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Petra Korlević

@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social

Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟 Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own πŸ‡­πŸ‡· expat in πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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Cover art for β€œBeetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.

Cover art for β€œBeetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.

My debut book of comics is officially LIVE for PREORDER!

03.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 779    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10

every day here

03.03.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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A bear in a cozy sweater baking a cake with her duck friend 🍎

(I might be due for a springtime update soon 🌱)

03.03.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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their fat little baby hands dude i WILL cry

03.03.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A traditional illustration of a fat teal seal with stars around it and the word β€œwoah” arcing over its back. The background is a scribbly dark pink colored pencil, and the rest is mainly painted with paint pens.

A traditional illustration of a fat teal seal with stars around it and the word β€œwoah” arcing over its back. The background is a scribbly dark pink colored pencil, and the rest is mainly painted with paint pens.

⭐️ woah ⭐️

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #posca ]

03.03.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 729    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0

art & nationality

02.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Dogs don’t give a shit about your pomodoro timer bollocks.

03.03.2026 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
C'est moi avec un attrape-insectes. Très beau, très adorable!

C'est moi avec un attrape-insectes. Très beau, très adorable!

Self portrait for an insect net tutorial
Anyone interested?

22.01.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Burrowing owl scowling from behind an embankment.

Burrowing owl scowling from behind an embankment.

Good morning! πŸͺΆ

03.03.2026 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

art & nationality πŸ’œ

03.03.2026 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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they are like the same genre of beastie to me but springtails say :) and velvet worms say :D

03.03.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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just a little tiger splashing around 🐯

03.03.2026 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

oh to be a cat lying on a new heated clothes dryer

03.03.2026 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

QRP with your skull art! πŸ’€

super old vector/raster I did for one of the OG @redvoxband.com songs Atom Bomb

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTg...

02.03.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€˜I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out? Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

πŸͺ° Art Borkent: "β€˜I love #midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for #taxonomy in danger of dying out?"
by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
#Ceratopogonidae

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

03.03.2026 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is like that classic anxiety dream you have where you're in school and you show up to take a big test and everyone else is cats wearing nothing but a neckties

02.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t know Microslop was a thing until I saw headlines about Microsoft trying to ban Microslop on its Discord. Now I shall say Microslop a lot. That’s how it works.

It’s good when Microsoft, a company that likes genocide and environmental destruction, doesn’t like things.

03.03.2026 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1939    πŸ” 481    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 8

it is like if velvet worms decided to be COMPACT and TINIER
perfect little pudgy creatures

03.03.2026 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

they have a little cartoon smiley face and tiny toesies i am going to burst into tears

03.03.2026 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

i post dumb insect shitposts here and like 20 people go YEAHBWOOOOIIIII

03.03.2026 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a site that rewards you for acting out on your worst impulses. The culture of that site rots your brain, get off of it before it gets worse.

03.03.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

God, yeah

02.03.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

there's..... commercial means to leave Gaza???? since WHEN???

03.03.2026 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES PLS MORE APOCALYPSE HONSEFLY

the idea came from @franzanth.bsky.social to begin with

03.03.2026 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

actually thinking about it for our @introvertebrates.bsky.social etsy ahop lol lol

03.03.2026 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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just me doodling some of my fav thing (bugs and owls)

26.02.2026 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
MASSIMO - Benzina
YouTube video by drvosjecaF MASSIMO - Benzina

youtu.be/rHPkwNw4n_4?...

03.03.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sami 'RVATI odi

03.03.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

morala sam ja onda istarsku kad smo vec izredali rvacku zastavu lol

03.03.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Art & nationality

03.03.2026 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0