Joana C. Carvalho

📢 Barcelona-based people in my network!

I'll be in town for work in two weeks and have time for a couple of meetings while I’m there.

Feel free to drop me a message if you're a scientist, communicator, or designer, and think connecting in this context would be valuable! 👋

*me waking up* I wonder what the news feed has today?

Interesting!

It's not just Trenitalia. It's like a shortcut from "doppia vu", which ends up sounding like "vuvuvu". I've heard many people say it like that. 😊

If you're a designer/illustrator who works with scientists to make figures for publications, this might be interesting for you. 👇

You're welcome! I hope the mural is still intact. In any case, walking around that area is lovely.

I could recommend a thousand things, but maybe checking Nuno Saraiva's comic mural that tells the story of Lisbon, located near Portas do Sol, and a visit to Kingpin books.
Enjoy the trip!

Also for science communicators. 👇

A stacked bar chart showing the growth of anthropogenic mass (human-made objects) compared to natural biomass from 1900 to 2040 (projected). The chart shows anthropogenic mass, broken down into categories like Concrete, Aggregates, Bricks, Asphalt, Metals, and Plastics, steadily increasing over time. Natural biomass, divided into Trees and Shrubs, Crops, Livestock, and Humans, is shown with relatively stable or slightly decreasing totals. The year 2020 is marked as the point where anthropogenic mass is projected to exceed natural biomass, with a note stating "Total anthropogenic mass exceeds all global living biomass." The chart is titled "ACCUMULATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC MASS".

The amount of human made 'stuff' now exceeds natural 'stuff'

(by @VisualCap)
www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-...

Super! 🥳

Remember their names Naming the Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza

Visualizing abstract numbers / actual human beings ... visualizingpalestine.org/gaza-names/e...

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Screen Capture of email from Biorender advertising for their new feature allowing users to upload spreadsheets to have the software automatically produce data.visualizations

This is such a bad idea #stats

Creators for Europe United Open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the EU Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy to protect Europe’s creative soul.

"Billions of creative works are being used as the basis for AI systems without our knowledge, without our consent and without remuneration. The EU Commission has done too little to protect us from this."

creators-for-europe-united.eu

Straight to my list of great examples of visual scicomm!

Parabéns Teresa e toda a equipa envolvida!

Gendered expectations extend to science communication Communicating complex science in a way that the public can understand is crucial. A new study from the University of Adelaide reveals that in scientific societies, women are shouldering the bulk of th...

In scientific societies, women are shouldering the bulk of #ScienceCommunication work - often voluntarily - due to societal expectations and a sense of duty, a new study reveals. Their work, however, is often undervalued ⤵️

#scicomm #gender #career #inequality

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found. With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity. Continue reading...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Fresh editorial work on the cover of Immunity! 👀

Congratulations to all! It has been wonderful to work together again! 🧠

Air pollution kills millions every year — where does it come from? A breakdown of the sources of many air pollutants that damage our health and ecosystems.

I've been working a fair bit on people's understanding of air pollution lately. So I'm delighted to have just found this explainer from @ourworldindata.org, which is an excellent primer. TL;DR stop burning stuff and having cows
ourworldindata.org/air-pollutio...

Stealing an artists style who's work frequently depicted how fascist machinery murdered millions of innocent people

The kind of papers I dream of illustrating.🌷

If you didn't know tulips get their patterns from an infection, here is some cool science to brighten up your day.

What appears to be a massive flock of birds in red, purple and blue colours in a pale blue sky. Each "bird" represents a bird species, and their colour represents their conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Around one third of species appear to be near threatened, endangered or extinct

This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock!

By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards

www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...

#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅

A graphic illustrating the different layers of Earth and their theorized textures. The inner core is solid. The outer core flows like honey. The mantle is a softer solid. The Asthenosphere is a putty-like solid. The lithosphere is a crumbling solid.

I've always been fascinated by Earth's interior and how scientists have described their textures. I decided to make my own slice while at @newsela.bsky.social. #geology, #earth, #platetectonics

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The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far

www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

I can relate to that. Hopefully there are some solutions out there!

I remember seeing some chrome extensions that hide those results (can't remember their exact names). Maybe it could be worth checking this out as an option?

To me it was clear 😁