#scicomm

Hello everyone! 👋 I'm Daniel, comms manager at @gbif@biodiversity.social. You may already know me from @daniel@social.falafel.monster (my personal server). Here on biodiversity.social (of which I am also an admin), I'd love to connect with anyone in the #GBIF community (and beyond) and talk about #biodiversity, data and how to best communicate its value to the world #introduction #intro #scicomm #science

Anthorite can be found in lunar & cometary rocks, but Sphalerite gets my vote with cool optical/electrical properties & its role in art history as main zinc ore. Zn has been used in brass & bronze for centuries. Since the 18th century it was used to make ZnO pigments & etching, plates. 🧵1/2 #MinCup26 #scicomm #artHistory #minerals

#Arctic climate rankings are now in for July 2026: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2026/ No update available for sea-ice volume or thickness. #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

@davidho@mastodon.world For non-specialists - no, anyone - here's a great intro #bubbles #SciComm https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306912/bubbles-a-ladybird-expert-book-by-czerski-helen/9780718188290

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2019 I built a life-size Protoichthyosaurus for Lapworth Museum (University of Birmingham). It was partly built in my workshop and partly open to public view in the museum. Here's the built Part 3. #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... The last post of my life-size Protoichthyosaurus (2019) for Lapworth Museum (University of Birmingham), it was partly built in my workshop and partly open to public view in the museum. #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2019 I built a life-size Protoichthyosaurus for Lapworth Museum (University of Birmingham). It was partly built in my workshop and partly open to public view in the museum. Here's the final Part 5. #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2019 I built a life-size Protoichthyosaurus for Lapworth Museum (University of Birmingham). It was partly built in my workshop and partly open to public view in the museum. Here's the build Part 4. #FossilFriday #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees KEVIN! In 2019 I created a copy of my life-size Ichthyostega model, for Reading University's Cole Museum. They named him Kevin. #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyostega

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my "Portrait of malignance" painting, depicting a Telmatosaurus with an ameloblastoma on its lower jaw. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281 #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by Dr Dean Lomax. Here's my "Love in the Undergrowth" painting, depicting a herd and a copulating pair of Eurohippus (Messel Pit). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-in-time/9780231197281 #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #MesselPit #Eurohippus

It is exciting to see snippets of Surviving Earth coming out from Impossible Pictures (see: https://www.instagram.com/picturesimpossible/) One of the clips released features Arctodus, the "short faced bear", here is my official design sheet, which was used by the production team. #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Palaeontology #Paleontology #SurvivingEarth #ImpossiblePictures #Arctodus #ShortFacedBear #TheDinosaurs #Dinosaurs

Interested in making a living from palaeoart? Then you might be interested in my Lyme Regis Fossil Festival headline talk: A DINOSAUR ART LIFE, How Painting & Sculpting Prehistoric Animals Became My Job. This Sunday 14th June, 1.30pm at the Marine Theatre Adults £7 / Children £4. Tickets available here: https://www.marinetheatre.com/lyme-regis-fossil-festival-a-dinosaur-art-life-how-painting-and-sculpting-prehistoric-animals-became-my-job/ #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark #LymeRegis #LymeRegisFossilFestival

If you're doing science communication, you should be doing it accessibly as possible. If you think science matters to people and that's why you communicate it - disabled people are a subset of the set people. If you don't know how to create accessible communications, and are unsure of the information you're finding online, there are plenty of disabled people here on Mastodon. Ask. Images, video, audio, palette...these have accessibility aspects to learn. #SciComm #Science #Accessibility

The Club-winged manakin produces a courtship song without even opening his beak. 🤯 Learn more in my latest article for Beaks & Bones! 👇 https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/singing-feathers Based on this original study: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0382 #birds #birdsofmastodon #science #biology #ornithology #evolution #scicomm #BeaksAndBones

#Arctic climate rankings are now in for June 2026: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2026/ Unfortunately, still no new data available for sea-ice volume and thickness. #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

I recently gave a NerdNite talk about the weird and wonderful ways soil animals survive the challenges of life, and their complex (and sometimes quite romantic) love lives. I had an absolute blast, and the recording is now up on YouTube! Warning: this was an evening talk in a pub setting, so it has some adult humour and might not be for everyone. But, if you can stomach talk about slugs chewing off their own penises, and mites constructing 'love gardens' out of their own semen, then this talk is for you! LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIGtBXEfx4 #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Nature #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #TheWorldBeneathOurFeet #NerdNite #Science

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I went to DinoCon and treated myself to Sean Hennesy's Speed Thief Volumes 1 and 2, and two art portfolios by Steve White, Dread Sovereign and The Bone Cabin Chronicles #Books #Bookstodon #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon@fedigroups.social

Today marks 107 years since the birth of #JamesLovelock and 4 years since he passed away. He is best remembered for the #Gaia hypothesis, which you can read more about in my four-part review, starting with https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/07/26/book-review-gaia-a-new-look-at-life-on-earth/ #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Ecology #EarthSystemSciences

My next 'climate viz of the month' blog is posted: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/ which takes a look at the effects of different regional warming when calculating the global temperature anomaly record, along with a June update for Arctic climate. #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData