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Deep ocean grenadier fish with a large blue eye swimming over a striped blue mackerel bait #SciArt #deepsea

Brittle star twining around a pink bubblegum coral #SciArt #deepsea #deepseacreatures #brittlestar

A bright purple sea cucumber swimming across golden brown mussels at a deep sea cold seep #SciArt #deepsea #deepseacreatures

Two large brown, deep sea fish, bassozetus robustus and Spectrunculus grandis swimming over a sea bed covered in rocks #SciArt #deepsea #deepseacreatures

Hey! I’m Meghan, a lifelong artist; painter and drawer. The deep ocean has my heart and I adore painting unusual critters you don’t usually hear about ❤️ I’m contracted for writing and illustrating a deep ocean children’s book releasing in 2026. I also use deep ocean images in my personal work.

Photo of a sketchbook page. In the center, there's a pencil sketch of a face which is surrounded by squiggly blobby puffy organelles. A golgi in the bottom left, mitochondria and ER all around the face as if it were the nucleus

Photo of a sketchbook page. There are squiggles drawn in different colors of marker, all packed together. Different colors of colored pencil have been used to add shading to the marker squiggles and the color pencil name is written next to each.

Sketchbook land save me 🐡 #sciart

4 valentines showing 4 insects, all brightly colored cards, including a sweat bee, a lightning bug, and then out of focus in the background a mantis and a rosy maple moth

Each morning I'm like oh shit I need to remind people to buy Love Bugs valentines (cute art! facts about insects! & how you can help that insect!). But that means I am only reminding the morning crowd repeatedly & never the late night goblin crowd.

OH WELL. Buy valentines: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Photo of sketchbook pages with drawings of fish. One fish is very simplified and hovers in front of a stone structure, tears trailing from a human-shaped eye. The other fish is a realistic drawing of a banggai cardinalfish.

Anyone else experiencing some serious art block? I'm itching to escape into my sketchbook, but every time I get a chance to, I struggle 😵‍💫 everything feels so forced!!

For all the folks out here who can't believe what's happening is happening so fast, with so much acquiescence...don't be so naive. This is America. Many of us who have been trying to fight for a democracy that just recognized us since the 1960's tried to tell you this ish was fragile.

a spider stands on a plant stem with floofy green... i don't even know what the hell they are... spiky plant blobs over the spider. It kinda looks like it's prom night and he's going stag to prom, and is under decorations where they do "prom pose". He's looking off into the distance facing the camera.

Good morning, please have a nice bug.

#invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky

It was such a pleasure to host you both at our #CellBio2024 #SciArt Show & Reception! Thank you for making this event so special, and for bringing your creativity and enthusiasm to our community 😍

After our #SciArt subgroup at #CellBio2024, join us for a very special Science Art Show & Reception, where you'll get to interact with our amazing speakers and other pioneers in this field. We are honored to feature over 30 scientists/artists in the exhibition! RSVP: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/

Photo of the vertebrae of a large animal, possibly a dolphin? On a pile of sea weed

Photo of an anemone sparkling in the sunshine!

Photo of a large turban shell in a tide pool filled with rocks and algae

Photo of a hole in a rock packed with various snails attempting to stay moist. The rock is also covered in small barnacles

In San Diego for #CellBio2024 & couldn't pass up the chance to visit the tide pools!!

🤩 Art by @drewberry.bsky.social @loliboldu.bsky.social @patriciabondia.bsky.social @jayeperview.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @molmir.bsky.social @munafomarzia.bsky.social @snowotarski.bsky.social @marykoreilly.bsky.social @biyolokum.bsky.social @ahnaskop.bsky.social @bryanwelm.bsky.social

Coming Out—Before, During, or After Getting a New Job? - ASCB Three members of the ASCB LGBTQ+ Committee who have recently obtained Assistant Professor positions at major U.S. universities share their perspectives on navigating their LGBTQ+ identities in applica...

Coming Out—Before, During or After Getting a New Job?

3 members of ASCBs LGBTQ+ Committee who have recently obtained Asst Prof positions share their perspectives on navigating their LGBTQ+ identities in application materials and interviews.

Read more: www.ascb.org/diversity-eq... #cellbiology

Livestreams The Art of Microscopes with  Steph Nowotarski December 5, 1pm ET RSVP here Steph is a biologist and artist who uses subatomic particles to reveal the tiniest parts of life as an electron...

Excited to do a live stream with @skypeascientist.bsky.social tomorrow about microscopy! www.skypeascientist.com/livestreams....

Photo of an open sketchbook. The left page has an ink drawing of a woman with short hair. The right page is a painting of a spiral intertwined with a mesh. The background is painted pink.

Photo of an open sketchbook. On the right of the image, we can see part of a curious pet cat. The pages are filled with five teal loops of paint. A red colored pencil shadow has been started to be filled in behind the loops

Photo of an open sketchbook. The left page is a tangle of branching vessels, with the background filled in with blue paint. The right page is a similar style, with the background filled in black.

