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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 15d

And don't forget we're always happy to receive those very-scientifically-important articles in the Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ever wondered how many molluscs live in the @magic.wizards.com multiverse? 🐌

No? Well, but our researchers did — and we have a brand-new "fantasy-meets-taxonomy" paper about it!

Come take a look at the article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/08/24/m...

#MolluscMonday #GeekStudies #MagicTheGathering #MTG

Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering

Rodrigo B. Salvador1, Natan C. Pedro2, Mark A. Carnall3 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo,…

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Sep 8

Temos um novo artigo para esta #MolluscMonday, liderado pelo mestrando Rafael Rosa.
Usamos dados genéticos, de museus e do @inaturalist.bsky.social para avaliar a presença da lesma asiática no Brasil.

Artigo completo 🔓: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🧪 #cienciacidada @uspoficial.bsky.social

Citizen science reveals alarming update on the invasion of the Asian mantleslug Meghimatium pictum in Brazil

The Asian mantleslug Meghimatium pictum is an exotic species introduced to Brazil in the late 1990s, but only formally reported in 2011. Since then, it has been deemed an agricultural pest and given t...

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Sep 8

We got a new paper for #MolluscMonday, led by MSc student Rafael Rosa.
We used genetic, museum & @inaturalist.bsky.social data to assess the presence of the Asian mantleslug in Brazil

Full 🔓 article: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🧪 #citizenscience @nathist.bsky.social @uspoficial.bsky.social

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

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Maxime Dahirel @mdahirel.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's #InverteFest, so it's time to correct my forgetting to post about my latest paper from a couple months ago. It has *double* the invertebrates: snails, and their parasites! doi.org/10.1093/cz/z...

How does urbanization shape shell phenotype, behavior, and parasite prevalence in the snail Cornu aspersum?

Abstract. Urbanization is a complex and multivariate environmental change, leading to habitat fragmentation and loss, changes in local climate, soil imperv

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Aug 13

My blog post on the process for creating a natural history museum exhibit is up. (Featuring many mollusks of course!)

www.priweb.org/blog-post/ma...

🦑🐚🐌🐙🦪 #invertebrates #museum #fossils #sciCom 🧪

Making Mollusks Marvelous: Designing Museum Exhibits — Paleontological Research Institution

By Brendan Anderson There are many avenues for communicating science, but one of the most trusted avenues have been museum exhibits (Merritt, 2019). Those who have visited museums in recent years c...

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Zoosystematics and Evolution @zse.pensoft.net · Aug 8

These freshwater snails, discovered by @krakenscholar.bsky.social‬, were named in honour of Éowyn and Meriadoc from The Lord of the Rings.

blog.pensoft.net/2024/11/11/t... 🧵(7/15)

The Shellowship of the Ring: two new snail species named after Tolkien characters

Two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil have been named in honour of Éowyn and Meriadoc from The Lord of the Rings.

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Learned a new skill today 😆

#FGO #FateGO #FateGrandOrder

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jconch.bsky.social @jconch.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Revision of the genera of Scolodontidae, part 4: Miradiscops H.B. Baker, 1925 and Mayadiscops gen. nov." has been published in #JournalofConchology. #jconch #newgenera #conchsoc conchsoc.org/journal doi.org/10.61733/jco...

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jun 30

*laugh* Dr. Strange versus the "Hate-filled, deadly, gigantic SLUG!" although it looks very snail-like to me! Strange Tales 164, art by Dan Adkins! #invertsincomics #molluscmonday

dr. strange-superhero in blue with red cape facing off against a giant grey slug with 2 antennae and a pink eye

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 30

Well, he's the wrong type of doctor for this

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

🚨Our 1st 2025 issue is complete!🚨
Explore the latest in geeky research, with interviews with game devs and articles on Tintin, #StarWars, #IndianaJones et al., Pokémon, and #StudioGhibli.

Check it out 👉 jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...

#GeekStudies #scicomm #geekculture

Vol. 12(1): June, 2025

Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): to be published on June, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5. …

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 23

This was a nice read. I'm a bit biased though, as Nausicaä is my favourite Ghibli movie - I might need to rewatch it now 😁
[yes, technically the studio was founded after Nausicaä's success, but still counts]

Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 New article alert!
Ecocriticism meets anime in this piece by Audrey Aguirre.
The article explores the environmental toll of war through the haunting beauty Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

#GeekStudies #AnimeStudies #StudioGhibli #Miyazaki #風の谷のナウシカ #スタジオジブリ #アニメ研究

Wilted lands and wounded worlds: visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have prim…

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oh, thanks! I'm always happy to know someone reads this stuff haha

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 12

To give a bit more support to the claim, let me shamelessly plug in a paper we wrote about this a couple years ago, led by my Masters student Rafael Rosa, who is crazy active on iNat.
🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

iNaturalist as a tool in the study of tropical molluscs

Although terrestrial gastropods are remarkably diverse, our knowledge of them is still lacking, especially for species from the Global South. As such, new tools to help researchers collect data on the...

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 12

Couldn't agree more. iNat is the only and the greatest tool we have for the tropics, where the bulk of biodiversity is. We all want the platform to do better. It would be a shame for it to die.

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 6

Yes, we'll have such an auction:https://wcm2025.com.br/auction/ Let there be Janthina!

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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Jun 3

A testament to the importance of maintaining museum collections and funding for digitization programs: new data on the type specimens of nine new taxa described by Roffiaen (1868) that had nearly sunk into oblivion: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
@krakenscholar.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social

Image showing two sets of labeled mollusk shells. Section A (top) displays three large, smooth, coiled shells from different angles, identified as Paludina contecta var. emiliana, with handwritten labels. Section B (bottom) presents three smaller, rough-textured, coiled shells identified as Valvata colbeaui, with corresponding historical handwritten labels. Scale bars indicate sizes of 10 mm for A and 2 mm for B.

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Jun 3

“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night

It is too devastating to see how few there are”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's a weird new article for #MolluscMonday.
We've found the type specimens of some species and subspecies from Switzerland described in the mid-19th century by a Belgian landscape painter.
You can see the whole story in @zookeys.pensoft.net: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1508...

🧪 #snails #inverts

Figure 4 from the paper: A. syntype of Helix arbustorum var. icterica. B. possible syntype of Helix arbustorum var. trochoidalis. Labels not to scale with shells.

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · May 29

You have a national snail day!? I need one here asap 🐌🎉

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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · May 29

I had to read your post twice to realize the first word was not gastropod 😅

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · May 25

Happy #GeekPrideDay / #TowelDay 🎉

It's a great opportunity to read all the cool #GeekStudies we've published this year. 🤓 Take a look around, you're bound to find an article you'll love: jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...

And remember: don't panic and always carry a towel!

Vol. 12(1): June, 2025

Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): to be published on June, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5. …

jgeekstudies.org

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