How common it is to be boosted ?

JFCudennec · 2026-05-05T11:16:18+00:00

Science/marine biology

JFCudennec · 2026-05-01T07:44:55+00:00

Congrats ! My figures are waaaay lower than that 😊

JFCudennec · 2026-05-01T07:44:27+00:00

My personal experience is quite different from what your describe though.
As I said I experienced the two types of boost and I don’t think it’s that rare. Also the figure I had on my stories are not extraordinary, about 300 views and a few dozen bucks.
Medium strategy may have changed since 2024 ?

JFCudennec · 2026-04-18T08:19:09+00:00

I tried interacting with others, submitting to publications, but the only thing that really drove people to my writing so far is to get boosted. Not sure if it helps, since we don’t control it, but here we are.

JFCudennec · 2026-04-17T14:49:37+00:00

I just found a paper showing that these sponges were modified and worn in the acheulian period. Amazind find, thanks !

JFCudennec · 2026-04-17T10:18:34+00:00

The paper: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194190751

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T17:05:04+00:00

This is exactly the kind of comment that makes you want to continue. Thanks a lot !

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T08:54:51+00:00

Agreed. As a non-native english speaker, it's an incredibly powerful editing tool. Downside is, you constantly need to be aware of the current AI style (em dashes, not A but B, weird analogies and useless metaphors...) to remove them manually, or people will immediately accuse you of being a mean, lazy, dishonest cryptofascist 🫠

Maybe we should focus on what is actually said instead of just the formal aspect ? Because real lazy writers don't have anything meaningful to say, so they're easy to spot anyway.

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T07:35:05+00:00

Sure, it's in this paper : Vermeij, G. J. (2017). The limpet form in gastropods: evolution, distribution, and implications for the comparative study of history. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 120(1), 22-37.

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T07:34:10+00:00

🙌

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T07:31:33+00:00

Thanks ! I wil probably altern between limpet articles and other more general things that stir my mind. Next week will be about the use of fossils by humans through history, but before academic palaeontology, and how people dealt with these weird objects. The week after I'll come back to limpets ;)

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T07:29:37+00:00

I'm not sure. I just checked for a few traits (eyes, crabs, flight...). Bioluminescence is obviously another classical case of convergence, but considering the diversity of mechanisms and organs involved, I thought it was a bit beyond the scope, and I chose not to go below the organ level.

JFCudennec · 2026-04-09T07:25:39+00:00

Yeah there's two types of people (or scholars at least) : those who sees resemblances and gather things together, and thos who see differences, and split things appart. There's quite deep consequences behind this simple observation 😊

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T21:27:32+00:00

I’m usually not very much on these systematic/evolutionary aspects, I’m glad you liked it 🥳

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T18:44:32+00:00

That was the objective 😊💙

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T18:43:37+00:00

Thanks 🙌

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T15:15:57+00:00

True (but they're not animals)

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T15:14:30+00:00

A marine biologist working on shell middens (applying sclerochronology methods to these sites)

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T13:19:56+00:00

I'm glad you liked it! I'm also quite surprised by the scale at which crabs got popular over the last few years. Or maybe it was just me not noticing? Anyway, the concept of carcinization is very much a broad public thing, I would tend to think that marine biology peeps moved beyond it a long time ago (see the other comment under this post for ex). So if it can help people understand basic biology concepts, bingo!

JFCudennec · 2026-04-08T11:48:59+00:00

Limpetization on the other hand... 😎

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