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Did some sketching at the Shedd Aquarium earlier this week & will totally be back to do this again!

I fell in love with their Amazon Rising exhibit— fantastic place to observe some really neat species AND delightful exhibition design

#sciart

07.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

25.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Definitely don’t poke this mantis shrimp, lest it poke back. Credit: Chris Spain | CC0

Mantis shrimp can break glass with their powerful punches. Now we know why they don't break their own claws. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

07.02.2025 17:23 — 👍 206    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 5

illustration of a person in a lab coat holding a pen and an e-cigarette box. the pen is a hybridization of a fountain pen and a e-cigarette “pen”. it’s tip glows with heat as it sears a warning label onto the box. smoke and embers disperse from a growing ring of fire where the pen has touched the box.

“Controlled Burn”

one of my favorite editorial pieces i’ve made! delighted to have it featured as the cover artwork in the American Journal of Bioethics’ Oct 2022 publication #bioethics

04.02.2025 05:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

thank you!!! it was a delight to make :)

04.02.2025 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

while it’s not much of an educational piece, i am pretty cheesed to see my progress re: materials & lighting

here is its first iteration from 2022! you will sadly have to pry the continued pop of color i’ve kept on the bones and meniscus from my cold, dead hands (and yellowed bones)

03.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

before my sci art era, i used to work for an orthopedic research lab that investigated methods for cartilage and meniscus repair.

this model is like an ode to all the knee joint samples i cultivated MSCs from :’)

03.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

whatever dramatically lights your knee joint like it’s a product ad 📸✨ #medart

03.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

April Damon - Myco Mutualists Unity 3D

this project was a fun synthesis of 3D modeling, 2D animation, and Unity game design training from my biomedical visualization master’s program in 2023!

want a peek behind the curtain? you can check out more details about my process on my portfolio: aprildamon.myportfolio.com/myco-mutuali...

03.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

what if you could bring a piece of your favorite museum exhibit home with you? check out a prototype i made to test the viability of a mobile-based exhibit experience!

explore symbiotic partnerships & (lovingly sculpted) 3D models of fungi 🍄✨ #SciArt #SciComm

aprilcider.itch.io/fungi-intera...

03.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

will be slooooowly migrating some art from the ashes of twitter! sorry for the spam :’)

02.02.2025 20:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

some fun studies & style explorations from last winter ❄️

02.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#sciart some fun guys i sculpted in blender for huevember :~)

02.02.2025 19:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0