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External Microscopy
forums: Places to discuss the hobby or to
raise queries.
www.photomacrography.net forums, galleries,
articles on macroscopy and
photomicrography.
Yahoo
groups: a 'P'
denotes current and archived messages are
public i.e. not limited to members. Nov.2019. Links updated where known to the latest *.io groups.
Amateur Microscopy
P
(started
November 2008)
Yahoo Diatom Forum P
Microscope P
(>1500 members,
very active)
Wild M20 microscope
microcosmo (for Italian speaking enthusiasts)
CombineZ P
stacking
software forum created by the software's
author
Facebook
groups:
Amateur Microscopy (>6000
members, very active). Also specialist
groups e.g. for users of given maker's
microscopes (e.g. Zeiss, Olympus, Wild,
Vickers). Try a Facebook Group Search
with keywords like microscope or
microscopy
to find these.
Other:
Microbe
hunter the website ably
run by Oliver Kim has built up a popular
and valuable forum with help for both the
beginner and more advanced user.
Listservers:
Algae-L 'Forum for marine,
freshwater and terrestrial algae'. Access
to Archives possible for non-subscribers.
Diatom-L 'Research on the
diatom algae.' Access to Archives for
subscribers only. Link was current March
2016. Many online diatom resources point
to an outdated Indiana Univ. listserver.
(With thanks to Rob Kimmich for the
current link.)
Mikroskopie-Treff.de (Extensive German microscopy
forum; some English categories.)
Mikrobiologische
Vereinigung München e. V.
Wide
range of articles and resources in German.
Le Naturaliste
French
based forum and image gallery for micro /
macro but open to non French speaking
international contributors.
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Other sites (also see Societies
and Clubs page.)
Royal Microscopy
Society
Journal,
'infocus' and other resources for members
and the community.
Quekett
Microscopical Club Journal, Bulletin
and meetings for members.
Light Microscopy Forum
links
and articles
Little Imp
Publications
public
domain books collated by Steve Gill
formerly on CD and now free on Micscape.
Mikroskop Museum German website
with resources on microscopes / makers
.
Molecular Expressions
awesome
optical microscopy resources
Dennis Kunkel's SEM images
stunning
images
Diatoms Ireland - resource site
by Leszek Wolnik
Leitz museum
an
illustrated resource compiled by Robert
Allen
Microbe hunter microscopy
enthusiast website, forum and magazine
edited by Oliver Kim
Microscopies
online
magazine and
Forum
for
French speakers
Micrographia
articles,
projects for the enthusiast
Microscopy Today
journal
with online archive
Modern Microscopy
online
journal by McCrone Group
Fun Science Gallery
projects,
articles on optics in English and Italian.
Independent Generation of
Research (IGoR) - Wiki style
resource for citizen scientists to share
their work.
Lens On Leeuwenhoek - extensive
resource online by Douglas Anderson
Collected Letters of Antoni van
Leeuwenhoek ('Alle de Brieven ..') transcribed and
free online at DBNL.
A Cabinet of Curiosities a resource on
Victorian microscope slides by Howard Lynk
Klaus Kemp's 'Diatoms' website - offers regional
strews and arranged prepared slides of
diatoms, an 8 form test slide, radiolaria,
insect scales etc and prepares arranged
slides on commission.
'Diatoms Ireland' resource by Leszek
Wolnik
Historical makers of
microscopes and microscope slides
Brian Stevenson's extensive
resource .
Victorian slide makers
Cambridge rocking microtome resources
including manual
www.willemsmicroscope.com Dutch
enthusiast Willem Cramer's website
David
Jackson's Better Microscopy blog.
Regularly updated free resources extending
from his 'Better Microscopy' series of
books.
Stefano Barone's Diatom Shop sale of his own
prepared and arranged slides of diatoms,
radiolaria, forams and scales.
www.testslides.com website devoted
to Stefano Barone's Diatom Lab test
slides.
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