Barbara M. Tomotani

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

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:

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

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

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

SLUG.

Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences To forecast how fast populations can adapt to climate change, it is essential to determine the evolutionary potential of different life-cycle stages under selection. In birds, timing of gonadal development and moult are primarily regulated by photoperiod, ...

New publication: Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small #songbird, by @mevisser.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @melissahrowe.bsky.social @babimt.bsky.social a.o. #climatechange
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evolutionary Ecology UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk

Interested in Evolutionary ecology? Want to work in the Arctic? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø @babimt.bsky.social

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310027

A few days left to apply! =)

Hello everyone (and sorry for the low activity here). We are looking for a technician to help us with the tit project. So if you are a bird fanatic, and maybe also have some skills to work with devices in the field and/or with field experiments, please consider applying. 🥰

Understanding Senua’s psychosis in Hellblade Interview with Paul Fletcher Download PDF In 2017, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, by Ninja Theory, was released for PC and PlayStation 4, later making its way to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Seri...

We have a new interview featuring Dr. Paul Fletcher (Cambridge University)
Discover how his expertise helped the team at Ninja Theory shape Hellblade II: Senua's Saga 🎮🧠
#geekstudies #gaming #psychology #mentalhealth #SenuasSaga

On the influence of Japanese archaeological heritage on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Jean-François Cudennec University of Derby, College of Science and Engineering, Derby, United Kingdom. Email: jf.cudennec (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF A thick layer of time In the realm of Ninte…

New article alert! 🚨

Did you know that Zelda: Breath of the Wild was inspired by Jomon-period artifacts in Japan?
Explore the link between the game and real-world history in our new article by @jfcudennec.bsky.social

#GeekStudies #BOTW #scicomm #Archaeology
jgeekstudies.org/2024/10/27/o...

We have a new article reviewing biological rhythms in land snails and slugs. 🐌

@babimt.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social #biology #ecology #research
peerj.com/articles/183...

Brazil, you're setting new all-time-highs for activity on Bluesky! 🥇

Brasil, você está estabelecendo novos recordes de atividade no Bluesky! 🥇

New Crow Time - Eggies 🥚 🪺 🥓 [1/5]

An unexpected bird in Honkai: Star Rail and China’s war on sparrows Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF https://doi.org/1...

Today is #sparrowday! Here's a short #scicomm article I wrote last year about these amazing birbs.

#WorldSparrowDay #スズメの日 #HonkaiStarRail
#StarRail #birds #ornithology #sparrows

Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric? Sangjin Ryu1 & Kiyotaka Obunai2 1Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. 2Department of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, Doshisha Unive...

We have a new article! 🚨
Our authors investigate anime giant robots, how their height and mass scale, and how they compare to real machines.
You can read it in full at jgeekstudies.org/2024/04/26/a...

#scicomm #engineering #mecha #Gundam @unlincoln.bsky.social

Happy #FossilFriday! The coolest paleontologist of all time has finally been released globally in Fate/Grand Order.

I wrote about her before she was announced in the game - jgeekstudies.org/2021/02/11/m... - so the article might need updates.😅

#geekstudies #scicomm #FGO #FateGO

Just finished Botany Manor with @krakenscholar.bsky.social Great game but may have hit too close to home for us. 😅

Cool stuff!! ⏱️

Molecular circadian rhythms are robust in marine annelids lacking rhythmic behavior

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It's been a long time since I had something for #FossilFriday, but here it is. 😁
A new species of shearwater from the Pliocene of #NewZealand.
Here's the article, with A. Tennyson, @babimt.bsky.social & F. Marx - doi.org/10.3390/taxo...
#paleontology #vertpaleo #birds #ornithology

I am talking at #BOU2024 about biological rhythms and clocks of urban and forest birds. I show that city birds may be less sensitive to ALAN than forest birds. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
But our new common garden results suggest this is not related to genetic clock differences.