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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · Dec 13

A sepia charcoal and pencil style portrait of a bust of Angelina Hesse - she is surrounded by growing microorganisms in each of the four corners of the portrait, and her stone plinth has the shapes of microorganisms growing over it.

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 1d

Lactobacillus, what a #LittleLegend !
Part of our gut and vaginal microbiome, this microbe is one of the most widely used #probiotics to treat diarrhoea and eczema. Thanks to Hiral Raval, a @microbiologysociety.org champion, for suggesting I draw this for #InternationalMicroorganismDay
🐡🧪🧫#scicomm

A black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs

A Microbiology Society branded version of a black and white cartoon of lactobacillus on a mottled pinky yellow splashy background. The bacillus is peaceful, wearing a headband and decorated with hippie style flowers, stars and peace signs. The quote is 'As they are probiotic strains, I love them from the gut of my heart! - Hiral Raval, BioGeneVersity, India.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). 🧪🐡🎢 #histsci One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing

My linocut of Niels Bohr with the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom and Balmer series of spectral lines. Bohr is printed in blue-grey and wearing a suit. Concentric rings of silver represent energy levels in hydrogen and overlap his head. Squiggly lines go between pairs of silver orbits and match the colours of the line spectra printed below him (left to right: red, cyan, blue and violet. H-alpha is red and caused by a jump from the 3rd to 2nd orbit; H-beta is cyan and caused by a jump from the 4th to 2nd orbit; H-gamma is indigo and caused by a jump from the 5th to 2nd orbit; and H-delta is violet and caused by a jump from the 6th to 2nd orbit.

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NothingHappenedToday (Ed Harrington) @edharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Sea Pigs sketches. Scotoplanes are a type of sea cucumber that use a ring of feeding tentacles to sift through sediment for decaying organic matter on the sea floor and have tube-like feet for locomotion. Drawn with Rotring Art pens with Platinum Carbon and Sepia ink. #SciArt #Sketch #FountainPen

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 1d

The one of the main reason I chose to make this #LaurierBiology “poster” in this format / size was that post-seminar it would fit into the hallway window of Zhongwei’s office! #SciArt

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

"5 of pills", oil on watercolour paper, 5 /14 x 7 1/4", 2025- $125 (Cdn) #art #sciart

A small painting of 5 pills in the formation of a "5" playing card - 4 in the corners, one in the center. There's a red & white capsule, a pink oval, yellow & blue tablets, and a white oval.

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ZealousMushroom @zealousmushroom.bsky.social · 1d

day 2 of trying to draw a shroom for every day of october ✨🍄

#art #sciart #artober #fungi #digitalart

A digital illustration depicting two tiny Mycena Subcyanophela mushrooms

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Anna Tanczos @scicommstudios.bsky.social · 1d

Dopamine Drop!😄
💊🐡🧪⚗️ #Cinema4D #compchemsky
youtube.com/shorts/jDlV3...

Dopamine Drop #chemistry #cinema4d #science #molecularmodeling #madewithGSG #motiongraphics

YouTube video by SciCommStudios

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 1d

Sharing with the #SciArt Feed!

Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 8d

Keesey Comics has a new website! Now with page previews, trailers, and more. Check it out! www.keesey-comics.com

Keesey Comics

Comics about prehistory and disaster. Sometimes both.

www.keesey-comics.com

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16h

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 15h

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 7d

It's #Inktober once more, time to grab some pen and paper. Will you join?

The first prompt is #Mustache, and this distinguished gentlebacterium is using one of its flagellum as a mustache.

#inktober2025 #inktoberday1 #sciart

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 7d

It's #Inktober once more, time to grab some pen and paper. Will you join?

The first prompt is #Mustache, and this distinguished gentlebacterium is using one of its flagellum as a mustache.

#inktober2025 #inktoberday1 #sciart

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 5d

#inktober day 3 with #Crown

And here is our 👑 Queen B (Queen Bacterium) : E. coli

It is a ubiquitous bacterium.
It is the "lab rat" of microbiology.
And it is also a common resident of our gut.

