iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the man's still going albeit 602 clam facts in debt

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 30/09/2026

Insect declines threaten wildlife far beyond insect world. Apart from being food, insects provide other species with homes, protection, chemical defence and sanitation - to name a few things. Great review article by @r-cooke.bsky.social with BEAUTIFUL visuals. 🧪🪳 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Visuals demonstrating the following:

Many freshwater fish eat insects
Parrots nest in termite mounds
Chimpanzees use insects on wounds
Poisonous frogs get toxins from ants and beetles.

73% of studied vertebrate species eat invertebrates

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICYMI: "Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism." An #AcademicSky and 🧪 friend hadn't read this piece/heard this argument yet and was very interested. So now you get it too

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to all the authors! Thanks @amarques.bsky.social for trusting my illustration skills - I’m so happy to be a part of this and have contributed to illustrations and figure design #SciArt

A scientific illustration showing the life cycle of a plant Rhynchospora tenuis.

Figure caption:
Schematic representation of the R. tenuis life cycle (2n = 4). Both male and female meiosis proceed without crossovers (achiasmatic inverted meiosis). Male gametogenesis is asymmetric, yielding a single functional sperm nucleus and non-Mendelian segregation. Fertilization restores the diploid state with intact haplotypes, but only heterozygous seeds develop into viable embryos, ensuring faithful restoration of the highly heterozygous parental genome each generation.

Fig. 5: Life cycle of R. tenuis (PECP-48 genotype) under achiasmatic meiosis.
From: Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11057-7

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Retro palaeoart: Polish (1929, interwar) popular science palaeontology book "O czym mówią kamienie?" ("What do rocks tell us"), with charming illustrations. Written by Józef Siemiradzki, a Professor of Geology at the University of Lviv.

O czym mówią kamienie? a theropod attacking a saurpod

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 28/09/2026

russia struck the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Employees of the academy attempted to jump from the windows, as flames engulfed the building. russia rejoices in killing people who make this world a better place, while its war criminals turn cities to ruins.

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This new paper (out today in Nature) describes a unique reproductive system, where in spite of sexual reproduction with meiosis and fertilization that lead to seed production, the resulting offspring are all genetically identical to the mother (like in asexual reproduction) How does it happen? 🧪🌱

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks @maurineneiman.bsky.social for sending my t-shirt! I love how the colours turned out 🌈🐌 In case you are - like us - a fan of rainbow snails, there are more products with these scientific heroes/queer icons in my redbubble shop www.redbubble.com/people/Dorot...

Dorota wearing a black t-shirt with text: “The Science of Sex, Neiman Lab” and graphic snail silhouettes with rainbow-coloured shells

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎉 Hooray for the Tree of Life Web Project being back online! It’s a great resource for teaching evolution and sooo beautiful 🤩 🧪

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Are you planning to attend a Researchers’ Night event? Or perhaps you’re presenting? Let us know, and EvoKE will share it with the community of biology educators, researchers, and others with an interest in evolution education We want to inspire more people to attend #ResearchersNight 🧪

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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book

yanivjb.github.io

Applied Biostatistics

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spent the last two days at the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social planning science outreach projects with the Department of Biological and Environmental Science and the Konnevesi Research Station. Thanks for hosting me @katja-jrasanen.bsky.social and Kristian Meissner!

A photo of Dorota and Katja on a bridge over a lake

A photo of Dorota and Kristian smiling at the camera

A view at lake Konnevesi from the Research Station grounds

A bridge over the lake with the University of Jyväskylä campus in the background

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rainbow snail sticker? Yes please! Available in 5 colours 🌈 Head to my Redbubble store to get them: www.redbubble.com/people/Dorot... #SciArt

A graphic comprising of 4 snail silhouettes with rainbow coloured shells and pink, purple, yellow and blue bodies. The blue snail is a mirror image of the other snails, meaning it’s shell has an unusual left-handed coil

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not only stickers, but shirts, stationery, phone cases or even socks! The iconic queer snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, for all your rainbow snail needs www.redbubble.com/people/Dorot... #SciArt

A black t-shirt with a large graphic snail print. The snail has a pink body and a rainbow shell.

A water bottle with a transparent snail sticker on. The snail has a purplebody and a rainbow shell.

A phone case with snail print. The snail has a blue body and a rainbow shell.

A notebook with snail print. The snail has a green body and a rainbow shell.

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rainbow snail sticker? Yes please! Available in 5 colours 🌈 Head to my Redbubble store to get them: www.redbubble.com/people/Dorot... #SciArt

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Maurine Neiman @maurineneiman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We love these t-shirts so much!!! ❤️🐌🌈

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

These t-shirts with my design for @maurineneiman.bsky.social’s lab are about to drop 😁 I can’t wait to try mine on! #SciArt

A black t-shirt with white text “The science of Sex | Neiman Lab”. Around the text there are three snails with rainbow-coloured shells, with pink, blue and purple bodies.

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last year, I designed a set of learning materials for the Conservation Genetics Workshop, a course aimed at practitioners working in biodiversity conservation. They are available in German, French, Italian, and English under a CC BY license: free to use, share, and modify. 🧪🐡

Front pages of three infographics:
1: Types of genetic markers: what can they reveal?
2: Concepts of population genetics
3: Conservation genetics in practice: how to plan a project?

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are some really interesting topics in the collection of @evokeproject.bsky.social webinars - I’m so impressed with the multi sensory evolution outreach in the evALLution project by Telma Laurentino

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We’re taking a summer break from live webinars, but that does not mean the learning has to stop 🧪 #EduSky Have a look below at all the topics we covered in 2026:

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I want to lift my mood and restore faith in humanity I browse #BikeSky

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This summer I made a lot of vocabulary cards to learn new words in Finnish 🇫🇮 I learned a lot and had a fun drawing practice too. Do you know any of them?

A photo of several paper cards with small drawings (e.g., a bracelet, needle and thread, anchor, tray, …). Overlaid text: Vocabulary cards

A photo of several paper cards with small drawings (e.g., scissors, arrow, seal, saw, life buoy, …)

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Imposter syndrome Snail mail Transgenic Crema Breakdancing

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It is with great sadness that I learned about the passing of Prof. Graham Scoles. He will be remembered for his contributions to plant genomics and agricultural research, and as a kind mentor and teacher to many students and scientists www.saskatoonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/g...

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Graham John Scoles Obituary Jun 12, 2026 - Saskatoon Funeral Home

View Graham John Scoles's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Birds of a feather flock together". But sometimes, the unlikeliest of pairs form lasting bonds. Take mutually beneficial symbioses in nature between animals, animals and bacteria or plants and bacteria. Or even humans and bacteria! 🧪🧵 #Evolution #EvoKE #InternationalFriendshipDay #Animalsymbiosis

A graphic with two colourful photos and bold text in the middle: "Happy Friendship Day". The top photo shows the African buffalo with a bird (red-billed oxpecker) perched on its head. The bottom photo shows a clownfish among sea anemone tentacles. A small overlaying text reads: "to my symbiont in crime!"

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We have a great creative team at #EvoKE, with whom I also collaborate. Follow us here and on other social media platforms to help us reach more people and make #evolution something everyone can understand and connect with 🧪

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Found a lots of twin-sailed Salp (sea squirt) washed up on beaches around mendocino this past week. Only had some vague clue what they might be as I half remembered this thread. Read the thread for their totally crazy life cycle.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social is a freelance scientific illustrator and consultant with a background in evolutionary biology - see full bio in ALT TEXT 4/10

Dorota Paczesniak is a freelance scientific illustrator and consultant with a background in evolutionary biology.
She completed her PhD at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, focusing her research on asexual reproduction in wild snail populations. She then continued working as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Germany and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada to study evolutionary questions related to reproductive systems in plants. She has worked as a lecturer at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and the University of Oulu, Finland.
As an illustrator, Dorota has delivered communication projects for professional training and public education campaigns, and created illustrations for books, scientific publications, and grant applications.
She is an author of popular science articles, educational materials and infographics about evolution, genetics, and plant breeding.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Paleontology term from the native Siberians: Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them a name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become the word MAMMOTH! 📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What do pea plants have to do with evolution? 🌱 More than you might think. Gregor Mendel's careful experiments uncovered the rules of inheritance, explaining how traits are passed from one generation to the next. Gregor Mendel was born #OTD in 1822! 🧪 #GregorMendel #Evolution #Genetics #EvoKE

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Great to see this paper out - an important perspective on ecosystem connectivity. I’m grateful for the opportunity to help with the visuals! 🧪 I can help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics - get in touch

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I did not expect to have my mind blown by the podcast episode about earwax. But there you go, @tpwky.bsky.social never cease to amaze! No spoilers, but the bit about whales 🐋 is so cool

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

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Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My Potamopyrgus antipodarum snail silhouette is now also available to download from #WikimediaCommons - free to use and modify #CCBY commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po... 🧪🐡

Screenshot of a Wikimedia Commons page with a silhouette illustration of the New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

A graphic showing a fragment of an illustration with some text below on a cheerful yellow background. The text reads: Botanical illustration: Comparison between fertilisation in angiosperms and gymnosperms

A graphic showing a botanical illustration with some text below. The text reads: This illustration shows the comparison between angiosperm (A) and gymnosperm (B) fertilisation and the anatomy of the female reproductive organs

A graphic showing a screenshot from Wikimedia Commons with some text below. The text reads: It is available on Wikimedia Commons with a CC BY 4.0 licence. Free to share and remix, attribution required

A graphic showing a few small botanical illustrations and hand-drawn sketches with some text below. The text reads: I'm open to commissions of scientific figures, graphical abstracts, infographics and other learning materials. Drawing to explain and inspire. My portfolio: https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns. Dorota Paczesniak (PhD), scientific illustrator

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

EvoKE Webinar – Special Edition Instead of our usual webinar format, our next session will bring together researchers, educators, curriculum developers, and anyone interested in evolution education to co-create a collaborative publication #EvoKE #Evolution #EduSky 🧪 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3SOwelR

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It’s the wild strawberry season here in the south of Finland 🍓

A photo of a wild strawberry with a bright red, ripe fruit

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 19/06/2026

Do you know about the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social? A great resource for nature-related collaborative work, with biodiversity literature and images made publicly available. www.biodiversitylibrary.org Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères. 🧪🌍🪶🦊

Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères, Paris: Le Muséum,1843

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Martin Johnsson @mrtnj.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It's really quite sad how open access used to be presented as the moral thing to do that would disrupt publishing, and in the end, it became a way for publishers to extract more money from universities.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In all the countries where I can read the news, disabled & chronically ill people are being talked about & treated like easy targets/acceptable losses/just garbage rn. I need non-disabled/chronically healthy people to understand: Historically, we're the canaries in the coal mine. You'll be next…

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My new illustration comparing reproductive structures between angiosperms and gymnosperms www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

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New botanical illustrations | Forest Genomics | University of Helsinki

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m used to saying ”male” or ”female” flowers, or calling anthers the male part and pistil the female part of a flower. But accurate scientific vocabulary is so important! I agree with the argument that plants are much more complex than the binary categories we borrow from human perspective

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