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Barbara M. Tomotani

@babimt.bsky.social
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Researcher studying adaptation of organisms to the Arctic light while trying to adapt to the Arctic light herself. ⏰🐦‍⬛🐌

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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎮 Can a video game save a species? 🦜 Our new piece, by @floriannechekuv.bsky.social, explores how the game Jack Barau blends play and purpose to spotlight #conservation in Réunion. Read the full article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/11/11/c... #geekstudies #indiegames #seriousgames #gamingforgood
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Can conservation really be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau and some perspectives
Florian Verdier Independent Researcher, Sens, France. Email: fverdier.ei (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Almost half of the world’s population plays video games (Buijisman, 2024). Whether the exp…
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We have a new article! 🎉 Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖 @krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations. #GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal 👉 Read it here:
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Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology
Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…
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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last Friday, I shared updates on our Arctic snails project during a seminar at UiT! 🐌 Here’s a slide from the talk - a sneak peek from a manuscript in progress with @babimt.bsky.social @arcticseasonal.bsky.social @dndbeyond.com #arcticstudies #MolluscMonday #dnd
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Happy Pokémon Day, everyone! 🎉 While you wait for news on the games, why not take a look at one of our many Pokémon articles? 😉 You can find plenty of them at jgeekstudies.org?s=pokemon #geekstudies #scicomm #Pokemon #PokemonDay
Naturalist-like figure showing real crustaceans alongside crustacean-inspired Pokémon.
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Big thanks to the @botanymanor.bsky.social team at @balloonstudios.bsky.social for sharing their insights with us! 🌿🎮 Your thoughtful storytelling not only created a beautiful game, but it also brings to fore important conversations about women in #academia. 🙌 #WomenInSTEM
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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 29/01/2025
SLUG.
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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New publication: Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small #songbird, by @mevisser.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @melissahrowe.bsky.social @babimt.bsky.social a.o. #climatechange doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
To forecast how fast populations can adapt to climate change, it is essential to determine the evolutionary potential of different life-cycle stages under selection. In birds, timing of gonadal development and moult are primarily regulated by photoperiod, ...
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Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative @arcticseasonal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Interested in Evolutionary ecology? Want to work in the Arctic? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø @babimt.bsky.social euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310027
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evolutionary Ecology
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A few days left to apply! =)
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hello everyone (and sorry for the low activity here). We are looking for a technician to help us with the tit project. So if you are a bird fanatic, and maybe also have some skills to work with devices in the field and/or with field experiments, please consider applying. 🥰
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
We have a new interview featuring Dr. Paul Fletcher (Cambridge University) Discover how his expertise helped the team at Ninja Theory shape Hellblade II: Senua's Saga 🎮🧠 #geekstudies #gaming #psychology #mentalhealth #SenuasSaga
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Understanding Senua’s psychosis in Hellblade
Interview with Paul Fletcher Download PDF In 2017, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, by Ninja Theory, was released for PC and PlayStation 4, later making its way to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Seri...
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
New article alert! 🚨 Did you know that Zelda: Breath of the Wild was inspired by Jomon-period artifacts in Japan? Explore the link between the game and real-world history in our new article by @jfcudennec.bsky.social #GeekStudies #BOTW #scicomm #Archaeology jgeekstudies.org/2024/10/27/o...
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On the influence of Japanese archaeological heritage on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Jean-François Cudennec University of Derby, College of Science and Engineering, Derby, United Kingdom. Email: jf.cudennec (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF A thick layer of time In the realm of Ninte…
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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
We have a new article reviewing biological rhythms in land snails and slugs. 🐌 @babimt.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social #biology #ecology #research peerj.com/articles/183...
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Clocks at a snail pace: biological rhythms in terrestrial gastropods
Biological rhythms are ubiquitous across the tree of life. Organisms must allocate their activities into moments of the day and of the season that will increase their probability of surviving and repr...
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 30/08/2024
Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇 Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇
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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 06/05/2024
New Crow Time - Eggies 🥚 🪺 🥓 [1/5]
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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Today is #sparrowday! Here's a short #scicomm article I wrote last year about these amazing birbs. #WorldSparrowDay #スズメの日 #HonkaiStarRail #StarRail #birds #ornithology #sparrows
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An unexpected bird in Honkai: Star Rail and China’s war on sparrows
Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF https://doi.org/1...
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Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
We have a new article! 🚨 Our authors investigate anime giant robots, how their height and mass scale, and how they compare to real machines. You can read it in full at jgeekstudies.org/2024/04/26/a... #scicomm #engineering #mecha #Gundam @unlincoln.bsky.social
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Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?
Sangjin Ryu1 & Kiyotaka Obunai2 1Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. 2Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Doshisha Unive...
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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Happy #FossilFriday! The coolest paleontologist of all time has finally been released globally in Fate/Grand Order. I wrote about her before she was announced in the game - jgeekstudies.org/2021/02/11/m... - so the article might need updates.😅 #geekstudies #scicomm #FGO #FateGO
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Just finished Botany Manor with @krakenscholar.bsky.social Great game but may have hit too close to home for us. 😅
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Cool stuff!! ⏱️ Molecular circadian rhythms are robust in marine annelids lacking rhythmic behavior journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Rodrigo Salvador @krakenscholar.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
It's been a long time since I had something for #FossilFriday, but here it is. 😁 A new species of shearwater from the Pliocene of #NewZealand. Here's the article, with A. Tennyson, @babimt.bsky.social & F. Marx - doi.org/10.3390/taxo... #paleontology #vertpaleo #birds #ornithology
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Barbara M. Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
I am talking at #BOU2024 about biological rhythms and clocks of urban and forest birds. I show that city birds may be less sensitive to ALAN than forest birds. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1... But our new common garden results suggest this is not related to genetic clock differences.
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