One of my favorite old twitter scientist threads was the “who has a cool science tattoo?” thread. There’s so many new scientists here now, I think we have critical mass.
Post your science tattoo! Here’s mine:
Post your science tattoo! Here’s mine:
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Comment from person in a pub: “hey I’ve got those on my legs” 🥴😅
It mitigated, he was a field biologist / geneticist.
https://bsky.app/profile/phalanx.bsky.social/post/3lb6ksrnjm22b
Awesome tat!
Also, 55,000 nautical miles? Daaaaaamn.
https://bsky.app/profile/maniacalz.bsky.social/post/3lb5rixuqjk2b
Artist is harpycircus on Instagram
I’m thinking about a wonderpus because of the orange and white striping and the funky lil eye stalks.
When I showed it to the artist he went, “… is that a single unbroken line that spirals out?” And grimaced.
When he was doing it another artist walked past and went, “holy shit is that a single unbroken line!?”
had to shop around for someone with good enough line work, lol
I’ve always considered doing this, it looks so handy. 😁
Measuring tapes are standard kit for tracking, but I'm part of the *digit*al generation.
I said, it's an experiment! I'd be happy with it regardless. So far it has remained accurate -- it's coming up on a couple years old now.
It’s off a bit. He has to apply a correction factor. 😂
-Paramylodon vert
-theropod egg and Troodon tooth
-sperm whale tooth and crappy whale vert labeled with “AFW”
-mammoth
-saber tooth kitten fang on a tooth fairy pillow
-dental pick for my friend, because he’s a tool
#tattoos
NASA-JPL’s Mars Science Lab Curiosity rover ca. 2016. Part of my sleeve!
DNA/Thread of Life/The 3 Fates
https://carlzimmer.com/books/science-ink-tattoos-of-the-science-obsessed/
https://bsky.app/profile/hawthorn-embers.bsky.social/post/3lb6c67kng22u
1. One of Darwin's lesser-known trees of life (primates tree), inlcuding a wee scribble mistake! 🤎
2. Grey whale ("womb to tomb" underneath)
3. Subspecies Northwestern crow
4. Radius/ulna + dual narwhal horns
HELLO AGAIN, #SCICOMM fam 😍
Here's the first words of the last line of Darwin's 'Origin of Species'
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