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The sea has been singing the same song since 1950. … just a little higher each year. Our new animation plays it back: 1950 → 2050, Europe’s coast by coast. 🌊 Grab it here: s-ink.org/sea-level-ev... #SeaLevelRise #ClimateData 🐡
Sea-level evolution Europe
Projections of annual mean sea-level changes around Europe, referencing a baseline from 1986–2005.
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👀 Looking for useful, especially FREE resources, to make your #poster presentation stand out at #EGU26? Here is a list of five useful and free-to-use resources: '' Betterposter templates'' for effective poster creation and design. 🔗 Download here: egu.eu/2L9PTJ 📸 Rui Fagundes Silva on #imaggeo
Mendeleev dreamt up a table. 150 years later, we are still filling in the gaps – and finally colouring it properly. [No rainbow gradients were harmed.] 🧪⚛️ s-ink.org/discovery-of... #sciart 🐡 📊
Discovery of the Periodic Table of Elements
Periodic Table of Elements showing the years of discovery of each element.
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Spotting some graphics shared via s-ink.org! 🤩🐡
International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 4mo ago🌌 How fast is the Universe expanding? A new international study, born from an ISSI Breakthrough Workshop, offers the sharpest answer yet: PRESS RELEASE: www.issibern.ch/hubble-const... 🔭 @eso.org @nasaupdates.bsky.social @stsci.edu @noirlabastro.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social and others!
Your favourite graphic just got updated: Here’s the colour-vision deficiency friendly periodic table of elements: s-ink.org/periodic-tab... Now including electron configurations and featuring a refined design. ✨
Periodic Table of Elements
Colour-vision deficiency friendly Periodic Table of Elements including atomic numbers, element symbols and names, atomic mass, electron configuration, and period and group.
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QGIS users: ATTENTION! We now have a convenient #QGIS plugin to integrate the latest version of the Scientific colour maps directly into the style manager: plugins.qgis.org/plugins/scie... Shout-out and big thanks to Silvain Théry. ⭐️ Happy mapping, everyone! #UseBatlow 🐡
Scientific Color Maps V8 - Integrates "Scientific color maps V8" into the style manager
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From Earth’s warm heart to its surface glow, Heat flows like time, constant in its flow, ~46 TW from below. New year, new graphics to make hidden mysteries known, Open, clear, and accessible to now call our own! ❤️🔥 s-ink.org/earth-intern...
I wrote a piece for @egu.eu about academic evaluation and how the resulting incentives for academics are destructive. I think it can be done better. 🕸️ But only if you want it, too. 🫶 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sm... #Academia #AcademicEvaluation #ScienceMetrics #ProAc
Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact
The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. We...
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Planets show their public-domain dance, from the Sun to the Kuiper’s icy expanse. Even the Oort Cloud’s a sketch away, feel free to remix, reprint, or simply display! 🔭 The #SolarSystem: s-ink.org/outer-solar-...
Outer Solar System - s-Ink · accessible science graphics
Illustration of the outer Solar System, including the Sun, rocky planets, asteroid belt, gas planets, Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud.
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Over 5,000 worlds we’ve seen beyond our sky, Some could host life, some just float by! 🌍🪐 Gas giants, lava lands, icy charms, The universe is full of alien farms! 👽✨ #Exoplanets! s-ink.org/known-exopla... 🔭
Exoplanets
The collection of known Exoplanets represented based on their date of detection and their relative size to scale.
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Over 5,000 worlds we’ve seen beyond our sky, Some could host life, some just float by! 🌍🪐 Gas giants, lava lands, icy charms, The universe is full of alien farms! 👽✨ #Exoplanets! s-ink.org/known-exopla... 🔭
Exoplanets
The collection of known Exoplanets represented based on their date of detection and their relative size to scale.
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A #map unfolds, where #data intertwines, #Earth's stories told through vibrant, clear designs. #Accessible, #intuitive, and #true, A world revealed in every shaded hue. s-ink.org/plate-tecton...
Plate tectonic map
Visually accessible and scientifically accurate global map of key plate tectonics characteristics on the Earth.
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Sprichst du Deutsch?! …🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 🇲🇽🇨🇴🇪🇸🇦🇷… Hablas español? The scientific graphic design guideline is now also available in #German and #Spanish ! s-ink.org/science-grap...
