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Casey Zakroff
@caseyzakroff.bsky.social
Computational biologist, squid scientist, author of Science Comics: Whales + other things. Taskmaster: the Live Experience champion. Views mine own.
Highly recommend!
People aren’t getting the messages they need the most. As our government info systems (CDC, NOAA) get dismantled, this is getting worse.

Truth doesn't have a marketing budget, so spreading those messages is up to us.

ONE solution to this is street art.

Join me 3/18 at 8pm ET 5pm PT
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A Beginners Guide to Street Art · Zoom · Luma
Come learn the basics of how to do two street art methods: stickering and wheatpasting. We'll cover: Practical how-tos for creating and installing stickers and…
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March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Casual reminder…
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I had believed the survivors about Neil Gaiman already - but hadn’t listened to the podcasts. I read the full article… just utterly horrifying. Monster is almost too kind a word for him.
January 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Academia: Your focus on communication and education is a distraction and won’t be valuable for your career.

Industry: Your communication and education skills are SO valuable and really rare and we are so happy you have them.
December 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Gotta enjoy a D&D session that entirely takes place within a giant turtle’s liver. Nearly killed two party members - did lose one NPC accompanying them.
November 25, 2024 at 2:05 AM
So far the limited scope of Bluesky (especially in not having reposts) has been good for a sense of keeping to community - it also reduces the ability to doom scroll. I can’t help but feel this state is incredibly temporary until this place is popular enough and capitalism sets in though.
November 22, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I have closed the bird app, which at this point I was only doomscrolling on anyway. I’ve been thinking about how I want to interact with/use social media these days…
November 19, 2024 at 12:41 AM
A small, male cuttlefish sneaks into a bar.

He had a very convincing fake ID.
June 21, 2023 at 3:42 PM
An octopus crawls into a bar.

It was a hollow tube with an inner diameter wider than its beak.
June 20, 2023 at 9:58 PM
A squid jets into a bar.

This is the problem with swimming backwards.
June 20, 2023 at 6:12 PM