Philipp Dexheimer

It's my pleasure to announce the next Science Art Summit!

There's gonna be balloons, sculptures, comics, animations, illustrations & installations. Tag along, it's free!

Registration at www.scienceartsummit.com, retweets appreciated – the more the merrier

We unfortunately didn't make the cover but lost to an image of a cute primate (fair enough), but the original artwork is on it's way to Tel Aviv and will be on display for a long time to come!

For the artwork we decided to go with good old-fashioned 100% human made dot artwork. This style makes a beautiful metaphor for cell biology, in particular representations of membranes.

The cancer cell secretes Melanosomes, large extracellular vesicles decorated with MHC-molecules that stimulate T-cells. These mimic the tumor surface and keep T-cells busy as well as inducing T-cell disfunction & Apoptosis.

Tumors evolved many ways to avoid detection by the immune system, which makes it so hard to treat aggressive cancers. One particularly nasty trick used by Melanoma cells has now been uncovered by @carmitlevy

Fresh handpainted dot-artwork cover design for a Cell paper:

Melanoma cells release vesicles as decoys for T-cells, messing them up for good and allowing the tumor to evade our immune system

Unfortunately we didn't make the cover (and lost to a picture of a cute Axolotl, fair enough), but working out this design was a blast.

Cheers to @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social for the lovely collaboration!

Turns out endosymbionts living inside insect cells form extensive tubular networks spanning the whole cell to facilitate metabolite exchange – Fresh cover design with a neon twist.

Sure, AI is great – can we next invent easy-to-peel stickers for stuff please?

Hey #portfolioday!

I'm a bloke who used to investigate Genetics before turning into a full-time Artist.

Now I do handmade installations, molecular graffiti, and digital design to convey the beauty of Science.

New cover fresh off the press:

A handmade installation of glass marbles embedded in epoxy resin, symbolising an innovative protocol for turning cells into pluripotent stem cells and re-differentiating them into various cell types.

A well-designed presentation is an act of kindness to your audience

That does make a lot of sense, thanks for sharing that story!

Quick & dirty experiment giving a Cell-Biology twist to the Great Wave by Hokusai

Abstract digital artwork featuring a large circular design with concentric rings in vibrant colors: yellow, orange, red, and blue against a black space background with colorful dots resembling stars. The center contains a white circular area filled with geometric shapes, circles, and dots in a playful, Kandinsky-inspired style.

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Specialized hourglass-shaped connections between the nucleus & ER

Took some inspiration from Kandinsky for that one, abstract geometry makes a lovely style for Cell Biology

Also please dont get me wrong, its cool if people do it - but in some cases on here it feels like the community bullies everyone into it lol

Thanks for the explanation! I see the point to be inclusive, but have a hard time imagining that anyone consumes visual art that way. Not to say that its not happening though, but it feels a bit pointless - the (short) description of e.g. a painting is nowhere near the actual experience

I'm wondering how someone who is visually impaired actually benefits from Alt-text. If seeing the picture is challenging the same goes for text I guess, so you would have to run a text-to-speech model hat reads out image descriptions while scrolling a feed?

Thanks! I'm just wondering if it's possible to scroll feeds and derive something meaningful from reading the description of e.g. artworks, do you think this actually happens?

Can someone please explain Bluesky's obsession with Alt text to me? Genuinely curious

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Drosophila - Spraypaint on concrete

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C. Elegans - Spraypaint on concrete

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Ubiquitin - Spraypaint on conrete

Come to think of it Scientists are actually as much problem creators as problem solvers lol

Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar:

Arabidopsis in old-school carton optics

Gotta love the 1920s rubber hose animation style

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Genome Research Cover on DNA compaction in sperm cells of different vertebrates

Digital collage made in Photoshop

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Handmade Mosaic for a Nature Methods Cover. I built a lamp into the frame so the animation is the real deal, no CGI

ound a nice tool to animate Typography and played around with DNA sequences - it's super easy, fun & free to use, if you wanna animate sequences check out www.spacetypegenerator.com

Tis the season! Stitched together thousands of fluorescent fruit fly embryos to spell out the very (chemical) letters all life on earth is based on - in a sparkly holiday vibe