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Alexandra Gallant-Lee
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Nature & Science Illustrator, Multi Award-Winning Cartoonist, Science Communicator & Designer, Comics, Zines, She/Her, Based in Boston

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 2d
BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Nov 28
You can download BRAINS for $6 on itch right now! alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
The cover of BRAINS - a colorful brain and the word 'brains' Page 1 is a single panel 'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside' Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain Page 2 is 4 panels Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible) Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it) Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space An abstract illustration of a nervous system and eyes and the words memory, language processing, cognition, sensory perception, emotion, imagination, visual & auditory processing, logic Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU" Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
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Several times she has mentioned AI having a "2% error rate" and I'm furiously shouting NO ITS MUCH HIGHER at my TV like my dad when the Red Sox are losing
bookjockeyalex.bsky.social Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3h
On The Pitt, Dr Al-Hashimi is confronted with several massive errors from her genAI medical transcription program that delayed vital care for a patient, and dismisses them as nothing to worry abt as long as you double check. The perfect distillation of AI boosterism. AI is great even when it isn't.
February 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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some photos so you can really see how messy my tiny bits are #art
a tiny little 3D printed “ham radio” in the palm of my hand (it looks like a ham with an antenna and radio face) another angle of my HAM RADIO yet another angle of my ham radio the front radio face of my han radio. you can see the tiny details are quite messily painted and need to be adjusted larger in the sculpt
February 15, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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The introduction to BRAINS
Lately I have been thinking about brains more than usual - and usually in the context of so-called 'artificial intelligence' and how so much of the marketing for it seems to be predicated upon the idea that it would be a welcome thing to think less, know less, do less for ourselves and that somehow is supposed to make us be more... productive? creative? analytical? how? How can doing less of these things ever result in us being more of any of them? When people I know bring up ChatGPT to me, I often ask them if they've ever engaged with it on a topic they know forwards and backwards and mostly the answer is "no" and the reaction is "why would I ask it about something I already know?" My response is... when you realize how inaccurate it is about something you know highly accurately, then you can extrapolate that to any other way in which you engage with it. It is creating a plausible response. Not an accurate one. A plausible one. It doesn't offer you an answer, just an answer shaped box. And it's up to you to open the box and see if what you need is inside or if it is a box full of spiders. Now if it's a subject you don't know much about, you might not even realize it's a box of spiders. Here you are, walking around with a box of spiders, when what you really needed was directions to the nearest hospital. Well now you need those directions anyways because of those spiders just bit you. Just don't do it! (illustration of a pink little frog next to 'a box of spiders' and a note about how this is frogby, he's playing the part of a blood cell that has a big crush on the brain)"
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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“Art is to me, now, probably one of the last good things we’ve got left as human beings."

I've been feeling this more and more. How the war for our attention robs us of tangible art. Robs us of the feeling of being alive.
February 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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“I keep telling young people: keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else."

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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I am entranced and fascinated by Vanessa’s deep dives into pneumatic tubes—something I haven’t thought about since I was a kid in the 1980s and my dad would go through the bank drive-through and I’d love watching that cylinder shoot up into the air and arrive over inside the building.

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vanessa-armstrong.com Vanessa Armstrong @vanessa-armstrong.com · 2h
Pneumatic tubes? In this economy?!

If you're in healthcare, yes! Every hospital has tubes. They’re labyrinthian & networked & cool.

At Tube Talk, I talked with those who make them and those who run them. Give it a read below! #tubetalkmedia #pneumatictubes

www.tubetalk.media/p/pneumatic-...
The Last Bastion of Pneumatic Tubes
Pneumatic tube systems are thriving in the healthcare industry. And while the technology is an old one, the hospital systems have recent innovations that make it state of the art.
www.tubetalk.media
February 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Yes!!! The hospital I used to work at had a tube system and I remember the first time I got an email that was like "FYI the pneumatic tube system is down" and I was like OMG WHAT and then immediately asked the research space/facilities guy who sat near me like a zillion questions about them
vanessa-armstrong.com Vanessa Armstrong @vanessa-armstrong.com · 2h
Pneumatic tubes? In this economy?!

If you're in healthcare, yes! Every hospital has tubes. They’re labyrinthian & networked & cool.

At Tube Talk, I talked with those who make them and those who run them. Give it a read below! #tubetalkmedia #pneumatictubes

www.tubetalk.media/p/pneumatic-...
The Last Bastion of Pneumatic Tubes
Pneumatic tube systems are thriving in the healthcare industry. And while the technology is an old one, the hospital systems have recent innovations that make it state of the art.
www.tubetalk.media
February 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social
Socks of the Damned
February 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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BRAINS is my award-winning comic, now available for purchase in print, from Radiator Comics www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg... for $15 and digitally through itch for $6
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Nov 28
You can download BRAINS for $6 on itch right now! alexandragallant.itch.io/brains
The cover of BRAINS - a colorful brain and the word 'brains' Page 1 is a single panel 'It can feel like plucking fruit off a tree... and seeing what's inside' Illustration of a branch of a tree with peaches on it, and a cross section of a peach, instead of a pit, there is a brain Page 2 is 4 panels Panel 1: "...and sometimes" text over an illustration of a peach Panel 2: "it's a pit" (cross section of a peach, with the pit visible) Panel 3: "or a worm" (a fruit with a worm poking out of it) Panel 4: "but sometimes... it's a universe" the brain/pit in the peach from the previous page is zoomed in and now has rings around it like a planet in space An abstract illustration of a nervous system and eyes and the words memory, language processing, cognition, sensory perception, emotion, imagination, visual & auditory processing, logic Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU" Page from BRAINS First Panel: "An AI has no sense of anything. No context. No experience." Illustration of a little pink frog (he's playing a blood cell in this comic, though, which is why he's pink) Second panel: "It cannot touch" the pink frog bends down to pick a flower Third panel: "It cannot smell" 'sniff sniff' the frog smells the flower Fourth panel: "It cannot breathe" (the frog is now dark blue with bright pink lungs visible, as though the frog has been imaged in some way) Fifth panel: "It cannot think" (the frogs brain is now visible, similarly to the lungs in the previous panel) Sixth panel: "It cannot be" the frog is floating and his cute lil butt is visible Seventh panel: "*Stares directly at camera*" the pink frog stares directly at camera Eight panel: "It cannot be... YOU"
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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They operate on the same principles as endless scrolling, anything to keep you engaging with it, only the 'transactions' happen so much faster, making them so much more dangerous.
December 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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They are slot machines. You pull the lever and maybe something worth it (to you) pops out, but mostly it doesn't. Yet you enjoy the thrill of sitting with the endless potential that something *might* be worth it and that is what you think these tools are giving you. Possibility. They are not.
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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It is so funny to me that this happened. I have no idea what vibe I’m giving off, generally, but apparently whatever it is, part of it is “plausible music critic.”
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Sep 14
Got mistaken for a music critic because I had a tiny sketchbook when I went to see some live music. Just absolutely comedic results.
September 14, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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important not to underestimate the visceral discomfort of this: having something personal and unique stolen, copied, and exploited for money.
February 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.

Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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myp-comics.bsky.social
Good morning, Blueskies! It's a glorious day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and we are open for your browsing pleasure!

I'll be here until at least 3pm, then Gamal will take over and keep things running until 7pm. I hope you can stop by! -kjc
February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
You there, smart person, come study with me at Harvard Medical School! Our program is so fun! The application deadline is March 13.
Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health
The Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health is a nine-month Harvard Medical School graduate program for those interested in using storytelling to make a difference in health. The Master of Sc...
ghsm.hms.harvard.edu
February 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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The best way to convince someone of something isn't usually to tell them, it's often to show them. Repeatedly. Like modeling behaviors for children.

To combat AI, we who create must keep creating. Share what you make and share how you do it! All the messy mess-ups, the humanness. ❤️ We are teachers.
February 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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There is no way this is a coincidence. I worked with David at @npr.org, and NotebookLM sounds *precisely* like him, including his conversational cadence.
He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Lionel J. Frogby, the 'J' is for 'just a lil guy'
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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lots of scans of random little doodles of birds, that's for sure
Pastel, marker and ink drawing of a pink bird saying 'Caw' on watercolor paper Illustration of a bird in ink & turquoise marker with leaves hanging above orange bird and a scribbled bird drawn on graph paper with leaves in ink and marker hot pink leaves and a purple and turquoise bird with a very long sharp beak drawn in ink
December 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Doing a bit of a reorganization of my office, retiring one of my displays from tabling and using it as a paint rack permanently. Also, got a cupcake stand at the thrift store and turned it into an organizer for my inks and watercolor paints.
A shelf with paints on it next to a cake display stand that has jars of ink instead of cupcakes
February 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Trying a project where I draw as many objects at the Met as possible. Here is (most of) Room 300
A series of ink drawings of Byzantine jewelry, crosses, goblets, sarcophaguses
February 15, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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Frogby loves ya!
A little Frogby valentine, Frogby is holding flowers and a heart shaped box of chocolates, saying 'love ya!' with hearts in his eyes Frogby is a little frog with big eyes and a goofy face, he's basically a potato with noodle arms and legs
February 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM