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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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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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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 5h

their flamboyancy would be TOO STRONG if they were even a mm bigger!!

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 18d

ok chat, here is a spider OR beetle version of Hornet, what do we think?

and yes i kind of just turned the front leggies into Needle

#fanart #Silksong #SciArt #invertebrates

a spider drawing in the black, white and red colors of Hornet from the game Silksong, white and black thorax, grey and black hairy legs, and a bright red abdomen with little darker patterns looking like the folds on her cape.

a beetle drawing in the black, white and red colors of Hornet from the game Silksong, white head, red thorax, red abdomen, with little darker dots and very sparkly shell, front legs are grey, the other two pairs are black.

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · 12d

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

get your Dogtors and ChemCats here, fresh off the Etsy!

keychain charms ordered and we will assemble them and hopefully have them in Oct-Nov :)

#SciArt

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12d

helpsies...

#Silksong #fanart #comic

two panel comic with the character Hornet from Silksong.

1st: me, beating the final boss 1st try feeling like a god games
with a happy cheering hornet, slightly beaten up but happy

2nd me, 10.7 sec into Act3
mangled stepped on broken mask hornet...

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 7h

THE LAST GODDAMN THING I NEED TO 100% YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDDINNNNGGG MEEEEEE

Photo of my steam deck of 7/8 mementos from the game silksong, in yellow silver pink and green

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 11h

Yesterday's #inktober #invertober2025 #SpacetoberChallenge #OC_tober mashup!

A pen on paper drawing of a small Budgett's frog riding a very large fly. The words "it is Wednesday, my dudes" are flying back from the frog to indicate how quickly they are traveling. The frog is barely holding on by the reins. The prompts are listed below: reckless/bee-killer robber fly/propulsion/meme redraw.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 7h

cute-fish progress video

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 7h

Day 8 #Invertober2025 - Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) ✨

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi realistic drawing of a flamboyant cuttlefish, a small cuttlefish with prominent ping purple tentacles, dark red body with yellow and white banding, on a black background.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 8h

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 9h

at this rate ill never get to visit for the alligators and iguanas
(and or native malaria mosquitoes soon)

Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 9h

what in the fuck this

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 9h

seems more like the fix to this problem is to have people like Ted evicted somewhere else and get more varied people moving in, but god forbid that happens in the year of our lord 2025

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 9h

PEOPLE FORGOT YOU NEED TO BE SHITTY TO GET GOOD

YOU DONT GET TO SKIP THE SHITTY PART

Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 10h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol... never forget

Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

The decision to use a spreadsheet format that dates back to the 1980s has proved to be unwise.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 10h

oh god, MULTIPLE Excel sheets!!

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 16h

who gave bby a butterknife

#Silksong #fanart

a giant white square with the tiniest baby hornet in the middle, head bigger than the body, holding a teeny butter knife.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 12h

This is why, more and more, I just can't muster up any desire to be a success in the mainstream art world. They want AI to make "content" for people who don't care.

I care about my art, and I want to give it to an audience who cares.

An audience i like and respect.

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 21h

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12h

oh yeah sure UK age verification system here let me give you all the data so it can be leaked immediately because you probably use faulty broken AI systems to implement it (if not an Excel sheet)

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404 Media @404media.co · 12h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 12h

that one ant trying to eat the spaghet, rude

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

youtu.be

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Breezy 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 14h

Do not watch the HBO series.
Do not buy wizard game (2).

I usually don't judge too much, I get that not everyone is fully in the loop for everything. If you support JKR now, we are done.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 17h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 20h

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 13h

Anthraxus Ultimus the 5th teaching his underling, Sanguis Lacrimae the 53rd, the way of the hunt

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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