Ma nouvelle étude est en ligne ! Je vais devoir pas mal jongler aujourd'hui entre communication en français et en anglais, priorité au public francophone à travers un fil pour résumer ce travail ! ⬇️🦉 Merci encore à Rodrigo et l'équipe du JGS pour leur accueil !

🎮 Can a video game save a species? 🦜 Our new piece, by @floriannechekuv.bsky.social, explores how the game Jack Barau blends play and purpose to spotlight #conservation in Réunion. Read the full article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/11/11/c... #geekstudies #indiegames #seriousgames #gamingforgood

we're snailposting, post your snails

A quick reminder about the Journal of Geek Studies 😉

Omg this is my new favourite tree sparrow photo. 本当にかわいい

There's a new Geek Studies article around! 🦀 @franzanth.bsky.social and @echinoblog.bsky.social, you might like this one 😁

Hoje é o #SeaSlugDay 🌊 Fiz esse fio apresentando um pouco sobre as lesmas marinhas #DCBR

👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project"is published in Paleobiology (doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042)

Ever wondered how many molluscs live in the @magic.wizards.com multiverse? 🐌 No? Well, but our researchers did — and we have a brand-new "fantasy-meets-taxonomy" paper about it! Come take a look at the article: jgeekstudies.org/2025/08/24/m... #MolluscMonday #GeekStudies #MagicTheGathering #MTG

We got a new paper for #MolluscMonday, led by MSc student Rafael Rosa. We used genetic, museum & @inaturalist.bsky.social data to assess the presence of the Asian mantleslug in Brazil Full 🔓 article: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧪 #citizenscience @nathist.bsky.social @uspoficial.bsky.social

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

It's #InverteFest, so it's time to correct my forgetting to post about my latest paper from a couple months ago. It has *double* the invertebrates: snails, and their parasites! doi.org/10.1093/cz/z...

My blog post on the process for creating a natural history museum exhibit is up. (Featuring many mollusks of course!) www.priweb.org/blog-post/ma... 🦑🐚🐌🐙🦪 #invertebrates #museum #fossils #sciCom 🧪

These freshwater snails, discovered by @krakenscholar.bsky.social‬, were named in honour of Éowyn and Meriadoc from The Lord of the Rings. blog.pensoft.net/2024/11/11/t... 🧵(7/15)

Learned a new skill today 😆 #FGO #FateGO #FateGrandOrder

"Revision of the genera of Scolodontidae, part 4: Miradiscops H.B. Baker, 1925 and Mayadiscops gen. nov." has been published in #JournalofConchology. #jconch #newgenera #conchsoc conchsoc.org/journal doi.org/10.61733/jco...

*laugh* Dr. Strange versus the "Hate-filled, deadly, gigantic SLUG!" although it looks very snail-like to me! Strange Tales 164, art by Dan Adkins! #invertsincomics #molluscmonday

🚨Our 1st 2025 issue is complete!🚨 Explore the latest in geeky research, with interviews with game devs and articles on Tintin, #StarWars, #IndianaJones et al., Pokémon, and #StudioGhibli. Check it out 👉 jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol... #GeekStudies #scicomm #geekculture

This was a nice read. I'm a bit biased though, as Nausicaä is my favourite Ghibli movie - I might need to rewatch it now 😁 [yes, technically the studio was founded after Nausicaä's success, but still counts]

Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

A testament to the importance of maintaining museum collections and funding for digitization programs: new data on the type specimens of nine new taxa described by Roffiaen (1868) that had nearly sunk into oblivion: doi.org/10.3897/zook... @krakenscholar.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social

“One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night It is too devastating to see how few there are” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's a weird new article for #MolluscMonday. We've found the type specimens of some species and subspecies from Switzerland described in the mid-19th century by a Belgian landscape painter. You can see the whole story in @zookeys.pensoft.net: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1508... 🧪 #snails #inverts

Happy #GeekPrideDay / #TowelDay 🎉 It's a great opportunity to read all the cool #GeekStudies we've published this year. 🤓 Take a look around, you're bound to find an article you'll love: jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol... And remember: don't panic and always carry a towel!

"First report of Eucalodiidae in Brazil (Stylommatophora: Urocoptoidea), with the description of a new genus and species" has been published in #JournalofConchology #jconch @conchsoc #newspecies #conchology #landsnail doi.org/10.61733/jco...

Today is Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🎉 There is a #NameItToSaveIt campaign by @tettris.eu Here's one of my favorite species, the Brazilian gyre snail🐌 The pic shows specimens in the @nathist.bsky.social collection: the gyre snail plus another fave (Cuban painted snail) as bonus 🧪 #taxonomy #inverts

I still need to grail her to Lv 100 😅

A bit late for #MolluscMonday, I know, but here's a new paper about the history of the global invasion of the #NewZealand mudsnail. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪 #conservation #inverts

Introducing....The Great Disappearing Magician Tree Snail! In a recent taxonomic review, a long-lost species fallen into oblivion is revealed to be common & widespread in SE Brazil! Here, it is redescribed using a combination of #CitizenScience data & collections! 🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/zoo...

Um belo artigo de divulgação sobre nosso último paper foi publicado bem a tempo para a #MolluscMonday! 💛 Trata-se de um estudo detalhado sobre o caracol mago, conduzido pelo aluno de mestrado Rafael Rosa da @uspoficial.bsky.social 🧙🐌 Leia o artigo no Jornal da USP: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/esp...

A nice outreach piece about our latest paper was published just in time for #MolluscMonday! 💛 It is a detailed study on the magician snail, led by Master's student Rafael Rosa. 🧙🐌 You can read the article in @uspoficial.bsky.social's news: jornal.usp.br/ciencias/esp... 🧪 #scicomm #inverts

„Timekeeping in hole-nesting birds under extreme light conditions” is the title of the plenary by Barbara Tomotani @babimt.bsky.social. A fitting topic for Olomouc, where the astronomical clock has kept time since medieval days. The avian clock, though, likely resembles the sundial more closely.

Here's an oldie but goodie for #EarthDay - an interview with Javier Ramello from @herobeatstudios.bsky.social about their fantastic game #Endling - Extinction is Forever. 🦊 #NatureConservation #scicomm @handy-games.com

On #EarthDay, don't miss our interview with Paul Goodenough, co-founder of Rewriting Earth, about their comics and other initiatives to increase environmental awareness. 🌍 #NatureConservation #scicomm

I wrote an article for @audubon.org about a gull I know, and it’s full of surprising facts about gulls in general. I hope you like it. www.audubon.org/magazine/bal...

Colossal’s bungled wolf announcement isn’t a conservation win. It’s a sad reminder of how the offensively rich want to foist their vision of the future on everyone. My latest for @slate.com

New article! 🚨 By @drpierpischedda.bsky.social See how games deal with language deciphering through the lens of archaeolinguistics — from Indy to Lara Croft to Nathan Drake. 🎮 Read more: jgeekstudies.org/2025/04/05/a... #GeekStudies #GameStudies #Archaeology #Uncharted #TombRaider #IndianaJones

New article! 🎉 With Rafael Rosa and Daniel Cavallari. It has everything known about the magician treesnail 🧙🐌 - a species long under the radar. A highlight is the use of CT scans to observe internal anatomy. See the article at www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #scicomm #zoology #snails

Here's another article for #WorldSparrowDay (though there are other birbs in it too!). This one I wrote with @babimt.bsky.social and you can find it at jgeekstudies.org/2024/08/10/t... #スズメの日 #geekstudies #birds #scicomm #FGO #FateGO #FateGrandOrder

Reposting it for 2025 #WorldSparrowDay. Sparrows deserve a bit more love. #geekstudies #birds #scicomm #StarRail #HonkaiStarRail #スズメの日

#taxonomistappreciationDay is today.. and we have not migrated the graphic! So here it is!

From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet

Just discovered Journal of Geek Studies (not peer reviewed), and it is pure joy. jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

This project was so much fun! If you want to watch a video abstract - check it out here! youtu.be/C3JsBb2ZyRU

This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

Can a bone stop a Rancor’s massive jaws?🦴🦖 This new study, by @palaeostephan.bsky.social and @taphonomist.bsky.social, estimates the #StarWars predator’s bite force at a bone-crushing 44,000 N!🔥⚔️ Read the full article at jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i... #geekstudies #scicomm #paleontology

A new short paper on a forgotten tree snail led by masters student Rafael Rosa. 😊 Full article at doi.org/10.12657/fol...

Happy Pokémon Day, everyone! 🎉 While you wait for news on the games, why not take a look at one of our many Pokémon articles? 😉 You can find plenty of them at jgeekstudies.org?s=pokemon #geekstudies #scicomm #Pokemon #PokemonDay

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Big thanks to the @botanymanor.bsky.social team at @balloonstudios.bsky.social for sharing their insights with us! 🌿🎮 Your thoughtful storytelling not only created a beautiful game, but it also brings to fore important conversations about women in #academia. 🙌 #WomenInSTEM