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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego

@ineslauradawson.bsky.social

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Science communicator • Presenter • YouTuber • Streamer 🇬🇧🇪🇸 PhD in Biomechanics by University of Oxford beacons.ai/drawcuriosity

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi! I'm Dr. Inés!
I have a PhD in Insect Flight Biomechanics and I make science content for YouTube, Nebula and Twitch!
📸 youtube.com/@drawcuriosity
🌌 nebula.tv/drawcuriosity
💜 twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

Draw Curiosity

Draw Curiosity is a science channel, a place to stimulate and entertain your curiosity with interesting science and language facts. I'm Inés Dawson, a graduate and PhD student at the University of O...

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

Rollcall: who's coming to Twitchcon next week?

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uɐɹɹǝɟ @mrswats.lol · 15h

Today on stream we learned that definitely bees >> planes.

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 18h

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH

This may be the earliest I've ever gone live! Go grab your last bugs before I head to Twitchcon!

twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 18h

LIVE NOW ON TWITCH

This may be the earliest I've ever gone live! Go grab your last bugs before I head to Twitchcon!

twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck climate change
Fuck mosquitoes

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 1d

Have a lil nap~

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 2d

Treasure Train??? apparently this is a thing????

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 2d

LIVE NOW!

Solving the Coupon Collector's Problem with math, python and... Tamagotchi!

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 2d

LIVE NOW!

Solving the Coupon Collector's Problem with math, python and... Tamagotchi!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 3d

💼 Long-term impact of COVID-19 on work

A study of 158 million US workers found health-related absences remain 13% higher than before the pandemic, reducing labour force participation.

🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.36635

#SciComm #COVID19 🧪

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 important!

ActorPat @actorpat.bsky.social · 3d

TwitchCon PSA (a thread)! TC is a very fun event, but it does have some issues because of the possible parasocial problems that come with the streaming territory. Please keep the following points in mind! (This is more geared towards "viewers" but also fellow streamers.)

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know you streamed on Twitch!!

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 4d

Slay 🔥

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

Rollcall: who's coming to Twitchcon next week?

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 6d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

I've been learning Python to make mini games for the daily bugs! 🐛🐛

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

I never thought someone with an ecology PhD would need to touch more grass — but here we are.

Anyway, don't worry chat, I'll be back to fin-domming y'all on Monday 🪳😘

Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway follow me on Twitch - we have fun, we learn science, programming, drawing and sometimes do other frivolous things too!

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

1. Way to miss the actual point of the post
2. The speed at which the response to me jokingly use "e-girl" was to take a hard turn into misogyny and pontification is downright vile

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 5d

oh look who's back

JUST DANCE + art? science?

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 6d

SURPRISE LATE NIGHT STREAM

your e-girl wants to learn how to do digital art

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 6d

🧠 Dopamine and forgetting

A new study shows dopamine helps the brain forget old memories. Worms lacking dopamine held onto memories longer, suggesting forgetting is an active, dopamine-driven process.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jnc.70200

#SciComm 🧪 #Neuroscience #Memory

Dopaminergic Modulation of Short‐Term Associative Memory in Caenorhabditis elegans

Forgetting is a vital, active process that clears irrelevant memories and supports new learning. Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, we investigated how dopamine, a key neurotransmitter,....

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Dr Inés Dawson ➡️ Twitchcon San Diego @ineslauradawson.bsky.social · 7d

LIVE ON TWITCH

Cozy stream today because I am still a lil side-effectsy from not 1 nor 2 but !!3!! vaccines

twitch.tv/drawcuriosity

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 8d

5. And remember, if you believe that Covid is 'gone', you will, by definition, never, ever consider that you may have Long Covid.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 8d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 8d

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

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