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Petra Korlević
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
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Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟 Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own 🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Petra, a staff scientist working on malaria mosquitoes, but I also try to make science more approachable and whimsical with my #SciArt doodles 🦟
a collage of 32 invertebrate drawings on a black background with the list of their scientific names in the middle. DToLtober 2024 1 | Thyatira batis 2 | Sphecodes monilicornis 3 | Halyzia sedecimguttata 4 | Bugulina stolonifera 5 | Meta bourneti 6 | Scaeva pyrastri 7 | Ocypus olens 8 | Vespa crabro 9 | Nematostella vectensis 10 | Papilio machaon 11 | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale 12 | Alitta virens 13 | Allacma fusca 14 | Andrena fulva 15 | Anoplius nigerrimus 16 | Aporia crataegi 17 | Patella pellucida 18 | Bombylius discolor 19 | Chrysoperla carnea 20 | Diadumene lineata 21 | Calliphora vomitoria 22 | Apoderus coryli 23 | Gibbula magus 24 | Mimas tiliae 25 | Lineus longissimus 26 | Parasteatoda lunata 27 | Melolontha melolontha 28 | Marthasterias glacialis 29 | Emmelina monodactyla 30 | Gymnosoma rotundatum 31 | Laothoe populi extra | Nephrotoma flavescens a large widescreen comic in yellow, light green, dark green, of scientists talking about their projects at the Vector Kolymbari Meeting 2024. Panels are split into days and Session numbers. drawing of a beefly and mosquito standing in front christmas trees decorated with yellow lights’, both are standing by an AB blood bag with mugs, the beefly is worried, the mosquito has a christmas hat and spices in a mug full of red liquid. hand holding an A4 sticker sheet with various famous memes redrawn with mosquitoes as the main characters. Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together Captain Picard Facepalm Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech / Just Do It Buzz And Woody This is Fine Take all my money Hide the Pain Harold I am cringe But I am free Math Lady Clown at computer Computer stare Spiderman pointing at Spiderman Treat. Yo. Self. Pepe Silvia Homer comfy cinnamon roll Spiderman computer desk Disaster girl Kermit sipping tea Drunk Kitty Peter and Miles crouching
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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 1h
#ColorADay #GreenSat 🐙 A vibrant sculpture 💚

#ColourADay #Sculpture #TradArt #Octopus 🦑🐡
A vibrant green and teal octopus sculpture
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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 16h
MY FALL DROP IS NOW LIVE! NEW PINS (DID SOMEONE SAY WHALE FALL?!!), STICKERS, AND MORE!!!

🛒🐛 shop.fossilforager.art
A photo of a large gold-plated enamel pin photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock. The enamel pin features a whale skeleton covered with various deep sea creatures, such as octopuses, hagfish, a giant isopod, a crab, and chimaeras. A photograph of a shiny gold metal-plated jewel weevil enamel pin. It is a green weevil with yellow and pink highlights, and large dark eyes. It is photographed on a lichen-covered rock. A photo of a tiny fruit fly enamel pin, with large red eyes and brown markings! Also photographed on a lichen-covered rock A photo of two leafcutter ant pins carrying large green leaves. The ants are small and reddish-brownish. They are photographed on top of a lichen-covered rock.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 59m
and yes took me less than a month to scratch my Paperlike whops....
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 59m
At the garden centre eating cheese scones and doodling spiders to fill the hole Silksong left in my soul

#wip #Invertober2025
Photo of my ipad screen with procreate open, on the left a ref picture of a very long leggied spider, on the right a semi realistic outline of said spider trying to fit the long legs in a white square.
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SnowWolpard @snowwolpard.com · 11h
I work in an exhibit with live spiders, and I think I have lost count how often people misheard "green lynx spider" as "green link spider"...
Two illustrations of a green lynx spider (green spider with two bigger forward facing eyes and lighter colored legs) stacked on top of one another. The one on top is labeled "Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)", the actual name of the spider. The one below is wearing a green, pointy hat, carrying a blue shield and sword drawn to look like the Hylian shield and Master sword from the "Legend of Zelda", series and is labeled "Green Link Spider (Peucetia hylia)".
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1h
"so will you now do steel soul mode" do i look like a god gamer to you???
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1d
who gave bby a butterknife

#Silksong #fanart
a giant white square with the tiniest baby hornet in the middle, head bigger than the body, holding a teeny butter knife.
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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 7h
ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX
A digital drawing of a frog standing on a bright red background. The frog is holding a sign that says “ICE out of Portland”. The frog looks mad.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
Good news: you dont need to finish the mementos for 100%

Bad news: the goddamn flea games missing memento is like a pinple on my butt level of annoyance now
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
... so what am I supposed to do with my life now
Photo of my steam deck with a slight reflection of me in the glass, with the game silksong end stats saying Game completion Percentage 100% Time 119h42m03s
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
for a moment i got worried it was this one that got banned
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
the true ending..... my baby......

#Silksong
an older man with a beard covering his mouth with his fist
Alt: an older man with a beard covering his mouth with his fist crying
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2d
can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them
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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 9h
5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow
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Zoe the Bone Goblin @zoeyeen.bsky.social · 11h
#Invertober Day 10: Common Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 🪱
#invertober2025
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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 12h
We are excited to contribute to the STUDENT CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION SCIENCE — NEW YORK with a great workshop delivered by the brilliant @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social #SCCSNY2025

@society4conbio.bsky.social

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Hexerite @hexerite.bsky.social · 13h
Day 10: Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)

[ #invertober #invertober2025 ]
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 19d
ok chat, here is a spider OR beetle version of Hornet, what do we think?

and yes i kind of just turned the front leggies into Needle

#fanart #Silksong #SciArt #invertebrates
a spider drawing in the black, white and red colors of Hornet from the game Silksong, white and black thorax, grey and black hairy legs, and a bright red abdomen with little darker patterns looking like the folds on her cape. a beetle drawing in the black, white and red colors of Hornet from the game Silksong, white head, red thorax, red abdomen, with little darker dots and very sparkly shell, front legs are grey, the other two pairs are black.
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✨ Zandra Illustration ➜ Shop Open @shop.zandraillustration.com · 1d
CMYK(itties) 🖨🩵💖💛🖤
a photo of a sticker design featuring 4 ghost cats intertwined in a blue computer pop-up frame. the ghosts are each colored like Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, to simulate the CMYK colors a printer uses. Each ghost also has tapering halftone dots demonstrating that the vinyl sticker's background is clear.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16h
i am so glad we are reclaiming frog, they did NOTHING to deserve being a right wing whistle
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16h
if you want some fun facts on how we are sequencing these hard working critters here is the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social blogpost from a few years ago! sangerinstitute.blog/2020/05/13/t...
‘These lowly organised creatures’: Earthworm sample collecting at the Sanger Institute - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog
Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.
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Eliza Stein @elizastein.bsky.social · 18h
today's #invertober animal is the Common Earthworm and i haven't seen many drawings for it yet, so here are two! 🪱🪱 #invertober2025 #invertebrates #sciart
seamless repeating pattern of worms tangled with one another seamless repeating pattern of earthworms and compost scraps of fruits and vegetables
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Vanessa K. Nickel @vanessa-k-nickel.bsky.social · 17h
I’m a bit late for this one, but here it is: the flamboyant cuttlefish/Ascarosepion pfefferi for #Invertober2025 🎨

#Invertober #SciArt #art #kleinekunstklasse #wattiskunst
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16h
woim progress video
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16h
Day 10 #Invertober2025 - Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 🪱

#SciArt #invertebrates
semi-realistic drawing of an earthworm, wiggly and soft pink, on a black background. semi-realistic drawing of an earthworm, wiggly and soft pink, on a white background.
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