Dorota Paczesniak
@dorotdesigns.bsky.social
Scientific illustrator, educator, biologist
🇵🇱 in 🇫🇮
Drawing to explain and inspire
Commissions open: DM
Visual design portfolio:
https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns
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🇵🇱 in 🇫🇮
Drawing to explain and inspire
Commissions open: DM
Visual design portfolio:
https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns
she/her
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Hello, it’s #PortfolioDay and I’m a scientific illustrator open to commissions of figures, infographics, learning materials, posters, presentations, branding and character design
I’m also open to a full time-job in communications or educational design 🐡
I’m also open to a full time-job in communications or educational design 🐡
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Fun fact, a lot of wonderful scientific illustrations you see in the 19th century natural science publications, were done by women, usually spouses of the researchers as uncredited free labour. The famous finches, came from John Gould, his wife, Elizabeth, illustrated his ornithology books.
This is not an attack on Biorender, which serves a useful function.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fun fact, a lot of wonderful scientific illustrations you see in the 19th century natural science publications, were done by women, usually spouses of the researchers as uncredited free labour. The famous finches, came from John Gould, his wife, Elizabeth, illustrated his ornithology books.
Maybe it’s a bit small when you’re looking on your phone, but these infographics about forest tree breeding are the #SciArt I’m really proud of
(Full resolution: aoe.fi#/materiaali/...)
#ArtAdventCalendar
More details in the thread below 👇
(Full resolution: aoe.fi#/materiaali/...)
#ArtAdventCalendar
More details in the thread below 👇
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Maybe it’s a bit small when you’re looking on your phone, but these infographics about forest tree breeding are the #SciArt I’m really proud of
(Full resolution: aoe.fi#/materiaali/...)
#ArtAdventCalendar
More details in the thread below 👇
(Full resolution: aoe.fi#/materiaali/...)
#ArtAdventCalendar
More details in the thread below 👇
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
If you’ve “Followed All” in my SciArt Starter Pack before, make sure to do so again.
Added some new people! 🐡🧪🎨
Added some new people! 🐡🧪🎨
From paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical animation,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
comics to medical animation,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.
150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline.
And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you’ve “Followed All” in my SciArt Starter Pack before, make sure to do so again.
Added some new people! 🐡🧪🎨
Added some new people! 🐡🧪🎨
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
In honor of BRAINS being the GRAND PRIZE WINNER for the MICE Mini-Grants, I have made it pay what you want on itch for the next week alexandragallant.itch.io/brains so you can snag a digital copy.
Print copies will be available to purchase in January!
Print copies will be available to purchase in January!
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In honor of BRAINS being the GRAND PRIZE WINNER for the MICE Mini-Grants, I have made it pay what you want on itch for the next week alexandragallant.itch.io/brains so you can snag a digital copy.
Print copies will be available to purchase in January!
Print copies will be available to purchase in January!
The fat moose has been one of my first character designs and my alter ego. I drew this picture for a goodbye party invitation when my last research job was finishing and I was leaving Saskatoon (Canada) in 2019
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The fat moose has been one of my first character designs and my alter ego. I drew this picture for a goodbye party invitation when my last research job was finishing and I was leaving Saskatoon (Canada) in 2019
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Nice highlight of new genome paper. ❤️ emphasis on leadership of ECR Potamomics team members @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @chelseahiggins.bsky.social @jsharbro.bsky.social Genome Duplication in a New Zealand Snail Holds Clues for the Persistence of (A)sexual Reproduction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Highlight: Genome Duplication in a New Zealand Snail Holds Clues for the Persistence of (A)sexual Reproduction
Why does sexual reproduction persist in so many species? This is a fundamental question in biology that, remarkably, remains a mystery. Sexual reproduction
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nice highlight of new genome paper. ❤️ emphasis on leadership of ECR Potamomics team members @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @chelseahiggins.bsky.social @jsharbro.bsky.social Genome Duplication in a New Zealand Snail Holds Clues for the Persistence of (A)sexual Reproduction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), botanical illustration. This cool plant grows in forests in eastern North America. Young individuals are male, then produce both male and female flowers, and large plants produce only female flowers
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), botanical illustration. This cool plant grows in forests in eastern North America. Young individuals are male, then produce both male and female flowers, and large plants produce only female flowers
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
5. Apetalous catchfly
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
5. Apetalous catchfly
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Like little paper lanterns under the northern lights. This flower is found as far north as Greenland and Svalbard.
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
This thread is part of an ongoing series that incidentally shows how many journal editors are failing at the most basic and obvious levels of quality control and checking.
"Check that citations are real" should not be a high bar to clear.
"Check that citations are real" should not be a high bar to clear.
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This thread is part of an ongoing series that incidentally shows how many journal editors are failing at the most basic and obvious levels of quality control and checking.
