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Graphic Designer for Simons Foundation. #science #graphics #scicomm #sciart

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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.birds.cornell.edu/illustrators/ The call for applications for the 2025 residency is now open!
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Welcome to the Bartels Science Illustration Program
Birds have long inspired artists, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has a long and vibrant tradition in both science and art. That tradition began with famed ornithologist and artist Louis Agassiz Fu...
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Gold from the stars
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Flares From Magnetized Stars Can Forge Planets’ Worth of Gold, Other Heavy Elements
Flares From Magnetized Stars Can Forge Planets’ Worth of Gold, Other Heavy Elements on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Learn how LEDs work:
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
LEDs are getting even more efficient, thanks to Math. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/24/t...
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These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills
These Mathematical Equations Are Slashing America’s Electric Bills on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The latest data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration includes the clearest and most precise measurements yet of the universe’s earliest light. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/18/a...
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Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release
Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Quanta Magazine Art intern simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
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Art Intern, Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine is looking for a motivated art and design intern for the summer of 2025. This is an outstanding opportunity for a beginning designer to learn about editorial design, illustration and p...
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Scientific American Graphics intern springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Graphics Intern, Scientific American
Job Title: Graphics Intern, Scientific American Location: New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 21, 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery ...
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great art+science internships coming up:
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Science infographic: Why Female Brains Age Better than Males

To inform strategies for promoting healthy brain aging, scientists investigated why female's brains age more slowly than males. The origin of our X chromosomes holds a clue.  

Diverse Inheritance
Male cells have a maternal X chromosome inherited from their mother. Female cells inherit both paternal X and maternal X. In all cells, only one X is activated. Male cells only have a maternal X to activate. Females activate a mix of maternal and paternal X. The diversity of maternal and paternal Xs across female cells is thought to offer a buffer against age-related diseases.

A Healthy Mix
Female mice were engineered to only express maternal X. The engineered brains aged faster, suffered cognitive impairment and had certain brain cell genes shut off when compared to brains with a diversity of X.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Why women's brains age better than men's @simonsfoundation.org www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/02/05/n...
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New Research Identifies a Key Player in How Your Brain Ages: The X Chromosome
New Research Identifies a Key Player in How Your Brain Ages: The X Chromosome on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Forbes list of America’s 25 most generous givers: www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
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America’s Most Generous Philanthropists 2025
America's top philanthropists: From Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to newcomer Reed Hastings of Netflix, the most generous people in the country have doled out billions.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Jim Simons — award-winning mathematician and regarded as the father of modern quantitative investing — led an extraordinary life, championing new ideas and ways of thinking as a mathematician, an investor and philanthropist. Jim Simons leaves behind an unparalleled legacy. youtu.be/RvjGLenq24A?...
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Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy
YouTube video by Simons Foundation
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/12/2024
Designers, developers and art directors from The Post’s Design, Graphics and Opinions teams worked on more than 500 visual stories in 2024. Explore some of our favorites from the year below.
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2024 in visual storytelling
A collection of some favorites from The Washington Post’s Design, Graphics and Opinions teams.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Scott Weady et. al (2024)
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Graphic: Pattern Formation Under Stress
Through simulations and modeling of bacterial colonies, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and collaborators have discovered how dividing cells adapt to their crowded environments. Understanding 
how cells respond to mechanical stress could inform strategies for controlling the growth of harmful substances.

Self-Inhibiting Growth
Particle simulations (top row) capture the cycles in which bacterial cells grow and then divide. At the edge of the colony, some cells experience little stress and grow quickly, while others are trampled by their faster-growing neighbors; these cells experience more stress and grow slower. The process repeats until the colony reaches 100,000 cells, forming rings of  small to large cells for each cycle. By changing the stress sensitivity of a colony, the researchers could control the wavelength of the concentric rings, with a higher sensitivity resulting in more rings.

The team created a continuum model to predict how the process might play out with a larger number of cells. The model resembled the particle simulations and quantitatively identified the origin of the ring patterns.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Claustrophobic Cells Slow Their Own Growth, Forming Beautiful Patterns of Concentric Circles
Claustrophobic Cells Slow Their Own Growth, Forming Beautiful Patterns of Concentric Circles on Simons Foundation
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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 04/12/2024
We are #hiring! Learn more about working at the Flatiron Institute and view our numerous opportunities including postdoc fellowships, associate research scientists and HPC optimization engineer: www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/car... #science #computationalscience #math
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Origin of Black Hole Bursts Graphic:

Black holes shoot off powerful jets of charged particles, leading to explosive and luminous bursts of gamma rays. Researchers have revealed the previously unknown source of the strong magnetic field required to power such bursts. Not only does the work solve a longstanding mystery, but it also opens the door for further studies of jets.

A rotating massive star collapses, forming a rapidly spinning proto neutron star. Due to the angular momentum of the stellar core, a spinning accretion disk rapidly forms. The spin of the proto neutron star may generate a strong, ordered magnetic field.

