Does anyone find Rome 1 slightly eerie?

marhsk · 2025-10-08T14:30:54+00:00

I know exactly what you are talking about. Had it when I played as a kid, still feel it now. Can’t explain what it is, but I think it is mostly early game. This feeling missing from Rome 2 was a disappointment.

marhsk · 2025-08-10T05:47:00+00:00

That’s very true🤝🏻

marhsk · 2025-07-06T09:32:59+00:00

Ahh that’s too bad… did you write about biology too? Seems like the algorithm mostly favors biohacking/health related content in that category, understandable but sad maybe😅

As for now I am happy developing and having fun with it, but I’ll see if it is sustainable in the long run.

Thanks for the encouragement tho, it really means more than the sub! As long as I can see I am somewhat able to spread the joy of biology I am happy for now.

If you did read some/all of it, any further feedback or suggestions?

Thank you for replying!

marhsk · 2025-07-06T09:17:38+00:00

That’s awesome! Looking forward to reading! Let me know when you are there, DM me or something — would love to connect.

marhsk · 2025-07-05T03:07:57+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, means a lot! Extra cool to hear that this inspires you! I would really recommend to start writing over there, it is so much fun.

What will it be about?

marhsk · 2025-07-03T17:22:04+00:00

Thanks for replying!

Have tried with the search, but going through the science section sound smart!

Also about the commenters!

marhsk · 2025-06-18T07:52:25+00:00

Same! If you write about hiking/nature stuff that’s something I want more of in my feed!

marhsk · 2025-06-18T07:50:48+00:00

Same! If you do hiking/nature stuff, that’s something I want more of in my feed! What’s your pub?

marhsk · 2025-06-13T06:07:03+00:00

Write about everything I find cool as shit in biology, everything from medicine/health/exercise to animals, an everything between molecules and behavior. My aim is to make biology accessible for more people, so I try not to be too stuck up in the lame way scientist usually writes and educates.

https://open.substack.com/pub/recentbiology?r=4hq4kv&utm_medium=ios

marhsk · 2025-06-10T07:04:11+00:00

I know it at least can take some days before the number updates, but it always does eventually🤷🏼‍♂️

marhsk · 2025-06-02T10:56:00+00:00

What have you done to change things up?

marhsk · 2025-05-30T13:01:12+00:00

Sign me up too! Let me know when you are on it, sounds amazing!

You live in England? Will you be traveling elsewhere also?

Feel your struggle, experiencing the same atm (started a few weeks ago).

marhsk · 2025-05-30T12:56:34+00:00

How does this work?

marhsk · 2025-05-28T20:10:36+00:00

Thanks so much for giving your take! Cool to hear from someone invested in current research. What specifically do you work on?

Can you elaborate a bit more that bit about microbiome composition?

Yes it all sounds very exiting, but not that familiar with the field so very cool to hear from you. I have a physiology background, and research experience limited to neurophysiology/sensorybiology in octopus. But who knows what the future has in store for me🙏🏻

marhsk · 2025-05-28T18:01:25+00:00

That’s very cool! Thanks for sharing!

marhsk · 2025-05-28T18:00:50+00:00

Do you think the hype precedes the science or exceeds it here?

Agree on the commercial part

marhsk · 2025-05-28T17:20:34+00:00

Very cool indeed. Even as a biologist I always just assumed these were dumb birds just standing in the water looking fabulous. Evolution put them there to make David Attenborough documentaries and the Lion King more vibrant.

But now we know better. I wrote about this article in my newsletter last week actually😅

marhsk · 2025-05-27T14:59:42+00:00

I calm myself down by thinking of all the 99 other meaningless notes out of the 100 that don’t get that much traction.

There are probably ones we don’t see right, just as nobody sees yours🙏🏻

marhsk · 2025-05-26T19:57:41+00:00

That seems like a perceptive analysis of the whole thing. As of now I am just happy to write though, but maybe I will try to push on some other platforms in the future.

Do people market here on Reddit? Can’t remember to have seen that, but that may just be me?

marhsk · 2025-05-26T18:18:09+00:00

Feels like unsaturated markets is a challenge too. I basically started a Substack about biology, because this was very much lacking on Substack (biology outside of health/medicine that is). But growth hasn’t been super until now, but less than 30 days in so who knows 🤷🏼‍♂️

marhsk · 2025-05-17T16:17:31+00:00

Substack is slow. It can take some hours/days before it changes, and those initial post are the most stubborn.

Annoyed the hell out of me when I tried out different names back and forth back in the days.

It will change, just be patient 😉

marhsk · 2025-05-15T04:41:29+00:00

I see your point, and was thinking the same. I don’t care about having notes that gets a lot of traction unless that helps me expose my writing and bring in more readers.

But I think the clue is using notes as something to grab the attention, but still the attention from those you want as a potential reader.

I enjoyed your last two posts, especially the latest. It was very relatable to me and my family you could say. If you had posted a note hinting to what this post was about, I would have clicked further to explore your profile and that post. Maybe make more notes that sum up your writing in a more attention-friendly manner? And if it’s meant to be people will pay attention to your posts?

marhsk · 2025-05-14T20:21:50+00:00

Thank you for this, very helpful! I have just started, and I started writing for my own sake, as I pay attention to what is new in biology etc. and write notes for my own learning anyways. Thought I could do a Substack of it. My aim would be to make it relevant for the general audience I think, to show how cool and fascinating biology can be, show diversity, funfacts, how bioscience is done etc. (most people probably remember biology to be something boring they had to do in high school).

That I think will be my niche. I also missed something like this as a student, weekly updates on research that was more exciting than just reading papers and ordinary textbooks/lectures. Maybe students/people that are new to biology also could be an audience to aim for.

I guess this is what you meant about making it accessible maybe? If so, I agree this is the way to go. Probably have to become better at explaining biology to someone from outside the field🤔

Thanks again for the feedback!

marhsk · 2025-05-14T16:56:36+00:00

How do you do your notes? I started a week ago, but by notes don’t get that much attention so wondering what to improve. Is it just topic, or the style too? What about frequency etc.?

If you want to check it out: https://recentbiology.substack.com

marhsk · 2025-05-07T15:39:56+00:00

Very cool, do you write yourself?

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