Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This AI slop world is exhausting. I can't trust client provided references anymore, and I can't trust publications post 2023. 051
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If someone made a biology coloring book, what would you want to color the most? Mitosis? DNA? Apoptosis? Neurons? #sciart (It's me, I'm the someone.) 174
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Recently heard about an AI project using an LLM to reference only vetted sources (🤷♀️, maybe it's worth the electricity?).... but then they also decided, hey, let's use a digital twin of an existing individual (a content expert) to deliver this generated info! 🤯 Nothing could go wrong...static.klipy.comIan Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park QuoteAlt: Ian Malcolm's Iconic Jurassic Park Quote "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should". 031
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Love it when I'm talking with a scientist about a visual and they say "I've never thought of it that way before..." and then proceed to hypothesize new ideas on the fly. :) 031
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Who could have predicted? /sarcasm 051
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Everyone who uses AI should have to take a statistics course first. 2262
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Switched my work email from Gmail to Proton Mail today! @proton.me No more finding obscure settings to turn off the latest Gemini AI every other month.media.tenor.coma woman wearing a denim jacket is making a funny face with #schitts creek written on the bottomALT: a woman wearing a denim jacket is making a funny face with #schitts creek written on the bottom 120
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Also it's insulting to be expected to read something that someone couldn't even be bothered to write. 021
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIGreg Pinelo @gregpinelo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Daylight Savings Time sucks and should be abolished. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...washingtonpost.comWhy daylight saving time is worse for your body than standard timeDaylight saving time gives us more light at the end of the day to enjoy spring and summer activities, but it can have a negative impact on our health. 64580134
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Come Mother's Day, my kid better remember who got a tent all winter long and who most definitely did not get a tent. 090
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I made this gif to preview my latest newsletter #sciart freebie (yay mitochondria!), but I feel like it could have legs as a reaction gif too. 😆 0101
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Hey #sciart - what do you think, SciViz or SciVis for abbreviating science visualization? 150
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Finally put together my 2025 Art vs. Artist. Made some cool artwork, and overcame my fear of being upside down. :) Here's to more science visuals and handstands in 2026! 060
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMISven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Love the caption of Fig. 3 in this impressive preprint: "A Goodsell-esque 3D orthogonal rendering of an IsoNet2-processed FIB-milled tomogram of C. reinhardtii" doi.org/10.64898/202... Since I am no expert, what does the cryoET community think of IsoNet? @cellarchlab.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... 36713
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIZen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatterdocs.google.comSlop graphics in academic journalsUse this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope... 3311214
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 22/07/2025My recent #sciart on kinetochore structure is now live! 👇 Congrats to the authors! 👏 1131
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 14/07/2025My trading cards are ready for the Association of Medical Illustrators mentor mixer! Who's going to be trading with me in Grand Rapids? #AMI2025 #sciart 0141
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Wanted to share this fun side project for the last day of Pride month - DNA strand with the colors of the Progress Pride flag. :) #sciart 0196
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Want to follow my #sciart, but don't want to slog through a feed to find it? Then I've got the newsletter for you! 2101
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 21/05/2025@capitalweather.bsky.social is there a technical definition of sky? If so, what are the upper and lower bounds? Asking for a 4 y/o who wants to know if buildings touch the sky. 020
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/05/2025Our first Teach In is on the map...and it's a big one with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social! You can RSVP at the bottom of this page: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... #standupforsciencestandupforscience.netSummer Fight For Science 2025 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 218061
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Inspired by Vietnam-era activism, Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of teach-ins around the USA this summer, focusing on the importance of science and science funding. I’m doing one May 30th in Silver Spring. Many of you should consider doing one too, and I’m happy to help you plan it 🦑🧪🌎 10417146
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important. 5650322378
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIGuild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Registration for our July 13-19 Visual SciComm Conference is now open! We invite everyone to join us for a week of social events, #SciArt camaraderie, and presentations by pioneering visual science communicators. Register by May 5 for early bird pricing. www.gnsi.org/visual-scico... 1122
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIJohn Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffsIn shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts. 5167102
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIEmily Hromi, CMI | Illustrator, Designer, Artist @studiohromi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025At the bottom of her email newsletter, @falconierivisuals.bsky.social writes "This newsletter is 100% human created. If I can't be bothered to write it, I won't bother you to read it!" and I really really love that! It perfectly sums up how I feel about using ChatGPT, even for simple tasks. 291
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Getting ready for #standupforscience2025 on Friday. Will you be there? #sciart #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall 421434
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/03/2025On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone. Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️ 7501225
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I'm going to be at Stand Up for Science in DC on March 7! Come join me! 051
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...technologyreview.comThe foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantledFederal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come 7829981496
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I had to message Google support just to *enable the button* to turn Gemini AI off for my work email. If users actually wanted the feature, it wouldn't be set up like this. 170
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025You had me at "pyroptotic corpses". 🔥😂 But seriously this is a great bluetorial with fascinating microscopy! 020
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMICelia Ford @celiaford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social 22623585
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Part 5, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2018, just getting established as a freelancer. I was lucky to work with Synlogic Therapeutics on this image that ended up on the cover of Science Translational Medicine! 0192
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I recently had my appendix out and this is a horrible week to not be able to work out. 240
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I'll be speaking at Science Talk '25 in April! Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can connect! 👋 #SCITALK25 #SCIENCETALK25 #scicomm #AssocSciComm 160
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I reject “AI or die”. 🧵 170
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I loved these as a kid! Which probably explains why I ended up in medical illustration. 😂 050
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Part 4, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2017, putting 3D electron microscopy (FIB SEM) data of the salivary gland in context. In collab with Kedar Narayan, NCI's CCR Volume EM lab. 🧪 crtp.ccr.cancer.gov/vem/ 0173
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIGuild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Greetings, Bluesky!media.tenor.coma man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulderALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder 36410
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Part 3, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2016, my first piece for Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social - HIV surface spike (Env) attaching to a host cell. 🧪 0384
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Part 2, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy animation, 2015: This video for the Subramaniam Lab (then NCI, now UBC) shows how single particle #cryoem reveals molecular structures. 1243
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Let's get caught up, shall we? Over the next few weeks I'm going to share #sciart highlights from my 10 years as a professional medical illustrator. First up, my 2014 image of beta-galactosidase, created in collaboration with Doreen Matthies (NIH), illustrating #cryoem resolution breakthroughs 48011
Reposted by Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMIDiana Kwon @dianakwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024GenAI has given fraudsters a powerful new way of making fake images. My story in @natureportfolio.bsky.social looks at what people are doing to try to stop this problem from spiraling out of control: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot themGenerative-AI technologies can create convincing scientific data with ease — publishers and integrity specialists fear a torrent of faked science. 02213
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 12/11/2024The right science. The right style. Always. :) 070
Veronica Falconieri Hays, MA CMI @falconierivisuals.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Hi Bluesky! I'm a Certified Medical Illustrator and animator, specializing in cellular & molecular visuals. Nice to meet you! 2270