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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 11h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

#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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

#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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 5d

Still available, but why? It can be yours #sciart

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17d

I've been in a mitochondrial groove lately. Check out these brand new beauties. All original paintings, one of each #Sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4374...

watercolor of mitochondria in rainbow colors

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 5d

DAY 123
SPECIES 123 - Dolichospermum crassum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. HWC + QoR Watercolor. Writech pen

NOTES: Not that I need to be challenged more😄, but I wanted to attempt this specimen that's partially out of focus submerged in the broth

#sciart #watercolor #painting #art

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · Nov 13

It's really nice to see the huge flow of new people coming here! Maybe it's time for a quick presentation.

Hi 👋 I'm Noémie, I love science 🧬 and especially microbes 🔬

I do scientific illustrations for paper, cover or logo. And I'm the illustrator behind the Bacterial World blog: sarahs-world.blog

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 9d

It's #Inktober once more, time to grab some pen and paper. Will you join?

The first prompt is #Mustache, and this distinguished gentlebacterium is using one of its flagellum as a mustache.

#inktober2025 #inktoberday1 #sciart

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 8d

#inktober day 2 with #Weave

Cyanobacteria form interwoven patterns.

The micrographs from paper by J. Cammann et al, in Nat. Comm. Physics (2024) inspired me.

Today was less about googly eyes and more about focusing on the feel of my pens. Having fun by playing with different brush and pen sizes.

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 6d

#inktober day 4 with Murky

They are some places where you expect murky water (or rather medium) and some places where you don't.

Poor little guy 🐟

#inktober2025 #sciart

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