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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d

Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 🍁

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a black background.

semi realistic drawing of a Red-banded leafhopper, a very thin insect with a yellowish green body and bright blue and red striped back/wings, on a white background.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6d

extra #Invertober2025 - Tiger mosquito (Aedes aegypti) 🦟

since I wanted to have her in the 2024 edition but took me 11 months to finish that one I'm already done for this edition

for all my Aedes people

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic doodle of a tiger mosquito, a dark brown almost black bodied mosquito covered by white lines and dots on her abdomen and legs, on a black background.

semi-realistic doodle of a tiger mosquito, a dark brown almost black bodied mosquito covered by white lines and dots on her abdomen and legs, on a white background.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 7d

OCTOBER IS HERE, LET'S A GO!

Day 1 #Invertober2025 - Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) 🪼

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a japanese sea nettle, a nice bright orange and yellow jellyfish with three different types of tentacles, shorter orange ones, long thin orange ones, and medium length very lace looking ones, presented on a black background.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 11d

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

Invertober 2025
1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)
4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor)
6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum)
8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix)
9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)
10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula)
13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)
15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
(Ornithoptera alexandrae)
‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬
17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus)
18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)
21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata)
22. Sea angel (Clione limacina)
23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima)
24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus)
25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)
27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis)
31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 7d

I'm not sure how many of these I'll manage, but I felt inspired by the first #invertober2025 prompt -

So here's my Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) with its tangly tentacles!

Watercolour and pastel pencil on paper, A4.

#invertober #sciart

Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica). The bell is pale orange-pink with darker segments radiating out from its centre with dark purple or maroon edges. The tentacles are a similar colour to the bell and are tangly (difficult to draw!) against a turquoise (lower) and khaki green (upper) sea behind.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 8d

Fab 😁 Me too!

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 12d

I'm at the exciting stage of ordering all the lovely moth delights people pledged for! The jigsaw is a go people...this is beyond exciting for my jigsaw loving self!

I've got a pre-order store up now too...

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#Moths #SciArt #ArtistSupport #Illustration

Pre-order Marvellous Moths Stickers on BackerKit

A brand new collection showcasing marvellous world of moths - celebrating the diverse and bold markings found within nature!

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 8d

Hurrah! Yay for the jigsaw too 😁

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 8d

And flicking through images for inspiration. I had thought pancreas next, keeping on the theme of #pathology images as a starting point, and I found this from an old sketch book. I wonder if I've made #pancreas work before. I remember thinking it looks like underground caves 🐡

Pencil and felt-tip pen sketch of a cross-section through a body tissue. Colours are magenta, turquoise and blue, with red circles which are probably cell nuclei. Could be a map of underground caves.

Handwritten note reads: CELL /sel/ n small room esp. in monastery or prison; cavity or compartment in honeycomb etc.; Biol. unit of structure of organic matter; portion protoplasm usu. enclosed in membrane; group as nucleus of political activity; vessel containing electrodes for current-generation or electrolysis.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 8d

Now that my Backerkit Cell Painting Magnet campaign is wrapping up (will be literally wrapping up when I start shipping rewards!), I'm taking stock and deciding where next for my #painting. I've updated the portfolio pages on my website

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#sciart #artsky

Cell Paintings Portfolio — Making With Biology

www.kathryngarner.co.uk

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13d

More jellies showing up in Wales due to the warmer waters

Portugese man o' wars wash up on Pembrokeshire and Anglesey beaches - BBC News

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Portugese man o' wars wash up on Pembrokeshire and Anglesey beaches - BBC News

Beachgoers are advised to steer clear of the creatures which have a painful sting even when dead.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 14d

I've discovered a new word: 'franticity'. Writing about a picnic in a sandstorm and reaching for a word to describe the 'frantic nature'. Thinking 'franticity' must be made-up but apparently it isn't...

Unless an LLM somewhere is trying to convince me the word is real, which is also sadly possible.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 15d

300 mauve stingers, or palagia noctiluca, were recorded off an Anglesey beach last week, and also as far south as Pembrokeshire.

The Marine Conservation Society said the appearance of a warm water species in the UK is "not surprising" as sea temperatures here rise.

