#sciviz — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sciviz, aggregated by home.social.
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In this blog post for the Association of Science Communicators, I make my argument for why science communication needs visuals, and why I think it's not something we should delegate to machines (even if we could) 🤖
https://www.associationofsciencecommunicators.org/2026/visuals/
Special thanks to Cord (Mario Lopez) who helped me make the point, in my favorite format: witty, human, hand-drawn cartoons. ✍
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@RickiTarr “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” - Albert Einstein
Speaking of things that *most people* find hard to comprehend, molecules are beautiful, too! https://www.youtube.com/live/Wlp8sqUmQ18
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Tomorrow night (11/05/2025 at 6pm EST), we're going to have Kate Xagoraris as a guest. She's worked on a couple of really interesting HDA toolkits for star catalogs and proteins. It should be a great chat with a lot of science nerdiness!
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So. This is a nice visualisation tool to play with! Both #ERA5 and @esaclimate.bsky.social datasets visualised for the whole world in a beautiful interface. It would be fantastic to see it updated for the last 10 years. #SciViz www.lexcube.org
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So. This is a nice visualisation tool to play with! Bothe #ERA5 and ESAcci datasets visualised for the whole world.
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@gutenberg_org Fascinating! Molecules are beautiful, too! https://www.youtube.com/live/Wlp8sqUmQ18?si=ZtPMcyTGU_0_9eLJ
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Yay! Thanks to Laura Tran for interviewing me about my unusual career on The Scientist - I think "Don’t wait for permission. If you love it, keep at it." perfectly summarizes all the 'advice' I have to give 😅
https://www.the-scientist.com/neurocomics-bring-science-to-life-through-visual-storytelling-72975
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“Las Moléculas son Bellas” (Molecules are Beautiful), La Cienca Más Allá del Aula (#Science Outside of the Classroom) at #UNAM , Ciudad de #México , México. 👀 👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/Wlp8sqUmQ18?si=caW7j1tSTlmZ-DbD
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@minouette Speaking of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, cobalt and vitamin B12, here’s a rendering of the ‘lumps and holes’ in the Co(+3) ion in cyanocobalamin, and a link to it doing a lovely pirouette!
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I wish I could be there. Don't miss this neuro-art friends!
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Continuing my look at enolates, here is a #chemistry #ChemEd #chemistryeducation #SciViz #chemiverse summary of lithium enolates & enolate equivalents. This lays the groundwork for more control of selectivity (in all its forms). There is an obvious omission, enamines; they'll get their own summary. I hope this is useful
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A new
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1pager. The 2nd of a handful covering aldol(-like) reactions. Here are some of the common named versions. Remember, they are basically all the same reaction (as more wittily referenced here https://bsky.app/profile/bagphos.bsky.social/post/3krbmkoit4q2t )
Enjoy (& corrections welcome)There are more at https://www.makingmolecules.com/handouts for those that are interested.
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At last (apologies, it's been a long time), a new #Chemistry #ChemEd #SciViz #Chemiverse 1pager. The 1st of a handful covering the aldol addition/condensation. This is a simple intro. Hope it is helpful. If there are mistakes, contact me & I'll do the corrections (I didn't proofread! Naughty). More at https://www.makingmolecules.com
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Mmh, this surely looks AI-generated, but the image is credited to 'Nishihata':
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/04/keto-diet-mental-illness.html
Who's to blame in this situation? The 'artist' or the institution? Does Stanford really can't tell the difference? Interested to hear what people think #sciviz #scicomm -
The full text version of last 2 #chemistry #ChemEd #SciViz summaries on enols/enolates (here https://mas.to/@nz_molecules/111883243941327628 & https://mas.to/@nz_molecules/111804033475896858 ) can be found here https://www.makingmolecules.com/blog/enolsenolates
It's too detailed to be honest but I write full versions to know what I need in the summary
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In case you're not on X anymore, this is the sad news of the day in the Science Visualization community: a paper got published in a 'peer-reviewed' journal with completely non-sensical AI-generated images.
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As promised, the next https://www.makingmolecules.com #ChemEd #Chemistry #SciViz #chemiverse 1pg summary is about enolate formation & simple reactions. This is just the basics. There will be more covering aldol etc then all the various selectivities. Until then (I have lots of writing to do), enjoy
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1st of the year! Summary of the basics of enols & their reactions. This #ChemEd #SciViz is meant to be an aide-mémoire not a detailed description. It was meant to include enolates as well but I've written too much! So there will be a 2nd one. Must learn to be more succinct! Enjoy
Turns out I waffle, hopefully having noticed this I'll be more succinct (& faster) in future! Current plan, is enolates, then the blog version before moving onto the basics of aldol & related reactions.
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Nature, Neurons, Mushrooms, Biochemistry, and Consciousness (or the lack thereof). My top illustrations of 2023 summarize my current interests pretty well.
Let's hope that in 2024 I can finally find the time to thread some of these into a coherent story. 🧠
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The full text version of last week's #Chemistry #ChemEd #SciViz summary of elimination (here https://mas.to/@nz_molecules/111400605317624711) is now available (https://makingmolecules.com/blog/eliminations). It is a little more comprehensive & also has the standard comparison of SN1, SN2, E1 & E2. Hopefully it is useful.
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Sorry for neglecting this for a couple of weeks but here goes ... The obvious follow up to substitution ... elimination. I stress that these #chemistry #ChemEd #SciViz are aimed at UG. They do not cover some of the nuances that active researchers enjoy but hopefully they are a good starting point (and bigger hope 🤞, they don't have mistakes!).
More can be found at:
https://www.makingmolecules.com/handouts
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Next Tuesday 11/14 I'm going to be at UCMerced for this amazing panel + workshop!
https://centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/events/telling-your-research-story-through-comics-0
If you know any researchers in the area interested in communicating their work through comics please send them our way!
#graphicscholarship is the future 👁️
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The Science Communication Lab is hiring a Creative Coder (m/f/d) http://scicom-lab.com/2023_creativeCode.pdf.
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At last, a new MakingMolecules summary. This is substitution reactions at a saturated carbon atom (or SN1 & SN2). As always this is #chemistry #ChemEd #SciViz is aimed at undergraduates. It is a little busier than I would like, but I decided getting something finished was more useful than getting something perfect.
Apologies if there are mistakes, and I'll happily correct (I'll be embarrassed as well).
Anyways, hope this is useful to some. Enjoy. #chemiverse
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Part 2 of my rates of reaction summary. Still outside of my comfort zone (help physical chemists!). Here are reaction profiles, mechanisms & rate laws. Hopefully, it gives an idea of the connection between mechanism & rate law (but also how the rate laws can quickly get complicated). Next week's full blog post will have a method to write the third order rate law for the amide hydrolysis.
I hope this of use to #UG.
Enjoy
#ChemEd #chemistry #SciViz #Chemiverse
