Eliza_coli

DAY 120
SPECIES 120 - Ureaplasma urealyticum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Charsoco pen

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk

Cut to white #sciart #botanicalillustration of the fly agaric #Amanita muscaria. Red cap with white remnant flakes of the universal veil, pale stipe with annulus, and the base complete with bits of grass and grains of soil. The cap is a shiny orange red.

This weekend, Hay on Wye hosts #Fungitown.

www.fungitown.org.uk

There are talks, walks, films, and stalls in #Hay Castle (where I'll be selling #fungus prints, drawing, and selling originals of my animal and #botanicalillustrations from 10 - 4 on sat 4th and sun 5th October)

Come and visit!

colorful collage of British wildlife, including a deer, rabbit, owl, squirrel, mouse, badger, fox, hedgehog, frog, kingfisher, and a pair of swallows

#WildlifeWednesday :
Owen Davey (UK, active 2009-present)
Country Life (print ed.)
300mm x 400mm
“A celebration of surprise encounters with wildlife in the British countryside.”
owendavey.com/Country-Life

A pink graphic announcing Co-op members who are participating in ShortBox Comics Fair 2025. The names are: Vincent Lau, Theo Stultz, SJ Miller, Rose Bousamra, RiotBones, Oskmund, Nozmo, LuckyCavity, Lin Visel, Laura Knetzger, Kruttika Susarla, and Jean Fhilippe.

A second pink graphic announcing more Co-op members who are participating in ShortBox Comics Fair 2025. The names are: Freya JN, Dilly, Casper Pham, Cam Collins, Bennizone, Azam Raharjo, Asia Miller, and Alex Siple.

Hey members, happy October 1st! ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is running from now until the end of the month. Show your support for some of our amazing members who are exhibiting! 🎉

shortboxcomicsfair.com

Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators We're building a free-to-use platform for artists to share their licensable work. We don't allow AI, and we don't take a cut.

Check out Armadillo: Licensing for Human Illustrators by Michele Rosenthal on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

Reproducibility is a team sport Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.

Brainy art by Yihui Chang for Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration. You need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.
by @annechurchland.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil... #sciart

Sometimes your ideas fail, and other times they turn out better than expected! #sciart

Blue Frustule Apertures 7/2020 20 X 24 inches [50.5 X 61 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton

DAY - 118
SPECIES 118 - Spiroplasma citri
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek watercolor + paper. Writech pens

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk

A black and white cartoon of fungus Pestalotiopsis microspora eating a plastic bag on an orangey background (that looks a bit like a plastic bag) - the fungus is saying 'Omnomnom'

A microbiology society International Microorganism Day branded version of the previous image. The text reads, 'a fungus that can feed on plastic and break down polyurethane. A great environmental sanitation agent. Bamidele Odumosu, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

A fungus that can eat plastic and break down polyurethane - Pestalotiopsis microspora, you're a Little Legend!

Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org champion Bamidele Odumosu for suggesting I draw this for International Microorganism Day.

🧪🐡🦠 #scicomm

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

Hey, you!

Do you know any teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, or other k-12 educators?

Please send them this picture & link www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

For what Skype a Scientist lacks in advertising budget we make up for in program value.

We're GLOBAL so this applies to all 😘

Less is more, especially on posters! When placing text on our posters, we often resort to text boxes. They are, however, very distracting and visually heavy design elements, so here are some tips on what to do with text boxes that clutter your poster.

A cat flea in mid-jump, drawn with Micron pens using a crosshatched technique. The drawing is in a sketchbook, which is on a wooden table with glasses, pens, and eraser next to it.

Cat flea, homage to Hooke. Micron in Moleskine. 🔬🖊️

@socialinfluenza.bsky.social - electron macroscopy....

A black and white cartoon of fungus Pestalotiopsis microspora eating a plastic bag on an orangey background (that looks a bit like a plastic bag) - the fungus is saying 'Omnomnom'

A microbiology society International Microorganism Day branded version of the previous image. The text reads, 'a fungus that can feed on plastic and break down polyurethane. A great environmental sanitation agent. Bamidele Odumosu, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

A fungus that can eat plastic and break down polyurethane - Pestalotiopsis microspora, you're a Little Legend!

Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org champion Bamidele Odumosu for suggesting I draw this for International Microorganism Day.

🧪🐡🦠 #scicomm

Anything to report?

CellWalk is featured in Apple's new article on Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models.

It's a really fun new way to learn about concepts and terms in the app, and I really enjoyed building it.

Four snakes in conversation. Snake 1: "I'm just saying, "slithering" sounds kinda gross..." Snake 2: "It's better than "wriggling". Snake 3: "Is it, though?" Snake 4: "Can't we just call it "snake-walking"?" Caption: Quarterly Meeting of the Association of Snake Lexicologists

Slithering. www.patreon.com/posts/slithe...

even better when read in your head with a lisp...

