John Chilton

Cartoon of a spleen macrophage as a vampire

With spookily good timing this year my lecture on red blood cells - and them being eaten by the vampire macrophages in the spleen - falls on Halloween! 🎃
#blood #MedEd #SciArt 🧪 #EduSky

Swan & O'Ligo organic myelin. Ranvier compatible. Central or peripheral delivery. The finest in sartorial saltation.
#glia #SciArt #neuroscience #neuroSkyence 🧪
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Cartoon of can of brain juice advertising poster

The world's No. 1 Brain Juice. Now available in a can.
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#SciArt 🧪 #glia #neuroscience #neuroSkyence

Cartoon ependymal cell

New from epenDymal labs - DYMAL Brain Juice! For all your brain hydration and nutrition needs!!
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#SciArt 🧪 #neuroSkyence #neuroscience #glia

Red Blood Cells and Granulocytes • The Blood Project "The Granulocytes" Consider the following after viewing the artwork: How does the artistic representation of blood cells and granulocytes influence your

My 'Drawing Blood' series of artwork is now featured on The Blood Project! 🩸
There's even reflective Qs to consider after viewing them. It's brilliant to be collaborating on this:
www.thebloodproject.com/red-blood-ce...
#SciArt #SciComm 🧪 #eduSky

Boosting the learning from Wordotomy by adding augmented reality!!
I sculpted the RBC in #blender and used Halo AR for visualisation.
Really excited by the potential! 🤓
Going to be a job making models for the whole pack tho!🥴😂
#AR #3D #eduSky 🧪 #sciArt #blood

Up for debate...?! 😉🥸

Gamifying anatomy outreach: An underexplored opportunity This article explores the underutilized potential of incorporating gamified approaches into anatomy outreach initiatives. While gamification and game-based learning approaches have been widely adopte....

Interested in #outreach? Want to use #games to make it more effective but don't know where to start? Help is at hand with our new paper! The underexplored opportunity of gamifying outreach, using #anatomy as an example with @mikaelastiver.bsky.social
Open access: doi.org/10.1002/ase....
#EduSky 🧪

Cartoon of photoreceptor cone cells, a cyan one resembling Salvador Dali and a red one resembling Vincent Van Gogh, both responding to a magenta drawing of them.

I've co-opted two of my favourite artists personified as cone cells to illustrate how we perceive colour and thus many great works of art.
axonology.com/cartoon/cones/
#SciArt #neuroscience #neuroSkyence 🧪

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#EduSky

We’re excited to join the Bluesky community! If you’re part of the molecular biosciences, follow us for updates on all our activities from across the Society and Portland Press. We will be posting about upcoming events, webinars, grants, published articles, and more.

Cartoon of retinal photoreceptor rod cells looking for photons

Struggling to get going on those dark January mornings? - thank your rod photoreceptors for picking out the photons in the gloom!
axonology.com/cartoon/rods/
#neuroSky #neuroscience #SciArt 🧪

Diagram titled granulocytes, showing vector art images of a neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil and mast cell

Happy new year folks! I've made some more free vector art at scidraw.io hope these help with your fresh presentations and figures 🤓
#SciArt #immunosky #immunology #microbiology 🧪

Made a table for axonology jr for Christmas. 52 sea creatures based on old engravings lovingly pyrographed on before being lacquered 🐙🦑🐟🐠🐡

Arrived at work to find my insulin receptor model has been turned into a festive decoration for the daily timetable! 😅🎄
#eduSky 🧪

Get up for the swim stay for the sunrise.
As the old saying goes 'Red in the morning, shepherd's warning of Storm Darragh approaching...' 💨

Vintage style illustration of the torso emphasising the cardiac anatomy titled Anatomy for Cardiologists

Gently poke fun at your nearest and dearest cardiologist with this handy anatomical illustration 💓
Soften the blow by gifting it to them on some smart merch now added to my 'Drawing Blood' collection
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1668...
#SciArt #medSky 🧪

Help #neurosky #neuroskyence

Are you (or do you know) someone studying the transcription factor Ascl4/Mash4? 🧠 #neurodevelopment #differentiation #neurons #wiring

N.b. This is not the same as the acyl CoA synthetase protein ASCL4

I have some questions 💡

Please share! 🙏

I've just added this brain (dorsal view) for free download from scidraw.io a fantastic library of *free* vector art of all things scientific.
Exactly what you needed for that important figure/presentation/tattoo...
#eduSky #SciArt #neuroSky 🧪

Can't decide which is your favourite granulocyte? Don't worry we've all been there.
Problem solved - now you can have all 4 on the same design!
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#immunoSky #microSky #SciArt 🧪 #immunology #microbiology

This is beautiful 🤩 the exact opposite of Winnie the Pooh: 'a bear of very much brain'

Looking forward to AXON2025 - mark your calendars

Glad it's not just me with the astronomy (beautiful tho many of the pics are) 😅 lots of seismic plots too...

Neuro Bollocks(And Psychotherapy) What is it about humans and the prefix 'neuro-'? What makes us so susceptible to suspending our disbelief in its presence? And why, as thera

Oldie But Goldie:
Don’t you just love little #neurobollocks from time to time? 🧠🤯😭
A funny blog post about a serious problem in #psychotherapy

#NeuroTherapy #TherapistSky #neuroscience #NeuroCounseling #mentalhealth
www.neuroscienceandpsychotherapy.com/post/neuro-b...

Wooden chopping board pyrograph etched with a cartoon pyramidal neuron, a lime and a knife next to the original cartoon of a pyramidal neuron shown as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh

Some of my designs are available as one-off pyrographed handmade chopping boards. No chance to digitally retouch these if I slip!
Here's the pyramidal neuron
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(*lime not included)
#neuroSky #neuroscience #SciArt 🧪

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!WELCOME!

thought we might need a starter pack for all those coming over from the birdhouse - here's a GliaSky list.

apologies for missing many of you - please do reply to get added

and remember to repost so the newbies can find us!

I had no idea! Every day's a school day 🤓
In my defence I've not needed to go to a barber for 30 years 😂😂

Poster for a microglial barber shop

The eagle eyed might have spotted this in the back of Mike R O'Glia's barbershop in my recent post 'Synaptic Pruning' 👀
Now you can get your own copy from my RedBubble store
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1662...
#SciArt 🧪 #neuroskyence #immunoSky

Thanks Ali. Some fine choices in there!! 😉😏👍

A spoof movie poster for the cover of a medical school newsletter showing a zombie appendix comig out of a graveyard

Taking a break from the serious side of the job on Friday afternoon to put together the cover of the School newsletter (the DLE is our loveably byzantine digital learning environment)
#edusky #sciart #meded