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I'm an evolutionary ecologist with a PhD who studies birds & who writes about all sorts of #science topics (links to these pieces will pop up here).
I think it's my duty to write about politics, such as #HumanRights #progressivism and #ecocide, as well as philosophical topics, such as #AnimalRights & #veganism.
I 'm an avid reader who writes #BookReviews. I'm #multilingual.
I live with a flock of #parrots.
#introduction #SciComm #ornithology #conservation #Wildlife #Animals #GoVegan #books
Do you love tardigrades? We love tardigrades! And thanks to nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren and a citizen science project, we now have NINE new species of tardigrade to love. Congratulations!
smithsonianmag.com/science-natโฆ
#PPOD: This stunning photograph captures the most violent moment during an eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile. Volcanic lightning occurs in the plumes of eruptions when volcanic ash particles collide, generating static electricity. Additionally, water vapor in the plume condenses and freezes as it rises, adding ice to the mix. And voila! The eventual electrical discharge causes lightning. Credit: Francisco Negroni, francisconegroni.com/index
#photography #volcano #science #scicomm
Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.
Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.
Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:
journals.plos.org/plosone/artiโฆ
Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion
Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper receives.journals.plos.org
Wonderful! I love the runner-up, 'The Scholar's Dream', on browntail moths, to the music of Saint-Saรซns' Danse Macabre: youtube.com/watch?v=SFwRMZKODbโฆ
Overview & other category winners here: science.org/content/article/kaโฆ
#DanceYourPhD #moth #kangaroo #epigenetics #circadian #dance #zoology #science #SciComm #SocialScience #biology #chemistry #physics
The Scholar's Dream- Dance Your PhD 2024 [๐ก๐พ๐ท๐ท๐ฎ๐ป-๐ค๐น]
[2/27/2024: I had a sudden jump in views- turns out my video was a runner-up for Science's Dance your PhD and "might have won the whole thing if not up again...YouTube
Sorry I missed this symposium at the #Denver #AAASmtg. If thereโs interest, I can send the transcript of a similar event during the 2019 #Tennessee #STEAM Festival; โFrom Plato to #CRISPR : Communicating #Science through Story-telling.โ #STEAMfest #SciComm
codrescu.com/happeningsappearaโฆ
From Plato to CRISPR: Communicating Science through Storytelling โ Andrei Codrescu
Third Annual Tennessee STEAM Festival @Middle Tennessee University Through his talk, From Plato to CRISPR , Andrei brings light and heat to the space between science and artAndrei Codrescu
University-hosted instance social.uibk.ac.at: We are continuing to increase our presence here on Mastodon for science communication. By establishing our own instance, we aim to contribute to a positive development of the #Fediverse.
We are thus (further) limiting our involvement on X.
Organizational units of the University of Innsbruck are welcome to use the instance social.uibk.ac.at!
Details and support: uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2023/unโฆ
University of Innsbruck focuses on Mastodon
The communications team at the University of Innsbruck will increasingly rely on the microblogging service Mastodon for science communication.www.uibk.ac.at
A new episode of the EMBO podcast is out. I spoke with Hsiao-Han Chang, Gytis Dudas, and Hedvig Tamman about viruses, hosts, spillovers, public health... And also starting a new lab, the challenges of mobility, mentorship, and Die Hard Dracula.
#EMBOPodcast #scicomm #SciencePodcast #Virology #Evolution #Microbiology
embo.org/podcasts/its-viruses-โฆ
Itโs viruses all the way down: a conversation with Hsiao-Han Chang, Gytis Dudas, and Hedvig Tamman โ
As COVID-19 and flu season descends, we talk with three new research group leaders who work on host-virus interactions.Thiago Carvalho (EMBO)
The name is Costa, James Costa; or, how The Inquisitive Biologist is getting ready for a #Wallace triptych. Reviews coming soon to inquisitivebiologist.com
@princetonupress @princetonnature
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Scicomm
"It's important to remember that the 'drugs' aren't just the pills we stash in our medicine cabinets. Ask yourself this: is it really acceptable that we only bothered to test sex differences for general anesthesia in 1999? Turns out women wake up faster than men, regardless of their age, weight or the dosage they've been given."
From Cat Bohannon's highly recommended book Eve.
#Books #SciComm #Bookshelf #bookstodon
#Archaeology #SciComm #WomenInScience #Animals
#archaeology #animals #scicomm
Thanks @Helmholtz_HZI for the nice press release to accompany our study out now in @CurrentBiology: helmholtz-hzi.de/en/news-eventโฆ
If you are a science communicator and have questions or are interested in covering our work - please get in touch! #SciComm #eDNA #PressRelease #NewPaper #Animals @Helmholtz_HIOH @unigreifswald
Detecting a vast diversity of rainforest animals by swabbing their DNA from leaves
Monitoring wildlife species present in specific areas is a critical first step to estimating the risk of transmission of infectious diseases to humansHelmholtz Centre for Infection Research
PodcastData counts 4,205,339 #podcasts.๐ฒ That's why I don't feel bad about pausing my #podcast without notice.
The cancer of my dog Bilbo has left me completely out of the lurch in my creative work. There's plenty of competition for you to listen to.
The good news: I'm now restored enough to work on a new episode for the end of the month. Stay tuned to #NatureMatchCuts, will you? โถ๏ธ naturematchcuts.net #ReconnectingWithNature #kinship #nature #ecology #moreThanHuman #SciComm #NatureWriting
โThousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst & uncertainty.โ
That survey with only a 5% response rate went viral & got me wondering about other evidence & how the #ScienceTwitter #MastodonMigration was panning out.
So I updated my study tracker & wrote a new post @PLOS : absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/โฆ
tl;dr There's been a big recent surge here; the future of #ScienceMastodon looks bright; ScienceX is materially diminished tho the network is still there.
How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe
โThousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.โ And Mastodon was the most common destination if they openedโฆHilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
In case you missed it, this was a great conversation with Pavel Tomancak & @tlemberger for the #EMBOPodcast.
Everything from the early days of open science to tips on classic Czech science fiction.
#EMBOPodcast #SciComm #SciencePodcast #DevelopmentalBiology
embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-โฆ
Who reviews the reviewers? โ Podcast โ EMBO
An interview with Pavel TomancakThiago Carvalho (EMBO)
While we are still trying to find ways to clean up problems like oil spills in the ocean, microorganisms in the seas have their own insights to impart.
Oil rich soil from the Guaymas Basin has provided German scientists understanding of a mechanism by which archaea in the Alkanophaga break down alkane molecules and thus degrade petroleum through oxidation.
#Remediation #Bioremediation #Oil #Petroleum #Archaea #Alkanophaga #Science #Biology #Scicomm
nature.com/articles/s41564-023โฆ
Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes - Nature Microbiology
Oil-rich deep-sea sediments are used to culture syntrophic communities of archaea and bacteria that pair petroleum alkane oxidation to sulfide generation.Nature
Our universe is rippling with waves caused by massive events, such as merging black holes. Up until yesterday, we didnโt have any evidence of long-wavelength, โbackgroundโ #GravitationalWaves. But now @nanograv has announced a detection! A network of pulsars measured very carefully has revealed a faint hum in spacetime itself. Though luckily you donโt need pulsars to detect these cookies, a mouth works just fine ๐
#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science
I am literally finishing a dissertation on how scientific information has been valued & prioritized by Congressional staffers from the 20th century through the Biden administration.
So for now Iโll just say, if youโre interested in the relationships between #science policy, #ClimateChange, lobbyists, researchers, media & #scicomm, stay tunedโฆ /2
As a scientist who studies #science policy & risk communication, as a science journalist who has been writing in popular outlets about #ClimateChange & #scicomm for 20 years, & as a former congressional staffer focused on #climate & #energy policy in the early 2000sโฆ This article is frustrating.
โScientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seasโ
Anyone still using Biorender and getting tired of their pricing model?