#microsky

Close-up of the apothecia disks of Caloplaca lichen. The disks are round with raised rims on the edge. They are orange and sandy textured. The thallus is grainy and yellow-green.

Colony of Caloplaca lichen on birch tree. There are orange dots on grainy yellow-green background.

Ever-so-photogenic Caloplaca sp. Orange color really catches eyes in the field. Yachiho Kogen, Sakuho-machi, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends
ダイダイゴケの仲間。長野県佐久穂町八千穂高原 #地衣類

The Science of Shimmer Physics, Paint, and the Art of Craig Cahoon (with help from Dr. Greg Gbur)

It's not magic, it's physics! How painted surfaces seem to shimmer, with a big assist from @drskyskull.bsky.social #sciart #scicomm

Comic - Panel 1: close up of a worm face with two tentacles and a mouth shaped like a 'w', sort of cat-like, they are saying "Remember, when life gives you a dark cold void, cast your invisible mucus web to ensnare all the joy and nourishment floating in the world." Panel 2: large panel with the round butt-shaped worm barfing out a sheet of sparkling mucus, sound effect in the mucus "BLARGHHH"

Motivational Mucus! Behold the glorious Pigbutt Worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...

Where to find science communication and STEM communities | Virginia Schutte Where you can find SciComm and identity-based STEM communities online.

Or look on the #SciComm communities webpage I maintain for other communities that can help: www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-comm...

Win Cash, Save Science: Share Your SciJourney! — Galactic Polymath Join the 2025 #MySciJourney Challenge! We are looking for scientists at all stages to share their journeys in science! Teachers: You and your students can help decide the winners! #scicomm #SaveNSF

NCSE is proudly co-sponsoring Galactic Polymath's #MySciJourney Challenge, dedicated to #SciComm! The deadline to submit videos has been extended to Oct 12. Kids and adults are invited to enter. Best videos will receive awards and cash prizes. www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij... #science

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
🐡
#fungi
#invertebrates

An infographic created by @astronerdika titled “MIRROR, MIRROR, reflecting our LASER beam… what’s the LOUDEST signal gravitational wave we’ve seen?” explaining the gravitational-wave discovery GW250114 and how the observation confirms Hawking’s area law. The visual shows the mirrors in a gravitational-wave interferometer speaking about the loudest event they have seen. There are several illustrations as follows: 1. A simplified diagram of a laser interferometer. A red laser beam from a labeled “LASER source” hits a beam splitter, travels down two perpendicular arms, reflects off round mirrors, and recombines at a labeled “detector.” A label near the top-right mirror reads: “the DETECTOR, signal seen by LIGO Hanford & LIGO Livingston.”
 2. An illustration of a binary black hole merger, with two black circles spiraling inward. They are labeled ~34 solar masses and ~32 solar masses. Surrounding spiral lines represent gravitational waves. A nearby caption reads: “the SOURCE, Discovered in 2025, on January 14, at 08:22:03 UTC.” 3. A prominent speech bubble with white text on a purple background states: “GW250114 is the loudest & clearest signal we’ve seen!” A smaller note below reads: “as of January 2025.” 4. Another speech bubble reads: “AND we saw that Hawking was right too!” 5. Visual explanation of Hawking’s Area Law. Two small circles labeled “this BH” + “this BH” are shown to the left of a “<” symbol, pointing to a larger circle labeled “the surface area of the merged BH.” Below there is the explanatory sentence: “GW250114’s remnant event horizon area is larger than the sum of the individual areas.” 6. A section titled “the PAPERS” lists two arXiv references: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08054 and https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.08099 Note: This infographic plays off the classic line from Snow White, “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” Here, the “mirrors” are the ones inside the laser interferometer, reflecting light to detect passing gravitational waves.

Mirror, mirror, reflecting our [LASER] beam...
What is the loudest [gravitational wave] signal that we've seen?

It’s #GW250114!

(Yes, it’s been two weeks since it was announced, but I can still celebrate! 🎉 )

#EinsteinWasRight #HawkingWasRight
@ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

DAY - 117
SPECIES 117 - Baekduia alba
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper. Chromatek, QoR watercolor. Writech, Kingart pens

#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk

Ahhhh it's so good Jordan - I love the hourglass desk!

Illustration of a young woman in casual attire struggling to squeeze through a crowd of besuited corporate looking men laughing saying things like "Got another AI pitch, boss!" "Billionaire Space Race Part 10!" "*scoffs!* I was like, completely, proton'd, yah?" "Yaah, yaah, yaah" (a la Bob Mortimer's obnoxious "Train Guy" routine)

I'm reminded almost daily of this panel from a comic I made with @scicommsuwe.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social & @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social about the challenges of being a science journalist in the UK and India.

Full comic here: www.sciencemediacentre.in/exploring-sc...