Neil Banas
@neilbanas.bsky.social
Real and imagined oceans in equations, paper, and code. Strathclyde Uni + Wasps Studios, Glasgow | neilbanas.com/projects
Scotoplanes globosa. The #sea #pig. That is all.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2004126...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopl...
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2004126...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopl...
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Scotoplanes globosa. The #sea #pig. That is all.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2004126...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopl...
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2004126...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopl...
Happy #SeaSlugDay! Here are some of the #origami #nudibranchs that I have on display at the #Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov.
On the wall is the unfolded crease pattern for one of the designs I make on repeat (foreground of the other image, copper and tan).
Working on new designs for sacoglossans!
On the wall is the unfolded crease pattern for one of the designs I make on repeat (foreground of the other image, copper and tan).
Working on new designs for sacoglossans!
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Happy #SeaSlugDay! Here are some of the #origami #nudibranchs that I have on display at the #Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov.
On the wall is the unfolded crease pattern for one of the designs I make on repeat (foreground of the other image, copper and tan).
Working on new designs for sacoglossans!
On the wall is the unfolded crease pattern for one of the designs I make on repeat (foreground of the other image, copper and tan).
Working on new designs for sacoglossans!
inspired (haunted?) by a recent post by anavaldi.bsky.social, here is the 📉 #UKRI award rate (%) by research council over the last decade. Data from www.ukri.org/publications...
Unfortunately this dataset doesn't let you distinguish individual funding schemes from each other.
Unfortunately this dataset doesn't let you distinguish individual funding schemes from each other.
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
inspired (haunted?) by a recent post by anavaldi.bsky.social, here is the 📉 #UKRI award rate (%) by research council over the last decade. Data from www.ukri.org/publications...
Unfortunately this dataset doesn't let you distinguish individual funding schemes from each other.
Unfortunately this dataset doesn't let you distinguish individual funding schemes from each other.
If you need some #origami #nudibranchs and tangled marine connectivities in your life, Waterways Collective and I have an exhibition at Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov. It's an offshoot of a beautiful Wasps Studios group show--details at glasgowartclub.co.uk/.../23rd-oct...
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you need some #origami #nudibranchs and tangled marine connectivities in your life, Waterways Collective and I have an exhibition at Glasgow Art Club through 22 Nov. It's an offshoot of a beautiful Wasps Studios group show--details at glasgowartclub.co.uk/.../23rd-oct...
grant proposal submitted.
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
grant proposal submitted.
"…also the fault of the papers themselves. You can't read them at a steady pace, as if you were walking. I think it's because they're too busy filling up the tiniest holes in their argument… When actually it's best to leave some open spaces, to let some air in."
Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars
Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars
July 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"…also the fault of the papers themselves. You can't read them at a steady pace, as if you were walking. I think it's because they're too busy filling up the tiniest holes in their argument… When actually it's best to leave some open spaces, to let some air in."
Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars
Yoko Tawada, Suggested in the Stars
If you're on the Black Isle on Saturday the 28th, come join waterwayscollective.org for an afternoon of beach theatre, microscopes, zine-making, and meditations on smolting.
We have a new #plankton net to try out + I made an #origami mayfly nymph, which was fiddly.
#sciart #wildsalmon #marinebio
We have a new #plankton net to try out + I made an #origami mayfly nymph, which was fiddly.
#sciart #wildsalmon #marinebio
June 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you're on the Black Isle on Saturday the 28th, come join waterwayscollective.org for an afternoon of beach theatre, microscopes, zine-making, and meditations on smolting.
We have a new #plankton net to try out + I made an #origami mayfly nymph, which was fiddly.
#sciart #wildsalmon #marinebio
We have a new #plankton net to try out + I made an #origami mayfly nymph, which was fiddly.
#sciart #wildsalmon #marinebio
@elizabethbeston.bsky.social here is a variant for the area around Norfolk: the CPR hasn't wandered into the area around your sampling site very often!
June 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
@elizabethbeston.bsky.social here is a variant for the area around Norfolk: the CPR hasn't wandered into the area around your sampling site very often!
We've got a new website to collect the ventures of the Waterways Collective (waterwayscollective.org), a group of artists and scientists who came together in 2024 to see where we'd get following wild #salmon journeys up into the Scottish #landscape and out into the #Atlantic.
May 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We've got a new website to collect the ventures of the Waterways Collective (waterwayscollective.org), a group of artists and scientists who came together in 2024 to see where we'd get following wild #salmon journeys up into the Scottish #landscape and out into the #Atlantic.
How did I not know the 9-volume treatise by Georg Sars on the #crustaceans of Norway, 1901?
Two vols on the copepods alone, and he was good with a pencil.
