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Adam Ulicny

@ulicny.bsky.social

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Ecology of songbirds, R programming, LLM for science Masters student at Charles University Prague Working at Czech University of Life Sciences

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Feb 4

Met some hoopoes in december

Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Carbon Based Lifeforms - Photosynthesis

Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Jan 8

A slightly pointless video of (wild) oyster mushrooms

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Jan 6

European robin
Erithacus rubecula

european robin singing, early morning, perched

Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 30

Yesterday, people of botanical bluesky seemed to enjoy my photo of hydrophobic trichomes, today I'm sharing a picture of the sticky glandular trichomes of a drosera.

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 30

They are! It's a floating fern. That's why it needs the hydrophobic properties on the upper part of it's leaves.

Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thanks! I used my phone as a black reflective platform and lit it with my table lamp. Possibly using a diffuser. For the camera i used a tripod mounted Nikon, either D3200 or 7200 but it doesn't matter much because the sensor is pretty much the same. Also macro rings.

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 29

And finally how these ferns look from below

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 29

Here is another more "intimate" angle

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 29

A drop of water balancing on top of hydrophobic trichomes of the invasive water fern Salvinia molesta.

I split the leaf with a razor in order to get the full detail of the trichome structure.

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 21

Cool stuff! I was only familiar with the macroscopic slimes anyways. So for the non-amoebozoan slimes, what is the convergence you're speaking of? What makes a non-slime slime mold a slime mold?

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 21

This is a slime mold. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa var. porioides. The Coral slime.
The looks and name might hint it's a fungus, but no. Most slime molds belong to amoeboza.
This one can be found all over the world. I took this picture at the tri-border area between Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine.

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Adam Ulicny @ulicny.bsky.social · Nov 20

The buffalo treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia) is an invasive species here in Europe. It is pretty hard to spot as it is less than a centimeter long. More pictures in the replies.