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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wouldn't waste hours trying to figure out if I can still write a scientific paper that is not a string of buzzwords or if I completely lost my mind after months of reading slop-generated texts and slides from colleagues.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A while ago I painted some artworks for a museum and now I have to watch the social account of said museum post aislop made using my artworks to promote "scientific facts" about the fossils of their exhibition. I let you imagine how it feels like witnessing this as both a scientist and an artist...

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

In scientific illustration and paleoart it's already like that. Before the ais people already didn't know much about the science and craftmanship beyond it, so when chatgpeetee arrived reportes and even scientists themselves began using "scientific" aislop for science communication purposes (!!!)

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Costretta a giocare a basket per l'altezza oltre la media, all'ennesimo "sei uno spreco di fisicità" del prof allenatore semipro, ho tirato la palla da basket dall'altra parte della palestra e non mi sono più avvicinata neanche per sbaglio a nessuno Sport Competitivo™.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The bar is so low that cheap book covers made with papyrus and lens flares look like the sistine chapelle by comparison

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Caverna Generosa is the cave we are studying thanks to The Leakey Foundation research grant I was awarded, focusing on the study of the habitat of one of the last and highest (1450 m) Neanderthal glacial refugium of the Italian Peninsula.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Cave bear and Mousterian tools from Caverna Generosa (Italian Alps). Illustration for the art exhibition orginized by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists and The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org for the AABA 2026 meeting in Denver, Colorado.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

You can capture that suburb nature feeling like no one else.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

with a good aperitivo you can unlock even a C2

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I so wish I were there sharing with you both the cynar spritz @bidonica.bsky.social made me discover in Padua!!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

No problem!! If you have time I also recommend to visit the Natural History Museum. They recently opened a new permanent exhibition on human evolution which is really cool! museodistorianaturalemilano.it/esposizioni-...

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Storia dell'Evoluzione Umana - Museo di Storia Naturale - Comune di Milano

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Last time I was at the IH Argonne Park in Via Paladini 7. It's close to the center in a really quiet area!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Thank you for sharing it and for the help uploading the data on Dryad!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Storicamente siamo la causa e la soluzione a tutti i problemi

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Superb work! I keep being mesmerized by the way you rendered those shadows!!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

the scientific consensus on it it's the "we just don't know" bird meme

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

so cool to see some Hoplitomeryx representation from you!!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

such incredible lines! Great work as always!!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"My Name Is Nobody" dwarf elephant 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑥𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑖 from Pleistocene Sicily, which fossils possibly inspired the myth of the cyclops such as Polyphemus.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The leaves' shadows are so neat! Great work as always!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Back in my time we called it "aura hunting-gathering"

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Adult secretary birds look like the first and last thing you see in a HR office

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I like to believe that Dave Bautista studied the blade by going through the most popular Ao3 tags

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

ready to join that demon boy band 🫰

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

This will be the best birthday gift 🙏Can't wait for it!

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The way you paint the light on the clouds and on the mountains in the distance (in this artwork and others) it's so good... it's like looking at the countryside of my hometown

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

At last this place truly feels like home!! Please never leave, we need more of your visionary storytelling

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It's incredible for me to get funded by the major organization on the study of human evolution, as I got into paleontology when I learned that near my hometown they had found several Homo-bearing fossil localities (e.g., Ceprano) and decided to fully commit to the study of the deep time.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Caverna Generosa is a renowned Late Pleistocene cave of the Italian Alps which yielded 9 Mousterian stone tools and houndreds of fossils of ice age mammals, in particular of cave bears (for this reason the cave is also known as "Grotta dell'Orso" literally "Bear's Cave").

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My project has been selected for tThe Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social research grant (Fall 2024)! We will study the habitats of Caverna Generosa, the highest glacial refugium of the Italian Alps with evidence of Neanderthal occupation. leakeyfoundation.org/fall-2024-re...

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Introducing the Fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant Recipients

Introducing the fall 2024 Leakey Foundation Research Grant recipients. Twenty-six scholars will receive funding to advance knowledge of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Stiamo a tanto così che chiederanno ai professori di aprirsi una partita iva o mettersi in cooperativa

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It will end as it always ends... investment projects straight out from a Simpson episode, dogs CEOs pour money either because they are stupid or stooges, everything gets distrupted but nothing changes, blame a boogeyman, leave the dogs feast on the indebted state/consumers, rinse and repeat...

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Il mio sogno nel cassetto è che un giorno girino "Stranis La Rochelle" una biopic su di me scritta e interpretata da Corrado Guzzanti e Emanuela Fanelli.

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IUCA Unizar @iucaunizar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

¡Comenzamos en #BlueSky con buenas noticias! 🔬🌍 @leakeyfoundation.bsky.social respaldará un proyecto liderado por Flavia Strani y Daniel DeMiguel @iucaunizar.bsky.social que estudiará el papel del clima en la extinción de los #neandertales en los Alpes italianos. 👀⬇️ iuca.unizar.es/noticia/resp...

Los investigadores de la Universidad de Zaragoza Flavia Strani y Daniel DeMiguel.

Fases de excavación en los depósitos Pleistocénicos de la cueva "Caverna Generosa". Foto por Fabio Bona.

Industria lítica (Musteriense) de neandertales encontrada en los depósitos de la cueva. Foto por Fabio Bona.

Cráneo fósil de oso cavernario (Ursus spelaeus) encontrado en la cueva "Caverna Generosa". Foto por Fabio Bona.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Straight from the source even. That guy, who promptly deleted the post, is his representative in Italy who is also in touch with our government made by members of the "ex-fascist" party. It's exactly what it looked like.

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flaviastrani.bsky.social @flaviastrani.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It was meant to represent the Night's Watch even if they don't have a crow in their heraldry

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