Philipp Dexheimer

99% of preprints I read are in journal manuscript submission format:

Figures at the end instead of integrated in the text, legends often seperately at the very end.

Very clunky to read, do your peers who care about your science a favor and make preprints readable - it will be much appreciated!

Fun fact: BioRxiv preprints have no formatting requirements - you can actually make your manuscript look nice before uploading it

In labs around the world scientists are growing miniature versions of human organs in a petridish - Microengineering meets biology at the organoid frontier!

Fresh design for a new organoid research center at @tumuenchen.bsky.social

In the end the real intelligence test is whether you get out of life what you want!

If you love doing something and are willing to put in the work there's always a way!

It will be a tough start, there will be substantial recurring doubts, and you're in it for loads of unanticipated challenges. But the feeling of having set up yourself professionally is out of this world!

Now I'm happy to say that none of my worries beacme reality, and that it has been an incredible ride so far.

The feeling of manifesting a very personal career path born in your own head is absolutely amazing!

Loads of concerns crossed my mind, making the decision very difficult.

Eventually I took the leap, and got lots of encouragement from friends & colleagues for which I will be forever grateful - Lot's of love to everyone who supported me on the way 🙏

That's when the idea to give freelancing a try was born and I decided go all-in with the Science Art. But boy, I was scared:

What if it doesn't work out?
What if people don't like my work?
What if I end up broke & messed up my career?

Back then I've been dabbling In Science Art for a couple of years already, however, it didn't occur to me to turn this into my full-time job.

Instead there was a vague idea to go into Biotech, but none of the job ads got me really excited.

During that second Postdoc year my mental state deteriorated and I was quite a mess at the end.

My job situation became an ever-increasing burden: if you have no plan for where to go you can paddle as hard as you want without progressing.

Ironically, my project went rather well and I got emotionally attached to it.

One year passed and I aimed to wrap up within 6 months, but things didn't go as anticipated - the paper isn't out to this day lol.

So I started a bridge Postdoc and gave myself one year to figure out a plan.

My goal was to just have a good time in the lab before moving on. I didn't aim at all for that high-impact paper which would land me a PI position at a prestigious Institute.

After my PhD I didn't quite know what to do with my life.

I loved Science & the lab, but the classic academic career path didn't feel like a good fit for my future.

Thinking about switching from Academia to Science Freelancing?

Here's my story of going from a struggling Postdoc to living my passion as a Science Artist:

Strange forces tear space & time apart - behold Earth people!

Spraypaint on concrete.

I had the pleasure of talking about Science, Art & Creativity with Kenan Kraković in the most recent episode of his podcast. We had a blast chatting, so if these topics interest you check it out 👇

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

Extremely excited to see my PhD work in the @obenaufa.bsky.social published today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🤩. A big thank you to everyone who contributed, special thank you to my partner in crime @guillemxtivill.bsky.social - it was a lot of fun to work on this together! 🥳

C.elegans - Novel, Rodlike & Handsome since 1974

Spraypaint on concrete - Vienna

I got to investigate Biology using these little fellas for 9 years in the lab and still love em, what a simplistic beauty of an organism

Watercolor & Ink 100% handmade

DNA - Watercolor & Ink

Inspired by the iconic sketch of Francis Crick in a letter to a colleague - one of the first depictions of DNA's doublehelix structure ever

Good stuff 👇

Check out Marzia‘s Art, absolutely beautiful explorations of molecular Biology!

Cheers Kathrin! The crystal structure of I think a yeast Ribosome served as a basis. Styletransfer was done using Magnific and Gustav Klimt paintings, then I went to Photoshop for polishing

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Dope!

Cheers mate - gotta love the beauty of Ribosome structures!

Ribosome - Gustav Klimt Style

Cheers mate, much appreciated!