When I want to lift my mood and restore faith in humanity I browse #BikeSky
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm not here for politics, I'm here to see posts from people who did things with a bike that society says you need a car for.
Dorota Paczesniak
@dorotdesigns.bsky.social
Scientific illustrator, biologist (PhD) 🇵🇱 in 🇫🇮 Drawing to explain and inspire Commissions open https://linktr.ee/dorotdesigns she/her
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2d agoThis summer I made a lot of vocabulary cards to learn new words in Finnish 🇫🇮 I learned a lot and had a fun drawing practice too. Do you know any of them?
It is with great sadness that I learned about the passing of Prof. Graham Scoles. He will be remembered for his contributions to plant genomics and agricultural research, and as a kind mentor and teacher to many students and scientists www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...
Graham John Scoles Obituary Jun 12, 2026 - Saskatoon Funeral Home
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"Birds of a feather flock together". But sometimes, the unlikeliest of pairs form lasting bonds. Take mutually beneficial symbioses in nature between animals, animals and bacteria or plants and bacteria. Or even humans and bacteria! 🧪🧵 #Evolution #EvoKE #InternationalFriendshipDay #Animalsymbiosis
We have a great creative team at #EvoKE, with whom I also collaborate. Follow us here and on other social media platforms to help us reach more people and make #evolution something everyone can understand and connect with 🧪
EvoKE@evokeproject.bsky.social · 2w agoMeet the #EvoKE Communications Team 📣 We have different backgrounds and a shared passion for evolution education and science outreach 🧵1/10 #EvolutionEducation
Found a lots of twin-sailed Salp (sea squirt) washed up on beaches around mendocino this past week. Only had some vague clue what they might be as I half remembered this thread. Read the thread for their totally crazy life cycle.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · last yr.I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊
Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social is a freelance scientific illustrator and consultant with a background in evolutionary biology - see full bio in ALT TEXT 4/10
Paleontology term from the native Siberians: Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them a name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become the word MAMMOTH! 📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia
What do pea plants have to do with evolution? 🌱 More than you might think. Gregor Mendel's careful experiments uncovered the rules of inheritance, explaining how traits are passed from one generation to the next. Gregor Mendel was born #OTD in 1822! 🧪 #GregorMendel #Evolution #Genetics #EvoKE
Great to see this paper out - an important perspective on ecosystem connectivity. I’m grateful for the opportunity to help with the visuals! 🧪 I can help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics - get in touch
Florian Altermatt@florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 3w ago#Cross-#ecosystem #biodiversity action is systemically #overlooked in biodiversity #policy and treaties⚖️: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🌐 🌍 🎯 🦐 🍃 #IPBES #BiodiversityPolicy #GBF #KunmingMontreal 🧵1/8
I did not expect to have my mind blown by the podcast episode about earwax. But there you go, @tpwky.bsky.social never cease to amaze! No spoilers, but the bit about whales 🐋 is so cool
This Podcast Will Kill You@tpwky.bsky.social · 4w agoIn keeping with a theme of “bodily excretions that are kinda gross but are actually important”, we’re devoting this episode to earwax. We manage to weave together stories of earwax impaction, misadventures in ear candling, glimpses of earwax in art history, and a whale of a tale of cetacean cerumen.
Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.
My Potamopyrgus antipodarum snail silhouette is now also available to download from #WikimediaCommons - free to use and modify #CCBY commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po... 🧪🐡
How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky
Tagging my favourite co-authors @maurineneiman.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social @clively.bsky.social
EvoKE@evokeproject.bsky.social · last mo.On this day in 1858, the scientific world first heard the idea of evolution by natural selection from a joint presentation by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace at a meeting of the Linnean Society in London. It is a case of integrity and collaboration (thread below 👇) #Evolution #EvoKE #OTD 🧪
EvoKE Webinar – Special Edition Instead of our usual webinar format, our next session will bring together researchers, educators, curriculum developers, and anyone interested in evolution education to co-create a collaborative publication #EvoKE #Evolution #EduSky 🧪 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3SOwelR
It’s the wild strawberry season here in the south of Finland 🍓
Do you know about the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social? A great resource for nature-related collaborative work, with biodiversity literature and images made publicly available. www.biodiversitylibrary.org Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères. 🧪🌍🪶🦊
It's really quite sad how open access used to be presented as the moral thing to do that would disrupt publishing, and in the end, it became a way for publishers to extract more money from universities.
In all the countries where I can read the news, disabled & chronically ill people are being talked about & treated like easy targets/acceptable losses/just garbage rn. I need non-disabled/chronically healthy people to understand: Historically, we're the canaries in the coal mine. You'll be next…
My new illustration comparing reproductive structures between angiosperms and gymnosperms www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
New botanical illustrations | Forest Genomics | University of Helsinki
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I’m used to saying ”male” or ”female” flowers, or calling anthers the male part and pistil the female part of a flower. But accurate scientific vocabulary is so important! I agree with the argument that plants are much more complex than the binary categories we borrow from human perspective
EvoKE@evokeproject.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlants have been reproducing their own way for hundreds of millions of years. So why do we keep describing them in human terms? Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE #EduSky 🧪
There’s a bigger idea here, too. The categories humans use to organize nature are never neutral and never complete. They reflect who we are and how we see the world. And when we forget that, we risk mistaking our map for the territory
Plants have been reproducing their own way for hundreds of millions of years. So why do we keep describing them in human terms? Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE #EduSky 🧪
🧠 “Isn’t homosexuality an evolutionary disadvantage because it doesn’t directly produce offspring?” The simple answer is: No. At first glance, that seems logical. But evolution is rarely that simple (thread 👇) #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE 🧪
