Rodrigo Salvador

So, in France, a new study about "10 pest animals" (including 4 #birds) conclude that trying to regulate them cost eight to ten times more than the damages they caused. 🦉

Brilliant. I'm sharing this with everyone I know right now, over teams, whatsapp, you name it.

Top 10 countries with the most accesses to the JGS in 2025: USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, India, Japan, China.

Our 2025 Year in Review!

Readers from 185 countries/territories visited the Journal of Geek Studies this year. We appreciate your support! 🤗

Top 10: USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, India, Japan, China.
🎉 And for the first time, Montserrat and Côte d’Ivoire joined the party!

The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts João Vitor Tomotani¹ & Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador² ¹ Independent Researcher. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ² Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington, New Zealand. Emails: tjvitor (at) gma…

All‑time leaderboard update!
🥇 Astolfo Effect
🥈 Pokémollusca
🥉 Medjed
These three articles are officially the most accessed in JGS history.

We're approaching the year's end, so our 2025 volume is now closed. 🎉
You can check it out at jgeekstudies.org/archives/vol...
We have #geekstudies articles about Pokémon tournaments, Magic molluscs, cyberpunk, Another Crab's Treasure, conservation & video games, and steampunk dinosaurs in anime.

Vol. 12(1): June, 2025 Journal of Geek Studies –Vol. 12(1): published on June 26, 2025 The Blood on Our Controllers: how the game industry relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Interview with H. Caubet Pp. 1-5.  PD…

It’s officially ‘year in review’ season! Revisit our first 2025 issue and explore all the #geekstudies articles and interviews with game devs.

Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…

"Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology"
By @krakenscholar.bsky.social & @babimt.bsky.social

Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering Rodrigo B. Salvador1, Natan C. Pedro2, Mark A. Carnall3 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo,…

"Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering"
By @krakenscholar.bsky.social, N.C. Pedro & M. Carnall

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

Last Friday, I shared updates on our Arctic snails project during a seminar at UiT! 🐌 Here’s a slide from the talk - a sneak peek from a manuscript in progress with @babimt.bsky.social

@arcticseasonal.bsky.social @dndbeyond.com
#arcticstudies #MolluscMonday #dnd

Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…

We have a new article! 🎉
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖

@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal

👉 Read it here:

Thanks, @yawaguchi.bsky.social. This seems like a great tool! I just played around a bit today, but it's already saved on my favourites bar to come back to when I have my next tree.

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 conservation really be effective through video games? A case study on Jack Barau and some perspectives Florian Verdier Independent Researcher, Sens, France. Email: fverdier.ei (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Almost half of the world’s population plays video games (Buijisman, 2024). Whether the exp…

🎮 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)

Alien mimic?!

Awesome. We all need more molluscs around 😁

And don't forget we're always happy to receive those very-scientifically-important articles in the Journal of Geek Studies @jgeekstudies.bsky.social

Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering Rodrigo B. Salvador1, Natan C. Pedro2, Mark A. Carnall3 1Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo,…

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

Citizen science reveals alarming update on the invasion of the Asian mantleslug Meghimatium pictum in Brazil The Asian mantleslug Meghimatium pictum is an exotic species introduced to Brazil in the late 1990s, but only formally reported in 2011. Since then, it has been deemed an agricultural pest and given t...

Temos um novo artigo para esta #MolluscMonday, liderado pelo mestrando Rafael Rosa.
Usamos dados genéticos, de museus e do @inaturalist.bsky.social para avaliar a presença da lesma asiática no Brasil.

Artigo completo 🔓: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🧪 #cienciacidada @uspoficial.bsky.social

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.

How does urbanization shape shell phenotype, behavior, and parasite prevalence in the snail Cornu aspersum? Abstract. Urbanization is a complex and multivariate environmental change, leading to habitat fragmentation and loss, changes in local climate, soil imperv

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...

Making Mollusks Marvelous: Designing Museum Exhibits — Paleontological Research Institution By Brendan Anderson There are many avenues for communicating science, but one of the most trusted avenues have been museum exhibits (Merritt, 2019). Those who have visited museums in recent years c...

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 🧪

The Shellowship of the Ring: two new snail species named after Tolkien characters Two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil have been named in honour of Éowyn and Meriadoc from The Lord of the Rings.

These freshwater snails, discovered by @krakenscholar.bsky.social‬, were named in honour of Éowyn and Meriadoc from The Lord of the Rings.

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