Kelly Krause
@kellykrause.bsky.social
Creative director for Nature (scientific journal). Design + art + science.
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4/4 Last thing! Somewhat related, if you'd like more sublime sounds of soil, here is a mesmerizing song composed by @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...
Los Cedros Cloud Forest, Cosmo Sheldrake, Robert Macfarlane - Song of the Cedars
YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake
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March 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
4/4 Last thing! Somewhat related, if you'd like more sublime sounds of soil, here is a mesmerizing song composed by @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_t...
3/4 The cover image shows this process of wave-like expansion in action, with colours representing the age of the network edges. Brighter colours are younger. Print cover credit: Corentin Bisot. Special thanks to www.spun.earth and @tobykiers.bsky.social 🙏
March 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
3/4 The cover image shows this process of wave-like expansion in action, with colours representing the age of the network edges. Brighter colours are younger. Print cover credit: Corentin Bisot. Special thanks to www.spun.earth and @tobykiers.bsky.social 🙏
2/4 Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Using a bespoke robot to track growing fungal networks, the paper reports that fungi build networks as self-regulating traveling waves www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08614-x
A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade - Nature
Symbiotic fungi control network-level structure and flows to meet trade demands.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
2/4 Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Using a bespoke robot to track growing fungal networks, the paper reports that fungi build networks as self-regulating traveling waves www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08614-x
4/4 We added a second colour, but the bluish hue is not random 🎨 It's the false color often given to Bennu in similar images, thus continuing a useful visual language for communication. Special thanks to Tim McCoy/Smithsonian Institution, and Sara Russell/NHM London for pointing out the blue 🙏
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
4/4 We added a second colour, but the bluish hue is not random 🎨 It's the false color often given to Bennu in similar images, thus continuing a useful visual language for communication. Special thanks to Tim McCoy/Smithsonian Institution, and Sara Russell/NHM London for pointing out the blue 🙏
3/4 The use of a single colour with grayscale is powerful, and if not for the special needs of a cover - like legible logos and text, and the ability to stand out in a variety of digital and physical spaces - we may have stopped there.
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
3/4 The use of a single colour with grayscale is powerful, and if not for the special needs of a cover - like legible logos and text, and the ability to stand out in a variety of digital and physical spaces - we may have stopped there.
2/4 False colour is not always appropriate, but I'd argue a cover is an exception, as it often communicates the point more immediately to a wider audience. We asked the authors to consider it and they agreed, with excellent work by Heather Roper at Univ of Arizona who added purple to the salts.
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
2/4 False colour is not always appropriate, but I'd argue a cover is an exception, as it often communicates the point more immediately to a wider audience. We asked the authors to consider it and they agreed, with excellent work by Heather Roper at Univ of Arizona who added purple to the salts.