Dorota Paczesniak

Dinosaur Desert Book

A Polish lady doing graffiti of P in war torn Warsaw

From the Dinosaur book, reflections of Soviet inaction in Warsaw Uprising

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

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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...

Table of contents from “Practical computing for biologists” by Haddock and Dunn

In my postdoc times I used “Practical computing for biologists” by Haddock and Dunn - short table of contents in the photo. It has good examples and exercises. I don’t know anything newer though, this is from 2011

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 🧪🐡

Omg, thanks for sharing! Such joy

text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

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

Oh, that’s a great idea for another version, with earthworms, barnacles, and orchids 🪱

A comic-style portrait of Charles Darwin dreaming about the tree of life Illustration by Dorota Paczesniak

#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 🧪

I’m a big fan!

Little Changes an introduction to evolution Click on the image below, to read the story. Meet the Rinkidinks. They live together in one large happy family, carefree and untroubled by the rest of the world. Until …

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

How wonderful!

Sample of Ilja Van Braeckel's Darwin handwriting font.

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!

Darwin Day, February 12th 2026, EvoKE

Anticipate evolution to protect human health Pathogens and cancer cells evolve rapidly. Evolutionary biology helps us design health interventions, from antibiotics to cancer therapies, that anticipate evolutionary responses, slowing resistance instead of accelerating it.

Design food systems that work with evolution Pests and pathogens adapt quickly to uniform crops and intensive practices. Evolutionary thinking supports diversity-based and adaptive farming strategies that reduce evolutionary arms races and increase long-term food security.

Protect evolutionary potential in a changing world Species and ecosystems respond to climate change through evolutionary and ecological processes that unfold over time. Evolutionary biology highlights the importance of intraspecific biodiversity and helps identify which populations hold higher adaptive potential, and informs management and conservation plans to support resilience.

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.

Four species of European owls (sizes not to scale). Top left: eagle owl (Bubo bubo); bottom left: tawny owl (Strix aluco); top right: barn owl (Tyto alba); bottom right: snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

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

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

Exquisite! Thanks for sharing

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 new version has the apps integrated. I don’t think you can buy the old version anymore, after Canva bought Affinity. For now at least all the AI features are paid add-ons, so easy to avoid

I work with vector graphics using Affinity and it has a function ”select all” by colour or other characteristic. Now the new Affinity app also integrates the PS equivalent, so might be worth checking

Congratulations! What an achievement 💪

Impressive use of PowerPoint 😲 I’ve been using Affinity Designer, and since Canva bought it it’s free. Of course they have AI funtions, but they are paid add-ons, therefore easy to avoid

The ees are lovely

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

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