Greetings all! Already, some people have expressed distaste at the use of AI-art in the profile picture of the comm -- great start to my role as mod, I'm sure.
I have deep beliefs about running communities democratically (when I'm not pushing my own agenda), so I thought I'd set up a vote. And yes, if you vote for LabyMcLab Face, that's what we'll go with -- though, if I keep up on running this community there will be another vote eventually and something else can be picked.
This post is not for the vote, but rather a call for Profile and Banner Submissions. Please nominate images in the comments here.
I will exert a very small amount of influence by asserting that the image must be safe for work, and I will make the default rank of any image unrelated to science below and excluded from the lottery option in the vote (we'll talk more about how voting works on the voting post). My first day as mod and I'm already exercising executive privileges. What would my mother think...
I nominate the current image. Mouse + Rat + Science Worker seems right to me.

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