Such an ingenious, informative and fun figure! From a new review on the origins of allopolyploids, where the origins are conceptualized as alternative routes through a maze, comprising a sequence of events🧪
A photo of Hepatica nobilis on the forest floor.The flowers are purple with many small white anthers, and the ground around is mostly bare with a few green leaves in the background
A photo of Anemone nemorosa, a small white flower among the last years fallen leaves
It’s the spring flower season in the south of Finland #bloomscrolling
Are you interested in evolution education? An upcoming webinar from @evokeproject.bsky.social will explore how museums and science centres can support public understanding of #evolution 🧪
A fragment of a scientific illustration comparing seed development in angiosperms and gymnosprms
Oh what joy to draw seed development again for this recent illustration! I’m open for commissions so do get in touch if you need scientific illustrations, infographics or other visuals 🐡 🧪
Congratulations! 🧪
I got some sourdough starter from my sister in law, so crusty loaves are coming soon!
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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A fragment of a scientific illustration comparing seed development in angiosperms and gymnosprms
Oh what joy to draw seed development again for this recent illustration! I’m open for commissions so do get in touch if you need scientific illustrations, infographics or other visuals 🐡 🧪
Congratulations to Dr. Maurine Neiman, recipient of the 2025 ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! She will present her work during the IDEA Award plenary at the virtual Evolution meeting this May. #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @maurineneiman.bsky.social
The intuitive understanding of species is like putting each in its own little drawer. The biological continuum is hard to wrap your head around, even for biologists. A nice thread on species concepts 👇
Congratulations! This is wonderful 🐌, a well deserved recognition ❤️
All participants heard the same lecture. Half read a relatable backstory for the lecturer; the others were told that the voice was AI generated. The backstory fostered a greater sense of personal connection, which translated into greater curiosity to learn more about the 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤.
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Yes, same :) I’m looking forward to it 🐌
Congratulations Dr!!! Thanks for sharing your journey
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A screenshot of a slide. The title is "Open access: death of a dream". On the left hand side is the title and abstract of a paper published in 2021 estimating the actual costs of publishing an academic paper as between $200 and $1000 dollars, with high-profile journals with high rejection rates being towards the upper end and $400 being the cost for an "average" paper. On the right is a table of glamour mags and their APCs: $11400 for Cell, $12850 for Nature and all the hybrid Nature XX journals, $7350 for Nature communications, $7170 for the Lancet and $7030 for Current Biology.
I'm writing a talk on the current problems with scientific publishing. It's getting harder and harder to avoid just screaming at the computer. Here's a typical slide 🧪
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
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Reproductive investment and phosphorus availability 👇🧪
🧪 for the science feed visibility
What’s your sign?
Dinosaur Desert Book
A Polish lady doing graffiti of P in war torn Warsaw
From the Dinosaur book, reflections of Soviet inaction in Warsaw Uprising
I was campaigning to highlight achievements of Polish Women in Palaeontology. And bang, here's a children's book about this very topic. 🧵
Rarely you come across books covering both, turbulent Polish history.
The fresh hell of LLMs
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Table of contents from “Practical computing for biologists” by Haddock and Dunn
In my postdoc times I used “Practical computing for biologists” by Haddock and Dunn - short table of contents in the photo. It has good examples and exercises. I don’t know anything newer though, this is from 2011
I recently worked with @amarques.bsky.social to make illustrations and finalize figures for three scientific publications focusing on the evolution and function of holocentric chromosomes
I can also help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics 🧪🐡
Omg, thanks for sharing! Such joy
text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water
text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco
text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem
text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"
Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social
Oh, that’s a great idea for another version, with earthworms, barnacles, and orchids 🪱
A comic-style portrait of Charles Darwin dreaming about the tree of life Illustration by Dorota Paczesniak
#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡
Reposting to the science feed 🧪