Gil

Designing for science - coming from the neuroscientific unknown into the visualization world. #sciart #scientificillustration #scicom

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

I have left this platform permanently.
You can find me on LinkedIn or Bluesky.

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[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

(slightly edited to fit the word limit, and posted as a way to reference it for future use) Thanks Matteo, you are a master of the pen and ink, for cartoon and words as well. Read it all here https://t.co/AsvvEXCIvF

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@matteofarinella 💎on accessibility
Accessibility is a more nuanced concept because it all depends on WHO we want to make it accessible for. Rarely is there one solution that works for everybody. A common refrain amongst science communicators is to “think about your audience”.

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

Here, the art doesn’t add much information (it may even distort the science) but hopefully,it gets our audience more excited about science. Sometimes making science more accessible may mean simply making it less pedantic,so people are willing to engage with it in the first place.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

What’s your name? Spell it using satellite images from Landsat! https://t.co/9Fq35t9R3z

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@crezaval Thank you Carolina :)

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

Cool to see some flies illustrations that I prepared for @crezaval having fun on this Nature paper. Great work by her team!

[Carolina Rezaval @crezaval]

Sex or survival—what’s more important? Excited to share our @Nature paper on how flies resolve this conflict.

We found a dopamine-based filter that reduces threat perception, helping flies focus on courtship when close to mating.

https://t.co/ZZ0UoKTqgn

[Brady Johnston @bradyajohnston]

every day I am more and more astounded by the fucking shitshow of a publishing system that academics willingly continue to hold up. paying money to give copyright for an image that you often paid money to create, to publishers with cartoonish profit margins. utterly deranged

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

In these 18min I speak 1.5X my normal speed, I mention my former PI @zmainen and the awesome @Neuro_CF 350 times, talk about Pavlov dogs going for a run and have a "How I met your mother" moment.

Big thanks to @RRocheNeuro and the @FENSorg comm. team for the invite and fun chat

[FENS @FENSorg]

🎙️ New #FENSCast episode out now!

🎨 @RRocheNeuro meets @GilCostaDesign, discovers his intriguing #career twist: from PhD candidate to Scientific #Designer, and hears how Gil first met his future wife at the @encods2024 event in 2015!

Listen now: https://t.co/A7nEWuXqyk

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@JatinNagpal87 Thank you Jatin, you are very kind :)

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@ruisilrodrigues @FENSorg @RRocheNeuro @encods2024 Thanks Rui.

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@zamakany @IntBioPhysics It's always a pleasure working with you Ahmed ☺️

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@joana_gcc @SWC_Neuro https://t.co/UNu8M0kTcn

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

🧠 + 🧠= 🤩
Collaboration enriches our work in beautiful ways.
It was an absolute pleasure working together with @joana_gcc to create the six illustrations for the research areas of the @SWC_Neuro
Check out our digest of the process on Medium

https://t.co/a6gRPvF55p

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@Johanna_A_Joyce @joana_gcc @RoeltjeMaas Absolutely stunning!! Great concept and visual power

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@danieldamineli @KordingLab @joana_gcc Thanks Daniel!! Abraço :)

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

@zamakany @KordingLab Thanks Ahmed, you are very kind :)

[Gil @GilCostaDesign]

It's about the process, how to reach there

[Christoph Niemann @abstractsunday]

… and fwiw some thoughts on drawing and AI