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I will take you though some steps that will help get better looking micrographs. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program ) is a powerful and comprehensive package for image processing, but it comes with a steep learning curve. It does most of the things that Photoshop does (also a steep learning curve) and all for the […]

I managed a couple of successful images with the Waverley Camera Club End of Year competition: The fly image (below) got the Best Colour EDI (digital image) and one I took in 2005 with my first digital SLR won the president’s trophy (subject: wind). And Melbourne Camera club Trophies:

We clarify some details of the unusual structure of the penis of this iconic monotreme.

Sometimes all you have is an image file (perhaps from a scanned publication) and you would like to convert the data points to xy coordinates (maybe you want to try an analysis on someone else’s data). R gives some tools to help. Here is the start of some code:

GenePaint is a digital atlas of gene expression patterns in various tissues and species with strong focus on mouse embryos. The in situ section mages are in amazingly high resolution so you can clearly see which cells express the gene of interest.

Easy map making in R

I’ve added a scan of the cover page for our Reproduction Down Under conference volume in Reproduction, Fertility and Development (Vol 31 part 1, 2019). The cover images and graphic design all from our lab.

I received an envelope today clearly marked “do not bend” and looking like a herd of mastodons had walked over it. Inside was my certificate for my AAPS (Associate of the Australian Photographic Society), “recognising my photographic skill and artistry.” It’s only taken 12 months since I accumulated the necessary complement of international photographic competition […]

Geoff’s Leaf cutter ant photo gets Gold Medal

Anita alerted us to a plover nest at the yards. Even with her clear directions it was hard for me to find the nest (if a few straws lying flat on a flat place can be called a nest) and its 3 highly camouflaged eggs. Here are a couple of photos to show you where […]

Teresa K Woodruff has suggestions that will help improve your writing.

Save processing time and manipulate y our data with ease using the Power Query Editor in Excel

From time to time I get asked to help with a statistical analysis. When I ask for the data I often get a spreadsheet like this. OK, I can read this and sometimes make sense of it, but there are a number of important issues including: With a little bit of learning, this can all […]

Recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics is another marsupial genome, this time it is the iconic koala, a superb effort by a diverse team of specialists including Marilyn. The paper was highlighted by a cover picture on the printed journal and a commentary by Darren J Burgess in the journal: Nat Rev Genet. […]

Jenni has a new Rufford Foundation project in Chile investigating “Winter Huddling and Kinship in the Marsupial Dromiciops gliroides”