"Check that citations are real" should not be a high bar to clear.
"Check that citations are real" should not be a high bar to clear.
This is one of my older drawings (2019), which I used to teach young audiences about genetic engineering and breeding. It’s illustrating the basics of plant reproduction, highlighting the fact that seeds are plant “babies” #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #ChildrenIllustration
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is one of my older drawings (2019), which I used to teach young audiences about genetic engineering and breeding. It’s illustrating the basics of plant reproduction, highlighting the fact that seeds are plant “babies” #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #ChildrenIllustration
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Some parasites like it hot, some don’t. Nice commentary in @pnas.org by Jukka Jokela (illustrated by @dorotdesigns.bsky.social) on our recent meta-analysis on the relationship between climate and parasitism
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Some parasites like it hot, some don’t. Nice commentary in @pnas.org by Jukka Jokela (illustrated by @dorotdesigns.bsky.social) on our recent meta-analysis on the relationship between climate and parasitism
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) branch fragment with a mature cone - botanical illustration
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) branch fragment with a mature cone - botanical illustration
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The black alder (Alnus glutinosa) digital illustration of the tree silhouette and a branch fragment with male and female flowers
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The black alder (Alnus glutinosa) digital illustration of the tree silhouette and a branch fragment with male and female flowers
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt
How is climate affecting parasitism? A recent meta-analysis and a commentary 🧪 (links below)
Some parasites like it hot, some don’t. Nice commentary in @pnas.org by Jukka Jokela (illustrated by @dorotdesigns.bsky.social) on our recent meta-analysis on the relationship between climate and parasitism
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Commentary: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Original meta-analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
How is climate affecting parasitism? A recent meta-analysis and a commentary 🧪 (links below)
Is climate change making parasites and diseases worse? The short answer is: it depends, and both negative and positive effects are possible. Read more in this PNAS commentary by Jukka Jokela, which I had the pleasure of illustrating 🧪🐡
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Is climate change making parasites and diseases worse? The short answer is: it depends, and both negative and positive effects are possible. Read more in this PNAS commentary by Jukka Jokela, which I had the pleasure of illustrating 🧪🐡
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Moth
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
Never editioned. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking #bestiary #ArtAdventCalendar
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
Never editioned. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking #bestiary #ArtAdventCalendar
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Moth
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
Never editioned. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking #bestiary #ArtAdventCalendar
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
Never editioned. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking #bestiary #ArtAdventCalendar
This portrait of Charles Darwin is inspired by traditional depictions of Saint Francis surrounded by birds. Here, Darwin is holding a book and perched on his arm and shoulder are the Galapagos finches #ArtAdventCalendar
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This portrait of Charles Darwin is inspired by traditional depictions of Saint Francis surrounded by birds. Here, Darwin is holding a book and perched on his arm and shoulder are the Galapagos finches #ArtAdventCalendar
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Day 1 of the #ArtAdventCalendar.
I can't believe it's another year. I don't share this one often, but I'm rather proud of this diorama of the effect badgers have on the grasslands and other wildlife. - digital painting.
I can't believe it's another year. I don't share this one often, but I'm rather proud of this diorama of the effect badgers have on the grasslands and other wildlife. - digital painting.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Day 1 of the #ArtAdventCalendar.
I can't believe it's another year. I don't share this one often, but I'm rather proud of this diorama of the effect badgers have on the grasslands and other wildlife. - digital painting.
I can't believe it's another year. I don't share this one often, but I'm rather proud of this diorama of the effect badgers have on the grasslands and other wildlife. - digital painting.
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Cosmo Sheldrake
Sam Amidon
Erik Truffaz
Shabazz Palaces
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Cosmo Sheldrake
Sam Amidon
Erik Truffaz
Shabazz Palaces
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Tanya Tagaq
Dead Can Dance
Einstein on the Beach
Jane Siberry
Sarah MacLachlan
Tanya Tagaq
Dead Can Dance
Einstein on the Beach
Jane Siberry
Sarah MacLachlan
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Depeche Mode
Nine Inch Nails
The Hooters
John Carpenter
Howard Shore
Depeche Mode
Nine Inch Nails
The Hooters
John Carpenter
Howard Shore
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Cosmo Sheldrake
Sam Amidon
Erik Truffaz
Shabazz Palaces
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Cosmo Sheldrake
Sam Amidon
Erik Truffaz
Shabazz Palaces
For the Science feed 🧪
How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery?
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore.
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
For the Science feed 🧪
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced #charticle informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio... Created in association with @DataVizSociety #iibwab
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#Dataviz books everyone should read 📚 - a community sourced #charticle informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio... Created in association with @DataVizSociety #iibwab
Reposted by Dorota Paczesniak
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24