If you're new to #marinebiology, or to the #Atlantic, or just need a ritual reminder of how deep #biodiversity goes, they're all on archive.org
Two vols on the copepods alone, and he was good with a pencil.
If you're new to #marinebiology, or to the #Atlantic, or just need a ritual reminder of how deep #biodiversity goes, they're all on archive.org
May 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How did I not know the 9-volume treatise by Georg Sars on the #crustaceans of Norway, 1901?
Two vols on the copepods alone, and he was good with a pencil.
If you're new to #marinebiology, or to the #Atlantic, or just need a ritual reminder of how deep #biodiversity goes, they're all on archive.org
Two vols on the copepods alone, and he was good with a pencil.
If you're new to #marinebiology, or to the #Atlantic, or just need a ritual reminder of how deep #biodiversity goes, they're all on archive.org
Next in "not my field but I really liked the figure so I read the abstract" #NMFBI❤️tFSIRtA . The most meme-able #curlew I've seen in ages.
from Marks and Hall 1992, Tool Use by #Bristle #Thighed #Curlews Feeding on Albatross Eggs, www.jstor.org/stable/13693...
from Marks and Hall 1992, Tool Use by #Bristle #Thighed #Curlews Feeding on Albatross Eggs, www.jstor.org/stable/13693...
May 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Next in "not my field but I really liked the figure so I read the abstract" #NMFBI❤️tFSIRtA . The most meme-able #curlew I've seen in ages.
from Marks and Hall 1992, Tool Use by #Bristle #Thighed #Curlews Feeding on Albatross Eggs, www.jstor.org/stable/13693...
from Marks and Hall 1992, Tool Use by #Bristle #Thighed #Curlews Feeding on Albatross Eggs, www.jstor.org/stable/13693...
There's a theme here in 16th c Flemish altarpieces (I snapped this one in Florence last month; did not acquire it for a special price of 16M)
Seems like the official iconographic answer is: St Margaret. But I can't get over how intensely everyone is _not_ looking at the dragon.
#dontmentionthewar
Seems like the official iconographic answer is: St Margaret. But I can't get over how intensely everyone is _not_ looking at the dragon.
#dontmentionthewar
May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
There's a theme here in 16th c Flemish altarpieces (I snapped this one in Florence last month; did not acquire it for a special price of 16M)
Seems like the official iconographic answer is: St Margaret. But I can't get over how intensely everyone is _not_ looking at the dragon.
#dontmentionthewar
Seems like the official iconographic answer is: St Margaret. But I can't get over how intensely everyone is _not_ looking at the dragon.
#dontmentionthewar
today's #dataviz moment:
#zooplankton in the Scottish North Sea, looking out from Cromarty past Shetland. 18000 samples from the @thembauk.bsky.social Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1960s-now.
Measured as energy in the diet of wee fish: Tyldesley et al, academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti....
#marinebio
#zooplankton in the Scottish North Sea, looking out from Cromarty past Shetland. 18000 samples from the @thembauk.bsky.social Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1960s-now.
Measured as energy in the diet of wee fish: Tyldesley et al, academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti....
#marinebio
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
today's #dataviz moment:
#zooplankton in the Scottish North Sea, looking out from Cromarty past Shetland. 18000 samples from the @thembauk.bsky.social Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1960s-now.
Measured as energy in the diet of wee fish: Tyldesley et al, academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti....
#marinebio
#zooplankton in the Scottish North Sea, looking out from Cromarty past Shetland. 18000 samples from the @thembauk.bsky.social Continuous Plankton Recorder, 1960s-now.
Measured as energy in the diet of wee fish: Tyldesley et al, academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti....
#marinebio
William Morris, #ADHD counsellor avant la lettre. From "The Aims of Art", 1888.
I read this to my 9yo when she was hiding behind a bush to avoid going to school, and all I can say is, we made it to school.
I read this to my 9yo when she was hiding behind a bush to avoid going to school, and all I can say is, we made it to school.
April 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
William Morris, #ADHD counsellor avant la lettre. From "The Aims of Art", 1888.
I read this to my 9yo when she was hiding behind a bush to avoid going to school, and all I can say is, we made it to school.
I read this to my 9yo when she was hiding behind a bush to avoid going to school, and all I can say is, we made it to school.
The first paper from @aislinn-borland.bsky.social 's PhD came out just before the hols when I was in mince-pie mode but: 🎆!
It models how young wild #salmon navigate the confusing coastal #ocean, over 27yrs of variability.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
thx to SUPER DTP + Fishmongers Trust!
It models how young wild #salmon navigate the confusing coastal #ocean, over 27yrs of variability.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
thx to SUPER DTP + Fishmongers Trust!
January 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The first paper from @aislinn-borland.bsky.social 's PhD came out just before the hols when I was in mince-pie mode but: 🎆!
It models how young wild #salmon navigate the confusing coastal #ocean, over 27yrs of variability.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
thx to SUPER DTP + Fishmongers Trust!
It models how young wild #salmon navigate the confusing coastal #ocean, over 27yrs of variability.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/adva...
thx to SUPER DTP + Fishmongers Trust!
"-- back to the world, our beautiful perfect world that we have brought to its knees for jetskis and hubris. We carry our hope and the futility of hope together in the same reusable plastic bag."
from First Dog on the Moon. #2025wishes
from First Dog on the Moon. #2025wishes
January 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"-- back to the world, our beautiful perfect world that we have brought to its knees for jetskis and hubris. We carry our hope and the futility of hope together in the same reusable plastic bag."
from First Dog on the Moon. #2025wishes
from First Dog on the Moon. #2025wishes
Merry #Crustmas to all and to all a good #polar #night.
(if your tree has a bare spot in need of a #copepod, or if a papercraft bowhead whale comes wassailing, instructions at origamiplankton.org/2024/03/cope...)
(if your tree has a bare spot in need of a #copepod, or if a papercraft bowhead whale comes wassailing, instructions at origamiplankton.org/2024/03/cope...)
December 25, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Merry #Crustmas to all and to all a good #polar #night.
(if your tree has a bare spot in need of a #copepod, or if a papercraft bowhead whale comes wassailing, instructions at origamiplankton.org/2024/03/cope...)
(if your tree has a bare spot in need of a #copepod, or if a papercraft bowhead whale comes wassailing, instructions at origamiplankton.org/2024/03/cope...)
A harbour #seal with an #icosahedron. Reply with what you think this is a metaphor for.
December 3, 2024 at 7:42 PM
A harbour #seal with an #icosahedron. Reply with what you think this is a metaphor for.
The Strathclyde Uni #MarineEcology contingent brought #diatom #origami to a pop-up Museum of Microalgae (microalgaemuseum.com) at the #Glasgow Botanic Gardens last Fri. Busy day—there is a hunger out there for microscopic forests! 🔬🍃
PDF instructions 👉 origamiplankton.org/category/diagrams
PDF instructions 👉 origamiplankton.org/category/diagrams
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
The Strathclyde Uni #MarineEcology contingent brought #diatom #origami to a pop-up Museum of Microalgae (microalgaemuseum.com) at the #Glasgow Botanic Gardens last Fri. Busy day—there is a hunger out there for microscopic forests! 🔬🍃
PDF instructions 👉 origamiplankton.org/category/diagrams
PDF instructions 👉 origamiplankton.org/category/diagrams
If you were wondering what to do with yourself on Fri the 29th in #Glasgow, the answer is "stop by the Botanics for a pop-up museum of #microalgae." It should be a good time for 4yos and 4th year grad students alike! I'll be there with #origami #diatoms + instructions.
🍃 www.microalgaemuseum.com 🍃
🍃 www.microalgaemuseum.com 🍃
November 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
If you were wondering what to do with yourself on Fri the 29th in #Glasgow, the answer is "stop by the Botanics for a pop-up museum of #microalgae." It should be a good time for 4yos and 4th year grad students alike! I'll be there with #origami #diatoms + instructions.
🍃 www.microalgaemuseum.com 🍃
🍃 www.microalgaemuseum.com 🍃
omg, #nudivember exists. I had no idea and it's already the 20th. Does anyone want to help me match #origami #nudibranch designs to species?
origamiplankton.org/2024/09/nudi...
origamiplankton.org/2024/09/nudi...
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
omg, #nudivember exists. I had no idea and it's already the 20th. Does anyone want to help me match #origami #nudibranch designs to species?
origamiplankton.org/2024/09/nudi...
origamiplankton.org/2024/09/nudi...
Over 60 yrs, energy in the form of delicious #zooplankton (food for the wee fish that feed #seabirds, #salmon, etc) has dropped by >50% (!!!) over a huge area of the N European continental shelf and the open Atlantic. Paper by Tyldesley et al (June 2024) academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... (1/2)
November 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Over 60 yrs, energy in the form of delicious #zooplankton (food for the wee fish that feed #seabirds, #salmon, etc) has dropped by >50% (!!!) over a huge area of the N European continental shelf and the open Atlantic. Paper by Tyldesley et al (June 2024) academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... (1/2)
Self-assembly of Calanus finmarchicus. Visit origamiplankton.org for more #origami #plankton (and one gannet)
October 26, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Self-assembly of Calanus finmarchicus. Visit origamiplankton.org for more #origami #plankton (and one gannet)