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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #WorldThrombosisDay. I woke up with a DVT one morning in 2019 and discovered I have May-Thurner syndrome, an anatomical anomaly that compresses the iliac vein. A stent was inserted to correct the anomaly. Here’s my #SciArt #embroidery of that experience: deep dilation (2025)

A pelvis with lumbar vertebrae is stitched in thick backstitch in a white just slightly bluer than the white linen. Part of the iliac vein is outlined in grey-green stem stitch. A section on the left branch is outlined in darker grey-green split stitch with a honeycomb filling stitch stent on it. Intricate turbulence is stitched in single strand dark aquamarine backstitch within the iliac vein. Three blocks of text are stitched in dark grey. They read: Branches of the internal. A single trunk. A stem which opens. Deep. Deep. Deep. Dilated. A tributary. A portal. Lia’s initials stitched in white thread on the bottom left.

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 1d

🎨 REMIX of Claude Nicholas Le Cat (1700-1768) from Traité Des Sens, 1744.

Copying is how I taught myself to draw as a child, and even now (many years later) I still find it such a valuable exercise.

#remix #oldmasters #neuroscience #neurocomic #anatomy #sciart

Matteo Farinella (after Claude Nicholas Le Cat)

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Dr. Lucia Perez-Diaz @drlperezdiaz.bsky.social · 3d

Last chance to pre-order my 2026 #geology themed calendar!

12 months. 12 destinations through #GeologicalTime

👉🏻 www.luciaperezdiaz.com/product-page...

#SciArt #EarthScientists

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 3d

#spheroids can vary considerably in size and shape, yet to be used in drug discovery, they must be as consistent as possible to produce meaningful results.

I'm turning this #illustration into Holiday Decorations - watch this space! 🐡 🎨 #biosky 🎄❄️

An illustration of approximately 13 spheroids, small floating aggregates of cells, that can be used at scale in the lab to test medicines in development. Watercolour and black biro on paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 5d

What a lot of magnets!!!!! 🐡

Photograph of assorted rectangle magnets printed with images of brightly coloured Cell Paintings

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12d

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a black background.

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a white background.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12d

extra #Invertober2025 - Tiger mosquito (Aedes aegypti) 🦟

since I wanted to have her in the 2024 edition but took me 11 months to finish that one I'm already done for this edition

for all my Aedes people

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic doodle of a tiger mosquito, a dark brown almost black bodied mosquito covered by white lines and dots on her abdomen and legs, on a black background.

semi-realistic doodle of a tiger mosquito, a dark brown almost black bodied mosquito covered by white lines and dots on her abdomen and legs, on a white background.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 13d

OCTOBER IS HERE, LET'S A GO!

Day 1 #Invertober2025 - Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) 🪼

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a japanese sea nettle, a nice bright orange and yellow jellyfish with three different types of tentacles, shorter orange ones, long thin orange ones, and medium length very lace looking ones, presented on a black background.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 18d

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

Invertober 2025
1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)
4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor)
6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum)
8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix)
9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)
10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula)
13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)
15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
(Ornithoptera alexandrae)
‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬
17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus)
18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)
21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata)
22. Sea angel (Clione limacina)
23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima)
24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus)
25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)
27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis)
31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13d

I'm not sure how many of these I'll manage, but I felt inspired by the first #invertober2025 prompt -

So here's my Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) with its tangly tentacles!

Watercolour and pastel pencil on paper, A4.

#invertober #sciart

Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica). The bell is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

Fab 😁 Me too!

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 18d

I'm at the exciting stage of ordering all the lovely moth delights people pledged for! The jigsaw is a go people...this is beyond exciting for my jigsaw loving self!

I've got a pre-order store up now too...

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#Moths #SciArt #ArtistSupport #Illustration

Pre-order Marvellous Moths Stickers on BackerKit

A brand new collection showcasing marvellous world of moths - celebrating the diverse and bold markings found within nature!

marvellous-moths.backerkit.com

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

Hurrah! Yay for the jigsaw too 😁

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

And flicking through images for inspiration. I had thought pancreas next, keeping on the theme of #pathology images as a starting point, and I found this from an old sketch book. I wonder if I've made #pancreas work before. I remember thinking it looks like underground caves 🐡

Pencil and felt-tip pen sketch of a cross-section through a body tissue. Colours are magenta, turquoise and blue, with red circles which are probably cell nuclei. Could be a map of underground caves.

Handwritten note reads: CELL /sel/ n small room esp. in monastery or prison; cavity or compartment in honeycomb etc.; Biol. unit of structure of organic matter; portion protoplasm usu. enclosed in membrane; group as nucleus of political activity; vessel containing electrodes for current-generation or electrolysis.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

Now that my Backerkit Cell Painting Magnet campaign is wrapping up (will be literally wrapping up when I start shipping rewards!), I'm taking stock and deciding where next for my #painting. I've updated the portfolio pages on my website

www.kathryngarner.co.uk/cell-paintin...

#sciart #artsky

Cell Paintings Portfolio — Making With Biology

www.kathryngarner.co.uk

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 20d

More jellies showing up in Wales due to the warmer waters

Portugese man o' wars wash up on Pembrokeshire and Anglesey beaches - BBC News

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Portugese man o' wars wash up on Pembrokeshire and Anglesey beaches - BBC News

Beachgoers are advised to steer clear of the creatures which have a painful sting even when dead.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 20d

I've discovered a new word: 'franticity'. Writing about a picnic in a sandstorm and reaching for a word to describe the 'frantic nature'. Thinking 'franticity' must be made-up but apparently it isn't...

Unless an LLM somewhere is trying to convince me the word is real, which is also sadly possible.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 21d

300 mauve stingers, or palagia noctiluca, were recorded off an Anglesey beach last week, and also as far south as Pembrokeshire.

The Marine Conservation Society said the appearance of a warm water species in the UK is "not surprising" as sea temperatures here rise.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dangerous mauve stingers jellyfish spotted off Welsh beaches - BBC News

More than 300 mauve stingers were seen off a beach on Anglesey, researchers say.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 24d

The very rare hydrocarbon mineral carparthite (exceptionally pure coronene C24H12) is fluorescent but tugtupite is called “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” plus it’s tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25 #scicomm

Two images of carpathite under regular light and UV to show its fluorescence via mindat.org. Under regular light the rock looks grey and rust with some visible white and lime thin linear crystals, while under UV the crystals glow an intense blue.

The Smithsonian acquired two “ulu” silver pendants with tugtupite cabochons (ulu is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut women), designed and created by Mike Møller. These are the first tugtupite gems acquired for the National Gem Collection. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/object/nmnhmineralsciences_14272125?geogallery=Tugtupite&node=14624

Tugtupite
6.00 ct
Oval Cut
15.10 x 9.50 x 6.50 mm

The same oval cabuchon is shown under regular light as white and blood red and under UV as scarlet and burgundy, against a black background.

Via https://gemologicalcollections.com/product/tugtupite-6-00-ct-oval-cut-15-10-x-9-50-x-6-50-mm-greenland-w399/

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 24d

Pre-order my Giant Leaps #EnamelPin series now with this one-page order form: chopshopstore.myflodesk.com/giantleaps | #sciArt #spaceArt #Apollo #ISS #SpaceRace

Full Set of Five Including US Shipping

All Six Missions (average size 2") Include: Apollo, ISS, Vostok, Space Shuttle, and Apollo LRV Enameled Pins

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 25d

This one is not available right now, but there are others from the same "vessels" series - inspired by plant vasculature - in my shop www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... #sciart

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26d

My painting, Growth Vessel, on display at the McLean Project for the Arts

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 25d

This is amazing!

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 26d

DAY 105
SPECIES 105 - Salinispora tropica
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper and watercolor. Writech and Kingart Pens.

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 26d

New blog post - The Making Of my first geometric watercolor pencils drawing on stretched canvas:

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I am constructing the curve described by x=sin(t), y=sin(2t), z=sin(3t) from its 2D projections using traditional descriptive geometry.

#SciArt #MathArt

Lissajous Trilogy on Canvas

Let me show you the genesis of my most involved watercolor pencils drawing so far! I have constructed 3D Lissajous figures on paper, projecting the three-dimensional world down to two dimensions. B…

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