Some recent #sketchbook stuff 👻

Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about 🐡🧵

Image of grub christmas ornament on christmas tree. Ornament is a grub wearing a santa hat. Text: Merry Christmas, FREE Christmas Grub STL link in bio. Inset image of regular grub, accompanied by text: Includes non-denominational grub for those who don't celebrate!

My hand holding the christmas grub ornament. Wood table in background.

Grub on christmas tree, from front

Grub on christmas tree, at night. Partially illuminated by christmas lights.

It's about that time of year- time to remind you all you can get your FREE christmas grub STL for 3D printing from either my MyMiniFactory or Cults3D pages. Enjoy and if you print one, I'd love to see pics! 🐡

A scallop showing its dozens of blue eyes on the edges of the soft tissue

A boring giant clam detailing the dozens of eyespots. It has blue flesh and the eyespots are dark and clumped together

An illustration of the oyster life cycle showing how as late larvae they develop an eyespot, likely to help them figure out where to settle and orient

Many bivalves can see! Scallops have hundreds of eyes, which they can even use to resolve simple shapes, to help them navigate while swimming. Giant clams and some other cockles have them too. Juvenile oysters have an eyespot for navigating in the larval phase #clamFacts 🧪

A color pencil and marker drawing of an Arthropleura, stylized so it fits in a square shape. It is mostly orange and yellow creams with some contrasting blue tones.

I also drew this guy today! #colorpencil #drawing

If you love science-based art, check out the 2025 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators juried art exhibit-I was honored to have 2 pieces accepted.
www.gnsi.org/2024-gnsi-ju...
#SciArt #art

Illustration of a neon variable sea slug. The image is made of cut paper layered together. The slug is black with teal and orange stripes, and the background has gray rocks with yellow, orange, and green reef flora/fauna

Papercut illustration of a crusty nautilus eating a shrimp. The nautilus is cream with red pattern on its shell, and has translucent brown papers layered on its shell to look like the fuzz characteristic of that nautilus species. The background is made of blue and patterned papers layered on each other to form a rocky oceanic outcropping

4 fried egg jellyfish made of paper swim on a painted paper background. The jellyfish show different amounts of detail and are at different proximities to the viewer. Their tops look like fried eggs, while their tentacles are white, purple, and orange. the background has blue paper to show light breaking through a green and purple sponge-painted background.

3 Years of papercut marine invertebrates 🐌🦑🪼

The Anji Biota, a diverse glass sponge reef roughly 1000 metres below the waves of Ordovician China, in the aftermath of Earth's second worst mass extinction event.

Archopterus anjiensis, a small eurypterid, glides leisurely through. #paleoart #sciart

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Sub compartments of mitochondria graphic

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🔬 Curious about #mitochondria #imaging but unsure where to begin? Our review might help! 🚀📜🧪

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#Quantitative #Microscopy #SuperResolution #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #CellBiology #mtDNA

photo of a dime-sized sea star with six pinkish-purplish arms on a pale hand. it's hard to see but it is underwater

photo of the same hand cradling an orange scaly-looking bat star also under the surface of the water

photo of a purple ochre sea star under the water of a shallow tidepool

That was our last slug of the evening (we had lost the light and didn't want to lose skin off our knees as it got harder to navigate). Here's a roundup of the evening's sea stars -- plenty of ochre stars in purple and orange, a bat star, and hundreds of little six-armed stars!

Shamelessly taking advantage of the bluesky migration to share again some of my favorite echinoderm pics 😀🤩

🔽 Acetylated tubulin (nerves and cilia) and phalloidin (muscles) stains in a juvenile sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) just after metamorphosis ⭐

KTZ_Grey_to_Black + grays

JDM_ink_Green and JDM_ink_Purple

KTZ_inv_Noice_Blue and KTZ_inv_Noice_Orange

KTZ_inv_Owl_Red and KTZ_inv_Owl_Teal

And of course the cool and soothing #invertedLUTs
with my new favorite combo: inverted grey + white.
and a last reminder, for social media sharing of cool microscopy, it's fine and good to use gamma correction to adjust the contrast without saturation!

Let's start a little game. Highlight 3 artists, one by one, that you think deserve more followers than you have.

@ehrenenglish.bsky.social likes similarly weird animals that I do, so I intimately know how hard it is to make them look right and aesthetically appealing. They're slaying at both.

illustration of many different species of mushrooms

The big migration is finally happening! I'm going to start doing some #throwbackthursday for my new followers. Here is a mushroom-filled illustration I made back in 2022 - check out my blog for process sketches and much more: matteofarinella.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/m...

#mycology #fungi #sciart 🍄

A small selection of insects I've drawn, including stag beetles, a mantis, an owl butterfly and an earwig.

Greetings, new followers (many of whom, I suspect, have migrated from The Bad Place). I'll start sharing more of my drawings here over the next few days.

Is there a starter pack for art accounts??? I need to see colors and shapes 🤤
🦷🏝️🔶➿🌈🪽

Very zoomed in photo of a paint palette. Framed in the center of the image is a glob of light pink paint that looks like a cartoon axolotl, facing left

This is the same photo, but with an overlay, emphasizing the cartoon axolotl head with a line drawing.

What I see when I'm painting 🤪