Kelly Krause

4/4 Last thing! Somewhat related, if you'd like more sublime sounds of soil, here is a mesmerizing song composed by @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...

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3/4 The cover image shows this process of wave-like expansion in action, with colours representing the age of the network edges. Brighter colours are younger. Print cover credit: Corentin Bisot. Special thanks to www.spun.earth and @tobykiers.bsky.social 🙏

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A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade - Nature Symbiotic fungi control network-level structure and flows to meet trade demands.

2/4 Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Using a bespoke robot to track growing fungal networks, the paper reports that fungi build networks as self-regulating traveling waves www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08614-x

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1/4 What do fungal networks sound like? Have a listen! This week’s @nature.com cover is a multi-sensory spectacular, complete with the fascinating, almost wet sound of fungal networks spreading, recorded by artist @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social in an Araucaria forest on the side of a volcano Chile.

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4/4 We added a second colour, but the bluish hue is not random 🎨 It's the false color often given to Bennu in similar images, thus continuing a useful visual language for communication. Special thanks to Tim McCoy/Smithsonian Institution, and Sara Russell/NHM London for pointing out the blue 🙏

30.01.2025 16:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3/4 The use of a single colour with grayscale is powerful, and if not for the special needs of a cover - like legible logos and text, and the ability to stand out in a variety of digital and physical spaces - we may have stopped there.

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Image of asteroid bennu with false colour added to sodium salts, as compared to original grayscale

2/4 False colour is not always appropriate, but I'd argue a cover is an exception, as it often communicates the point more immediately to a wider audience. We asked the authors to consider it and they agreed, with excellent work by Heather Roper at Univ of Arizona who added purple to the salts.

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Cover of Nature with false colored image of asteroid Bennu, as compared to original grayscale image

1/4 The case for false color. This week’s @nature.com cover shows exciting results from the asteroid Bennu, as seen in these pointy purple sodium salts! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Why did we use false colour? 🧪🎨

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The sheer elegance of this dinosaur vomit must be celebrated! Thanks to artist Marcin Ambrozik for perfecting it on this week's cover, to go with this paper on fossilized poo and vomit www.nature.com/articles/s41... (Lacked the courage to ask for more poo, @endofthepier.bsky.social!) #sciart #art

13.12.2024 19:06 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Hello @bsky.app! I'll start by thanking this platform for not training AI on our goods. This is why I stopped posting on X last year, and will pick up where I left off, by explaining why Nature does not allow gen AI images and video in our publications #sciart #art 🧪🎨🦋 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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