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Petra Korlević
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
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Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟 Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute 🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Petra, a staff scientist working on malaria mosquitoes, but I also try to make science more approachable and whimsical with my #SciArt doodles 🦟
a collage of 32 invertebrate drawings on a black background with the list of their scientific names in the middle. DToLtober 2024 1 | Thyatira batis 2 | Sphecodes monilicornis 3 | Halyzia sedecimguttata 4 | Bugulina stolonifera 5 | Meta bourneti 6 | Scaeva pyrastri 7 | Ocypus olens 8 | Vespa crabro 9 | Nematostella vectensis 10 | Papilio machaon 11 | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale 12 | Alitta virens 13 | Allacma fusca 14 | Andrena fulva 15 | Anoplius nigerrimus 16 | Aporia crataegi 17 | Patella pellucida 18 | Bombylius discolor 19 | Chrysoperla carnea 20 | Diadumene lineata 21 | Calliphora vomitoria 22 | Apoderus coryli 23 | Gibbula magus 24 | Mimas tiliae 25 | Lineus longissimus 26 | Parasteatoda lunata 27 | Melolontha melolontha 28 | Marthasterias glacialis 29 | Emmelina monodactyla 30 | Gymnosoma rotundatum 31 | Laothoe populi extra | Nephrotoma flavescens a large widescreen comic in yellow, light green, dark green, of scientists talking about their projects at the Vector Kolymbari Meeting 2024. Panels are split into days and Session numbers. drawing of a beefly and mosquito standing in front christmas trees decorated with yellow lights’, both are standing by an AB blood bag with mugs, the beefly is worried, the mosquito has a christmas hat and spices in a mug full of red liquid. hand holding an A4 sticker sheet with various famous memes redrawn with mosquitoes as the main characters. Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together Captain Picard Facepalm Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech / Just Do It Buzz And Woody This is Fine Take all my money Hide the Pain Harold I am cringe But I am free Math Lady Clown at computer Computer stare Spiderman pointing at Spiderman Treat. Yo. Self. Pepe Silvia Homer comfy cinnamon roll Spiderman computer desk Disaster girl Kermit sipping tea Drunk Kitty Peter and Miles crouching
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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 13h
Most chromosomes of any animal on Earth so far!
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1m
b... but my ghibli slack icons... but my ai waifus 🥺
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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 28m
these pieces of shit stole my life’s work for their robots and want to MAYBE give me 3000 retroactive dollars for their theft. get absolutely fucked
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 41m
bug worship throughought october

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Scarier Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 1h
I think I'm going to start my habit of asking "what you doing?" on Wednesdays again.

Have you got a fun project you're working on that you can talk about (for work, for fun, for love, for revenge?) tell me about it here! I am nosy and want to indulge in some vicarious excitement.

Thank you.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 55m
good, then ~die~ ✨
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 5h
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 1h
Hen and Frog.

Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 95 × 64 mm.
Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of a hen startled by a frog leaping out from a small cluster of ferns. The hen's comb and wattle are the only touch of red gouache.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1h
your fish comish suddenly
Doodle of a rowlet pokemon staring at the sky as loads of pokebuks fall down on him
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Frogge257 @frogge257.bsky.social · 14h
Buff-tip moth #invertober2025 #mothArt
Pixel art of a moth. It has a grey body and wings with an orange forehead and an orange patch on its wing.
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Filippo Nicolini 🧬 @filonico.bsky.social · 1h
Today's #invertober was a bit tough: I admit I got annoyed of all the body fur and didn't put enough effort on finishing up legs 😆 still quite happy with the result though #bugsky #SciArt

Day 8 of #invertober2025: the bee-killer robber fly
A vectorial digital drawing of a Mallophora fautrix, a species of robber fly that mimics a bumblebee, set against a pale blue background. The fly is shown in profile, appearing large and stout. Its body is covered in dense fur: the head and thorax have thick creamy-white/yellow fur, while the abdomen is covered in dense, conspicuous golden-yellow/mustard-yellow fur. Its legs are thick and dark reddish-brown, and its wings are tinted brown with prominent veins. The text "invertobter2025 - Day 08" is in the bottom right corner.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 1h
multiple choice chart like
is it an invert > does it have legs
is it a vert > does it have scales
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
I HAVE BUT ONE FEAR
four panel meme with the heavy from team fortress panel 1: i fear no man panel 2: but that thing... panel 3: three drawings of little snails, from brown to light yellow panel 4: it scares me.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 14h
Day 7 #Invertober2025 - Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 🐌

SNAIL. BYE.

#SciArt #invertebrates
semi-realistic drawing of a Scaly foot gastropod, a very fancy black shiny shelled snail with a red soft body but it is covered in little black scales, on a black background. semi-realistic drawing of a Scaly foot gastropod, a very fancy black shiny shelled snail with a red soft body but it is covered in little black scales, on a white background.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2h
i most certainly never drew a pseudoscorpion riding a beetle, and the real question is WHY HAVE I NOT DRAWN THAT ALREADY IT IS SO COOL???
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 3h
my endless cycle of personal hell
a picture of a dog crossing a street with a caption that says " small king "
Alt: gif of a dude dressed up as a snail, crawling on a pedestrian crossing while cars stop
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 3h
hate it when i get shoved the trans agenda for every gender reveal party, why must i see baby pinks and baby blues, unacceptable
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jam🐸 @teflonpan.bsky.social · 11h
decided to participate in #invertober this year. heres day 1-7

#invertober2025
Collection of various invertebrates
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4h
#Invertober day 8: Mallophora fautrix in 3B pencil - another 15-minuter, and ohmygoshitwasnotenough.

Verdict: correct number of appendages (though some seem to be made of pipe-cleaners, and it could do with some mandibles and elytra.)

#Invertober2025 #SciArt
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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 4h
The fight against #malaria is at a crossroads.

Together with colleagues worldwide, I’ve signed an Open Letter urging #IUCN members to keep the door open to responsible research and new tools that could help reverse stalled progress and save lives.

Add your voice here scienceforbiodiversity.org
Science for Biodiversity
Synthetic biology: Hope for conservation requires keeping all options on the table.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 4h
good hypothesis, wonder if there is hydrothermal reasons why so many goobers that live around there tend to be reddish (besides possible iron inclusions)
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 4h
a man in a mask is standing in front of a door with the words aw shucks written on the bottom
Alt: gif of michael myers, putting his hand on his face awkwardly with the words AW SHUCKS at the bottom
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 5h
I feel like it would be much funnier if it was a super chill cute garden snail for that one, these are like punks menacing on the outside soft (and full of symbiotic thermal vent bacteria on the inside)
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 5h
There might be some technical difficulties there unless a submarine is involved

"... commonly known as the scaly-foot gastropod, scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano snail is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent snail..."
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 5h
I can be your debil or yuor angle
Drawing of two scaly goot gastropods, a red bodied snail with scales on their foot, left is black right is white
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 6h
SNAIL NOT ANAL
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