Symbiartic

Three paintings, from top left: (1) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot with a rectangle of ultraviolet in purple & a rectangle of infrared, (2) Pillars of Creation in a checkerboard pattern (3) Cosmic Cliffs (not finished yet)

Hi everyone! I’m a planetary scientist who studied clouds on brown dwarf & exoplanet atmospheres. I left academia to start my own business, connecting my passions of science + art. I create unique multi-spectral space paintings by combining different wavelengths of light in interesting patterns. 🔭🐡

Black and white ink drawing of a cartoon demon phage next to an Angel phage

#Inktober 2023, Day 17, Demon. Just a demon #phage. Some phages carry toxins, virulence factors out have antagonistic interactions with antibiotics. #SciArt

Guess what's finished...!!!
I'll post the link tomorrow morning, but if you can't wait that long, it's already up on my blog.
(Be warned, the main diagram is gorgeous, but the rest is kind of a mess😅, so... enjoy!)
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #ginkgo #blog

Two anurognathid pterosaurs (Jeholopterus) coming out of a tree hole. Only their heads and part of their arms are visible. One of them is opening its mouth widely. A small young Scansoriopterygid is perched on the same tree trunk a little bit higher that the tree hole where the two pterosaurs are

Rudely awaken

A young Scansoriopterygid landed next to the tree hole where a group of Jeholopterus was sleeping and rudely woke them up

Day 17 of my Ink-marker sketches

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

Image Of Optic Disc Wins Annual Microscopy Competition A colorful close-up image of the optic disc in a rodent’s retina received first place in the annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.

The winners of this year's NIkon Small World microscopy image competition were announced today and I wrote about it for the Forbes website. 🧪 #scicomm

The companion piece for the same patron. 🖤 #art #sciart

Polka-dot Wasp Moth
Syntomeida epilais

Drawing of a raven with a blue spectral aura.

Drawing of a small green wasp parasitized by fungus.

Drawing of a death's-head moth.

These are as close to "spooky" drawings as I get. There's a somewhat spectral raven, a cuckoo wasp overcome by fungus, and a death's-head moth.

For the "cold blooded" theme of #SciArtSeptember a garter snake warms up in the sun.

Let’s call it an abstract watercolor painting of a blunt nose stingray skating over a sandy bed

I had a bit of trouble with today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt for day 4: cold-blooded. I’m trying to focus on local species I work with or around!
This one’s a bit of a stretch, but here is a bluntnose stingray 🧪

Vertical photo of a crayon drawing of a circle with a moray eel depicted in the style of a strangle knot.

For the 5th Day of #SciArtSeptember theme of #Strangling, here's a moray eel in the shape of a strangle knot.

Close-up shot of an osprey flying overhead, with dinner, an unlucky fish - maybe a perch - clutched in its’ talons. There are several breeding pairs that fish this river, though I’m unsure whether it’s the ones who nest on a baseball field lamp, who I’ve dubbed Ozzie and Sharon.

One of the delights locally is seeing a returning osprey population, especially as they go grocery shopping in the nearby river.

Meanwhile, dinner is Strangling (Day 5) in its’ talons. 🪶🐡 #SciArtSeptember

my gel plate print of Vincetoxicum rossicum, also known as European swallowwort, or Dog-strangling Vine, in blue and green ink on white paper 11” x 14”

For the #SciArtSeptember theme “strangling” my gel plate prints of Vincetoxicum rossicum, also known as European swallowwort, or Dog-strangling Vine. Introduced to the northeastern US gardens in the mid-1800s, it’s become wildly invasive in south and central Ontario. 🧪🐡🌿

While it doesn’t 🧵 1/n

A ring of bronchiole cross-sections showing different levels of constriction with ‘breathe’ handwritten in the centre. The bronchioles have pink walls and blue apertures. The background is a smokey grey.

Day 5 of #SciArtSeptember - some heavily stylised constricting bronchioles for ‘strangling’ 🐡

#herpetology #lizards #SciArtSeptember It is unfortunate that so many museum specimens are in poor or incomplete condition. Breeders, how might scientists entreat you to donate your dearly departed? Seriously??

A dove sits on a rooftop clinging to the edge with its beak slightly open.

#SciArtSeptember Day 5 - Strangling 🪶 Going with a collared dove today since that “collar” sorta looks like it’s wearing a choker! Photographed in my family’s old backyard in Riverside, CA 🧪🌿🐡

An embroidery on a pale natural linen, there is the pale outline of a woman’s lower legs and feet, heels together, toes apart. From the soles of the feet, thick red/orange lines coil beneath. From the big toes moving upwards, thick blue and off-white lines rise up through the inner calves and branch off at the knees. These lines coil and intertwine in a brain-like shape, and then move back down in wavy lines like a wide skirt around the ankles.

