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Hop in the microverse with me! 🚀 Microbiologist based in Montréal ••• for collabs 💌 @wominute 🏳️‍🌈 is my personal page

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Still no boys in my yard 🫡 What an explosion of bubbles, right??? These bubbles you see are fat globules, which make up only about 4% of breast milk. The rest, in mature human milk, is roughly 87% water, 7% carbohydrates (mostly lactose), and 1% protein. The composition can vary depending on many factors, including what the mother eats and the stage of feeding. Usually, at the beginning, there’s a bit more water, and toward the end, the milk becomes fattier. Colostrum — the first milk produced after birth — is lower in fat but richer in proteins and hormones that the baby needs for growth, as well as antibodies that protect against infections. It’s often called the baby’s first vaccine! 💉 You can also see some bacteria in there — tiny round-shaped ones called cocci, and rod-shaped ones, like lactobacilli, which are commonly found in the milk of breastfeeding women. They’re thought to help establish the baby’s microbiome, along with bacteria from vaginal secretions. According to some studies, bacteria in breast milk might even come from the mother’s digestive tract, though more research is still needed to confirm this! Video taken with my iPhone mounted on an Olympus BX53 microscope with an @ilabcam adapter 🔬 @evidentmicroscopy #biology #science #microscope #artist #health #medical #scientist #reel #life #reels #doctor #art #nurse #milk #reelitfeelit #reels #human #education #breastcancer #breastmilk #breastfeeding #facts #microbiology #feminism #women #feminist #reelsinstagram #beautiful #bubbles 26 Oct 2025

Behind the scenes, where curiosity and passion come together to illuminate the unknown 🌟🔬 . . . Merci @al.xtran d’être un ami aussi précieux ❤️‍🔥 01 Nov 2023

Is this a plant or an animal? Because it definitely looks like a micro tree! 🌿 Even if they do look like plants, these microbes are single cell organisms called ciliates from the Carchesium polypinum species. Every bell-shaped dots from this tree you see is one individual. Together, all of these dots form a colony! Carchesium colonies are more related to animals than plants even if they look like little trees. These microbes can be found around the globe, mainly in freshwater ponds and lakes but are also used in sewage treatment. A couple of marine species have also been found! Carchesium are cousins of Vorticella, they are both Peritrich ciliates, and share many characteristics: they’re both mainly sessile, possess an elongated contractile stalk, are bell shaped and eat looots of bacteria. Carchesium possess thousands of tiny cilia that create a water vortex drawing food particles toward the colony. They usually eat bacteria, phytoplankton and debris that are floating around them. The stalks of these tree animals have the ability to contract like springs in a matter of 10-20 mm per second and becomes 20% to 40% shorter as their bell becomes spherical! The bell part of these ciliates can reach a speed up to 60-90 mm per second which is corresponding to 1200 body length per second and makes them one the fastest living organisms! Even if Carchesium polypinum is quite a primitive being, its life cycle is pretty complex. There’s a sessile colonial stage with contractile stalks, as seen in today’s clips, but theres also a free-swimming stage that enables migration and two free-swimming sexual forms for reproduction and gene exchange 😄 Video taken with my iPhone mounted on a BA310E Motic microscope with an @ilabcam ultra adapter 🔬 09 Jul 2023

Throwback to @clayfacemovie Canada premiere in Toronto 🩸🔬 Accompanied by my partner in crime @arianne_fulfuljambon 💜 #wbpartner 08 Nov 2026

@clayfacemovie OUT NOW!!! 🩸 A huge thank you to starring actor Tom Rhys Harries and film director James Watkins for diving headfirst into my scientific adventures with so much curiosity and enthusiasm! 👩🏻‍🔬🧫 Want to see more CLAY under the microscope?? More FACE?? Tell me in the comments🤠 #WBPartner #clayface #warnerbros #science #microscope 06 Nov 2026

There’s a whole microscopic world behind every loaf of sourdough bread! 🍞🔬 Our friend Chloé Savard, also known as @tardibabe, takes us under the microscope to explore the science of sourdough. Those large, colorful shapes are tiny grains of wheat starch. Even smaller living things, like yeast and bacteria, help make sourdough possible! Sourdough starts with a mixture of flour and water called a starter. Over time, yeast and bacteria grow in the mixture. Together, they help turn simple ingredients into delicious bread through a process called fermentation. Here’s how it works! Enzymes in the flour break starch into smaller sugars. Yeast feeds on these sugars and releases a gas called carbon dioxide. This gas forms bubbles in the dough, making the bread rise. Meanwhile, bacteria make acids that give sourdough its tangy flavor. These acids also help slow the growth of some germs that can spoil bread. And here’s something cool: sourdough starters can have different kinds of yeast and bacteria! The flour, temperature, amount of water, and how often a starter is fed can all affect which microbes grow. These tiny differences can change how the bread tastes and how quickly it rises. Humans were making flatbread at least 14,400 years ago, and we’re still learning about the science behind it today! Who knew so much science went into a single slice of bread? 🍞 #Microscope #Bread #Science #Microscopic #Microscopy 03 Nov 2026

Babies are moving inside their eggs 🥹 Under the microscope, tardigrades reveal a surprisingly complex anatomy. They have a head with a brain, a mouth, and eyes! Four pairs of clawed legs also line their segmented body, inside which muscles, a stomach, and energy-storing cells can be observed. No need for a heart or lungs! Gas exchange occurs directly through their cuticle, while the internal distribution of oxygen relies on the movement of fluids and energy-storing cells. Much like human skin, the tardigrade’s cuticle acts as a protective barrier against external threats and helps reduce water loss. However, this chitin-based cuticle is completely shed and replaced throughout the tardigrade’s life cycle, whereas human skin gradually renews itself through the shedding of epithelial cells. Contrary to popular belief, tardigrades are neither immortal nor indestructible. Yet some species seem to defy the very laws of nature. In the living world, two main strategies are thought to have evolved to help organisms survive hostile conditions. The first involves remaining active while adjusting their metabolism to environmental changes. The second, far more drastic, involves entering a state of dormancy, where time seems to stand still and metabolic activity comes almost entirely to a halt. Of course, water bears have chosen this second strategy, relying on a phenomenon known as cryptobiosis, which literally means “hidden life” in Greek. It is in this reversible state, resembling a tiny dried-out cyst, that the extraordinary superpowers of water bears truly lie. 26 Oct 2026

They found you first 😜 Did you know that we’re composed of as much bacteria than human cells??? Not only do we shelter billions of bacteria but also yeasts and even…. TINY MITES... Yes yes! You read well, there are microscopic animals crawling on your skin, and especially on your face! They kinda looks like tardigrades with a beaver tail, don’t you think? There are two species of Demodex found on humans: Demodex folliculorum, which lives in hair follicules, and Demodex brevis, which prefers the comfort of sebaceous glands. Demodex, also called face mites, eyelash mites or skin mites, usually measure from 0.2 mm to 0.4 mm in length, making them invisible to the naked eye. Like most monsters, they wait until nightfall to get out of their caves (AKA yo face) to crawl, copulate and munch on skin cells, oils and potential pathogens and hormones. There’s a myth about face mites not possessing an anus, and I might even contributed spreading it 😬 but BEHOLD! THEY CAN POOP! Inside out those beautiful pores of yours 🌞 I can hear you scream from afar: « tardi, are face mites dangerous??? »! Quick answer’s no! Well, in most cases... You see, if your immune system is working normally then you should already feel safer. It really is when the density of mites on your face is too high that they can cause problems. That being said, there are safe treatment options! To finish this post I’d just like to mention you that a study found out that every adult human had face mites (probably some exceptions lol) and that TONS of other mammals have their own Demodex species! For example, Demodex canis live on dogs, Demodex musculi on mice and Demodex bovis on cattle 🐮 18 Oct 2026

𝐴̀ 𝑙𝑎 𝑑𝑒́𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑒 🔬 Assistez à la conférence-démonstration « À la découverte du microcosme ». Plongez dans l’univers du minuscule sous les lentilles du microscope de Chloé Savard, alias @tardibabe sur Instagram. Heures des représentations : 🕛 10h30 🕛 14h30 Inscrivez-vous : https://museenaturesciences.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/a-la-decouverte-du-microcosme-inclut-lacces-aux-expositions Faites vite, les places sont limitées! Activité incluse dans la tarification régulière du Musée Cet événement est co-organisé par Neurosciences Sherbrooke et le Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke dans le cadre de la Semaine de la culture scientifique. Les activités du Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke présentées lors de la Semaine de la culture scientifique sont possibles grâce à la participation financière du gouvernement du Québec, par l’entremise du programme NovaScience du Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie du Québec. 📸 Savoir Média 07 Oct 2026