Which bacterium would you have named as our Queen B?

#inktober2025 #sciart

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 4d

#inktober day 4 with Murky

They are some places where you expect murky water (or rather medium) and some places where you don't.

Poor little guy 🐟

#inktober2025 #sciart

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Noémie Matthey @noemiematthey.bsky.social · 3d

#inktober day 5 with Deer

That one was tricky.

When a deer or any organism dies, microbes begin the decomposition process, returning nutrients to the soil.

#inktober2025 #sciart

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of two long filamentous phages. The one in the background is all the same distance away. In the foreground is a close up of the spike proteins of the closer phage with 5 repeated protein complexes forming what looks almost like a flower, the rest of the inovirus loops around into the background

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 19h

nailed the vibe!

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 1d

This year's Nobel Prize in physics recognizes the discovery of practical ways to achieve quantum tunneling, which electrons can jump across "forbidden" barriers.

I love the official explanatory cartoon from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi... 🧪

This macroscopic particle-like system is initially in a state in which current flows without any voltage. The system is trapped in this state, as if behind a barrier that it cannot cross. In the experiment the system shows its quantum character by managing to escape the zero-voltage state through tunnelling. The system’s changed state is detected through the appearance of a voltage.

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 1d

Jean Baptiste Lamark #sciart

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1d

Echinus, Pl. 136 in Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature, T.2 (Paris, 1797). Hand-colored plate.
#SeaUrchins #Echinoderms #Invertebrates #SciArt
www.flickr.com/photos/tbcav...

vintage hand-colored zoological plate in landscape orientation, illustration of 8 different sea urchin specimens

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4, Claw. Phages don't really have claws, but they do have tail fibres that recognise receptors on host cells and clamp on, allowing phage particles to infect their hosts. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of a bacteriophage with an icosahedral capsid short tail and crab claws instead of tail fibres. The ink drawing has a thick black outline and minimal shading

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5, Moon. The physical structures of phages are often compared to the shape and landing action of a lunar lander, with tail fibres reminiscent of the landing struts, to gently settle on the surface of its host. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of the moon, with a giant phage on the top right that is half the width of the moon. The moon and phage are white, surrounded by a black circular background of messy, overlapping concentric circles

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6, Sacrifice/Cry. Individual bacterium can sacrifice themselves to prevent phages reproducing and save the rest of the bacterial community. They can also send out quorum sensing messages to warn other bacteria. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink cartoon of a scared, shouting bacterium with wide eyes, it has a hexagonal phage particle on its back. The bacterium has its mouth open and is shouting, in a speech bubble coming is a skull and cross bones, the skull is hexagonal and looks a bit like a phage

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 5d

Day 3, Soft. Soft agar is used to visualise phages - plaque assay: bacteria infected with phages are mixed with soft agar, poured over an agar plate. A bacterial lawn grows & plaques appear - as phages infect bacteria, multiply, kill & repeat to form an expanding hole. #drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Black and white ink drawing of an agar filled petri dish with black spots or plaques covering the surface. One of these plaques is surrounded by a circle, connected by dotted lines to a larger magnified circle showing a lawn of bacteria punctured by a circlar hole with 7 smaller bacteriophages inside

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Ellie Jameson @elliejameson.bsky.social · 2d

This year I submitted a big transdisciplinary grant at the end of September and have now started the new semester’s teaching. I lacked a bit of motivation to draw and started a couple of days late! If I miss any days you can check out previous October art here: elliejameson.wordpress.com/inktober/

Ink drawing challenges

During October I have been taking on an art challenge to develop drawing skills and habits through undertaking an ink drawing every day in October, based on a prompt word. After posting some microb…

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 1d

Lactobacillus, what a #LittleLegend !
Part of our gut and vaginal microbiome, this microbe is one of the most widely used #probiotics to treat diarrhoea and eczema. Thanks to Hiral Raval, a @microbiologysociety.org champion, for suggesting I draw this for #InternationalMicroorganismDay
🐡🧪🧫#scicomm

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