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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 21h

Wait... nobody has said 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea yet? 😲

It's THE submarine movie!

a large ship is floating in the ocean with a large whale in the foreground

Alt: The Nautilus submerging.

media.tenor.com

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d

Today marks the 60th anniversary of an indelible pop culture icon.

... No, not the serious one with the spaceships.

a man in a batman costume is working on a machine

Alt: Batman (1966).

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 1d

The School of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Denver Botanical Gardens released their lineup of lectures and classes for Winter/Spring 2026. With online and in-person options, these classes are a great way to learn new techniques or advance your current skills for artists of all skill levels!

Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 2d

👀 New blog post! 👀

Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈

Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi...

#DataViz #RStats

How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie

The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...

nrennie.rbind.io

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 2d

Golden whatever, here’s the award that matters:

Indy the dog beats five human scores to score acting award for “Good Boy”:

youtu.be/FXxVzyUncj0

Indy the Dog wins Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller Feature for Good Boy | Astra Film Awards

YouTube video by The Astra Awards

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 2d

George Romero’s The Wild Bunch

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 2d

The clipping of interviews for social media means that interviewer questions are not to be answered, merely used as a pretext to say your talking points on a platform.

Case in point:

youtu.be/jlTggc0uBA8

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

9 cc

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

Tankini Kill

Reed the Frog @socialistfrog.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

The Half-Naked Ladies

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 3d

Look, if you have an active Twitter account, what it's actively telling me is that you're actively supporting white superiority and pedos. That's... kind of a "no" from me.

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

Tankini Kill

Reed the Frog @socialistfrog.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

The Half-Naked Ladies

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly diminish a band

Neurotic Clown Posse

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d

I have a 166,000 word, ~700 page document of how NOT OK scientists have been in the last year.

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d

Makes a great double feature with this Spielberg feature, set slightly earlier: www.imdb.com/title/tt6294...

The Post (2017) ⭐ 7.2 | Biography, Drama, History

1h 56m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d

Universities, academic societies, and NGOs who are still posting on Twitter need to stop now.

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d

Membership in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social used to come with one slender print journal (can't remember which it was). Now membership includes online access to seven journals, but not sure if any have a print option.

Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 5d

Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 5d

Relevant to conference poster design, too.

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 27d

Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...

Eric R. Larson @ericrlarson.bsky.social · 6d

Excited that our newly described Okanagan Crayfish makes an appearance on the CBC's cool species of 2025 list: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Tarantula with XXL genitalia, 'death ball' sponge among cool species of 2025 | CBC News

A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.

www.cbc.ca

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 6d

#crayfish

uncpress.org/978146968573...

Crayfish, Crawfish, Crawdad

Whatever you call them—crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads—these small crustaceans are a vital piece of the larger ecosystem, and though they're found nation...

uncpress.org

Dr. Headbutt 🌈🧪 @nicoleackermans.com · 6d

I saw a lot of beautiful posters this #SICB2026. Great job on some amazing graphic design!
"Curiously Chromatic" was my personal favorite

A scientific poster called curiously Chromatic. On caeallians

A scientific poster with a purple background on thermal behavioral ecology

Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 6d

As this ramps up and we are asked to cheerlead for it, I remain genuinely shocked that Canada, once again, under the banner of a **nation-building**, has created a funding program that excludes Canadian students and researchers based on presence in Canada. /1

universityaffairs.ca/news/feds-la...

Feds launch $1.7 billion international talent attraction program - University Affairs

The program will provide funding to bring 100 top-tier international research chairs and their teams to Canada.

universityaffairs.ca

Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 6d

Check out the perfect ABT structure in this graphic abstract.

"Pax9 in needed to form teeth in mammals AND you see it in the mouth of fishes
BUT some fish don't form teeth
THEREFORE Pax9 was originally used in mouth development rather than teeth."

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 7d

#DBfeature 🐠

Pax9 has a broader role in initiating development of mesenchymal structures around the mouth during zebrafish development

By Sandhya Paudel, Sarah McLeod, Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske

tinyurl.com/yc3jfpux

Cartoon of Pax9 expression (purple) during facial development in mouse (left) and zebrafish (right).
Text: Mammals. Pax9 is expressed In tooth-forming mesenchyme around the mouth. Required for tooth formation in mouse and human.
Fish. Pax9 is also expressed in oral mesenchyme in fishes. But many fish do not form oral teeth. Vestigial expression or divergent function?
Result: pax9 is required for formation of upper jaw bones and barbels in zebrafish, but dispensable for non-oral teeth.
Support ancestral function in building peri-oral structures from condensed mesenchyme rather than a specific requirement for teeth

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · 7d

#DBfeature 🐠

Pax9 has a broader role in initiating development of mesenchymal structures around the mouth during zebrafish development

By Sandhya Paudel, Sarah McLeod, Stefani Gjorcheska, Lindsey Barske

tinyurl.com/yc3jfpux

Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 7d

At @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, the final decision lies with the ethics committee. Editors are not allowed to communicate directly with this committee. They either retract or sit on the case until you die of old age. No decision is ever explained.

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 7d

300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Are we truly in the midst of a human-caused sixth mass extinction, an era of “biological annihilation”?

www.openculture.com

Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 7d

You did better than I.

About 60% of the papers I ordered to be retracted, as the editor-in-chief of the journal in which they were published, have yet to be.

Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 8d

Interesting to see support for the hypothesis that the rainbow palette isn’t inherently ordered (the colors don’t map to "more" or "less").

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#dataviz 📊 #color 🎨