Graphic design guideline
Supporting guideline for designing a science figure that has a clear purpose from Crameri and Perez-Diaz (2025).
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A #map unfolds, where #data intertwines, #Earth's stories told through vibrant, clear designs. #Accessible, #intuitive, and #true, A world revealed in every shaded hue. s-ink.org/plate-tecton...
Plate tectonic map
Visually accessible and scientifically accurate global map of key plate tectonics characteristics on the Earth.
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Do you make scientific figures? Then check out this handy little guide that @fabiocrameri.ch and I have put together for our editorial piece in the newest volume of @wearetektonika.bsky.social ✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!
Graphic design guideline
Supporting guideline for designing a science figure that has a clear purpose from Crameri and Perez-Diaz (2025).
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🆕 #Tektonika Volume 2 Issue 2 is now complete and online ! A great editorial by @fabiocrameri.ch and @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social "The Evolving Role of Science Visuals in Geoscience: From Simple Illustrations to Storytelling Tools", and 9 papers on various subjects. ⚒️ tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
In terms of effective poster design… 😯 📊
Natasha Latouf@nertushka.bsky.social · 2y agoIt me!!! Come find me to learn more about BARBIE :)
I wrote a short piece for @geolsoc.bsky.social Geoscientist Magazine 🌋 🌍 ✏️ Learn how to draw audiences into your science through illustration > geoscientist.online/sections/une...
Draw them in - GEOSCIENTIST
They say a picture speaks louder than a thousand words, and it might… but what if it is speaking in a foreign language? When communicating geoscience through graphics, are we favouring our own needs t...
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Beneath the waves, where secrets sleep, #Geomagnetic whispers their patterns keep. Through spreading crust, #Earth's story's told, #Art and #science shared, a treasure bold. s-ink.org/magnetic-sea... 🐡 📊 #earth-science
Magnetic Seafloor Anomalies
Global map of magnetic anomalies imprinted onto the seafloor of the Earth in form of characteristic stripes and other patterns.
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In verdant fields, where #knowledge grows, Each #crop 's design its wisdom shows. Shared in graphics, clear and free, Seeds of progress for all to see. 💚
Julia Schroeder@juliaschroeder.bsky.social · 2y agoI am a soil ecologist 🦠🧬🖤 But design is also one of my passions! Here is my collection of crops and cover crops 🌱 s-ink.org/crops-and-co... The collection is available under CC BY_NC_SA 4.0 licence via @s-ink.org
#Pangea, the jigsaw #Earth so grand, Once fit together, all hand in hand! Now we puzzle the pieces with tectonic flair, Rebuilding a world that's no longer there… s-ink.org/pangea #earth-science 📊
Pangea
Reconstruction of the supercontinent Pangea (or Pangaea) that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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While #Earth's crust is shifting during continental #rifting, doesn’t #sharing this animation makes the #science uplifting?! 🤩 The amazing model animation by Sascha Brune and Derek Neuharth has been updated with clear annotations for easier understanding: s-ink.org/continental-...
Continental rift evolution (animation)
Continental rift evolution—from inception to breakup—accounting for surface processes and tectonic deformation.
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What says more than one accurate & accessible #science #graphic? – Multiple ones! s-ink.org/series #SciArt #DataViz 📊
s-ink Series
The more the merrier: entire series of accurate and accessible graphics for science projects and initiatives.
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New on s-ink.org: Big clumps of our Solar System. All radii to scale. Sun Mercury Venus Earth & Moon Mars Jupiter & Ganymede & Callisto & Io & Europa Saturn & Titan & Rhea Uranus & Titania Neptune & Triton Pluto & Charon Eris Naumea Makemake Gonggong s-ink.org/planetary-bo...
Planetary body sizes
Artistic compilation of the sun, planets, dwarf planets, and the largest moons of our solar system. All planetary radii are to scale.
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#Earthquakes are everywhere. They could be on your wall too…😉 s-ink.org/earthquake-d... @earthquake.bsky.social #earth-science
Earthquake map
Global map of seismicity designed by Fabio Crameri showing the distribution of large 5.8+ magnitude historic earthquakes derived from seismic wave measurements.
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