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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Feb 27

Happy Pokémon Day, everyone! 🎉

While you wait for news on the games, why not take a look at one of our many Pokémon articles? 😉
You can find plenty of them at jgeekstudies.org?s=pokemon

#geekstudies #scicomm #Pokemon #PokemonDay

Naturalist-like figure showing real crustaceans alongside crustacean-inspired Pokémon.

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Feb 11

Big thanks to the @botanymanor.bsky.social team at @balloonstudios.bsky.social for sharing their insights with us! 🌿🎮
Your thoughtful storytelling not only created a beautiful game, but it also brings to fore important conversations about women in #academia. 🙌 #WomenInSTEM

Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Feb 11

🌿Botany Manor is a cozy game but also a window into challenges women face in academia.

For #WomenInSTEMDay, we interviewed the devs @lauredm.bsky.social and @kittbyrne.bsky.social to explore how these issues were woven into storytelling and gameplay. 🎮

Read it @ jgeekstudies.org/2025/02/09/b...

Botany Manor: a cozy game unveiling the inequalities in academia

Interview with Laure De Mey and Kitt Byrne Download PDF Botany Manor is a multiplatform game developed by the English indie studio Balloon Studios and published by Whitethorn Games. Initially relea…

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · Jan 29

SLUG.

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · Feb 7

New publication: Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small #songbird, by @mevisser.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @melissahrowe.bsky.social @babimt.bsky.social a.o. #climatechange
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Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

To forecast how fast populations can adapt to climate change, it is essential to determine the evolutionary potential of different life-cycle stages under selection. In birds, timing of gonadal development and moult are primarily regulated by photoperiod, ...

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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · Jan 21

Interested in Evolutionary ecology? Want to work in the Arctic? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø @babimt.bsky.social

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310027

Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evolutionary Ecology

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Jan 9

A few days left to apply! =)

Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Dec 9

Hello everyone (and sorry for the low activity here). We are looking for a technician to help us with the tit project. So if you are a bird fanatic, and maybe also have some skills to work with devices in the field and/or with field experiments, please consider applying. 🥰

Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · Dec 2

Want to work in the field with great tits? We have a 3yr technical position available with @babimt.bsky.social :
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Dec 9

Hello everyone (and sorry for the low activity here). We are looking for a technician to help us with the tit project. So if you are a bird fanatic, and maybe also have some skills to work with devices in the field and/or with field experiments, please consider applying. 🥰

Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · Dec 2

Want to work in the field with great tits? We have a 3yr technical position available with @babimt.bsky.social :
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Job title: Staff Engineer affiliated with the project EvoLight (270892), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Jul 19

We have a new interview featuring Dr. Paul Fletcher (Cambridge University)
Discover how his expertise helped the team at Ninja Theory shape Hellblade II: Senua's Saga 🎮🧠
#geekstudies #gaming #psychology #mentalhealth #SenuasSaga

Understanding Senua’s psychosis in Hellblade

Interview with Paul Fletcher Download PDF In 2017, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, by Ninja Theory, was released for PC and PlayStation 4, later making its way to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Seri...

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Oct 28

New article alert! 🚨

Did you know that Zelda: Breath of the Wild was inspired by Jomon-period artifacts in Japan?
Explore the link between the game and real-world history in our new article by @jfcudennec.bsky.social

#GeekStudies #BOTW #scicomm #Archaeology
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On the influence of Japanese archaeological heritage on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Jean-François Cudennec University of Derby, College of Science and Engineering, Derby, United Kingdom. Email: jf.cudennec (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF A thick layer of time In the realm of Ninte…

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Oct 29

We have a new article reviewing biological rhythms in land snails and slugs. 🐌

@babimt.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social #biology #ecology #research
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Clocks at a snail pace: biological rhythms in terrestrial gastropods

Biological rhythms are ubiquitous across the tree of life. Organisms must allocate their activities into moments of the day and of the season that will increase their probability of surviving and repr...

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 30

Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇

Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · May 6

New Crow Time - Eggies 🥚 🪺 🥓 [1/5]

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Mar 20

Today is #sparrowday! Here's a short #scicomm article I wrote last year about these amazing birbs.

#WorldSparrowDay #スズメの日 #HonkaiStarRail
#StarRail #birds #ornithology #sparrows

An unexpected bird in Honkai: Star Rail and China’s war on sparrows

Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF https://doi.org/1...

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Apr 27

We have a new article! 🚨
Our authors investigate anime giant robots, how their height and mass scale, and how they compare to real machines.
You can read it in full at jgeekstudies.org/2024/04/26/a...

#scicomm #engineering #mecha #Gundam @unlincoln.bsky.social

Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?

Sangjin Ryu1 & Kiyotaka Obunai2 1Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. 2Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Doshisha Unive...

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Apr 19

Happy #FossilFriday! The coolest paleontologist of all time has finally been released globally in Fate/Grand Order.

I wrote about her before she was announced in the game - jgeekstudies.org/2021/02/11/m... - so the article might need updates.😅

#geekstudies #scicomm #FGO #FateGO

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just finished Botany Manor with @krakenscholar.bsky.social Great game but may have hit too close to home for us. 😅

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Apr 13

Cool stuff!! ⏱️

Molecular circadian rhythms are robust in marine annelids lacking rhythmic behavior

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Apr 13

Are you still accepting new requests? en.uit.no/ansatte/pers...

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Apr 12

It's been a long time since I had something for #FossilFriday, but here it is. 😁
A new species of shearwater from the Pliocene of #NewZealand.
Here's the article, with A. Tennyson, @babimt.bsky.social & F. Marx - doi.org/10.3390/taxo...
#paleontology #vertpaleo #birds #ornithology

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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · Apr 11

I am talking at #BOU2024 about biological rhythms and clocks of urban and forest birds. I show that city birds may be less sensitive to ALAN than forest birds. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
But our new common garden results suggest this is not related to genetic clock differences.

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