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Petra Korlević
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Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟

Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own

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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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marisakabas.bsky.social
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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poorlycatdraw.bsky.social
square
a poorly drawn square cat an orange and white cat tightly curled inside a small cardboard box, filling it perfectly into a square shape!
February 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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zacthompson.bsky.social
Simple, really. To create good art you need to have empathy for other people.
February 10, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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jessfink.bsky.social
OK one last shirt design, this one I just made because I personally wanted a shirt that said all this but couldn't find it anywhere. www.bonfire.com/ai-is-theft
A shirt design/illustration of a robot. The robot's head is a laptop showing a row of three blank white figures in suits. A speech balloon is coming from the figures, it says "$". In one hand the robot wields a police club, in the other it clutches a large canvas bag that has ripped open at the back from the amount of sheer amount of objects crammed into it. From the broken bag flows a large pile of artworks of varying types, in a rainbow of colors. The text reads "AI IS NOT ALIVE, AI IS NOT INTELLIGENT, AI IS ART THEFT" and underneath "BY AND FOR BILLIONAIRES".
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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mushbeast.bsky.social
the white throated sparrow is finally finished ⛄
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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nicodelort.bsky.social
dealing with any tech in 2026 is spending an inordinate amount of time trying to disable useless ai assistants
let me out
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
and for all you video games people that follow me for some reason, you might recognise this one from a certain song in the Witcher 3

(i still have no clue how a song about a girl the color of a ripe orange became a song called widow maker)

youtu.be/4ZgiAvcFalU?...
PUTOKAZI - Naranča (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Campus Records
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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matteofarinella.bsky.social
New journal cover for Immunity by Cell Press!

In this issue, Dolci et al. report a dual role for tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which we visualized trough a submarine metaphor 🪸

Learn more: www.cell.com/immunity/iss...

#immunology #macrophage #sciart #illustration
The injured tissue microenvironment is illustrated as an underwater landscape in which TAMs are depicted as submarines engaging in coordinated repair processes including nerve growth-promoting activities, relevant in both cancer and in neural tissue regeneration. TAMs can repair nerve fibers (damaged cable), participate in extracellular matrix remodeling (stone shifting), and promote angiogenesis (restoring coral). Image credit: Matteo Farinella.
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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evlynmoreau.bsky.social
Rowling being a hateful transphobe, nazi crimes denier and Epstein lister sadly have zero impact on her tired franchise marketability.

I really hope that the hbo show will be a dud and that hasbro will just burry that shit. But knowing how everyone tolerates transphobia, I have big doubts.
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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birdhism.com
💔 Saw a horrible video of a bird mill (think puppy mill), stayed up late and just criiiied.

I could share the footage and let shock do the talking, or you could just trust me on this and choose/share the message of adoption only. 🪶

Bird rescues are overwhelmed.
No demand, means no bird mills.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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joshuawcotter.bsky.social
Make Art (1/4)
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
And my personal favorite poster, "Which Bounce Cunts"
a posterboard with black text that reads "Which bounce counts" but the o in counts is a basketball and too small so it just looks like it's saying "Which bounce cunts". It has the question "how does the drop height affect the bounce of a ball?" and test "I dropped a ball from 3 heights measured the height of the bounce"
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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dsancomics.bsky.social
Me with discord
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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dodoot.bsky.social
omg I love this SO MUCH! I also drew a few bees for my game last year, but yours are so much better 😭💕
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Bees 🐝
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Post a banger not in English

može li šesnaest deka?
REKA SAM NE MOŽE

youtu.be/fOEp1GiVsWs?...
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
Every time I share my porcelain crab linocut, someone sends me this WWII bomber image to exemplify survivorship bias.

🧪🐡🦀
My lino block print in black and red ink on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper of a porcelain crab, Neopetrolisthes maculatus. The crab is white with red polka dots on a black background. Illustration of hypothetical damage pattern on a WW2 bomber. Loosely based on data from an unillustrated report by Abraham Wald (1943), showing that a similar plane survived a single hit to the engine 60% of the time, but a hit to the fuselage or fuel system closer to 95% of the time. Picture is based on US Air Force "hit plots", such as this F-4 hit plot published in 1991. New version by McGeddon based on a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura drawing (2016), vector file by Martin Grandjean (2021). Via Wikipedia. The plane, outlined in black in a white background, is covered in red spots somehow reminiscent of a red polka dotted porcelain crab.
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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jbbartram.bsky.social
Scenes from a toad/frog-making day!
Three toads/frogs made from brown clay with mushrooms on their heads as hats (those are made from white clay) sit on a steel banding wheel Two roughly sculpted toad-bodies These in-progress toads have limbs & eyeballs, but no mouths or mushroom-hats A roughly-sculpted toad body sits looking at its limbs, which aren’t attached yet
February 10, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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kvrapcu.bsky.social
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this one has been living in my head rent free for a month now enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5c1...
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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windlass.bsky.social
Post a banger not in English

LIPE CVATU, SVE JE ISTO KO I LANI EEEEEE-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObb...
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
every single one of them is 10/10 and shaped like a friend
concept art of patabata, pink and yellow butterfly robot from Sonic the Hedgehog CD concept art of anton, dark blue ant-motorcyle enemy from Sonic the Hedgehog concept art of sasori, blue and yellow robot scorpion from Sonic the Hedgehog CD concept art of kameka, red mosquito-like robot from Sonic the Hedgehog CD
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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oscarart.bsky.social
Here, my rescue greyhound, Juno, is showcasing some of his outfits! During the winter months here in Sweden he needs to wear a few extra layers of clothing. My wife loves to make new outfits for him and he doesn't mind wearing it <3

#greyhound #indiedev #animation
February 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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fareedblackman.bsky.social
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM