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Ed Himelblau
@himelblau.bsky.social
Biology Professor (he, him)
Cartoonist for the New Yorker
Author: The Teaching Assistant's Guide - https://thetasguide.com
Likes drawing micropipettes
FREE science cartoon newsletter - https://www.himelblau.com
Congratulations to @bradguigar.com for making it onto the cover of the New Yorker!
September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Need some big data of your own? Check out the link in my latest issue of my FREE science cartoon newsletter:
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August 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One of about 50 cartoons I drew for my book, The Teaching Assistant's Guide. www.thetasguide.com/cartoons
July 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The curcumin molecule, which gives turmeric its distinct color, looks like a cute crab. Here a turmeric-themed post from my FREE science cartoon newsletter: himelblau.substack.com/p/trendy-tur...
May 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Will virtual cells move biology research out of the lab and into the computer? Newsletter post (and cartoons) inspired by @erictopol.bsky.social Ground Truth Podcast. open.substack.com/pub/himelblau
April 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Researchers are discovering new organelles all the time. Collaboration with Shannon O'Dell. (from my FREE science cartoon newsletter: himelblau.substack.com)
February 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In 1980, when Joy Division sang, “Love will tear us apart again,” they were thinking about cytokinesis when two “daughter cells” are pinched apart by strong molecular forces. Read the full newsletter post: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
January 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Open your sock drawer, yank a pair of socks apart, and put each in a separate drawer. Now repeat that with every pair. Not only have you created a wardrobe headache for yourself, you’ve also demonstrated the main event of anaphase. Read the full post: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
January 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In lab, proteins called enzymes to do important jobs like sequencing DNA and building new genes. Enzymes need to be kept cold. Read the full post here: us9.campaign-archive.com?u=6da1485294...
January 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
In the kitchen, you follow a recipe. In lab, you follow a protocol. I was a graduate student in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin. My background was in biology. Many of my peers had a chemistry background. Guess whose experiments worked better.
January 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
My cartoon in The New Yorker this week. See more at himelblau.com. This is the first cartoon I ever sold to the magazine (March 2021).
November 5, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Cartoon in the New Yorker this week.
March 16, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Who doesn’t love poems about mitosis? New post from my FREE science cartoon newsletter:
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January 24, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Mitosis limericks… part 1 or4. Join my FREE science cartoon newsletter for more.
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December 8, 2023 at 3:01 AM
I’m excited to bring back these two from New Yorker Caption Contest 860 for a NEW caption contest for wordsbelow.app Here’s the twist–all captions must be ABOUT THE NEW YORKER CAPTION CONTEST (It’s very meta…)
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If you like the Caption Contest, you’ll appreciate all the data you get from WordsBelow.
December 3, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Nice to be here. I’m a biologist and cartoonist. Check out my FREE newsletter. A new science cartoon every few weeks: www.himelblau.com
December 2, 2023 at 3:39 AM