As the proto neutron star collapses into a spinning black hole, the accretion disk moves inward, anchoring the field lines to the black hole. The strongly magnetized and spinning black hole then launches a pair of jets that break through the outer layers of the star, powering a gamma-ray burst.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We Finally Know Where Black Holes Get Their Magnetic Fields www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/11/18/w...
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We Finally Know Where Black Holes Get Their Magnetic Fields: Their Parents
We Finally Know Where Black Holes Get Their Magnetic Fields: Their Parents on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Quote with an illustration of a confined qubits surrounded by unconfined qubits that reads: “There is some boundary that separates what can be done with quantum computing and what can be done with classical computers. Our work helps clarify that boundary." Quote from Joseph Tindall, Flatiron Institute
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Diagram that reads: 
Keeping It Local
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute in New York have successfully used a classical computer to reproduce a process performed by a quantum computer. The work offers invaluable intel for understanding the physics happening in both systems.

The graphic introduces qubits in spin up and spin down positions, and also in superposition of both spin up and down. The multiple qubits are arranged into a lattice.

In the system’s initial setup, the qubits all began pointed down.
When energy (a magnetic field) is introduced, the qubits tip into a
mostly down superposition state.

Over time, the qubits influence their immediate neighbors to tip into deeper superpositions in a self-reinforcing chain reaction that cascades through the lattice, making the system too complex for classical computers to emulate.

Confining the Action
Tipping qubits costs energy. By suppressing the amount of
energy available to the system, researchers were able to confine
the chain reaction of influence to small regions within the lattice.
These regions were manageable enough to be accurately simulated
using classical methods.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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How a Classical Computer Beat a Quantum Computer at Its Own Game
How a Classical Computer Beat a Quantum Computer at Its Own Game on Simons Foundation
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Julia Wolfe @juruwolfe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi since we're all here again — we're hiring a (paid, ofc) intern! We're the dream team, big enough to have resources for ambitious and weird stuff, small enough that no one falls through the cracks. Apply! careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
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Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship in New York, New York, United States of America | News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
Apply for Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship job with Thomson Reuters in New York, New York, United States of America. News & Editorial Careers at Thoms...
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A map of the Orion constellation showing the location of Betelgeuse, which sits on the shoulder of Orion.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Graphic: Betelgeuse - a red supergiant in the shoulder of the Orion
constellation - grows brighter and dimmer, as if it had a pulse. A new study suggests these changes in brightness may
be caused by an orbiting star, dubbed Betelbuddy, clearing light-blocking dust in its vicinity, allowing Betelgeuse to appear brighter from our vantage point.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright Star Betelgeuse Likely Has a ‘Betelbuddy’ Stellar Companion
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright Star Betelgeuse Likely Has a ‘Betelbuddy’ Stellar Companion on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Kyle! Fame has found him.
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 Inside Climate News is seeking a Senior Editor with a commitment to covering climate change, the environment, and environmental justice. insideclimatenews.org/about/jobs/#...
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Jobs & Freelance - Inside Climate News
Job opportunities in our award-winning newsroom
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
We are excited to introduce you to our new brand, with simonsfoundation.org and our other media channels rolling over to reveal the new look. Read more here: www.simonsfoundation.org/2023/09/18/s...
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Simons Foundation Unveils New Logo and Visual Identity | Simons Foundation
Simons Foundation Unveils New Logo and Visual Identity on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange www.simonsfoundation.org/2023/08/17…
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We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange | Simons Foundation
We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange on Simons Foundation
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
Fabulous!
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
Art Train 🎨🖌️🐡 (thanks @christiansenjen.bsky.social !) Nominating these fabulous SciArt folks: @edbell.bsky.social and @unamandita.bsky.social Cell cycle for Knowable Magazine Host biomarkers for Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation
Animated gif of an illustrated hedgehogDiagram that illustrated the cell cycle, from cell growth to DNA replication to cell growth + preparation for mitosis to mitosis (chromosome separation) to cell division and circling back to cell growth again.Illustration of Dylan Thomas' Boathouse in Laugharne, South Wales, using tints of purple and orange to suggest dawnDiagram that shows how alternative splicing of a gene can result in many different kinds of proteins. The ratios of each protein can be used as biomarkers for infectious diseases, such as COVID-19
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Hemlock hat co. have some cuties and not too pricey!
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EdBell @edbell.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Thrilled to have been nominated for an Emmy for the documentary Ultimate Space Telescope. Working with Terri Randall, and Jedd Ehrmann is fun enough, but being nominated for an Emmy is beyond words! #scicomm #emmy www.pbs.org/video/ultimate-space-te…
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Kudos to Terri, Jedd and their team at Nova | PBS (including my friend, mentor, animator @edbell.bsky.social) for their Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary Emmy nomination for; #scicomm #emmy www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video...
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Ultimate Space Telescope
Discover how NASA engineers built and launched the most ambitious telescope of all time.
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Lucy @lucyreadingikkanda.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
Thank you so much for the invite, @christiansenjen.bsky.social !
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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 14/07/2023
Excited for the GNSI virtual visual science communication conf!https://www.gnsi.org/2023conf_presenters Aug 12-13. Full disclosure: I’m on the program committee. Which was great because it allowed me to ask people I respect if they would talk about things that I want to learn more about 😍 #SciArt
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2023conf Presenters
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