Missing Kudelka right now

A Kudelka for every issue.

a naked mole rat of a candle

Me on my way to change the world

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

Mathematicians discover new ways to make round shapes A new proof solves a long-standing problem about the doughnut-shaped torus

A new proof solves a long-standing problem about the doughnut-shaped torus

It's really daft that even though I've been involved with cancer research for my whole life, I still think that this time, *this time,* we're gonna buck the trend

Same.

Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.

This fucking sucks

Jon Kudelka cartoon for Tasmanian Inquirer to accompany an article on political donations reform for local government. The cartoon shows a rubbish truck labelled 'donations' emptying a sidewalk bin with a bystander saying "Sure, it's a bit of a loophole, but it does make bin night a bit more of an event ..."

Jon Kudelka cartoon for Tasmanian Inquirer to accompany an article on political donations reform in Tasmania. The Integrity Commission and many civil society groups wanted all donations over $1000 disclosed. The Liberal government wanted the threshold set at $5000. The cartoon shows two men in suits & dark sunglasses and each is pushing an empty shopping trolley in a store. Behind them is a box labelled "Lettuce's $999.95 each". One of the men asked the other "How much political influence could you possible buy for a thousand bucks these days?" To which the other responds, "I expect that's the point"

Jon Kudelka cartoon for Tasmanian Inquirer to accompany an article on political donations reform. Two people are sitting in an underground vault with a big bag of money falling from a chute in the ceiling. The bag is about to land in a wheelbarrow already heavily loaded with bags of money. The man said to the woman sitting next to him, "Of course, the tricky bit with donation reform is, and I'm aware we can't say this part out loud, not upsetting the donors".

Vale Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social and deepest condolences to family and friends

We were honoured to have Jon draw 3 cartoons for a series of articles we published on political donations reform in Tasmania #auspol #politas

Thank you Jon

Someone walking in the desert past Uluru and a big sign saying "Here is an No-Effort Zero-Risk Opportunity to be on the Right side of History" person says "no"

Here's a threat of Kudelka Gold

We keep losing the best of men.

My deepest condolences to his wife Maggie, their two children and his sister. I'm so sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

Kudelka tweeting "Upulie for PM" is one of the chief highlights of my life.

Jon used draw me cartoon cakes and well, cartoons on demand. One of his more spontaneous works in reaction my complaints late in the lab ended up as my avatar for many years. I'm sorry we never met in person. I'm sorry science couldn't help you in time.

Vale, @kudelka.bsky.social. Brilliant cartoonist and artist.

Thank you for everything, Jon

wait...what

"Horny virus???"

WTAF

*Lisa Randall*??

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Grayish sandstone bedding plane with many pencil-width sized and long meandering and intersecting fossil burrows, each with a mensicate fill (like little dixie cups stacked in one another).

For #FossilFriday, exquisitely preserved insect burrows (probably beetles) with backfill structure preserved as bas relief on a sandstone surface, from the Early Cretaceous (~130 mya) Botucatu Formation of Brazil. Specimen on display in the Mário Tolentino Museum of Science, São Carlos, Brazil. 🧪🪲🪨⚒️

February's fossil of the month is now on display. Found by one of our wardens during a lunchbreak wander, this slab of limestone was hiding a mass of 200-million-year old crinoid heads and tendrils all entwined and laying over each other!
#FossilFriday
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a life reconstruction of the five-eyed marine cambrian arthropod opabinia

a photo of the opabinia holotype, a complete and well-preserved specimen

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is opabinia, an arthropod from the famous cambrian burgess shale in canada. equipped with five eyes and a clawed, proboscis-like frontal appendage, opabinia is one of the most intriguing and bizarre animals from the cambrian period
(art by prehistorica_cm)

Two orange cats sleeping against each other. One cat rests his head on his brother’s paws as he sleeps

Missing my smoochie babies

Hey I saw a squirrel yesterday and today at least three kinds of birds when usually there’s just magpies. My life is very exciting

The software froze so why not just start again

Can’t wait for Lehmann’s next piece on the Danger of Brown Men (P$kis) To the Purity of White Girls, I imagine that’s a moral issue for her

Please can I just be left alone with my data, man I got analyses to do