Fabio Crameri

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. We...

I wrote a piece for @egu.eu about academic evaluation and how the resulting incentives for academics are destructive.

I think it can be done better. 🕸️

But only if you want it, too. 🫶

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sm...
#Academia #AcademicEvaluation #ScienceMetrics #ProAc

During the last 30 years, our telescopes improved and became more. We discover more of what lies beyond our sky.

Exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, might host life or tell us more about our own planet.

Here are 4999 of them perfectly to scale. 😮‍💨

GC Insights: Consistency in pyrocartography starts with color Abstract. Fire progression maps provide operational and public information regarding wildland fire spread, size, and proximity to critical assets through time. Cartographic guidance regarding the use ...

Lovely paper out by Benjamin Hatchett about colour consistency in pyrocartography 🔥🗺️:

doi.org/10.5194/gc-8... #UseBatlow

Thanks. We found some people and already made the videos for this year. Will keep you in mind for next year!

Such a great short course on different aspects of #DataViz at #EGU today! The room was absolutely packed — people were sitting on the floor (hey, @egu.eu maybe consider a bigger room next time?😉) And it's always a pleasure attending @fabiocrameri.ch's presentations!
#endrainbow, yep.

And one more:
bsky.app/profile/egu....

Started creating some content for @egu.eu again.

Really enjoy talking to academics and hear about their career and views. 👇

We Are EGU! - YouTube

I am looking for some first-time attendees of the EGU General Assembly 2025

…to answer some easy questions in another ‚We Are EGU’ video (see youtube.com/playlist?lis...).

If you know anyone interested, please DM me or send me an email with their contacts.

Thank you!

Nice!

Great. Am looking forward to see some cool research! 😃

Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...

Nice to hear, Andrew. 😇

⚠️ Two points to clarify:

1) Turbo is NOT perceptually even (don’t know why people think it is – research.google/blog/turbo-a...)

2) Our preference for certain colours cannot trump the argument for scientific accuracy or inclusivity (Not sure why people think it does).

Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...

Nice to hear, Andrew. 😇

⚠️ Two points to clarify:

1) Turbo is NOT perceptually even (don’t know why people think it is – research.google/blog/turbo-a...)

2) Our preference for certain colours cannot trump the argument for scientific accuracy or inclusivity (Not sure why people think it does).

Great news! The scientific figure design cheat sheet that @fabiocrameri.ch and I created for @wearetektonika.bsky.social is now available in Español 🇪🇸and Deutsch 🇩🇪

Use it, share it, and make beautiful figures!

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Graphic design guideline Supporting guideline for designing a science figure that has a clear purpose from Crameri and Perez-Diaz (2025).

Do you make scientific figures? Then check out this handy little guide that @fabiocrameri.ch and I have put together for our editorial piece in the newest volume of @wearetektonika.bsky.social

✏️ The figure is available from @s-ink.org - download it, share it, use it!

@drlperezdiaz.bsky.social and I wrote a little mighty piece on how #geoscience visuals need to be different today than 60 years ago.

Yes very. But good start; I‘ll try to follow this!

Hei Maximilian, from what I see that looks good. Could you play with (stronger) lightness variations too? That would maybe help to make the individual colours even more discernible.

The Barbie-style Scientific colour map ‚acton‘ from www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps

And here‘s the perceptually uniform, colour-blind friendly colour gradient ‚acton‘ to go along with it!

Available from www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps

Never stop! 🤩🩷
🐡 📊 #UseBatlow

Colour me better: fixing figures for colour blindness Images can be made more accessible by choosing hues, shapes and textures carefully.

Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Haha, never thought of that. Great idea! 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

This is cool!

Can I read more about that somewhere or soon?

Am still assembling my #BatlowArmy around here… 😅

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Am working on it, yes.

*dring* *dring*

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Beautiful. Valuable. Christmasgiftable.
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