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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If I could figure out the same to do like a tenth of a the fun creative science stuff you get up to I feel like I would be riding high

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I also think we could do like a collectible card set with art on one side and then stats/facts on the other. Blind bag it, so people get doubles and give them away. Maybe gamify it if you wanna get real crazy.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pins and patches and stickers - posters that are the base for collectible sticker sets (e.g. habitat backgrounds urban bugs, tide pools or sighting chart with stickers to add for animals/plants seen or both in one)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The 2026 United States of Science Challenge starts NOW! Each bubble represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. This a competition to fill bubbles with $10 donations to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social The first region to fill all bubbles wins. 👇🏻 givebutter.com/USS2026

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United States of Science 2026

By Skype a Scientist

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Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

In an alternate universe where taskmaster US wasn’t sold to Comedy Central, I like to think it could have been bought by Dropout and we’d have Sam Reich taskmaster with Paul Robalino as assistant. We would be eating so good.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Someone on instagram said "Patagonia suing Pattie Gonia for trademark infringement, when Patagonia is already named after a place, is like Alaska Airlines suing Alaska Thunderfuck or Montana spray paint suing Hannah Montana" and that is correct. www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

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Patagonia Is Suing Pattie Gonia. She Just Fired Back for the First Time.

In an open letter and video, the climate activist and drag queen breaks her silence on the active federal trademark infringement suit with Patagonia, challenging the outdoor giant's core values.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Was waiting patiently for the Danna view to drop - paleo is so often beyond my ken and knew Danna would be able to break more of it down for us.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I did remember to bring an ERASER - just to really rub it in.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I came to a cafe to do art and writing - for the first time in weeks. Brought all my sketchbooks and notebooks. Brought ZERO pencils, pens or other marking tools. *sigh*

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

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Maris Wicks @mariswicks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Happy Book Birthday to Puffins! It’s my new picture book with @gianferrari-m.bsky.social ! Request it from your local library or get your own copy from your favorite bookstore!

A drawing of an Atlantic puffin wearing a pink polka dot party hat, in front of a giant platter of shiny, silver fish. Stuck in the middle of the fish is a single pink striped birthday candle.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There are quite a few splash pages in Science Comics: Whales and Still Not Announced that I would love to buy from the artists as prints/posters.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A block of text that says "Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on trends in the field of science communication.

For this survey we are defining science communication as work that is done:

• by a technical subject area expert in some field related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics,
• outside of classroom settings
• aimed at the public

If you are 18 years of age or older and work or recently worked in this field (full-time, part-time, or as a side project), please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester@miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time."

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A week ago I found out that the grant I was confident would fund our spring mural will not, bc we're 2 blocks too deep into Kensington. This STINKS. This project rocks bc it's community driven, biodiversity-focused (& more! read on!) We're raising money to make it happen givebutter.com/KenzoMural

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H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural

By Skype a Scientist

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🎄 in the deep sea

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I recently was at a game night and my squid-ness came up and a person there was like “Do you know the podcast Ologies?” and I was like ohohohoho

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Did you meet @zoedoubleday.bsky.social at CIAC? She’s one of the gold standard PIs for building a mixed research/scicomm career profile (at all, imo, but also in cephs specifically). She’d be one to ask for mentorship/advice for how to craft your version of this career path.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yeah, it’s rough. Weekends need to be 3 days as a rule. A lot of time on regular chores and self care and then family stuff. Adulthood is wild.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Again, sorry to hear it’s been sort of the exact inverse. It’s interesting to understand the different ways people vibe with these ways of working. Hard to work through but good to know about yourself going forward.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

And I’ve found the general divorce of identity from my work in industry allows for an easier mental break from it when that work day is done - versus the deep investment of self in my academic research - which helps me then invest self and time in passion projects/scicomm

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A lot of this comes down to place and people and circumstance, but I had thought the general bar for amount of work needed done and at what level was consistently lower for industry than academia. So it’s more common to be able to end early for me - easier to get what’s needed done

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My experience in industry has been more the hands off experience you are describing for research/academia, so it’s interesting to see it flipped.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Commutes are a killer, yeah. My commute was worse in academia and I was so overloaded with projects that I was working more than full days and having this same experience coming back home at the end of the day

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Kind of surprised - my experience with industry has been that I have far more work/life balance and time and energy for scicomm than academia/research ever allowed. Different roles, I expect, and sorry to hear it hasn’t worked out well for ya.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I just don’t know how to anymore. The version of an interactive and engaged online community I have in my head is just never what it is on any platform. I think that’s mostly a me thing, but I don’t have the energy or motivation to actively cultivate online presence. It feels too much like work.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Yeah, I would agree not to art it up - people tend to go too far with it. A very minimalistic stylistic touch can be nice, especially if relevant to the position, but it is mostly distracting and unnecessary. You can have an art/design portfolio and include a link to it if it is relevant.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It sucks such an incredible amount, but you will land something/get there! And just try to keep in mind self care and mental health as best you can along the way.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

So I would work up the CV/resume with short attention span communication principles in mind, yes. But also put some time aside into where and how you can meet, talk, convince people with jobs or who know people with jobs that you should be in one of those jobs.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I got connected to my company through a Data Engineering program - and to my current Data Science position through word of mouth and networking internally. I believe strongly my lack of network and support in academia outside Cephalopoda is mostly why I couldn’t land a postdoc.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In both cases, really frankly, networking matters more than resumes and applications at the end of the day. Getting any face time you can, where you can be persuasive and convincing and exciting goes so so so far.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Likewise they need money and if you have gotten money they will want to know that you can help them get money. This is my trauma speaking, so I apologize if this is harsh - postdoc applications sucked hardcore.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

And say where you are intending to submit - give it like a draft title and expected journal - give them tangibility that you are in the thick of that and ready to do more because that is what they will want you to be doing for them.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

From my experience, academia cares about pubs and grants first then skills. It was less “can you do this job” and more “are you published in this job” and really more “can I make you publish our existing bioinformatic data backlog.” Highlight projects/thesis work where pubs are in process up top…

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Academia - foof - I’m a bit removed from at this point to say but a lot of the same rules apply. The most relevant skills and experience need to be up top, page 1. It can have everything but unless the lab is super sci comm-y they don’t usually care about that stuff so put it laaaast last.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

So industry: name/info, skills, experience, education. Thats page 1 as a format and you cut and shift for each job. Page 2 can have more experience/jobs/etc. but only really if relevant - they do not go that far to read it.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I’d suggest making this one section and selecting three, maybe four of the key items that highlight the skills noted at the top that are relevant to the role and provide clear results with tangible numbers/outputs from your contributions.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Education needs to be there on the first page but is a bottom item in my view. You need the degree(s), it’s a check mark to check for the reviewer, but it isn’t important compared to what you have done/can do, so the meat of page 1 is experience/projects

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

For industry, summarize your skills and put them straight at the top. What tools can you use, what assays can you run, what code languages do you know, what leadership/business/comm skills do you bring to the table. Lead with these and then reinforce them with your projects and experience.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Prioritizing information depends on your audience so these are intertwined. In both academic or industry cases, I don’t think the summary is necessary - it’s the narrative you convey in the interview once they know you are a strong candidate via skills and experience

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

In terms of space, shrink up the header, remove the molecular biologist subtitle (as recommended elsewhere). Think about reducing to 2-3 bullets max. People do not read long things - apply your expertise in short attention span communication here like you would a video or poster.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

As such, it is a communication problem, which you are more than equipped to solve. The keys here are use of space, prioritization of information by ordering, and knowing your audience.

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Casey Zakroff @caseyzakroff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

For most spaces, this is too long. It is a good academic CV, but I’m assuming you are chopping it up for industry, which is a one page max - two ooonly if the first page really captures them.

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