Dichromat Chloe (4% of scientists)
@dichromat-chloe.bsky.social
Advocating for color accessibility in scientific figures.
4% of scientists are colorblind.
4% of scientists are colorblind.
This picture of Pope Francis, happy in his Bird of Paradise traditional headset, was taken during his visit of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This small city gave its name to one of these Diverging scientific color palettes (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)
May 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This picture of Pope Francis, happy in his Bird of Paradise traditional headset, was taken during his visit of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. This small city gave its name to one of these Diverging scientific color palettes (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)
💛💙💜 Cyan Magenta Yellow contrasts in both microscopy images and heatmaps throughout the paper 💛💙💜
Sex-biased gene expression precedes sexual dimorphism in the agonadal annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Read this Research Article by Rannyele Ribeiro @rannypribeiro.bsky.social, Ryan Null and B. Duygu Özpolat @biyolokum.bsky.social :
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Read this Research Article by Rannyele Ribeiro @rannypribeiro.bsky.social, Ryan Null and B. Duygu Özpolat @biyolokum.bsky.social :
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
April 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
💛💙💜 Cyan Magenta Yellow contrasts in both microscopy images and heatmaps throughout the paper 💛💙💜
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January 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
November 12, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs.
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...
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Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
thenode.biologists.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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We are partial to the "polychrome" palette when there are tens of single-cell clusters to distinguish, over the default ggplot colors. Even without a named handicap I can't distinguish the pinks or green-cyan-blue neighbors.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
December 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
We are partial to the "polychrome" palette when there are tens of single-cell clusters to distinguish, over the default ggplot colors. Even without a named handicap I can't distinguish the pinks or green-cyan-blue neighbors.
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Important Announcement
#zebrafish but not only
#zebrafish but not only
December 4, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Important Announcement
#zebrafish but not only
#zebrafish but not only
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Thanks for citing Paul Tol's work. The palettes have nice colors, and it's easy to get the needed size:
$ conda install bokeh
$ python
>>> import bokeh.palettes
>>> for i in range(3, 24):
... print(bokeh.palettes.tol['TolRainbow'][i])
('#1965B0', '#F7F056', '#DC050C')
etc.
personal.sron.nl/~pault
$ conda install bokeh
$ python
>>> import bokeh.palettes
>>> for i in range(3, 24):
... print(bokeh.palettes.tol['TolRainbow'][i])
('#1965B0', '#F7F056', '#DC050C')
etc.
personal.sron.nl/~pault
Paul Tol's Notes
Clear colour schemes that also work for colour-blind readers.
personal.sron.nl
November 29, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Thanks for citing Paul Tol's work. The palettes have nice colors, and it's easy to get the needed size:
$ conda install bokeh
$ python
>>> import bokeh.palettes
>>> for i in range(3, 24):
... print(bokeh.palettes.tol['TolRainbow'][i])
('#1965B0', '#F7F056', '#DC050C')
etc.
personal.sron.nl/~pault
$ conda install bokeh
$ python
>>> import bokeh.palettes
>>> for i in range(3, 24):
... print(bokeh.palettes.tol['TolRainbow'][i])
('#1965B0', '#F7F056', '#DC050C')
etc.
personal.sron.nl/~pault
(pls amplify) Fresh off the press in the journal Nature today, groundbreaking work in immunogenetics. I have no doubts that the 4% holds some of the keys to cure cancer one day. Authors did a good job in other figures, we need journals to be more prescriptive about this
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
(pls amplify) Fresh off the press in the journal Nature today, groundbreaking work in immunogenetics. I have no doubts that the 4% holds some of the keys to cure cancer one day. Authors did a good job in other figures, we need journals to be more prescriptive about this
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Public Service Announcement: Check colorblind-compatibility in Illustrator! Under 'View', 'Proof Setup' you can selected a colorblindness type to view your image in that spectra. Click 'Proof Colors' after to remove filter. We chose pink/green, yellow/blue here for accessibility (PMID 38112643).
November 25, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Public Service Announcement: Check colorblind-compatibility in Illustrator! Under 'View', 'Proof Setup' you can selected a colorblindness type to view your image in that spectra. Click 'Proof Colors' after to remove filter. We chose pink/green, yellow/blue here for accessibility (PMID 38112643).
more thoughts on the TolRainbow palette for discontinuous/discrete categorical data (e.g for omics with >12 clusters, chromosomes, etc)
If you look at the base of the pyramid and skip 19,21,23, you get 20 colors with a lot of range for both di- and trichromats
If you look at the base of the pyramid and skip 19,21,23, you get 20 colors with a lot of range for both di- and trichromats
November 26, 2024 at 6:19 PM
more thoughts on the TolRainbow palette for discontinuous/discrete categorical data (e.g for omics with >12 clusters, chromosomes, etc)
If you look at the base of the pyramid and skip 19,21,23, you get 20 colors with a lot of range for both di- and trichromats
If you look at the base of the pyramid and skip 19,21,23, you get 20 colors with a lot of range for both di- and trichromats
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To be fair to Seurat it’s really applicable to all of ggplot2 but amplified by single cell visuals with lots of groups on single plot.
scCustomize sets some better defaults that help with lots of the issues. :)
samuel-marsh.github.io/scCustomize/...
scCustomize sets some better defaults that help with lots of the issues. :)
samuel-marsh.github.io/scCustomize/...
Customized Color Palettes & Themes
scCustomize
samuel-marsh.github.io
November 25, 2024 at 9:51 PM
To be fair to Seurat it’s really applicable to all of ggplot2 but amplified by single cell visuals with lots of groups on single plot.
scCustomize sets some better defaults that help with lots of the issues. :)
samuel-marsh.github.io/scCustomize/...
scCustomize sets some better defaults that help with lots of the issues. :)
samuel-marsh.github.io/scCustomize/...
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Both versions look identical to me. Maybe one reason I am not much into single cell genomics that is not sequencing :)
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
November 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Both versions look identical to me. Maybe one reason I am not much into single cell genomics that is not sequencing :)
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
@science.org
Sorry to be trolling already (this one is from 10.1126/sciadv.ado4167) but a lot of your papers are hard to read for 4% of scientists. Other journals like the New Phytologist issue guidance about figure color accessibility. You could also ask your editors to do better
💜thank you💚
Chloe
Sorry to be trolling already (this one is from 10.1126/sciadv.ado4167) but a lot of your papers are hard to read for 4% of scientists. Other journals like the New Phytologist issue guidance about figure color accessibility. You could also ask your editors to do better
💜thank you💚
Chloe
November 25, 2024 at 2:55 PM
@science.org
Sorry to be trolling already (this one is from 10.1126/sciadv.ado4167) but a lot of your papers are hard to read for 4% of scientists. Other journals like the New Phytologist issue guidance about figure color accessibility. You could also ask your editors to do better
💜thank you💚
Chloe
Sorry to be trolling already (this one is from 10.1126/sciadv.ado4167) but a lot of your papers are hard to read for 4% of scientists. Other journals like the New Phytologist issue guidance about figure color accessibility. You could also ask your editors to do better
💜thank you💚
Chloe
@jcellsci.bsky.social so happy to see you here!
Hey sorry to be a troll but ...
(spare the rod, spoil the child)
Hey sorry to be a troll but ...
(spare the rod, spoil the child)
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
@jcellsci.bsky.social so happy to see you here!
Hey sorry to be a troll but ...
(spare the rod, spoil the child)
Hey sorry to be a troll but ...
(spare the rod, spoil the child)
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Hello, we issue guidance regarding figure accessibility here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
New Phytologist Author guidelines
<em>New Phytologist</em> is an international journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Hello, we issue guidance regarding figure accessibility here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
The new paper on methane plumes in NatureGeo looks amazing but it's hard to read the figures. Could you issue editorial guidelines on color palettes to be more inclusive?
The new paper on methane plumes in NatureGeo looks amazing but it's hard to read the figures. Could you issue editorial guidelines on color palettes to be more inclusive?
November 24, 2024 at 2:35 PM
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
The new paper on methane plumes in NatureGeo looks amazing but it's hard to read the figures. Could you issue editorial guidelines on color palettes to be more inclusive?
The new paper on methane plumes in NatureGeo looks amazing but it's hard to read the figures. Could you issue editorial guidelines on color palettes to be more inclusive?
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If you missed my live webinar on scientific #colour use, "Seeing the Unseen" ( #SpaceScience version), you can rewatch the complete recording here: youtu.be/QJK8BgihT_c
#UseBatlow #DataViz #ISSIGameChangers 📊
#UseBatlow #DataViz #ISSIGameChangers 📊
Seeing the Unseen: Accurate and Inclusive Colour Scales in Space Science
YouTube video by International Space Science Institute
youtu.be
September 6, 2024 at 8:45 AM
If you missed my live webinar on scientific #colour use, "Seeing the Unseen" ( #SpaceScience version), you can rewatch the complete recording here: youtu.be/QJK8BgihT_c
#UseBatlow #DataViz #ISSIGameChangers 📊
#UseBatlow #DataViz #ISSIGameChangers 📊
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❤️❤️❤️
November 24, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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This deserves ETERNAL PRAISE.
Journals and editors please pay attention 🤍
Journals and editors please pay attention 🤍
@dichromat-chloe.bsky.social How is this? Did I succeed in making this craniofacial enhancer 100% more enjoyable for 4% of scientists?
November 23, 2024 at 7:21 PM
This deserves ETERNAL PRAISE.
Journals and editors please pay attention 🤍
Journals and editors please pay attention 🤍
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For the remaining 96% who are curious, here is the direct comparison. Minor difference in full spectrum view, major difference in protanopia and deuteranopia view.
See alt text for Photoshop instructions.
See alt text for Photoshop instructions.
November 23, 2024 at 6:34 PM
For the remaining 96% who are curious, here is the direct comparison. Minor difference in full spectrum view, major difference in protanopia and deuteranopia view.
See alt text for Photoshop instructions.
See alt text for Photoshop instructions.
🧡💙 (orange and azure)
Another old-but-gold favourite for #FluorescenceFriday.
Some afferent neurons (gold) in the cochlea, sending in their axons/neurites towards the auditory nerve. Nuclei of all cells are stained with DAPI (blue).
🧪🔬👂 #neuroskyence
Some afferent neurons (gold) in the cochlea, sending in their axons/neurites towards the auditory nerve. Nuclei of all cells are stained with DAPI (blue).
🧪🔬👂 #neuroskyence
November 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
🧡💙 (orange and azure)
💙❤️ (cyan and red )
November 23, 2024 at 4:01 PM
💙❤️ (cyan and red )