Lynda Delph

I look forward to that Jannice!

Oops…@jenncoughlan.bsky.social

Mimulus in flower, growing along a small water rivulet on Sawdon Station, a working sheep station (2 February 2026).

Speak of the devil…
Mimulus—invasive here (MacKenzie District, South Island, NewZealand)
@jenncouglan.bsky.social, @jannicefriedman.bsky.social, @davidlowry.bsky.social

Yes, shout out to JKK, with whom I was privileged to work with and learn from.

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View of a hillside forest, tree ferns and a large mature rimu.

Magical morning spent in the Blue Duck Scenic Reserve north of Kaikoura (New Zealand). Logging was banned in ~1902, so the place is full of emergent podocarps, including miro, matai, kahikatea, rimu, and totara. Bellbird songs galore.

If you can only visit one place at Harvard, make it the glass flower exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.

4000 models, 847 species.

Commissioned by the university for teaching botany and created by the Czech father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 1887 through 1936.

A photo of a book open on a page showing illustrations related to colour theory. From "The Communicating Scientist" by Olle Bergman, Sarang Park, and Joanna Bagniewska, with illustrations by Dorota Paczesniak

A complex figure with a digital illustration and text boxes. Shows soil cross-section and a plant with above-ground and below-ground parts visible. The plant has four stalks: one with a bud, flower, and fruit, and one with brown and dried leaves that are falling off. This is to signal the main theme of the paper, i.e. phenology. The text boxes are divided into two main categories: above-ground and below-ground and briefly explain the difference between these two environments in resource gradients, plant–soil functionality, and coupling to photosynthesis. Morris, K., & Nair, R. (2025). Below the leaves: Integrating above- and below-ground phenology for earth-system predictability. Functional Ecology, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70057

A photo of a leaflet open to show the first and the last page. This is an infographic for the Conservation Genetics Workshop titled „Types of genetic markers: What can they reveal?” The first page features an illustration of the three levels of biodiversity: genes, species and ecosystems. The last page has an info box about open and FAIR data. Citation: Buser CN, Weber AAT, Feulner PGD, Richman S, Fischer MC, Grossen C, Naciri Y, Paczesniak D, Paerli R, Reutimann O, Tschan J, Widmer A & Gugerli F. (2025). Types of genetic markers: What can they reveal? (Conservation Genetics Workshop, Infographic 1). Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. https://doi.org/10.55419/wsl:40663

An infographic titled: “Tree breeding - from wild to genetically improved forests”. There are four coloured panels with illustrations and diagrams, and grey text boxes surrounding them. The panels depict 1. Wild forest 2. Breeding 3. Mass propagation 4. Cultivated forest Developed by Luke (Natural Resources Institute Finland) and the University of Helsinki. Graphic design: Dorota Paczesniak

Hello #PortfolioDay 🐡 I’m a scientific illustrator with a PhD in biology and research experience in ecology and evolution. My work includes infographics, illustrations, learning materials, and branding

I’m open to commissions and/or a full-time job in communications or educational design

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Nice write up and fun to see Lobelia cardinalis as the poster child in the photo. My colleagues @andreacase.bsky.social and C. Blackwood are using iNat to address questions about the distribution, soil types, flowering times, etc. for this and several other Lobelia. Such a useful source!

Yep, the key thing when giving a talk is to make your audience feel smart.

Three male side-blotched lizard with three neck colors: orange, blue, and yellow

Lizards have evolved their own version of rock-paper-scissors. Here's my story on the genetics behind nature's games. Gift link: nyti.ms/493KGMI

View from the 21st story of downtown Chicago at night

Chicago

Kartoffel

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game Side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) play a biological rock-paper-scissors game in which three differently colored male morphs utilize alternative mating strategies. We identified the genetic basi...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So lovely to see you all!

How’s that Berlin winter treating you Matt?

Avocados are hermaphroditic…

Joke: there were 5 cats in a boat that capsized. Which cats sank? …

Your photos always blow me away — the color, the composition, the finding of small unappreciated things of beauty.

See you in Cleveland in June!

Your perspective is one I always value Gina.

This is sad news. I never met him but I was influenced by the clarity of thought in his papers.

If you would like to work with me on figures for YOUR paper, grant proposal, book, or outreach project I’m open to commissions - let’s talk!
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Dorota Paczesniak
Drawing to explain and inspire

Thanks Kayla

A comic style illustration of the Red Queen running with a startled-looking snail and a strange creature that is a trematode parasite. It is based on the original illustration by John Tenniel from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass”

The Red Queen running with the snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum and its trematode parasite. It’s quite niche #SciArt, but if you know, you know
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Happy to talk if you’re interested.

Kinda like how pollen grain size is positively correlated with style length in plants...

Stadt Bern Offizielle Website der Stadt Bern

Postdoc opportunity to study sex determination in Xiphophorus species at the University of Bern. Skills in bioinformatics needed. Email CV to Peichel & Kirkpatrick. Funding options available. Deadline: Jan 23, 2026. More info: https://www.bern.ch/ #postdoc

I couldn’t agree more Dustin. She is a treasure.