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Julia Kuhl

@somedonkey.bsky.social

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scientific illustrator - https://somedonkey.work (& unscientific artist - https://juliakuhl.myportfolio.com)

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Jul 28

New cover
"Selectively vulnerable deep cortical layer 5/6 fast-spiking interneurons in Alzheimer’s disease models in vivo"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#scArt #sciComm #neurons #neuroscience #neuroskyence

a lace curtain (made of neurons) fraying at the bottom (layers 5/6)

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Jun 4

some new posters
#sciComm #sciArt #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · May 23

"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type - or more - at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This one is for all the #ChandelierNeuron fans out there
#sciArt #sciComm #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Cover of journal Neuron shows a female scientists turning lamp-like neurons on and off

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Mar 10

two rejected covers - one happy, one sad (but hopeful)
#sciArt #neuroscience #neuroskyence #illustration #sciComm

In the 1st drawing grey zebrafish swimming through ketamine structure become colorful. In the 2nd drawing a paralyzed person in a wheelchair imagines their hands moving

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Feb 17

recent posters -

Two posters - 1) title: "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits per second?". Illustration: a stopwatch with hand in the shape of a walking person
2) title: "People, ants, & pianos". Illustration: Grand piano being carried by many ants, while also being pushed (perhaps the other way) by two sets of human hands.

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Jan 1

some cell biology icons I made for a project last year
#sciArt #sciComm #cells #cellBiology #science #illustration

eight round, grey-scale icons representing various aspects of cell biology

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Dec 30

some fest & meeting t-shirt designs from 23/24

#sciArt #sciComm #T-shirts #neuroskyence #neuroscience #illustration #neurons

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Dec 23

this year's rejected covers :(
#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Dec 5

This is a first for me - two covers came out the same day!
www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
&
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm

Cover of Cell Stem Cell journal depicts a winter landscape with a frozen tree (looking very much like a neuron, sprouting a green branch with pink buds)

A cover of Neuron journal depicts a female gymnast, surrounded by neurons, swinging from an axon...

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Reposted by Julia Kuhl

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · Nov 6

Jon Stewart’s Election Night Takeaway #DailyShow

youtu.be/XLiagIdA84c

Jon Stewart’s Election Night Takeaway | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

youtu.be

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Oct 29

I made this drawing in 2016...
Unfortunately, it still works today.

An orange fat man with yellow hair wearing black suit and red tie is seen from behind. He is erasing the words 'like home' from the sentence 'there is no place like home' with a crumpled american flag.

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Oct 24

Post your most popular art from the bird app...
secret lives of synapses
#sciArt
#synapses #neuroscience #neurons

three whimsical illustrations of what the artist imagines goes on between the cells at the synapse

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Oct 23

some institute posters i made in 2024

#posters #sciArt #sciComm #illustration #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Six posters for scientific talks. Depicted are bird-nests of different shapes, boxing fruit flies, romantic mice, mating butterflies, psychedelic zebrafish, and a fruit fly wearing stereoscopic glasses.

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Oct 17

New issue of Cell out today, with my cover illustrating this review -
"Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#neuroscience #sciArt #sciComm #brain #neuroskyence #Connectomics #neurons

scientist at her desk in front of many screens showing various methods to investigate the brain.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Jul 18

This year's first accepted cover -
"Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex" www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

#sciart #scicomm #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #neuron #illustration

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Reposted by Julia Kuhl

Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · Dec 31

Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Dec 18

Published covers of 2023 -

#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Dec 18

Rejected covers of 2023 -

#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Nov 26

Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#sciArt #scicomm #neuroskyence

Two neurons playing tug of war with 3 ropes

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Nov 14

Made lots of posters for the institute this year...

#sciArt #neuroskyence

12 posters announcing MPIBI institute speakers. Depicted are octopuses, mice, bats, squirrels, birds, spiders...

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Oct 4

Yay! Another Nature Neuroscience cover.
Dissociating the contributions of sensorimotor striatum to automatic and visually guided motor sequences
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sciArt #sciComm #neurosckynce

on the cover of Nature Neuroscience journal a woman is playing the piano. The notes are neurons.

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Sep 21

rejected cover :-(
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroskyence #sciart #scicomm

Cover of journal Cell shows an image of an old book (yellowing parchment pages) with line drawings of C. elegans in different poses with corresponding dots and lines of brain circuits.
The bookmark is a pyramidal neuron.

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Dream assignment: Make a cover illustration in the style of Giorgio Morandi.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm #Morandi

cover of the journal Neuron shows a still life with vessels & neurons in the style of the artist Giorgio Morandi

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Aug 25

looking through old phone photos found this fine creature -

a photo of very orange, very fuzzy caterpillar called the banded woolly bear, woolly bear, or woolly worm. It will become Isabella tiger moth eventually. (according to Wikipedia... I know nothing about this stuff)

Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks!