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Laura J. Tafe
@ljtafe.bsky.social
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Pathologist artist mother reader introvert vistas & edges she/her
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#collage by me
Collage with tree branches, blue, orange stripes and black lettering
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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There’s nothing quite like the sensation of running your fingers through dried legumes. I find it soothing.
Green split peas on a person’s palm.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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sjane.bsky.social
collage on old postcard with quote made popular by Woody Guthrie
November 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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sanctorium.bsky.social
Each moment is a place you've never been.

Mark Strand
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt
Gallery space with mirrors reflecting infinity of balls of multicoloured light against blackness
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Kids were playing around with watercolour yesterday - so I had a go. #lichen and art.
Abstract watercolour rendering of cladonia lichen.
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
Spiral montage of photos of the moon in different hues against a black background
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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#analogcollage
#ljtanalogcollage
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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A Redwood up close.
September 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Open science is not just for researchers. Artist @kindracrick.com created these beautiful neuron portraits with inspiration from Ramón y Cajal's drawings and reference images from our Cell Types Database.

#OpenScienceWeek
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: covid-19 is over. Fact: COVID-19 continues to spread and change into new variants, and cases are currently increasing.* As of June 23, 2024 COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: If my last COVID-19 illness was mild, it will be mild if I get it again.. Fact: Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of serious illness, Long COVID, and permanent health consequences like organ damage. COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: I don’t need to mask if I stay at least 6 feet from other people while I’m out. Fact: We now know that COVID-19 can spread through the air, even after other people have left the area. This is why it is important to mask and improve indoor ventilation when you can. COVID-19 myths vs. facts. myth: I’ve already gotten multiple doses of the COVID-19 vaccine over the years. I don’t need any more. Fact: Just like it’s important to get an annual flu shot, it’s important to get updated COVID-19 vaccines each year. The flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine are each updated annually to protect against current strains of the virus.
September 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#collage by me
Yellow, cream blue paper fabric collage.
August 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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#collage

Playing with paper “fabric”.
Collage of red, pink and black cut out fabric.
August 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Georgia O'Keeffe,
Red Poppy, 1927

#UnlockingWomensArt
Painting of a close-up of a red poppy with black center
August 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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You are my sunshine (2015) by Kenyan born artist Wangechi Mutu #womensart
July 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The Woman Who Lives in the Sun' (1960) by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print of a stylised red sun with smiling face and chin tribal tattoo, the sun has rays like petals of a flower, all against a cream background
June 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Iris from the yard.
Purple and white iris
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Day 5 index card art a day challenge:
“poppy”
4”x 6” acrylic paint on ink
#dyicad2025
Index card with teal ink over amber ink and ivory chalk paint featuring a bright red painted poppy with a long green stem.
June 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Duolingo 300 day streak
May 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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#analogcollage by me
Collage with black background and red and green paper.
May 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Excited to have this piece included as part of a group show at my local art gallery. #collage
Collage with red, white and black
May 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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For #WorldAsthmaDay here is my #SciArt #embroidery she breathed (2018). I don’t have asthma myself but I have a few family members that have it quite severely and have seen how much it affects them.
An embroidery on a pale natural linen. There is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.
May 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.

In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...
A woman melts into a bed, daily objects floating around her, and a blue forest of vines lurking in the background
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Photo by my husband.
Gray, flat, still water with “no wake” sign with a perfect reflection.
May 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#SciArt Job Alert! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity for an illustrator to join the Bartels Science Illustration Program for a visiting artist residency. This is a full-time, paid temporary appointment that lasts up to one year.

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Temporary Science Illustrator - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Are you an early career artist who appreciates and understands the relationship between art and nature, and have an interest in birds? The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is offering an opportunity to an I...
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April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM