On the 22 of May, we celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity. For us at EvoKE, it’s an occasion to share the message that all life on Earth is a product of biological evolution and is constantly evolving! Learn more in the thread below👇 #BiodiversityDay 🧪 @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

Mary Anning(🎂) is a legitimate hero of mine. Working class, not formally educated, made mark in history despite odds. My grandpa wes a miner, grandma a house help, parents upholsters & cleaners. Each time I find myself in a hard place, I tell myself, Mary did that, in 19th century. With less.

Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought

My Ukrainian #Vyshyvanka shirt feels so festive I can’t wait to wear it on victory day #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Hey artists, especially character designers, here is a gift. I just found out about Ocean Census. In a world full of fake images made by AI is a comfort to see a compendium of real image references. So many different creatures to inspire us. oceancensus.org/species-gall...

Here's a new cartoon, enjoy! 🐝 #invertebrates #WorldBeeDay

14 May 2026 will be remembered in LGBT+ community in Poland. The civil registry office in Warsaw officially transcribed the foreign marriage certificate of two men. Long overdue, but 🇵🇱 is finally catching up on human rights 🏳️‍🌈

More of my illustrations are freely available on Wikimedia Commons, including different tree species and other botanical and biological illustrations 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dp...

Illustration inspired by Forest Euphoria by mycologist & Author, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. I’m not in the business of writing reviews, but this is one of the best books I have read this year. The best way I know to show appreciation is by drawing. #sciart #queerecology

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

The most complex project I've done in a few years. Each bird was painted separately then worked into the larger illustration. I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm looking forward to seeing it printed and installed. #SciArt #birds

More of my illustrations are freely available on Wikimedia Commons, including different tree species and other botanical and biological illustrations 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dp...

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

Polish phage science meets Polish visual storytelling 🇵🇱🦠 To celebrate our last paper, we collaborated with an artist who previously worked on The Witcher 3 — to create a comic about phages and why understanding them matters in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Comic below 👇

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. #GiftLink Nicholas Wade writes @NYtimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...

Reposting to the science feed 🧪: How do temperate phages recognise and breach the sugar capsule of Klebsiella pneumoniae? 👇

Join us for the next #EvoKE webinar with Maria João Fonseca on Monday May 4th to learn about how the museums and science centres make evolution education engaging and fun!

Conference posters have been around for over 50 years. How many books do you think there are about conference posters, specifically? Take a guess. Here's every book on posters I've found so far: sites.google.com/view/posterg... (There are fewer books on this than most people have toes.)

Such an ingenious, informative and fun figure! From a new review on the origins of allopolyploids, where the origins are conceptualized as alternative routes through a maze, comprising a sequence of events🧪

It’s the spring flower season in the south of Finland #bloomscrolling

Are you interested in evolution education? An upcoming webinar from @evokeproject.bsky.social will explore how museums and science centres can support public understanding of #evolution 🧪

Oh what joy to draw seed development again for this recent illustration! I’m open for commissions so do get in touch if you need scientific illustrations, infographics or other visuals 🐡 🧪

I got some sourdough starter from my sister in law, so crusty loaves are coming soon!

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Oh what joy to draw seed development again for this recent illustration! I’m open for commissions so do get in touch if you need scientific illustrations, infographics or other visuals 🐡 🧪

Congratulations to Dr. Maurine Neiman, recipient of the 2025 ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! She will present her work during the IDEA Award plenary at the virtual Evolution meeting this May. #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @maurineneiman.bsky.social

The intuitive understanding of species is like putting each in its own little drawer. The biological continuum is hard to wrap your head around, even for biologists. A nice thread on species concepts 👇

All participants heard the same lecture. Half read a relatable backstory for the lecturer; the others were told that the voice was AI generated. The backstory fostered a greater sense of personal connection, which translated into greater curiosity to learn more about the 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤. 2/4

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm writing a talk on the current problems with scientific publishing. It's getting harder and harder to avoid just screaming at the computer. Here's a typical slide 🧪

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Reproductive investment and phosphorus availability 👇🧪

What’s your sign?

I was campaigning to highlight achievements of Polish Women in Palaeontology. And bang, here's a children's book about this very topic. 🧵 Rarely you come across books covering both, turbulent Polish history.

The fresh hell of LLMs

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

I recently worked with @amarques.bsky.social to make illustrations and finalize figures for three scientific publications focusing on the evolution and function of holocentric chromosomes I can also help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics 🧪🐡

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

Reposting to the science feed 🧪

Happy #DarwinDay 🧬🌿! To celebrate, why not share a story about #evolution with a #FutureScientist? My book, Little Changes, is a fun bedtime story for young readers to explore how small changes shape the living world. littlestories.co.uk/little-chang... #ScienceForKids #STEMBooks

In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts! Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn... Happy Darwin Day!

Today we celebrate Darwin Day! 🎉 Today is not just about celebrating Darwin, but about how evolutionary biology helps us address today’s challenges. Evolution is not only about the past. It’s a way of thinking for building more sustainable futures. How are you marking Darwin Day?

Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Some of the amazing scientists that shaped Evolutionary Biology: Barbara McClintock, Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin… I’m also thinking about my wonderful academic mentors: @maurineneiman.bsky.social @pyhatanja.bsky.social

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

I agree, owls are really great. Which one is your favourite? #SuperbOwl 🦉🐡

Reposting for the science feed 🧪: Maize vs. human diversity 🌾

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization