Congratulations to @bradguigar.com for making it onto the cover of the New Yorker!
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Congratulations to @bradguigar.com for making it onto the cover of the New Yorker!
15.09.2025 17:30 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2Need some big data of your own? Check out the link in my latest issue of my FREE science cartoon newsletter:
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One of about 50 cartoons I drew for my book, The Teaching Assistant's Guide. www.thetasguide.com/cartoons
24.07.2025 12:56 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Ah, one proton more or less... does it really matter? :)
04.05.2025 15:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The curcumin molecule, which gives turmeric its distinct color, looks like a cute crab. Here a turmeric-themed post from my FREE science cartoon newsletter: himelblau.substack.com/p/trendy-tur...
04.05.2025 00:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Comic image of a computer technician and a lab researcher
Will virtual cells move biology research out of the lab and into the computer? Newsletter post (and cartoons) inspired by @erictopol.bsky.social Ground Truth Podcast. open.substack.com/pub/himelblau
27.04.2025 16:12 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Researchers are discovering new organelles all the time. Collaboration with Shannon O'Dell. (from my FREE science cartoon newsletter: himelblau.substack.com)
01.02.2025 16:45 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0In 1980, when Joy Division sang, βLove will tear us apart again,β they were thinking about cytokinesis when two βdaughter cellsβ are pinched apart by strong molecular forces. Read the full newsletter post: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
26.01.2025 02:08 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Open your sock drawer, yank a pair of socks apart, and put each in a separate drawer. Now repeat that with every pair. Not only have you created a wardrobe headache for yourself, youβve also demonstrated the main event of anaphase. Read the full post: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
19.01.2025 14:54 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0drawing of snowmen in a laboratory.
In lab, proteins called enzymes to do important jobs like sequencing DNA and building new genes. Enzymes need to be kept cold. Read the full post here: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
19.01.2025 03:15 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2In the kitchen, you follow a recipe. In lab, you follow a protocol. I was a graduate student in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin. My background was in biology. Many of my peers had a chemistry background. Guess whose experiments worked better.
13.01.2025 03:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Thanks!
13.01.2025 03:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My cartoon in The New Yorker this week. See more at himelblau.com. This is the first cartoon I ever sold to the magazine (March 2021).
05.11.2024 01:31 β π 36 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0Cartoon in the New Yorker this week.
16.03.2024 02:41 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Who doesnβt love poems about mitosis? New post from my FREE science cartoon newsletter:
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Mitosis limericks⦠part 1 or4. Join my FREE science cartoon newsletter for more.
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Iβm excited to bring back these two from New Yorker Caption Contest 860 for a NEW caption contest for wordsbelow.app Hereβs the twistβall captions must be ABOUT THE NEW YORKER CAPTION CONTEST (Itβs very metaβ¦)
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Nice to be here. Iβm a biologist and cartoonist. Check out my FREE newsletter. A new science cartoon every few weeks: www.himelblau.com
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