Paige Jarreau

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Did I just fall in love with termites?!

YouTube video by LSU 💧Innovating Wastewater Monitoring #LSUResearchBite

Pathogens are MOST problematic in areas where we have the LEAST amount of data. In a low-resource setting, using a $10,000 gold-standard #wastewater sampler to test surface waters for #viruses and bacteria just doesn't work.

LSU engineers created a $4 alternative. www.youtube.com/shorts/MzXAK...

HOW SLEEP BOOSTS MEMORY: Hippocampus replays waking activity in bursts. Entorhinal cortex moves memories into long-term. Slow waves make the neocortex more receptive to information.

#LSU on #neuroscience and #sleep: Why is sleep so important to #memory consolidation? What impact does sleep loss have on your brain and your memories? Dr. Juhee Haam in the LSU College of Science answers these questions and more in our latest Research Insight!

Read: lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...

Learn more about this research in our Research Bite: Feeding Gut Microbes Fiber Could Be Key to Slowing Alzheimer’s Disease - lsu.edu/blog/2025/11...
#dementia #microbiome #guthealth #fiber #sciart #scicomm

Three images of microglia: the first is large and well branched, from a healthy brain. The next is small and has lost its branches, in a brain with dementia. The next has restored branching, from a brain with dementia but where the host (a mouse) ate a high fiber diet.

This is your brain on... fiber! 🍎

Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans are studying how dietary #fibers can promote healthy gut microbes that lower brain #inflammation in Alzheimer's disease and restore healthy functioning of microglia (brain cells).

What would YOUR #microglia look like?

Screenshot of the "infographic of the week" with panels from the comic about iron and antibacterial resistence.

Cool - the comic I made for @lsu.bsky.social with @fromthelabbench.bsky.social @jpjordan.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social has been featured NATURE's newsletter!
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So amazing!

@lsuscience.bsky.social @jordancollver.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org

Check it out!!! Amazing #sciart I created with @jordancollver.bsky.social - dive into the world of #bacteria to learn about their hunger for IRON and how starving them of this element could help us make new antibiotics - and not a moment too soon, as the antibiotic resistance epidemic grows.

Comic page about how bacteria are able to internally store just the right amount of iron to survive, and a new drug can block their storage which kills the bacteria. The story is centred around a doctor and patient, and athropomorphic bacteria.

Here's a comic about a new approach to antibiotic-resitant bacteria I made for Louisiana State University with @fromthelabbench.bsky.social and @jpjordan.bsky.social #sciart

Read the full comic and learn more about the research on the LSU website: www.lsu.edu/winning-team...

#sciart #comic #sciencecomic

Panel 1 — The Question Visual: Young Paul Nurse at a desk, thinking deeply, with poster in the background of dividing budding yeast cells, some bigger than others, with “Lee Hartwell” appearing on it. Caption: As a grad student, Paul Nurse wondered about the fundamentals of life.  Paul: “All living things reproduce – a good place to start.”

Panel 2 — Inspiration & Discovery Visual: Nurse at a microscope, spotting two odd yeast cells amongst others that are normally long and “sausage” shaped, and these odd ones are smaller than the rest. In the background, a whiteboard with “critical genes” and a list of them. Caption: Paul looked for fission yeast cell mutants that couldn’t divide, to understand which genes are critical for reproduction. Paul: “What a strange wee mutant!” Panel 3 — From Yeast to Humans Visual: Paul and Melanie Lee looking at a whiteboard laying out an experiment in a sketch format, where a “library of human genes” is going to be “sprinkled” onto “mutant yeast cells with defective cdc2” Caption: The wee mutant had a defective protein kinase that acts as a “brake” for another protein that drives cell division: CDC2. Paul and Melanie Lee planned an experiment to determine if a CDC2-equivalent is present in humans. Paul: "Cdc2 is the key!" Melanie: "But does it exist in humans?" Panel 4 — Eureka A zoom in of a pipette dropping “human DNA” library of genes onto small wee mutant yeast cells that aren’t dividing… One of the cells is now because it took up one of the genes, dividing. Caption: “Eureka!” Paul: "This means..." Melanie: “CDC2 is conserved in all complex organisms!!” Panel 5 — Legacy & Impact Visual: Older Paul Nurse with a Nobel medal and a Lasker prize on his desk, looking at a magazine news article labeled “CDK1 – A Target for Cancer Therapy.” Caption: Paul’s curiosity led to the discovery of a master regulator of the cell cycle. Paul: “Stay curious!”

