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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 23h

Day 13, Loss 3/4. One of the phages finds a host, while the other losses out and perishes... #Drawtober #PhageSky #SciArt

Black and white ink cartoon of a smiling firey sun shining down on the sea. some of the sun's rays go into the sea hitting a phage that is limp with crosses for eyes, the cyanobacteria looks shocked as a second phage lands on its underside. The phage that survived looks shocked as its friend is no more

Black and white ink cartoon with four panels, three contain drawings and the fourth is empty. Three of them show the sea with the sun first asleep and just visible over the waves in the top right, then with eyes open and fire haloing it, but still the lower portion behind the waves, in the thrid it is in the centre above the waves no longer hidden. under the waves are 2 phages, firstly alone, then there is a cyanobacteria in the second panel smiling at the sun whilst one phage looks panicked, in the third panel some of the sun's rays go into the sea hitting a phage that is limp with crosses for eyes, the cyanobacteria looks shocked as a second phage lands on its underside. The phage that survived looks shocked as its friend is no more.

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 23h

Day 13, Loss 3/4. One of the phages finds a host, while the other losses out and perishes... #Drawtober #PhageSky #SciArt

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober days 11 + 12 with Sting & Shredded

Phages invade bacteria. Some bacteria fight back, cutting the phage DNA into small fragments with restriction enzymes.

These "scissors", which are part of RMS, can degrade foreign DNA, while leaving the bacteria's own DNA unharmed.

#microbesky #sciart

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12, Fire, 2/4. As the sun rises so do the UV levels that can destroy phages. The race is on to find a host! #Drawtober #PhageSky #SciArt

Black and white ink cartoon of a smiling sun with a firey halo rising above the surface of the sea dropping its sleep cap, there is a smiling cyanobacteria gazing up at the sun while the two phages look concerned.

Black and white ink cartoon with two panels. In the first panel a sleepy sun peeks over the waves wearing a sleep cap, two phages float in the sea below. In the second panel a smiling sun with a firey halo rising above the surface of the sea dropping its sleep cap, there is a smiling cyanobacteria gazing up at the sun while the two phages look concerned.

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 2d

Day 11, Drink, 1/4. Drink might be a bit of a stretch, just floating in the sea! This is the first of four panels and the story of these oceanic cyanophage. They were released into the world at dusk and now dawn approaches... #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

Black and white comic panel of the sea with a cartoon sun peeping over the surface with both eyes still shut wearing a sleep cap. In the sea are two phages floating on their sides next to each other

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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 2d

Ordovician Star Cluster 8/17 24" X 20" Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #fossil

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 3d

DAY 128
SPECIES 128 - Spirillum Volutans
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek + QoR Watercolor. Writech pen

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #microbiology

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 3d

Day 10, Giant. Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus (APMV). the star-shaped feature appears on one side of the virus particle and is linked to a special pentameric vertex and capsomers are arranged at slightly offset angles doi.org/10.1371/jour....

Black and white ink drawing of a virus in a fairly realistic style of an electron microscopy image. The virus is a large slightly rounded hexagon with a star shape on the side facing you. the hexagonal shape is surrounded by dense hairs that stick straight out from the hexagon. The words "Giant virus" are written underneath

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 4d

#Inktober days 8 and 9 combined - Reckless & Heavy

The reckless use of antibiotics in humans, animals and plants is the main driver in the development of antimicrobial resistance pathogens.

As one of the top global threats, AMR places a heavy burden on public health.

#inktober2025 #microbesky

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 4d

DAY 127
SPECIES 127 - Scytonematopsis starmachii
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech + Kingart pen

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 4d

Day 9, Baking/breath. Wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria hard at work making sourdough! #Drawtober #SciArt

Black and white ink cartoon of a slice of sourdough with yeast cells and bacterial cells that have eyes and mouths. The yeast cells are exhaling bubbles into the bread.

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 4d

Day 9, Baking/breath. Wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria hard at work making sourdough! #Drawtober #SciArt

Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 5d

Day 8, Wings. Phages are so small and light they do not need wings and can be spread through the air and in rain. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

Black and white ink drawing of a dragonfly flying directly towards the viewer. The head and body is that of a phage, with only the wings of a dragonfly

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ZealousMushroom @zealousmushroom.bsky.social · 6d

day 2 of trying to draw a shroom for every day of october ✨🍄

#art #sciart #artober #fungi #digitalart

A digital illustration depicting two tiny Mycena Subcyanophela mushrooms

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Steven Gawoski @stevengawoski.bsky.social · 5d

Siliceous Skeletons 12/2020 9.75 X 9.75 inches [50.16 X 50.61 cm] Graphite on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 5d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 5d

#inktober day 7 - Starfish

Did you know that there are bacteria, called Stella vacuolata, with a star-shape ?

When autumn begins, they're usually two different mindests:
- Those who are already looking forward to the winter holidays 🎄
- And the fall lovers 🎃

#inktober2025 #sciart #microbesky

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 5d

Day 8, Wings. Phages are so small and light they do not need wings and can be spread through the air and in rain. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 5d

The new viral season has now started. This is wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels in the Netherlands.

The start is around the 2023/2024 season and there is a clear upward movement from the previous season (last week). This is in line with other countries and indicates the next wave
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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 6d

Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of two long filamentous phages. The one in the background is all the same distance away. In the foreground is a close up of the spike proteins of the closer phage with 5 repeated protein complexes forming what looks almost like a flower, the rest of the inovirus loops around into the background

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J.O.K.Emmanuel🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @emmanuelkuffo15.bsky.social · Jan 9

The original plan was to isolate >50 phage-host combos (I naively thought this would be the straightforward bit of the project—it wasn’t). Eventually we got 2 phages tripling the number of genome-sequenced, in vitro characterised Strep. suis phages! Read about Bonnie & Clyde👇🏿

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 7d

Lactobacillus, what a #LittleLegend !
Part of our gut and vaginal microbiome, this microbe is one of the most widely used #probiotics to treat diarrhoea and eczema. Thanks to Hiral Raval, a @microbiologysociety.org champion, for suggesting I draw this for #InternationalMicroorganismDay
🐡🧪🧫#scicomm

A black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs

A Microbiology Society branded version of a black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs. The quote is 'As they are probiotic strains, I love them from the gut of my heart! - Hiral Raval, BioGeneVersity, India.

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 7d

Day 6, Sacrifice/Cry. Individual bacterium can sacrifice themselves to prevent phages reproducing and save the rest of the bacterial community. They can also send out quorum sensing messages to warn other bacteria. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink cartoon of a scared, shouting bacterium with wide eyes, it has a hexagonal phage particle on its back. The bacterium has its mouth open and is shouting, in a speech bubble coming is a skull and cross bones, the skull is hexagonal and looks a bit like a phage

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 7d

This year I submitted a big transdisciplinary grant at the end of September and have now started the new semester’s teaching. I lacked a bit of motivation to draw and started a couple of days late! If I miss any days you can check out previous October art here: elliejameson.wordpress.com/inktober/

Ink drawing challenges

During October I have been taking on an art challenge to develop drawing skills and habits through undertaking an ink drawing every day in October, based on a prompt word. After posting some microb…

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