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Dr Emma Rehn
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Science illustrator | Research communicator for TropWATER | Palaeoenviro scientist | Archaeologist | Crafter

Based in Far North Queensland, Australia

Portfolio: https://emmarehn.com
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Dr Emma Rehn @bluerehn.bsky.social · Jan 8
My science illustration commissions are open!

If you want to visualise your research this year through custom illustrations, logos, or infographics, please get in touch

Visit emmarehn.com for my portfolio and contact info

#SciArt #SciComm #ScienceIllustration
A graphic showing six vertical panels of digital illustrations and a title box that reads "Commissions are open"
bluerehn.bsky.social
True story: if your dog is wearing a t-shirt, that's a human (confirmed by AI)

Thanks to my workmate Caitlin for letting me use her screenshot! #comic #AI (but not drawn by AI)
A three-panel comic. The first panel shows Plato saying "The definition of a human? A featherless biped." The second panel shows a robot labelled "A.I." saying "Okay, got it!" The third panel shows the A.I. robot showing an unimpressed Plato a screenshot of a security camera view of a dog in a t-shirt labelled "5:20pm Human" and declaring "Behold - a human!"
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Illustrating water quality challenges - this is some of my recent work showing how fire, roads & tracks, and eroding gullies can impact water quality (& how a gully can be repaired!)

These were created for my work with TropWATER & their collab with the Cape York Water Quality Partnership #SciArt
A digital illustration of a wooded hilly landscape with a river running through the middle. On the left, a burn from earlier in the dry season has left trees alive and is not eroding. On the right, a hot late dry season burn has charred the landscape, killing trees and eroding charcoal and soil into the river A digital illustration showing a creek crossing a dirt road, with rain eroding channels into the road, forming a downstream gully and releasing soil in to the river below A two-panel illustration showing an eroded alluvial gully releasing dirty water and a remediated gully, covered in vegetation with a rock chute to channel the water flow
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Introducing Deep Time Detectives! 🔎

Deep Time Detectives is an educational resource developed by CABAH on Australia's deep history, featuring a series of animated videos. I drew a collection of original illustrations and animated elements for these videos #SciComm

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A collection of graphics centred on an anthropomorphised wombat in a waistcoat, holding a magnifying glass and pocket watch, next to the text "Deep Time Detectives". The surrounding graphics include a gumtree flower, a wallaby skull, a tree, a pollen grain, a quoll, a charcoal particle, grasses, footprints, fire, and a potoroo. An animated GIF of a cartoon wallaby eating leaves off a small tree sapling A wide image showing an illustrated landscape, transiting from open grassland with scattered trees on the left through to increasingly closed woodland with minimal grass and more dense shrubs
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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I have some exciting news to share! A bunch of friends (and amazing artists) and I are hosting an art challenge this August 🌻

We put together a fun and chill prompt list and hope you’ll join us on this adventure hehe

More below 🐥
Digital illustration of a blond girl with her hair in braids, looking through binoculars at a starling on the left, with one foot on a tree stump. Between them is text: August Adventures 1-7 august Bloom+Journey 8-14 august Meadow+Rain 15-21 august Ancient+Trinkets 22-28 august Sprout+Magic
July 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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My dog definitely plays favourites 🐾

#comic #BorderCollie
A three-panel comic. The first panel shows a guy opening a door, smiling and saying "Hey, Lucy!" A label points to him that reads 'brother'. The second panel shows him leaning forward to a chocolate and white Border Collie moving towards him, as he says "Did you miss-" The final, double-width panel shows the dog rushing past him to wag her tail at a woman walking through the door behind him, labelled 'sister-in-law'. He says "...me?" and she says "Hi, Luce!"
July 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Live-sketches from COCE 2025 🌱

This week, I attended & presented online as part of the Conference on Communication and Environment

There were so many great sessions & discussions - I drew these live-sketches during all of the hybrid and virtual sessions I attended! #scicomm #sciart #livesketch
A collection of 16 digital sketches on a white background, summarising sessions from an environmental communication conference featuring plants, animals, and people.
June 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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I was recently commissioned to create two illustrations for The Australian Geologist, the quarterly magazine of the Geological Society of Australia

One highlights featured research, the other is just for fun!

Read the TAG June issue here: issuu.com/gsaustralia/...

#geology #sciart #scicomm
A cartoon showing hands holding a phone displaying an app titled "relative dating", subtitled "Find your fossil assemblage". The app shows a fossil fish, fern, and three-toed footprint captioned "Upper Jurassic 161.5 - 143.1 Ma". Buttons below the caption read "Not for me" and "It's a match!" A drawing of a top-down view of a landscape divided into two vertical panels, with a large, three-toed footprint in the centre shared across both views. The left panel shows a sandy floodplain with bushes, and the receding foot that created the footprint. The right panel shows seawater lapping and molluscs growing in and around the fossil footprint, with running shoes and a person holding a camera to take a photo of the footprint, with a scale bar beside it
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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New paper for the palaeofire fans!

Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥

Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd...

This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!
A graphical abstract for the OCTOPUS SahulCHAR collection showing a map of Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand with red dots for data points. Text on the right of the image presents key statistics: 425 locations, 531 cores, 687 char records, 23 contributors
June 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Happy National Archaeology Week!

This year's craft in celebration of Archaeology Week is little clay pendants - the scale bar is 4cm

#2025NAW #archaeology #craft
A photograph of four clay pendants of a trowel, an amphora, a bivalve shell half, and a colour scale bar, each attached to loops of black cord
May 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Applications close this Sunday for this year's ABC TOP 5 media residency!

If you're an Australian ECR with an interest in boosting your comms skills, I recommend applying - I'm happy to answer questions as a 2022 awardee

Here's the link to the Science stream (Humanities & Arts also open) #scicomm
ABC TOP 5 Media Residency Program — SCIENCE - ABC listen
The ABC TOP 5 Science is a two-week media residency presented by ABC Radio National in partnership with the Australian National University.
www.abc.net.au
April 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
bluerehn.bsky.social
Everyone please go have fun scribbling, painting, drawing, and otherwise finding joy in making art 🎨

#WorldArtDay #Artsky
Drawings of art supplies around the text "Happy World Art Day" on a multicolour painted background
April 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Happy Pi Day! 🥧 This is my first time making pies, so I went for mini ones to share at work
A photograph of a dozen mini apple pies on baking paper
March 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Happy Lucy day, everyone 🐾
A photograph of a brown and white Border Collie smiling at the camera, laying on a footpath in the centre of a chalk circle in rainbow colours. Chalk writing on the right says "Happy 11th birthday Lucy!"
February 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

To celebrate at my work, I asked some of the brilliant researchers I work with about their experiences in science - and their passion for it really shines through

#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Celebrating the work of women in science
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February), we’re highlighting some of the many women doing amazing work with TropWATER across freshwater and marine sciences. Read ...
www.tropwater.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Boredom scrolling turning into doom scrolling by accident? Try WikiTok!

Presents random wiki articles in addictive scrolling format!

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WikiTok
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February 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046
February 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Like Micha, I was lucky enough to receive an AINSE PGRA during my PhD, and I second Micha's recommendation to apply!

A great opportunity for Aus/NZ PhD students who could benefit from using ANSTO facilities for their research, such as radiocarbon and lead-210 dating labs #AcademicSky
February 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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This week, I'm celebrating reaching 1k followers! 🎉

If you follow me: comment with a few words about your research/area of expertise and some things you enjoy - and I'll sketch a little cartoon for you
A cartoon of a jumping spider in a white outfit, striking a pose on a colourful glowing dance floor in homage to John Travolta in Saturday Night Live
January 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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My favourite group in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD are kicking off their Bluesky account properly, with trials and tribulations of experimenting with tech for successful online meetings, events and collabs. Now more than ever, we need to be together, even when we’re apart 🌏.
futuremeetings.bsky.social The Future of Meetings @futuremeetings.bsky.social · Jan 24
Greetings all! We (The Future of Meetings, #TFOM) are here on #Bluesky properly now, and we plan for this to be one of our main platforms going forward 👋 There's a fair bit of very recent TFOM news to share, so stay tuned for more posts imminently! 📬
January 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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I made time these holidays to sketch while out and about - here's a selection of those sketches and their models

#sketchbook
A photograph of a tropical waterfall in the background, with a sketch of that waterfall in a sketchbook held in the foreground A photograph of stone steps leading down to a creek in the background, with a sketch of the steps and creek in a sketchbook held in the foreground A photograph of the twisting trunk of a tree in a grassy park, and a sketch of that tree in a sketchbook held in the foreground A photograph of a fig tree in the background, with a sketch of that tree in a sketchbook held in the foreground
January 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I'm proposing a #SciArt Challenge for 2025!

Every month, make art of one of the animals that lives in your area. Post your work with the hashtag #NearbyNature2025 along with something you find interesting about them.

Bonus points for organisms that most of your neighbors won't know live close by!
December 31, 2024 at 6:17 PM
bluerehn.bsky.social
My science illustration commissions are open!

If you want to visualise your research this year through custom illustrations, logos, or infographics, please get in touch

Visit emmarehn.com for my portfolio and contact info

#SciArt #SciComm #ScienceIllustration
A graphic showing six vertical panels of digital illustrations and a title box that reads "Commissions are open"
January 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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'Cascades', my last painting for 2024

Acrylic on canvas, 20x25cm

#Artsky #landscapepainting
A photograph of a hand holding a small painted canvas, showing a creek flowing over rocks with rainforest in the background
January 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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What did I read this year? 📚

Here's my year in books, in doodle form!

#YearinReview #Artsky #BookSky
A collection of doodles representing 'My Year in Books' on a black background A collection of doodles representing 'My Year in Books' on a blue background
December 31, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Throwback to my favourite Christmas artwork to wrap up #ArtAdventCalendar for this year

Happy holidays, everyone!
A digital drawing of a brown and white Border Collie curled up on a flat dog bed below a decorated Christmas tree atop a low table. The scene is in front of a window decorated with colourful lights, showing tropical plants and rain
December 24, 2024 at 9:29 AM