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Free, open source health icons. Use in your next commercial or personal project. Editing is ok. Republishing is ok. No need to give credit.Health icons
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BOTH of those are 'buried' under a layer of AIR.
The 'atmosphere' is invisible, so it's easy to ignore, but we are all SUBSURFACE dwellers...
#Science
#SciComm
#Atmosphere
#Aerodynamics
Please consider donating to the following collectives from #LatinAmerica โค๏ธ, which are helping to build a more #sustainable and ethical web.
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A #SciComm initiative. Currently, running mastodon and peertube servers.
en.liberapay.com/niboe
๐ข Compudanzas
A research project supporting the low-tech computing collective Archipielago Uno. Currently running an akkoma server.
liberapay.com/compudanzas
๐ฒ 1 dollar makes a big difference.
Feel free to #boost 
compudanzas's profile - Liberapay
compudanzas is a research project exploring alternative modes of learning and creating computation.Liberapay
NEW EPISODE!
We had a great time this week. We talk about #Centipedes, #Mushrooms, and #Amoebas.
There's also a shout-out to @openscience in this week's show.
podbean.com/media/share/pb-nrzโฆ
#Nature #Strange #Weird #Oddity #Fungus #Science #scicomm #Podcast #Caves #Naturalist
What's the best way to debunk a misleading graph? ๐
A new study suggests that providing an "accurate alternative" is most effective.
Misleading graphs can omit baselines to exaggerate differences and cherry-pick sections of data to hide greater trends. The other methods tested included providing a warning arrow pointing to the issue or an educational or general text warning next to the graph.
doi.org/10.22323/2.21070207
#SciComm #ResearchIntegrity #Misinformation #Science @academicchatter
Debunking strategies for misleading bar charts
Graphs are useful to communicate concisely about complex issues. Although they facilitate intuitive reading of data, trends, and predictions, hasty readers may still come to the wrong conclusions, especially if graphs are misleading due to violated dโฆJCOM - The Journal of Science Communication
#Introduction Reintroducing to the new friends here.
I'm Marisa, the voice behind MySciVoice. Genetics Lab Scientist, dwelving into #SciComm and passionate about (sci)art.
One of my initiatives is an animation series on the impact of Genetics on Human Health.
If you want to know details on this and other projects you can check ๐๐ฝ
Also if you are on LinkedIn, drop by my little nook, say hi and let's connect ๐๐ฝ
www.linkedin.com/in/myscivoice
Still one of my favorite science music videos of all time. That and "The Molecular Shape of You" is some of the best sci-comms I have ever seen. Zero infantalization and rewarding on all levels.
Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science
This is how we go from single cells to people.Support A Capella Science: http://patreon.com/acapellascienceSubscribe! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_ce...YouTube
Some resources: I shared this about alt text previously with someone: https://edtechfactotum.com/adding-alt-text-and-more-to-images-in-mastodon/โ
And here's a nice set of tips about accessibility too https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediverse-accessibility-tips/โ
Academics who are on GitHub, consider upvoting this excellent suggestion from @Edent (see link below).
The suggestion is to change the code used by ORCID's website to allow Mastodon verification links to be found. This would allow Mastodon users with an ORCID page to verify that they are the author of the publications listed on their ORCID page.
github.com/ORCID/ORCID-Source/โฆ
rel="me" links are not rendered in the source code ยท Issue #6668 ยท ORCID/ORCID-Source
Websites like Mastodon, allow users to "verify" their profiles on other websites. For example, adding Masto...GitHub
Hi! #introduction ! I'm a #phd student in #chemistry ! I study #nanoparticle #liquidcrystal self-assembly, which has implications in our understandings of #biology nanostructures, #materials chemistry, and #nanotechnology
Iโve been #scicomm ing my #research on #twitch - I'm developing #3dprinting inks from seaweed and other #biomaterials !
I interview scientists weekly, so if you're interested, let me know! Iโd love to have you
#phdchat #academic #academia #academicchatter #introduction
