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John Chilton
@axonology.bsky.social
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Aquatic ape 🌊🏊‍♂️🏄‍♂️ cartoonophile ✏ recovering neurobiologist 🧠
Passionate about education and science communication 👨‍🏫📢🔬🦠🧫
For more see www.axonology.com
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With spookily good timing this year my lecture on red blood cells - and them being eaten by the vampire macrophages in the spleen - falls on Halloween! 🎃
#blood #MedEd #SciArt 🧪 #EduSky
Cartoon of a spleen macrophage as a vampire
October 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Swan & O'Ligo organic myelin. Ranvier compatible. Central or peripheral delivery. The finest in sartorial saltation.
#glia #SciArt #neuroscience #neuroSkyence 🧪
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October 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The world's No. 1 Brain Juice. Now available in a can.
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#SciArt 🧪 #glia #neuroscience #neuroSkyence
Cartoon of can of brain juice advertising poster
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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New from epenDymal labs - DYMAL Brain Juice! For all your brain hydration and nutrition needs!!
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#SciArt 🧪 #neuroSkyence #neuroscience #glia
Cartoon ependymal cell
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Boosting the learning from Wordotomy by adding augmented reality!!
I sculpted the RBC in #blender and used Halo AR for visualisation.
Really excited by the potential! 🤓
Going to be a job making models for the whole pack tho!🥴😂
#AR #3D #eduSky 🧪 #sciArt #blood
May 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Up for debate...?! 😉🥸
March 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I've co-opted two of my favourite artists personified as cone cells to illustrate how we perceive colour and thus many great works of art.
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#SciArt #neuroscience #neuroSkyence 🧪
Cartoon of photoreceptor cone cells, a cyan one resembling Salvador Dali and a red one resembling Vincent Van Gogh, both responding to a magenta drawing of them.
February 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Struggling to get going on those dark January mornings? - thank your rod photoreceptors for picking out the photons in the gloom!
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#neuroSky #neuroscience #SciArt 🧪
Cartoon of retinal photoreceptor rod cells looking for photons
January 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Happy new year folks! I've made some more free vector art at scidraw.io hope these help with your fresh presentations and figures 🤓
#SciArt #immunosky #immunology #microbiology 🧪
Diagram titled granulocytes, showing vector art images of a neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil and mast cell
January 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Made a table for axonology jr for Christmas. 52 sea creatures based on old engravings lovingly pyrographed on before being lacquered 🐙🦑🐟🐠🐡
December 22, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Arrived at work to find my insulin receptor model has been turned into a festive decoration for the daily timetable! 😅🎄
#eduSky 🧪
December 10, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Get up for the swim stay for the sunrise.
As the old saying goes 'Red in the morning, shepherd's warning of Storm Darragh approaching...' 💨
December 6, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Gently poke fun at your nearest and dearest cardiologist with this handy anatomical illustration 💓
Soften the blow by gifting it to them on some smart merch now added to my 'Drawing Blood' collection
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#SciArt #medSky 🧪
Vintage style illustration of the torso emphasising the cardiac anatomy titled Anatomy for Cardiologists
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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I've just added this brain (dorsal view) for free download from scidraw.io a fantastic library of *free* vector art of all things scientific.
Exactly what you needed for that important figure/presentation/tattoo...
#eduSky #SciArt #neuroSky 🧪
November 25, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Can't decide which is your favourite granulocyte? Don't worry we've all been there.
Problem solved - now you can have all 4 on the same design!
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#immunoSky #microSky #SciArt 🧪 #immunology #microbiology
November 24, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Some of my designs are available as one-off pyrographed handmade chopping boards. No chance to digitally retouch these if I slip!
Here's the pyramidal neuron
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(*lime not included)
#neuroSky #neuroscience #SciArt 🧪
Wooden chopping board pyrograph etched with a cartoon pyramidal neuron, a lime and a knife next to the original cartoon of a pyramidal neuron shown as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh
November 18, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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The eagle eyed might have spotted this in the back of Mike R O'Glia's barbershop in my recent post 'Synaptic Pruning' 👀
Now you can get your own copy from my RedBubble store
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#SciArt 🧪 #neuroskyence #immunoSky
Poster for a microglial barber shop
November 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Taking a break from the serious side of the job on Friday afternoon to put together the cover of the School newsletter (the DLE is our loveably byzantine digital learning environment)
#edusky #sciart #meded
A spoof movie poster for the cover of a medical school newsletter showing a zombie appendix comig out of a graveyard
November 1, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Finally finished this #wip from #SciArtSeptember the latest in my series of glial jobs - 'Synaptic Pruning' by Mike R O'Glia brain barber.
#neuroSkyence #SciArt 🧪 #immunoSky
Cartoon of a microglia barber pruning the dendrites from a neuron
October 15, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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A day late #epilogue for #SciArtSeptember the granulocyte I didn't find a prompt for (but was my favourite to draw) - the mast cell!
#SciArt 🧪 #immunoSky #microSky
Cartoon mast cell being bitten by a mosquito and degranulating #SciArtSeptember
October 1, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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There is something #motherly about this megakaryocyte launching baby platelets into the bloodstream
#SciArtSeptember
#SciArt #immunoSky 🧪
Cartoon megakaryocyte #SciArtSeptember
September 29, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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These Pooh and Piglet neurons are #lost without ROBO receptors. More about the wonders of axon guidance: axonology.com/how-to-build...
#SciArtSeptember #SciArt #neuroskyence 🧪
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet neurons walking in circles #SciArtSeptember
September 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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This #SciArtSeptember pic looking like the #underworld is taken from a series following a grub's journey through a Z-lister. I use these teaching digestion in a session called 'I'm IN a celebrity get me out of here!'
See the slides here axonology.com/digestion-an...
#SciArt #EduSky 🧪 #AcademicSky
Cartoon explaining digestion in the stomach showing a grub hanging above the gastric acid #SciArtSeptember
September 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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The first #wip I've posted this #SciArtSeptember.
This is Mike R. O'Glia, brain barber. I'm putting off drawing the #mirror
#SciArt #neuroskyence 🧪
Cartoon microglia dressed as a barber cutting the dendrites of a neuron #SciArtSeptember
September 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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Alveolar macrophages are #hidden away deep inside our lungs, cleaning up all the tiny bits of crap we breathe in.
#SciArtSeptember #SciArt 🧪
Cartoon alveolar macrophage vacuuming inside a lung #SciArtSeptember
September 22, 2024 at 6:42 PM