Natalie Gill

Leafcutter ant holds up a large piece of leaf that says "Call for Scientists."

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

Octopuses sense environmental microbiomes to drive predatory and parental behaviors. Artwork by Lily Soucy. #evolution #sensation #microbiome @cellpress.bsky.social

Highway exit meme. Two roads, left labeled “arguing about R or Python” right labeled “using R and Python”. A car labeled “people that get stuff done” taking a sharp turn to the right

With this influx of people, I wanna encourage people to spend their time cool and funny things instead of descending into language wars

Thanks so much for the shout-out!

“Why Are We Funding This?” Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

A DNA strand turning into code, the image is filled with a rainbow gradient to represent the LGBTQ+ pride colors

I finally got around to making another pride themed bioinformatics illustration. Happy pride!

#bioinformatics #pride

Excited to announce our first interactive article on sandbox.bio, about genomic ranges: sandbox.bio/concepts/gen...

Move & resize the ranges to see how that affects bedtools operations like merge and intersect in real time!

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨

The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing!

And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search

Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets

R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes - Nature Communications Biofluorescence is widespread in fishes. Here, the authors compile data on biofluorescence presence across teleost fishes and demonstrate that it may have originally evolved in eels 112 million years ...

Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes

Carr et al. 2025 Nature Comm.

459 known biofluorescent teleosts (the majority are associated with coral reefs); estimate biofluorescence evolved multiple times but first ~112 mya

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey fellow trans pals, I know the news is super terrifying.

But "death before detransition" doesn't have to mean *your* death.

It's not fair that we have to go through this. But we can stick around to make these bastards' lives hell, to make a better world for future kiddos.

PS I love you ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Amazing. The authors found a gene deletion responsible for orange color in domestic cats. But that was not enough -- they then proceeded to create the best graphical abstract ever (not joking)

www.cell.com/current-biol...

DNA strands with a gradient of the transgender pride flag colors

Hi all, I am trying to post more on this account. My goal is to make some biology and bioinformatics based tutorials and content, stay tuned. I am working on graphics rn, here is a little sneak peek #dna #biology #bioinformatics #pride