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JoAnna
@joannascience.bsky.social
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science writer and illustrator-for-hire
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Feeling weepy with joy for all the Mariners fans out there tonight! Congrats y'all THEY FUCKIN DID IT. What a game, and I only started watching in the 9th inning!
October 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Watching Da Mariners
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
joannascience.bsky.social
I don't normally watch baseball, but my brother has been a die-hard Mariners fan for his ENTIRE 36 years of life, so I'm watching the playoffs in solidarity.

I do not know how he does this YEAR after YEAR I can barely handle NINE INNINGS. how has his HEART survived, I mean literally the organ
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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MARINERS I STG
October 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I don't normally yell when I watch TV, but tonight I'm watching the Mariners play and my cat is VERY concerned
October 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Being a Mariners fan is so hard 😭
October 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Banana slug enjoying a leaf in the rain 10x speed
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
joannascience.bsky.social
snorse
Drawing of a snail+horse hybrid with a snail body, horse head and snail eye stalks. And snail shell. It's called a snorse.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
joannascience.bsky.social
Hey did you know I take commissions for pet portraits?? These are bespoke works of art that capture your pet in fun and whimsical ways! DM me or email me at petsbyjoanna@gmail.com for more info! #artcommissions #petportrait #hireanartist
Photo shows a flier advertising pet portraits by JoAnna. Text says the portraits start at $50 for your pet on a plain background, with extra add-ons available like a more detailed background. Email petsbyjoanna@gmail.com to learn more.
June 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I also recently published this comic as well with Science News Explores, about SEA ROBINS and their TONGUE-LEGS. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming. #sciart #sciencecomic

www.snexplores.org/article/sea-...
Illustration shows a brown-spotted fish with big fins and weird little legs coming out its underside. The fish is eating a clam. Text reads "Sea Robin Legs Double as Tongues. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel"
June 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
joannascience.bsky.social
Check out my new comic at Science News Explores! It's about goats, sheep, llamas...and optical illusions! Written by Maria Temming #sciart #sciencecomic

www.snexplores.org/article/shee...
Comic panel featuring a stupid-looking llama munching on some grass. Text reads "Optical Illusions Fool Hoofed Animals Too. Written by Maria Temming, Illustrating by JoAnna Wendel"
June 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
joannascience.bsky.social
What would mermaids look like if they evolved in different parts of the ocean?

First we've got our deep-sea mermaid with her translucent tail, weird long fingers, big eyes and bioluminescent lure #sciart #illustration #comics
Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the deep sea. She's got big eyes and teeth, long fingers (one with a bioluminescent lure), reddish skin and a translucent tail.
April 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
joannascience.bsky.social
I wish I could send my therapist funny therapy reels and be like "us lol"
April 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Yeah I've got a GROWTH MINDSET I bloom once a year and then go DORMANT for the winter
March 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Frog Matisse
Henri Matisse's Blue Nude II painting but it's a frog
November 13, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Gonna try posting more. If you're a scientist/science writer or science artist, give me a shout so I can follow you!

In the meantime, here's a cover I illustrated for the August 2024 issue of Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social
Photograph shows a stack of magazines called Science News Explores. On the cover is an illustration of a young girl flying over pink mountains and a green river. It's the illustration to accompany the cover story, called "Journey into the Dreamscape," about lucid dreaming.
November 9, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Goin to be at the aquarium next week ON MY BIRTHDAY I could literally not be MORE EXCITED
montereybayaquarium.org Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · Mar 8
It’s time to raise the curtain on Shrimp Week! 🦐 🎉 Critics are already raving about the most prawnderful week of the year! Check out the link below for even more shrimpage along with previous years’ highlights. Let’s get the show started!!
mbayaq.co/3IwsTPW
Animated image of two illustrated spot prawns standing on a rock at the center of the image. The text “Shrimp Week” is positioned at the top of the image, behind the shrimp, covering a third of the overall height of the image. On the left side of the shrimp, a white text reads “March 10 - 16, 2024”. On their right side, there’s a white circle with the text “one week only!”. The background of the animated image is blue, lightly textured. Around the animated image is a moving lightbox that mimics a Broadway billboard.
March 9, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Practicing one-panel gags!
Cartoon shows a cat sitting on a chaise lounge, talking to a butler. The cat says "Tell the human I want a belly rub, then I'll claw him. It'll be a gas."
December 4, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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Reminder: Your friends want books for the holidays. Lots and lots and lots of books. You also want books. You should probably buy yourself a book while buying books for your friends. Bored? Read a book! Got a wobbly table? Fix it with a book! Missing shingle? Nail in a book! Gas leak? You can <boom>
November 25, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!

The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
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B&W drawing of the 1st Thanksgiving, showing a table full of vegetables and eels. In the center are a pilgrim man, dressed in black and white, with a silly hat and giant collar. He's holding a bowl of grapes, and looking incredibly disengaged. Standing with him is a Native American man, with feathers in his hair. He's not wearing a shirt, but he is wearing several armbands. In all, he looks far more comfortable. He's reaching for a grape, or pointing at one as if to say, "This one has the poison." Behind the Native American are several others, fading into the background. Behind the pilgrim are two figures, presumably his wife and kid, and couple of houses with thatched roofs. The wife, carrying a basket of apples, has an uncertain expression on her face. It's likely that she's checking out the half-dressed man in her yard, and thinking about how her husband doesn't stack up so well. On the table in the foreground, in pride of place, is a plate piled high with eels. NOW it's a feast.
November 23, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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Today's newsletter is about how society is desperate to return to a pre-pandemic world that no longer exists, and how executives are doing everything they can to take us back to a wasteful in-office economy - even if it's obviously a bad idea.

https://tinyurl.com/wyat81023
August 10, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
We built a StumbleUpon for links that have been shared in Garbage Day
https://random.garbageday.email/
August 9, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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lifeofahunter.bsky.social
ACAB includes the posting police I don’t make the rules.
July 30, 2023 at 12:13 AM