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Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 17d

Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first?
I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 23d

Hunting for #denisovans in the fossil record is leading to new discoverie! #sciart #paleoanthropology

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 24d

I'm thrilled to share this article by Ruth Schuster covering scanning the fossil record for Denisovans, a project undertaken by the @david-gokhman.bsky.social lab at Weizmann Institute. 2 pieces of my art are featured :)

www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’m excited to share that my art is on the cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials this month. Created for the Korin lab @technion.bsky.social
The image shows the use of hydrogels designed for precise embolization of brain aneurysms.
#SciArt #medart

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’ll be participating in a group exhibit featuring insects and this reel was made about one of the pieces! #Sciart www.instagram.com/reel/DLhTRUc...

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jun 6

"AI images don’t succinctly or accurately communicate scientific concepts & could undermine public trust in science... inaccuracies wouldn’t fly if they were created by a person, “but for some reason, having this sheen of fake polish that comes with AI kind of erases all of those standards” 🧪#sciart

Illustrators call out journals and news sites for using AI art

Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions.

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Apr 30

Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt

Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · Apr 30

Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · Apr 30

Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Apr 28

Egg Shell Structure, pen & ink. From my book "Manual of Ornithology," Yale University Press: a.co/d/2c4tMLl

🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ornithology #birds #anatomy

Very detailed close-up view of the structure of the avian egg, pen and ink illustration.

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🎭 SILANGAN 👑 COMMS OPEN 🎭 @dangerouscolors.bsky.social · Apr 25

reposting this one for #InverteFest !

#SciArt #entomology #bugs #BugSky #art #ArtPH

several illustrated insects and arachnids arranged symmetrically around text saying "devotion with conditions isn't devotion at all". the species included are a mosquito, a human head louse, a berry mite, a common flea, a bedbug, and a tick.

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Cristian Gutierrez-Ibañez @gallinaciega.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain.
This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Mar 18

Fascinating, really thought-provoking work by Trevor Cousins, @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social and Richard Durbin, now out in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧪🧬
Deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans - Nature Genetics

The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human polymorphism data, cob...

www.nature.com

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David Gokhman @david-gokhman.bsky.social · Apr 18

Super exciting to see the Penghu jaw confirmed as Denisovan— its features line up beautifully with what we predicted Denisovan mandibles to look like! More in the thread 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/

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SayoStudio @sayostudio.bsky.social · Apr 18

In this clip, @maayanvisuals.bsky.social explains why AI-generated images miss the mark in science communication: they skip the collaborative, iterative process that ensures scientific impact and creative visual storytelling. Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/gMmf2nn9

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is a first for me- I got to chat about the changing field of science illustration, collaboration, & communication with the amazing Nicolle Fuller and Claire Agosti of the Sayo Studio podcast! Thanks so much for having me! #SciArt #scicomm @sayostudio.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJc...

How Illustrators Bring Reseach to Life: The Art of Science with Maayan Harel

YouTube video by SayoStudio

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Maresca Lab @imphys-tudelft.bsky.social
are using ultrasound to show capillaries and cells in living organs!! I was thrilled to work on this project. Congratulations to David Maresca and Baptiste Heiles
on this fantastic work #SciArt

Cells and capillaries are being revealed by un ultrasound intersecting beam

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · Feb 19

This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours.
The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space.
webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is the closest photo of Saturn ever taken.
🔭 🧪

This is the closest image of Saturn ever captured by the Cassini spacecraft. It shows the planet in a majestic and serene light, with its rings in the foreground. The planet's golden hues are highlighted by the sunlight filtering through its upper atmosphere. A notable feature is the intriguing hexagonal storm at the north pole, a unique weather phenomenon in our solar system. The image provides an unparalleled, close-up perspective, inviting viewers to appreciate the intricate details of Saturn's cloud bands and the sheer vastness of its ring system. It is a stunning portrayal of the beauty and complexity of this gas giant, captured from a vantage point closer than any human-made probe has ventured before.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Jan 23

1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution.

They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.

FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION
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Research Papers
Copyright, Al, and Great Po...
RESEARCH PAPERS
Copyright, Al, and Great Power Competition
JANUARY 21, 2025
Joshua Levine and Tim Hwang
Click here to download a pdf of the full paper.

Congressional Clarification
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to move forward. Such a move would be consistent with the spirit of the original objectives of copyright and reject the concept implicit in the lawsuits
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Such a definitive approach would have a number of benefits. First, it would immediately lower the risk of engaging in model training, likely encouraging many new entrants to join the market for new Al products and services.
Second, it would counter the existential risk posed by the pending lawsuits against the leading American Al companies, allowing them to continue growing toward becoming as dominant globally in the 2020s as American social media and technology companies were in the 2000s and 2010s.
FAI

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · Jan 13

Fleeing Facebook and Instagram?

Discover one of the best corners of Bluesky: the SciArt Feed 🐡.

🎨 Hundreds of artists
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🥳 No NFTs or gen AI

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Jan 10

Excited to have my graphics in this fascinating study of Oocyte development and the Balbiani body formation! #SciArt

Yaniv Elkouby @yanivelkouby.bsky.social · Jan 9

💥Finally out!
Answering a two-centuries old question about a membraneless organelle that forms in #oocytes from insects to humans: the Balbiani body (Bb).
Now in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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The Balbiani body is formed by microtubule-controlled molecular condensation of Buc in early oogenesis

Kar et al. demonstrate that Balbiani body (Bb) formation is achieved via developmental condensation in zebrafish oogenesis, driven by Buc phase separation and evolving from a dynamic liquid-like state into a solid-like stable compartment. Multistep regulation by microtubules controls condensation, ensuring proper Bb formation and oocyte polarity.

cell.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · Jan 1

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

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Daniel Castranova @zebrafish007.bsky.social · Dec 23

Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬

A highly detailed gray image of the dorsal view of a zebrafish head pointing to the left with two large black eyes on either side. A complex network of magenta blood vessels look like tangled spaghetti in the center (brain region) of the image. There are dozens of ameba-shaped green cells around the brain blood vessels and a few well-defined green lymphatic vessels on either side of the head. Protruding from the skin on each side of the head, to the right (posterior) to the eye, there are three volcano-like structures with long, transparent, hair-like projections. These are hair cells that the fish uses to sense changes in water flow.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Dec 24

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · Dec 21

#Artvartist2024 plus some spots from a larger project I have yet to share :) To a new year of creativity and #SciArt

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