Petra Korlević
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
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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 🦟
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🌊 Caribbean Reef Octopus & Golden Trevally Sculpture 🐙✨🪸
#ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #CoralReef #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #FebruArty 🦑🐡
#ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #CoralReef #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #FebruArty 🦑🐡
February 7, 2026 at 10:16 AM
🌊 Caribbean Reef Octopus & Golden Trevally Sculpture 🐙✨🪸
#ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #CoralReef #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #FebruArty 🦑🐡
#ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #CoralReef #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #FebruArty 🦑🐡
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February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
my brain just broke at the fact there are trash mobile game ads on the telly
and this is why i do not have telly at home
and this is why i do not have telly at home
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 PM
my brain just broke at the fact there are trash mobile game ads on the telly
and this is why i do not have telly at home
and this is why i do not have telly at home
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me when I spot the neighbourhood cats going through the field outside my window
a man in a pirate hat is looking out of a window
ALT: a man in a pirate hat is looking out of a window
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February 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM
me when I spot the neighbourhood cats going through the field outside my window
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The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
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beetle is writing you a love letter 💌
February 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
beetle is writing you a love letter 💌
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Owl Babies, Martin Waddell. Illustrated by Patrick Benson.
February 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Owl Babies, Martin Waddell. Illustrated by Patrick Benson.
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
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Welcome to my Owlery
February 7, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Welcome to my Owlery
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pick up the ash and berries
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
pick up the ash and berries
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I’m an artist with Scleroderma and Raynaud’s.
Basically, my hands, fingers and joints don’t work well.
If I can learn workarounds and patience, you can too!
Basically, my hands, fingers and joints don’t work well.
If I can learn workarounds and patience, you can too!
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I’m an artist with Scleroderma and Raynaud’s.
Basically, my hands, fingers and joints don’t work well.
If I can learn workarounds and patience, you can too!
Basically, my hands, fingers and joints don’t work well.
If I can learn workarounds and patience, you can too!
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Little night mouse for the #FebruaryFrost26 challenge of snowdrops/nocturnal!
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Little night mouse for the #FebruaryFrost26 challenge of snowdrops/nocturnal!
weather bad, gotta Peak on the couch instead
February 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
weather bad, gotta Peak on the couch instead
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February 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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I would not use the concept of "calm" to describe this massive pilled-up cat staring at you.
February 4, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I would not use the concept of "calm" to describe this massive pilled-up cat staring at you.
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🔴 Russian strike hits Zaporizhzhia animal shelter leaving many dogs injured and requiring urgent medical care.
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
🔴 Russian strike hits Zaporizhzhia animal shelter leaving many dogs injured and requiring urgent medical care.
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i know several of you here also had "fun" encounters with dicky dawks on science twitter. this is getting hilarious how pathetic he is.
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…
skepchick.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
i know several of you here also had "fun" encounters with dicky dawks on science twitter. this is getting hilarious how pathetic he is.
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Life continues for the majority of the planet that did not invest in Bitcoin, including these Tetramorium lucayanum ants.
February 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Life continues for the majority of the planet that did not invest in Bitcoin, including these Tetramorium lucayanum ants.
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My new response for anytime someone answers with any chatbot garbage.
why would the chatbot made by a guy in the epstein files lie ryan?
February 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
My new response for anytime someone answers with any chatbot garbage.
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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.