Caroline Hu

I personally really like that idea. What gets done in the class is ultimately up to the students. Students choose their collaborators and discuss the intended audience with their collaborator. Also, we previously worked with @nicoleackermans.com on a comic about head injury! 🐐🧠

I have dreams of running a summer program for amphibious folks like us, but that dream may need to wait until after tenure. 😅

The undermining of public trust in science continues. Scientific funding is being squeezed and subject to censorship. Come practice your science communication skills and collaborate with a fellow curious and creative human to share your science. 🌟

All countries, scientific fields (yes social science too!), and career stages eligible. Limited to those actively engaged in research or recent grads. A major goal here is to provide art and design students with a glimpse behind-the-scenes of research.

Leafcutter ant holds up a large piece of leaf that says "Call for Scientists."

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

Guten Tag #PortfolioDay!

I'm Ned, a queer cartoonist whose work focuses on heroes, health, and history. I'm open to all work and an agent.f

My most recent book - WHO DISCOVERED HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER? JACQUES COUSTEAU with @hudrewthis.bsky.social is an NSTA-CBC best STEM book of the year.

New student x scientist comics collab! Curious about the science behind hallucinations? Who isn't?? Learn about a tool scientists are using to understand hallucinations & mental imagery. 🧠👁️🎆

Scientist: @kerblooee.bsky.social, University of Liverpool
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Student: Greta Dalton-Kay, BFA Illustration '26

A man wearing an Aqualung flips underwater around the words "Hip hip hooray". In the next panel is the cover for Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau by Ned Wolfe and Caroline Hu. A heading reads "Children's Book Council 2026 Best STEM Book List"

One of the great joys of my year was the release of WHO DISCOVERED HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER? JACQUES COUSTEAU, my first graphic novel with @hudrewthis.bsky.social! Our book was named one of the best STEM books of the year by the Children's Book Council and National Science Teachers Association

Eyeball Caroline, shrunk down and sitting at the edge of tide pool. She is wearing a red watch cap, similar to what Jacques Cousteau often wore later in life. MICE, Boston, MA, 12/6 & 12/7. Table 10a. Science Comics Carousel, 12/6, 1-2 PM, Thurman Center Stage. Debut graphic novel! New Zine, New Print.

See you @massmice.bsky.social this weekend! I'll be there at Table 10a with my debut graphic novel, Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau. I will also be taking part in the Science Comics Carousel on Saturday at 1 PM. It's going to be a blast. 🌟

Science Comics (in the style of the NASA font) Carousel - Comics Performances and Picture Shows, there are five different images from each of the different cartoonists and the MICE logo. Saturday December 6, 2025 1pm, Thurman Center Stage, Fuller Building at Boston University, 808 Commonwealth Avenue

The Science Comics Carousel is going to be so much fun! It's Saturday, December 6th from 1-2PM @massmice.bsky.social, hosted by @rsikoryak.bsky.social with @apbgraphics.bsky.social @jereldye.bsky.social @hudrewthis.bsky.social @linseedling.bsky.social and me! www.micexpo.org/schedule-2025

“We’re Hiring! Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing”

Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!

Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7

Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs

"Nearly 200 attendees gather at MCPHS for the New England Graphic Medicine Summit to examine how visual storytelling makes illness and care more understandable."
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@hudrewthis.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @cssorg.bsky.social
#GraphicMedicine #HealthHumanities

Wow! Is there a way to purchase these?

Nonfiction Comics Festival Burlington, VT 11/15 Table 20b Speaking Event: Graphic Novel Collaboration Panel MICE Boston, MA 12/6 - 12/7 Table 10a Speaking Event: Science Comics Carousel

Capping off 2025 with two of my favorite comics festivals! See you at Nonfiction Comics Festival and @massmice.bsky.social .

An open comic book features panels with a variety of colorful nondescript things happening and jumping off the pages. People are collaborating across some of the panels. A large title in a speech bubble shares, “Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative,” a new must-have from cartoonists Eleri Harris (top-left) and Shay Mirk (bottom-left).

Join cartoonists Eleri Harris and Shay Sarah Mirk to celebrate the release of their book, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. Finally, a guide into one of the most transformative ways of creating comics!

Thank you!! :)

Met my books for the first time. 'Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau' by @nedlazaruswolfe.bsky.social and me is out now! #unboxing

A page from my upcoming book. Jacques emerges from snorkeling and asks Philippe: "When does the new graphic novel about me, Jacques Cousteau, come out?" "The one by Ned Wolfe and Caroline Hu?" "Oui." "Tomorrow! 11/4"

@nedlazaruswolfe.bsky.social and my book—Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau—comes out tomorrow!! 🤿🐟🌟

I plan to wake up, go vote in my local election, and maybe do an unboxing??

Caroline's hand holding a NEGM25 Sticker above a table covered with copies of the same sticker. The sticker features the Phineas Gage skull logo design.

Count down three days until #NEGM25!

Tuesday, 10/28, join me and two other science storytellers at MIT Libraries for a panel on science storytelling and book arts. Registration link below.
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Fanbase Press Interviews Caroline Hu and Briana L. Martino on the 2025 New England Graphic Medicine Summit - Fanbasepress In the following interview, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon talks with Caroline Hu (Visual artist, biologist, and educator - Massachusetts College

Fanbase Press' @barbrajdillon.bsky.social Interviews @hudrewthis.bsky.social and Briana L. Martino on the 2025 New England Graphic Medicine Summit

CC: @noethematt.bsky.social @adlewis.bsky.social @graphicmedicine.bsky.social @libcomix.bsky.social

Back in stock! Prompted by @hudrewthis.bsky.social is an essay about AI in the classroom and the importance of curiosity and learning in the time of LLMs! www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...

Excited to help bring this to New England graphic medicine creators!

While this zine does feature snippets of genAI material for educational purposes, everything else was created by me on my office floor, couch, and in the occasional cafe.

'Prompted' reflects on how every student is inimitable and what educators can do to keep them engaged. It also features sugar glider teeth, family group chats, and giant (genAI) rat genitalia.

Front cover. A ball and stick model of a neural network sends its output arrow through Caroline's head. Caroline is sitting at her desk in front of her laptop. She is represented with her eyeball persona. Text says "Prompted. An educator's response to generative AI in the classroom. Caroline Hu, PhD."

Interior spread. Caroline is standing in front of a giant chalkboard. Students are at their desks. Text says: "Welcome to biology class at an art and design college. Why teach science here? Because artists help us make sense of the universe. Because designers help us envision futures."

Interior spread. Two abstract strands wind together, kind of like a helix.

Interior spread. A visualization of the thought experiment, "The Chinese Room", as proposed by John Searle circa 1980.

First day of the academic year! Fitting time to announce that my visual essay, Prompted, about learning in the time of LLMs, is now available to buy from @radiatorcomics.bsky.social

www.radiatorcomics.com/shop/uncateg...

☀️ Experience Chinatown Festival
I will be running an activity table envisioning a greener Chinatown on 9/17.

☀️ New England Graphic Medicine Summit
10/24 on MCPHS campus. Still time to submit programming ideas!

☀️ MIT Libraries Distinct Collections Panel
10/28 Will be discussing science and art.

☀️ New Perspectives / New Faculty Exhibit at MassArt
reception 9/9, talk 9/18

☀️ Becoming Succession Exhibit at Street Road Artists' Space in Cochranville, PA
reception 9/20. I won't be there, but the exhibit is open and running events through next April. Hope to be there in-person at some point!

A cluster of sungold tomatoes. The greenest one on the end is also Caroline's eyeball persona. It asks "are you watching Dan Da Dan?"

My September and October schedule. ☀️

Last year a student sent me an email *before the semester started* about his fascination with fungi. How delightful that @snehanjanac.bsky.social then offered her fungi-plant interaction expertise and they created a comic together. 🍄🌱🌟