Happy Halloween ! my thoughts on AI slop

Tricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...

Tricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...

I usually work on art inspired by science, but this time around the science was inspired by art! Congratulations to Ahyoung Kim and Qian Chen and colleagues for their work on atom-scale stenciling! #SciArt #art #pottery #nanotechnology #nanoparticles

Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first? I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm thrilled to share this article by Ruth Schuster covering scanning the fossil record for Denisovans, a project undertaken by the @david-gokhman.bsky.social lab at Weizmann Institute. 2 pieces of my art are featured :) www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

I’m excited to share that my art is on the cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials this month. Created for the Korin lab @technion.bsky.social The image shows the use of hydrogels designed for precise embolization of brain aneurysms. #SciArt #medart

I’ll be participating in a group exhibit featuring insects and this reel was made about one of the pieces! #Sciart www.instagram.com/reel/DLhTRUc...

"AI images don’t succinctly or accurately communicate scientific concepts & could undermine public trust in science... inaccuracies wouldn’t fly if they were created by a person, “but for some reason, having this sheen of fake polish that comes with AI kind of erases all of those standards” 🧪#sciart

Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt

Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Egg Shell Structure, pen & ink. From my book "Manual of Ornithology," Yale University Press: a.co/d/2c4tMLl 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ornithology #birds #anatomy

reposting this one for #InverteFest ! #SciArt #entomology #bugs #BugSky #art #ArtPH

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating, really thought-provoking work by Trevor Cousins, @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social and Richard Durbin, now out in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧪🧬 Deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super exciting to see the Penghu jaw confirmed as Denisovan— its features line up beautifully with what we predicted Denisovan mandibles to look like! More in the thread 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/

In this clip, @maayanvisuals.bsky.social explains why AI-generated images miss the mark in science communication: they skip the collaborative, iterative process that ensures scientific impact and creative visual storytelling. Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/gMmf2nn9

This is a first for me- I got to chat about the changing field of science illustration, collaboration, & communication with the amazing Nicolle Fuller and Claire Agosti of the Sayo Studio podcast! Thanks so much for having me! #SciArt #scicomm @sayostudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJc...

The Maresca Lab @imphys-tudelft.bsky.social are using ultrasound to show capillaries and cells in living organs!! I was thrilled to work on this project. Congratulations to David Maresca and Baptiste Heiles on this fantastic work #SciArt

This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours. The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space. webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

This is the closest photo of Saturn ever taken. 🔭 🧪

1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution. They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.

Fleeing Facebook and Instagram? Discover one of the best corners of Bluesky: the SciArt Feed 🐡. 🎨 Hundreds of artists 🧪 Science-focused ✅ Curated contributors 🥳 No NFTs or gen AI Like & pin it today:

Excited to have my graphics in this fascinating study of Oocyte development and the Balbiani body formation! #SciArt

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

#Artvartist2024 plus some spots from a larger project I have yet to share :) To a new year of creativity and #SciArt

#Artvartist2024 plus some spots from a larger project I have yet to share :) To a new year of creativity and #SciArt

I’m just now getting a handle on this platform And I’d love to know who’s here- please let me know who you are by commenting! Are you scientists? #academia or industry? How many artists or #sciart folks? Thanks 🙏

Nice little display of my work At The Technion’s department of #biomedicalengineering PATH lab 😊. #SciArt #coverart

The Korin lab at the Technion want to make #heartvalves inspired by the #flowdynamics in birds wings. Link to paper below! (art by Adara Koivula and myself) #biomimicry #SciArt academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ar...

Work in progress 👀 #Sciart

A couple of years ago I got to create this reconstruction of #denisova 3 for a TV France documentary. It’s something I’m very proud to share. You can view the clip here #SciArt drive.google.com/file/d/14bp1...

A couple of years ago I got to create this reconstruction of #denisova 3 for a TV France documentary. It’s something I’m very proud to share. You can view the clip here #SciArt drive.google.com/file/d/14bp1...

Two sets of footprints made within hours of each other at Koobi Fora; Homo erectus and Paranthropus, researchers suggest. www.science.org/content/arti...

Forgot to quote this properly for the #SciArt list

Wanted to share one of my recent favorites made with supersculpey and digital media for the Alon and Shema labs at Weizmann institute!

Wow, what a gem of a person.

"he's not the same since he published in Nature"

Would you prefer to lead a lab alone or together with a science buddy? How interesting would be a research institute where joint labs are the standard?!

Any of you from the world of infographics, science graphics and dataviz might want to be included in this great list!

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

I’m just now getting a handle on this platform And I’d love to know who’s here- please let me know who you are by commenting! Are you scientists? #academia or industry? How many artists or #sciart folks? Thanks 🙏

I wanted to provide a thread here of some of the things I've been involved with in the fight against unethical generative AI for easy reference, starting with my work with @GaryMarcus.bsky.social. Our article shows irrefutable evidence of blatant plagiarism 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

University websites are like distant stars, when you look at them you see the scientists as they used to be many years ago