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Dangerous mauve stingers jellyfish spotted off Welsh beaches - BBC News

More than 300 mauve stingers were seen off a beach on Anglesey, researchers say.

www.bbc.com

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18d

The very rare hydrocarbon mineral carparthite (exceptionally pure coronene C24H12) is fluorescent but tugtupite is called “King of Fluorescent Minerals,” plus it’s tenebrescent (changes colour in UV) & phosphorescent so gains my physics vote plus it’s also a gem on the arts front #MinCup25 #scicomm

Two images of carpathite under regular light and UV to show its fluorescence via mindat.org. Under regular light the rock looks grey and rust with some visible white and lime thin linear crystals, while under UV the crystals glow an intense blue.

The Smithsonian acquired two “ulu” silver pendants with tugtupite cabochons (ulu is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut women), designed and created by Mike Møller. These are the first tugtupite gems acquired for the National Gem Collection. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/object/nmnhmineralsciences_14272125?geogallery=Tugtupite&node=14624

Tugtupite
6.00 ct
Oval Cut
15.10 x 9.50 x 6.50 mm

The same oval cabuchon is shown under regular light as white and blood red and under UV as scarlet and burgundy, against a black background.

Via https://gemologicalcollections.com/product/tugtupite-6-00-ct-oval-cut-15-10-x-9-50-x-6-50-mm-greenland-w399/

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 18d

Pre-order my Giant Leaps #EnamelPin series now with this one-page order form: chopshopstore.myflodesk.com/giantleaps | #sciArt #spaceArt #Apollo #ISS #SpaceRace

Full Set of Five Including US Shipping

All Six Missions (average size 2") Include: Apollo, ISS, Vostok, Space Shuttle, and Apollo LRV Enameled Pins

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19d

This one is not available right now, but there are others from the same "vessels" series - inspired by plant vasculature - in my shop www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... #sciart

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 19d

My painting, Growth Vessel, on display at the McLean Project for the Arts

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 19d

This is amazing!

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Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social · 20d

DAY 105
SPECIES 105 - Salinispora tropica
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper and watercolor. Writech and Kingart Pens.

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 20d

New blog post - The Making Of my first geometric watercolor pencils drawing on stretched canvas:

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I am constructing the curve described by x=sin(t), y=sin(2t), z=sin(3t) from its 2D projections using traditional descriptive geometry.

#SciArt #MathArt

Lissajous Trilogy on Canvas

Let me show you the genesis of my most involved watercolor pencils drawing so far! I have constructed 3D Lissajous figures on paper, projecting the three-dimensional world down to two dimensions. B…

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 20d

The @microbiologysociety.org champions got together and talked about their fave #microbes on international microorganism day.

So I did a few more portraits of the little legends!

I will hopefully repost them all with alt text over the next few weeks

#sciart #microsky 🧪

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 21d

It’s International Microorganism Day! We asked the Society’s Champions to tell us about their favourite microbes and, our Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has created some fun illustrations to show you a bit more of their character! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org #InternationalMicroorganismDay

A series of cartoons and quotes of the following microbes: Rhizobium, Cyanobacteria, Campylobacter, Bacillus subtilis, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella, Naegleria fowleri, Burkholderia cenocepacia, Solirubrobacter, Curvularia, Candida auris, Lactobacillus, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Aspergilius, Pestalotiopsis microspora.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27d

Day 11 #SciArtSeptember prompt venomous: my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea. 🧪🐡

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many 🧵

My Portuguese man o’ war linocut is printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The float is above the water surface, the tentacles below.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29d

Less than 6 hours left to back my campaign for a kidney pathology-inspired magnet!

#pathsky #nephsky #nephrology #kidney

Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · Sep 2

Introducing four new #Kidney Cell Paintings!

It's the final week of the campaign, so I'm adding new paintings as magnets PLUS an exclusive opportunity to purchase the original art.

'Kidney Slice + Liverpool Docks'

Back the project here
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

#sciart #artsky #nephsky

Abstract painting in blue and pink inspired by a histology image of a kidney slice. Shapes from an aerial view of Liverpool docks have been incorporated.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29d

Less than 6 hours left to back my campaign for a biology-inspired magnet!

#sciart #scicomm #medsky #biosky #artsky

Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · Sep 2

Introducing four new #Kidney Cell Paintings!

It's the final week of the campaign, so I'm adding new paintings as magnets PLUS an exclusive opportunity to purchase the original art.

'Kidney Slice + Liverpool Docks'

Back the project here
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

#sciart #artsky #nephsky

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 29d

It's been fab collaborating with you too! 😊

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