program for teachers in any schools in the US and Canada - awardees of this program will receive $200 (USD) in gift cards
Apply ---> www.chemistryoutreach.org/awards-grants/grants/foldscope-grant/
19.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔬 Dr. Manu Prakash delivered the 2025 Murty Trust Annual Lecture in Bengaluru, speaking on “From Paper Microscopes to Global Change” and the power of frugal science.
19.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"By stepping back slightly, I saw them step forward
and take charge of their learning."
"Stepping outside the classroom has the potential to transform not just the scenery, but our pedagogical approach in powerful ways." -Avanish Singh
Empowering students to become active learners - how powerful!
19.09.2025 13:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌊 World Water Monitoring Day – Sept 18
Foldscoper Mitali Patil used her Foldscope and polarized light to explore live water samples from a pond in Ratnagiri. Her post shows that when science meets curiosity, even the tiniest organisms can shine bright.
microcosmos.foldscope.com/post/transfe...
18.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
🌏 Foldscope in Nepal
Mercer University students brought Foldscopes to classrooms in Nepal, giving hundreds of students their first hands-on experience with microscopy.
📰 Read more:
den.mercer.edu/mercer-stude...
#foldscope #scienceforall #frugalscience #microscopy #nepal #stemeducation
17.09.2025 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌿 New Blog Post: Foldscope Explores... The Beauty of Mold 🧫🔬
Under a Foldscope 2.0, mold reveals a whole new world of colors, textures, spores, and branching hyphae.
👉 Read the full post:
foldscope.com/blogs/blog/f...
#foldscope #scienceforall #microscopy #stemeducation #microcosmos #mold #nature
16.09.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That is great! Please be sure to share your experiences and post pictures and videos of your discoveries! Welcome to the Foldscope family!
10.09.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We love seeing this kind of excitement about getting a Foldscope!
10.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Congratulations to our August Foldscoper of the Month, Nagaraj! 🎉
📸 Follow his work:
• Microcosmos: microcosmos.foldscope.com/author/36Lg6...
10.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adventures In Microscopy: Light up the Lichen!
Lighting makes a big difference! British Soldier lichen (Cladonia cristatella) w/ brightfield vs reflective lighting under a #Foldscope 2.0 at 50X magnification.
#FearlessMicroscopy #MicroscopyOnTheGo #ScienceIsFun #EduSky
09.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Adventures In Microscopy: Sea Lettuce
Sample found on the shore of Owen Beach in Tacoma, WA. It looks like a sheet of green plastic wrap in the water, but under my Foldscope 2.0, the cells pop out! 340X + 5X zoom
#FearlessMicroscopy #STEAM #ScienceIsBeautiful #Foldscope #EduSky
03.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🌱 New Blog Post: Foldscope In The Classroom – In The Garden 7: Return to the Soil 🔬🌾
After a full season of growth, what hidden changes have taken place beneath your plants?
👉 Read the full post:
foldscope.com/blogs/blog/f...
#foldscope #scienceforall #stemeducation #microscopy #soilbiology
03.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Saturday, Sep 9 @unibe.ch opens its doors - experience research yourself!
We will be there with microscopes, plants, and origami microscopes for you to make yourself @teamfoldscope.bsky.social – main building, 2nd floor, room 206/208 – my lecture at 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in room 205 🌾🔬🌵
01.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Cytoskeleton, Biophysics | PhD @ Dogterom lab, TU Delft | BSMS @ Athale lab, IISER Pune
K to 6 #HeForShe Librarian at the Peel District School Board 🇨🇦 Prime Minister's Award Recipient 2024.
Hard Fun, Good Trouble, Learn By Doing.
| #Robots | #MakerSpace | #Comics | #SheInnovates | #InventForGood | #STEM | @MrSchuermann on Twitter
Virginie Hamel & Paul Guichard Lab at University of Geneva
#cryoEM/ET❄️ and #UExM ⚗️ #ExpansionMicroscopy #TeamTomo
Genève, Suisse 🇨🇭
https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/guichard-hamel/overv
Soil microbial ecologist | Assistant Professor at AU 🦅 | SPUN Explorer | Former USP 🇧🇷 Princeton and Stanford 🇺🇸 | She/Her | Views are my own 🌳🦠🍄🧬
Land-use change | Sustainable Agriculture | Amazon | Microplastics
aventurini.com
At the forefront of research into food, the gut microbiome, and human health.
Partnership between Quadram Institute Bioscience, @nnuh.bsky.social , @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
🏳️🌈 Husband to 1, dad of 2.
Journamalissst.
Sandwich fan.
Hoosier in California.
Incorrectly political. Biotech. Low res. biotech. Biohacking. Mol. Bio.. Reluctant interest in IT. Curious. Share/like only imply interest.
https://genomic.social/@cosmicaug
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Zack Gold - Ocean Molecular Ecology lab | co-lead of West Coast OBON |eDNA + marine conservation + oceanography | nature photography. Thoughts and rants are my own 🧬🐟🦐🌊 🧪zackgold.org
Duke University alumn. Virology research specialist in the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️🌈•🖖
Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Microbial Oceanographer
@noc.ac.uk
@ird-fr.bsky.social
www.ocean-bridges.net
Making cells run in circles, and gels with squares in them.
Automated optogenetics, Smart microsopy, Expansion microscopy, GelMap.
Postdoc @ Utrecht University | visualise.bio.
I study #socialfluids. Ponderer of the #behavior of myself & other organisms. #SocialInsects / #DistributedMetabolism / #CollectiveBehavior / #CompBio Assoc. Prof @ University of Cambridge; previously Fribourg, Weizmann, Lausanne, Rockefeller, UCSB.
Microbial ecology 🦠 | Microbiome 👤 👶 🧬 | Postdoc @ DTU
researching on ageing & death
PI UTELife lab, fly wrangler
cofounder/gravedigger @publisciences @publifactory
https://michaelrera.github.io/
Neuroscientist in the making...
PhD student Arber lab
@FMIscience.bsky.social @Biozentrum.bsky.social
MD from @SantAnnaPisa @Unipisa
Neuroscientist interested in X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders; Student of Bharathanatyam, traditional South Indian classical dance form
Our groundbreaking SAFe-nSCAN imaging platform takes biological imaging to a whole new level, advancing spatial biology into the nano-era.
Funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social
