Dennis Sun

@mezarque@mstdn.social
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scientist, artist, writer, gamer

currently @ Arcadia Science

websitehttp://www.mezarque.com/
Rendering Plotly outputs in a Jupyter notebook makes for some truly zany GitHub diffs

It took some time, but I ordered the pieces for my previous fly and amphipod designs and tried to build them. It took a few revisions, but the new designs are more stable and mostly use commonly-available Lego elements.

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There are options for both male and female versions of the fly, as well as eye-color mutants and a larvae.

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A tad late for #InverteFest, but I submitted a set of my arthropod Lego designs to @LEGOIdeas!

My set idea "Arthropod Model Organisms" features models for a fruit fly, amphipod crustacean, red flour beetle, and two-spotted cricket.

Vote here:
https://ideas.lego.com/s/p:c629ad4459f8452abfba2b6b96e29f54

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Arthropod Model Organisms

Scientists have learned a great deal about biology from a handful of "model organisms" – animals with unique characteristics that make them excellent ...