Every time you swim in a mountain lake, you're sharing the water with thousands of microbes you never see. 🔬 Our friend Chloé Savard, also known as @tardibabe, took a closer look, and it turns out that alpine water is packed with desmids, ciliates, and water fleas, all going about their business at a scale most of us never think to look at. The stars of the show are Micrasterias, a genus of desmid, single-celled green algae built like tiny symmetrical snowflakes. Each cell is split into two mirror-image halves called semicells, connected at a narrow waist. When a Micrasterias divides, each half grows a brand new matching semicell to replace the one it left behind. Alongside them is a Closterium, another desmid, but elongated and curved like a crescent moon. Closterium cells often carry visible crystals of barium sulfate inside vacuoles at each end, structures thought to help the cell sense gravity and orient itself in the water. Then there's the ciliate glowing with yellow-green flecks scattered through its body, that's zoochlorellae, symbiotic algae living inside a single cell, a partnership where the algae photosynthesize and share sugars with their host in exchange for shelter. And weaving through nearly every frame are the Chydoridae, a family of tiny water fleas that prefer to live and forage along the benthic zone, the bottom layer of ponds and lakes, rather than out in open water. Look closely and you can catch one carrying a cluster of eggs along for the ride. Next time you swim in a mountain lake, remember: you were never really swimming alone. #science #microscope #microscopy #biology #microorganisms 24 Sep 2026

Most people's morning starts with a cup of coffee. Ours started with a cup of coffee under a microscope. ☕🔬 Our friend Chloé Savard, also known as @tardibabe on Instagram, zoomed in and found a whole universe brewing in there. Those first jagged brown shards are just the roasted grounds, tiny fragments of a plant cell wall, packed with the oils and pigments produced during roasting. That deep color and smell come courtesy of the Maillard reaction, a chemical exchange between sugars and amino acids. Roasting traps carbon dioxide inside the bean, so the moment water hits the grounds, that gas comes rushing out, a process baristas call degassing. Some of those coffee bubbles get a natural assist from the coffee's own oils, which act as a surfactant and let them hold their shape long enough for us actually to see them. The shimmer on those coffee bubbles is a thin-film interference, the same physics that makes soap bubbles rainbow-colored. Light bounces off both the outside and inside of the paper-thin bubble wall, and those two reflections overlap and cancel each other out in different ways depending on the wall's thickness. That's why the color shifts as you look across a single bubble. Lastly, those gold flecks drifting through the coffee? Just suspended coffee oil and fine particulates, catching the light like sediment in a snow globe. All of that, quietly happening, in the ten minutes it takes most of us to drink it. #microscope #coffee #science #microscopic #microscopy 17 Sep 2026

Here’s to A THOUSAND POSTS 🥳🎊 6 years after starting this page, I never thought I’d be able to live from microscopy, it’s a dream come true ✨ here’s to a thousand more posts! To celebrate, I present you Micrasterias, one of my favourite microscopic algae, which name’s literally means « little star » 🥹 These microscopic stars are unicellular green algae are from the Desmidiacee family! There are around 40 species of Micrasterias and they all have unique star shapes. Desmids can be found in various morphologies and present diverse cell wall ornamentations which are characteristics that are crucial to identify and classify them. Although desmids look like two identical cells joined together, they’re two demi-cells, meaning they’re unicellular! They caught the attention of early microscopist because of their diversity and complex symmetry which makes them very aesthetically pleasing. Micrasterias has two large chloroplasts, one in each semi-cells, for photosynthesis! Just as land plants, these algae are able to use carbon dioxide, water and sunlight into carbohydrates for energy. Their DNA is located right between the two semicells, in a structure called isthmus. These beautiful green algae can be found around the globe and are common in freshwater ponds, streams and lakes with moderate nutrient concentrations but are also often abundant in bogs and peatlands. Video taken with my iPhone mounted on an Olympus BX53 microscope with an @ilabcam adapter🔬 15 Sep 2026

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