#SciArtSeptember Day 5: strangling

This symptomatology embroidery, neuraesthenia (2017), depicts the sensation of post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of ME/CFS. PEM feels like an extreme heaviness, as if the energy system of the body is being strangled. #SciArt 🧶🩺🧪🐡

Today it begins! 🐡

3 stylised astrocytes, vaguely Star shaped sprawling nerve cells, in yellow and pink on a bluey mottled background with extra yellow sparkles around

Day 1 of #SciArtSeptember - Some spacey astrocytes for prompt ‘starry’

🐡🧪 #neuroart

Hey #SundayFishSketch 🗓️🐠✍️community! We are once again teaming up with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for #sciartSeptember #Fishytheme s. This Sunday’s word is “Favorite.” So draw your favorite fishes or maybe the favorite of a friend! #sciart

Linocut portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in a lace collar in front of the sun in oranges and black against the blackness of space. At the bottom of the print is the solar absorption spectrum (a rainbow style gradient of indigo at left through to red and black at the right with specific discrete thin black vertical lines at various places).

Welcome to #SciArtSeptember! For day 1: starry, it’s #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered what stars are made of & that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🧪🐡🧑🏻‍🔬
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 🧵1/n

“OSCARS” the noble Oscar Cichlid in a quartet of its color morphs, oil on canvas 2023. 48X24" #cichlid #Oscar #aqiuarium #freshwater #ecology #aquaticart #aquarium #fineart #fish #tropicalfish #fishart #oilpainting #wildlifeart

As described, this linocut on Japanese paper illustrates a terrible pun: 'Weevil weevil rock U' rather than "We will, we will rock you," of course. It shows two weevils, a grey rock and a letterpress U. The larger of these two weevils is the extravagant, long-necked red and black giraffe weevil (or giraffe-necked weevil or Trachelophorus giraffa) from Madagascar which can grow to as long as an inch or 2.5 cm in length. The smaller of these 2 is Neocoenorrhinus germanicus, a blue-black weevil, merely 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) found in Southwest Asia, southern Siberia, Russia, and parts of Europe. They are shown roughly 4 times life-sized.

Since I’m busily taking part in both #SciArtSeptember & #MinCup23 here’s a silly linocut with #invertebrates & a rock. 🐡

This linocut illustrates a terrible pun: 'Weevil weevil rock U' rather than "We will, we will rock you," of course. The larger weevil is the extravagant, long-necked
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SciArt September A whole month of artists posting their science art on social media!

The latest issue of my newsletter Mixture went out today and it's about the start of #SciArtSeptember. Some of your #sciart is in this via Instagram embeds (so it includes credits). The next issue is in two weeks and I can share some more then!

An illustration of a golden breasted starling bird. The bird faces to the left and slightly towards the viewer. The bird is cropped at the bottom of the frame and its feet and tail are not visible. The bird is shown in the typical vibrant blue, purple, yellow and green colours of this species. The background is a flat, light pink. The illustration features graphite pencil lines and digital colours.

#SciArtSeptember, Day 1 - Starry.
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#SciArt 🐡

A displaying peacock spider. It is covered in fine white hair, has red-orange stripes on top of its head, four obvious green eyes on the front of the head, and a wide abdomen raised high along with two legs also raised to frame it. The abdomen pattern is an iridescent blue framed in black, white, and red bands, and nine yellow dots are arranged symmetrically on the blue background.

#SciArt September day 1: Starry

A special #InverteFest double entry! Maratus constellatus, the peacock spider with a constellation on its butt. 🎨🐡🐙

A digital painting of Thor's Helmet, a nebula shaped like... Thor's helmet.

"Starry" for #SciArtSeptember

It was hard to pick one since most of my art is very starry and I didn't have time to make new art, but this one is recent and has a lot of stars! This is Thor's Helmet, an emission nebula with a Wolf-Rayet star at its centre!

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watercolor neuron

watercolor grid of microbes

watercolor in blue and purple HAVE YOU HUGGED THE ALGORITHM TODAY

ink brain painting with text

You could use some new art
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In progress painting of Tarantula Nebula.

Painting of Rosette Nebula. Oil on Canvas 25×25″ 63×63 cm 2022 2022Abstract spacescape: swirling nebula with stars embedded

Painting of HH-24 28.75×37.25″ 73×94 cm Oil on canvas 2019 Sold Abstract spacescape: interpretation of a nebula like Herbig Haro object as seen by the Hubble Space telescope

Painting of M42 Orion 30×40″ 76×101 cm Oil on canvas 2019 Sold Abstract spacescape: swirling nebula with stars embedded

#SciArtSeptember? I can play. Here's some nebula. The first is my WIP and is available, the other 3 are sold. Prints for the others are available. #SciArt

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Watercolor crab illustration

What remains of a crab #invertefest 🐡🦑