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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

📣Don't miss it - happenning tomorrow: EvoKE webinar with Evandro P. Lopes, who will talk about the remarkable biodiversity of Cabo Verde 📆16 October, 4pm CEST Free to join and no registration required. Link on our website: evokeproject.org/webinars/ 🧪 #EduSky #EvoKE

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EvoKE Webinars

EvoKE webinars are free, open to all, and held monthly. In 2026, sessions will alternate to increase accessibility across our international community. Odd Months First Monday of the Monthat 4pm CET…

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

University of Helsinki is hiring tenure track Assistant/Associate Professors. A main theme is Future Food and candidates with plant and crop breeding and genomics profile are encouraged to apply. Please share to potential candidates! The call closes November 16th. www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

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Call for HiLIFE tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor positions | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki

HiLIFE tenure track program aims to attract the most talented and motivated individuals. In the previous four calls HiLIFE has recruited 20 Assistant/Associate Professors, who to date have been able t...

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cool wildlife sighting from last weekend- common European viper (Vipera berus) in southern Finland. Spotted by my 5 y.o. Snakes in general give me an ick, but nevertheless it’s cool to see a viper in the wild

A snake with a distinctive zigzag pattern on the forest floor. This is common European viper, Vipera berus

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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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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

💚 Happy World Teachers’ Day! Today, we celebrate all the teachers who spark curiosity, encourage questions, and help learners understand the living world around them. Is there a teacher who made a difference in your life? Tag them in the replies or share this post with them to say thank you #EduSKy

Happy World Teachers’ Day!
Today, we celebrate the teachers who spark curiosity, inspire questions, and help young minds make sense of our evolving world.
Thank you for all that you do!
Share this with a teacher who inspired you
#EvoKE

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And something for you...
Looking for resources to bring evolution into your classroom?
Explore free educational resources created and shared by the EvoKE community
- eBook: Learning Evolution through Socioscientific Issues
- SciComm4All
- eBook: Influenza Virus: A Challenge to the Immune System and to Medicine in the Light of Evolution
(there are more on our website: https://evokeproject.org)

Discover our educational resources!

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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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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

Thank you Richard, it was a pleasure working with you!

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

Plants are weird, but some are even weirder than we could imagine... It's such a cool system! Amazing work demonstrating all these mechanisms!👍

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

This is a really unique system and described here for the first time, in a South American plant species 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘴

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

❌ no crossovers in either male or female meiosis (achiasmy) 🧬certain haplotypes are preferentially transmitted through both pollen and egg (meiotic drive) 🚫strong post-zygotic selection that removes recombinant and homozygous seeds leaving only the offspring genetically identical to the mother

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

More info about these snails bsky.app/profile/doro...

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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

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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

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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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

Check out my collection of rainbow snails in five different colours! Featuring an extremely rare, sinistral (left-handed) coiling snail in blue.

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

They are scientific heroes too - models for evolutionary biology research which aims to understand why organisms reproduce sexually (while asexual cloning is faster and more efficient), and for research on biological invasions, as some asexual clones spread globally from their native New Zealand.

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

This iconic queer snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, defies binary classifications. Females can produce offspring with or without males, and there are different kinds of males too - some of them are sons of asexual females.

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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 are Potamoprgus antipodarum snails, which reproduce either sexually (both males and females are needed), or asexually (females produce offspring that are genetically identical to themselves and the mother). Prof. Neiman’s lab studies evolution of sexual reproduction and ploidy level

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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 · 06/08/2026

Totally! I’d love to see them used widely

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

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 · 06/08/2026

Authors: Buser CN, Weber AAT, Feulner PGD, Richman S, Fischer MC, Grossen C, Naciri Y, Paczesniak D, Paerli R, Reutimann O, Tschan J, Widmer A, Gugerli F Conceptual lead: Corine N. Buser, graphic design and illustration: Dorota Paczesniak

An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the front and the back page. The front page has a title: "Types of genetic markers: what can they reveal?", as well as bullet points for the main take-home messages, and an illustration of three levels of biodiversity: genes, species and populations. The back page has an info box about open and FAIR data and the footnote with contact details, "how to cite", funding, and institutional logos

An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the open inside page with a large table explaining the four essential biodiversity variables: genetic diversity, genetic differentiation, inbreeding, and the effective population size. The German language version is shown.

An infographic in a form of a folded flyer, showing the front page. This is the French language version of the infographic titled "Conservation genetics in practice: how to plan a project?" Apart from the bullet points for the main take-home messages there is an illustration of the main steps of the project planning. The visual summary follows a path from 1) define the problem & form the question, 2) identify partners, 3) plan the project, 4) do the work and obtain results, 5) communicate findings, 6) formulate recommendations. There are visual icons for the different partners (land owners/farmers, engineers, foresters, researchers, nature conservationists, planners, government agencies) and an additional path going back from partners (2) to problem/question (1) labeled „co-create”

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

They address three main topics: 1. Types of molecular markers 🧬, 2. The meaning and relevance of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) 🐞🌳, 3. Best practices for transdisciplinary project planning 📑 www.behance.net/gallery/2294...

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Conservation genetics workshop infographics - Dorota Paczesniak

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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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