I worked with @tysonmedstudios.bsky.social to create this sketchy comic about Paul Nurse’s groundbreaking work on genes that control the cell cycle! Worked on this as a “bonus” to a job interview assignment. If you love it let us know. 🥰 #scicomm @nobelprize.bsky.social

YouTube video by Lifeology App Style in SciComm Webinar

Came across this webinar I took part in a few years ago with Prof. Massimiano Bucchi and @fromthelabbench.bsky.social which might still be of interest to #SciArt folks here on BlueSky. It's about a free Lifeology course I illustrated on "style" 😎: lifeomic.app.us.lifeology.io/viewer/lifeo...

Silenced Science Stories Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.

If you haven't checked out the @silencedscience.bsky.social site in a minute, it is full of amazing portraits of scientists formerly employed by or supported by federal science agencies. There are so many amazing stories here, and compelling research that deserves funding! silencedsciencestories.com

Ana Vaz, Fish Biologist From the time she was nine years old, Ana Vaz dreamed of becoming an oceanographer. She sees everything in the ocean as interconnected. She’s passionate about understanding those connections.

A beautiful story and amazing science from @oceanana.bsky.social, former fish biologist with @noaa.gov, with a stunning visual by science artist Kayla Y Lim!

Read the full story on our website! @silencedscience.bsky.social silencedsciencestories.com/f/ana-vaz-fi...

#sciencematters #scicomm

I’ve lost so many of my coworkers and friends, not to mention the directors who brought me in, who had a vision for our center at NIH to do more innovative scicomm. Let’s just say it’s been a tough time to stay motivated!

Is anyone else feeling this way? 😭

Working for a federal science agency this year has been low key traumatizing. I am lucky to still have my job but I feel like I’m not doing enough… I feel guilty, and that the least I can do is stay busy doing #scicomm, but everything is going so slow that I feel I’m not providing much value…

Hey folks! My summer is going to be quieter than I thought, so I’d love to take on freelance science communication work!

If you need science writing, graphic / science visualization creation, or scientific writing / manuscript editing, please reach out!

The Future Of Researchers In The U.S. Is In Jeopardy Funding cuts are having a devastating toll on researchers' careers and threatening future innovation in the U.S. Their request: bring science-based decisions back.

I just cited your work on #SilencedScienceStories in my new post, Paige Brown Jarreau www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... Thanks for your good work in highlighting this travesty. @fromthelabbench.bsky.social

Desirae Abella, Natural Resource Specialist Desirae Abella is a Former Natural Resource Specialist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She is a dedicated professional with extensive experience in natural resource conservation, agriculture, and po...

"As a tribal member who has no allotted lands or mineral rights or head rights, I find it difficult to grasp the fact that I, in 2025, have been traumatized by the federal government and the BIA.” - Desirae Abella, Natural Resource Specialist

silencedsciencestories.com/f/desirae-ab...

Silenced Science Stories Explore the people and groundbreaking science research affected by federal firings, budget cuts, and grant terminations. Featuring scientists via art.

Hi all! We are still looking for scientists who’ve been terminated from federal positions or who’ve had grants terminated to tell their stories for illustrated portraits at www.silencedsciencestories.com. Scientists will be able to approve any materials before we publish! Please spread the word.

Portrait of Joy, a young woman with olive skin and brown hair wearing a hiking backpack, with a lizard on her shoulder. Around her are icons of wildlife, animal tracks, binoculars, and a blue bird called the Pinyon Jay. She is quoted: "When small parts of an ecosystem become sick, ripple effects can touch everyone and everything."

Joy Havens is a terminated wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

"When small parts of an ecosystem become sick, ripple effects can touch everyone and everything."

silencedsciencestories.com/f/joy-havens...
#sciart by @aprilmycetes.bsky.social #sciencematters #fedscientist

It truly was!

A Patient's Perspective on Federal Science Laura Collins is a recently retired federal civil servant with nearly four decades of dedicated service to the American public. She also has a unique perspective on the importance of federally funded ...

Laura Collins, a longtime federal civil servant, has a unique perspective on the importance of federally funded research. In 2023, she received immunotherapy for #breastcancer... a therapy that emerged through #NIHfunded research.

silencedsciencestories.com/f/a-patients... @gloglita.bsky.social

Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate

Studies like this analysis of weather station data have shown that increasing heat and rainfall extremes are already far outside the historical climate.
Whether you like it or prefer to deny it.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m so sorry. We have a form for collecting stories if you’d tell yours for a feature.

Yes! We want to feature engineers!