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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · 8d

🧬 🎨 ⛰️ Hey y'all, the second online 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓 is about to go down tomorrow on Thursday from 16:00 - 18:00 (CET)

We have an absolutely exquisite line up - sign up at www.scienceartsummit.com & spread the word to your network, it's free!

Reposts appreciated, see y'all tomorrow!

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 29

99% of preprints I read are in journal manuscript submission format:

Figures at the end instead of integrated in the text, legends often seperately at the very end.

Very clunky to read, do your peers who care about your science a favor and make preprints readable - it will be much appreciated!

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 29

Fun fact: BioRxiv preprints have no formatting requirements - you can actually make your manuscript look nice before uploading it

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 20

In labs around the world scientists are growing miniature versions of human organs in a petridish - Microengineering meets biology at the organoid frontier!

Fresh design for a new organoid research center at @tumuenchen.bsky.social

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

In the end the real intelligence test is whether you get out of life what you want!

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

If you love doing something and are willing to put in the work there's always a way!

It will be a tough start, there will be substantial recurring doubts, and you're in it for loads of unanticipated challenges. But the feeling of having set up yourself professionally is out of this world!

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Now I'm happy to say that none of my worries beacme reality, and that it has been an incredible ride so far.

The feeling of manifesting a very personal career path born in your own head is absolutely amazing!

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Loads of concerns crossed my mind, making the decision very difficult.

Eventually I took the leap, and got lots of encouragement from friends & colleagues for which I will be forever grateful - Lot's of love to everyone who supported me on the way 🙏

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

That's when the idea to give freelancing a try was born and I decided go all-in with the Science Art. But boy, I was scared:

What if it doesn't work out?
What if people don't like my work?
What if I end up broke & messed up my career?

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Back then I've been dabbling In Science Art for a couple of years already, however, it didn't occur to me to turn this into my full-time job.

Instead there was a vague idea to go into Biotech, but none of the job ads got me really excited.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

During that second Postdoc year my mental state deteriorated and I was quite a mess at the end.

My job situation became an ever-increasing burden: if you have no plan for where to go you can paddle as hard as you want without progressing.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Ironically, my project went rather well and I got emotionally attached to it.

One year passed and I aimed to wrap up within 6 months, but things didn't go as anticipated - the paper isn't out to this day lol.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

So I started a bridge Postdoc and gave myself one year to figure out a plan.

My goal was to just have a good time in the lab before moving on. I didn't aim at all for that high-impact paper which would land me a PI position at a prestigious Institute.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

After my PhD I didn't quite know what to do with my life.

I loved Science & the lab, but the classic academic career path didn't feel like a good fit for my future.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thinking about switching from Academia to Science Freelancing?

Here's my story of going from a struggling Postdoc to living my passion as a Science Artist:

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Jan 10

Strange forces tear space & time apart - behold Earth people!

Spraypaint on concrete.

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Dec 4

I had the pleasure of talking about Science, Art & Creativity with Kenan Kraković in the most recent episode of his podcast. We had a blast chatting, so if these topics interest you check it out 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beyu...

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Anais Elewaut @aelewaut.bsky.social · Nov 27

Extremely excited to see my PhD work in the @obenaufa.bsky.social published today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🤩. A big thank you to everyone who contributed, special thank you to my partner in crime @guillemxtivill.bsky.social - it was a lot of fun to work on this together! 🥳

Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · Nov 27

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 26

C.elegans - Novel, Rodlike & Handsome since 1974

Spraypaint on concrete - Vienna

I got to investigate Biology using these little fellas for 9 years in the lab and still love em, what a simplistic beauty of an organism

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 25

Watercolor & Ink 100% handmade

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 25

DNA - Watercolor & Ink

Inspired by the iconic sketch of Francis Crick in a letter to a colleague - one of the first depictions of DNA's doublehelix structure ever

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 20

Good stuff 👇

Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · Nov 7

Hello bluesky #sciart! Today is as good a day as any to start something new and positive.

My name is Son (short for Sonhita) and I'm a Toronto-based scientist, artist and #sciartist. I love using bright colours and bold shapes to paint cells and biological system.

Here is some of my recent works

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 20

Check out Marzia‘s Art, absolutely beautiful explorations of molecular Biology!

Marzia Munafò @munafomarzia.bsky.social · Nov 20

Time for an new intro under these skies 🔵
I’m a molecular biologist (currently postdoc-ing at EMBL) & also a science illustrator - taking your scientific discoveries and turning them into unconventional, colourful and creative illustrations! ✨ #sciart #scicomm
more at www.munafomarzia.com

A black and white pencil drawing inspired by Escher’s drawing hands in which the hands emerge from a nucleosome structure

A blue/purple drawing of the interior of a cathedral, with light shining through the glass panes and projecting a DNA shape on the floor

Drawing of a gloved hand of a scientist holding a purple spark, on grey background

A watercolour drawing of a water landscape surrounded by mountains with a cell jumping on the water like a skipping stone

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 18

Cheers Kathrin! The crystal structure of I think a yeast Ribosome served as a basis. Styletransfer was done using Magnific and Gustav Klimt paintings, then I went to Photoshop for polishing

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Philipp Dexheimer @philippdexheimer.bsky.social · Nov 18

As a start there's skybridge, a chrome / firefox plugin that automatically finds Bluesky accounts from your follow(er) list in Twitter and offers a one-click solution to connect with them all here.

Just used it today, saved me an hour of work