Petra Korlević
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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

🇭🇷 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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Born to wander the misty moors, forced to fight fascism (we can do both though, don’t worry)
February 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Bringing this back up for the International Day of Women in Science, and yes, I consider scientific art, as part of scientific process and communication 🫰
February 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Screaming at this jumper which I might have to make* (*add to my ever-growing list of things I want to make). Just look at him though, apart from being amazing full stop why is he wearing glasses?!?!
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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FISH HELL IS OVER I SENT THE INVOICE
because people keep asking what fish hell is, here's a quick visual sample of my suffering
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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We’re just normal men
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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"Grass Snake"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
#StunDay #embroidery #NationalSerpentDay #WildlifeArt
February 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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“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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square
February 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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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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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
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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the white throated sparrow is finally finished ⛄
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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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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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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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
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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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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💔 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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Make Art (1/4)
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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And my personal favorite poster, "Which Bounce Cunts"
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Me with discord
February 10, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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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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Bees 🐝
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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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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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"
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