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RedPen/BlackPen
@redpenblackpen.bsky.social
Webcomic covering parts of science, peer review, data, academic careers, and puns. #science #scicomm #sciart
Comic/cartoon art shared under CC-BY-NC-SA
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♬ Stuck in the middle with you ♪
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's Thursday: How's everyone's ToDo list going? Well I hope?
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I didn't even KNOW it was gonna be World Toilet Day (officially, today Nov 19th) when this one squeezed out yesterday
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I debated whether to post this since it's a little off-brand for me, but once an idea like this starts it's hard to stop it coming out. But be relieved this wasn't a flow chart.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Maybe posting this to #sciart too.
Just a thought I had the other night
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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don't keep the idea squeezed inside! LET IT FLOW OUT! label the x-axis!!!
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I debated whether to post this since it's a little off-brand for me, but once an idea like this starts it's hard to stop it coming out. But be relieved this wasn't a flow chart.
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Just a thought I had the other night
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The RPBP first law of organization: *any* organizational system is the best for as long as you only have little to organize
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Ok - I'll play
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
To be fair it's usually your own work that you find the fatal flaw in and the comic is just a repeat of the guy on the left
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a subjectively scary comic for #halloween2025
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Step right up! Who wants to be able to pull themselves up? Great prices and easy payment plans available!
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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AI be like
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
AI be like
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The MVP of this game has to be the organ player
October 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Sigh. We're gonna need a bigger story...
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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It's been awhile since I've posted this one. Good thing it's no longer relevant. At all. In any way. Not even a tiny bit.
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#AcademicSky

(meant to be light-hearted, not literal. We need you to say yes sometimes!)
October 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's been awhile since I've posted this one. Good thing it's no longer relevant. At all. In any way. Not even a tiny bit.
October 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 26, Give. This virus of bacteriophage Zamilon virophage, might benefit the bacteria (or not). Virophage infect viruses, in particular the giant DNA virus family Mimiviridae. #Drawtober #PhageSky #SciArt
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I haven't been doing #inktober this year (too much other noise in my life) but managed to *accidentally* hit the prompt for today - "puzzling"

win!
Sigh. We're gonna need a bigger story...
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM