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Ali Molloy
@oioimolloy.bsky.social
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Creative thinker and tinkerer, often found curiously lurking between the sciences and the arts.

PT Graphic Design lecturer @UoP

https://www.alimolloy.com
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Some setbacks in time over the past month, and overthinking how I wanted to ink the most recent row, but 20/30 panels done on the origin of the solar system - the pantheon is taking shape... Excited to see it all coming together!
#Nostos #Unflattening 2
2/3 of a comics page in progress, four rows, five panels in each. The first shows a cloud of gas in space disrupted by a supernova far off that collapses the gas cloud. Second row shows the cloud of gas spinning together, forming a star int he center and a thin disk of dust and gas outside it. Next row shows bits of rocks clumping, smashing together and coalescing into small planetoids. Final row shows a planetoid gathering lots of gas and other stuff to form the first planet - Jupiter. Then the other planets start to take shape as well taking in what's left...
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
👀 Look at this awesomeness I received this great Zine 'Creativity Starters' from @angelachick.bsky.social. A perfect antidote to my own creative block! Totally made from the heart and full of fun ♥️

#zine #artzine #illustration #comicart #zinemaker #creativeblock #zinemaker #comic #illustrator
Two pages: DIY drawing and encouraging you make a bad drawing Two page prompt to encourage you to go for a walk and draw what you see. A short biog about Angela chick with a little figure drawing of her with a contraption on her head to generate ideas. What is a creativity starter. Details about her own experience and what to expect.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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angusmain.bsky.social
There was a time when Masterchef judges upheld the highest standards of ethics.
Vic Reeves in the Reeves and Mortimer sketch saying “you’re just a fakey cake maker and I ain’t got time for you”
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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thecgps.bsky.social
Pleased to share our latest preprint describing vaccines.watch (vaccines.watch), an interactive platform enabling exploration of vaccine target diversity from global genome data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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carlzimmer.com
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
Great fun running an Accessible Science Figure Design workshop at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! We looked into #Gestalt & #UX in the context of #curbcutting -accessibility helps everyone. More context here: tinyurl.com/fig-design TY @cassiebakshani.bsky.social 💜 #AccessibleDesign #SciComm #AMR
best practices: Use Hierarchy. Shapes piled in size order with 'use hierarchy' in large text. Smaller text, 'you'll probably read this about drawing attention later on'. Gestalt principles diagram: 8 visual examples showing how we perceive and group visual elements, including proximity, similarity, closure, and symmetry. Essential concepts for accessible science figure design Lateral gene transfer diagram. on white background - simplified to show the transformation, transduction and conjugation. The chaos from the examples submitted from the workshop participants. 4 egs of bad colour, too much info and no whitespace
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
Can anyone recommend the best place to get a lot of Antibiotic Patient Information Leaflets? I'm making an #AMR artwork -a big Gordian knot, however I've run out! Please see below:

#antimicrobialresistance #drugresistance #amrawareness #sciart
#IUR_global #antibiotics #patientadvocacy #genomics
oioimolloy.bsky.social Ali Molloy @oioimolloy.bsky.social · Nov 22
WIP. Knots made from Patient Info Leaflets (PIL) portraying the Gordian Knot of tackling #AMR, & bacterial nucleoids. Influenced by ‘Bacterial nucleoid is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’ Andrei Kuzminov.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
#WAAW2024
#Genomics
#AMRAwareness
#DrugResistance
#sciart
Red and blue print of a coiled sctructure of a nucleod which forms a 'rosette' structure of 4 curly lobes with a circular RNA in the middle. Not scientifically accurate Close up: Cropped photo of cordage of perscription patient information leaflets forming a ring that could represent RNA Paper cordage knot with 4 loops tied with a central loop. strands made from perscription inserts. 4 loops of paper cordage made from patient information leaflets found inside perscriptions. they're connected by a central circle that represents the RNA.
May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
Had great fun playing with audio inputs with @touchdesigner.bsky.social at The Play Office at the weekend.

More info about the workshop here: www.play-office.com/post/touch-d...

Looking forward to tinkering more
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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bendoyle.bsky.social
Finally, publishing in December from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social open access: 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, which makes a forceful case for the contribution that art can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today. www.bloomsbury.com/art-and-the-...
Image is the book jacket for 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities'. The jacket features a black background with a colourful circle depicting cells under a microscope in yellow and orange, on a blue and pink background.
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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hoxinsocks.bsky.social
It's #DNAday. Wanna see some pictures of DNA? I thought so.

My favorite forms of DNA are slouchy, jaunty, dancey, and angsty.
Four line diagrams showing protein chunks (lavender or blue) bound to DNA chunks. All are structures from the Protein Data Bank (1A66, 2LEF, 1E7J, and 2N8A, respectively). Multiple conformers are laid on top of each other, so the result is kind of messy and sketchlike.
April 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
I enjoyed collaborating with @thecgps.bsky.social on the UX/UI design of amr.watch

A design goal was to make global genomic data accessible & visually impactful - highlighting regional disparities & improve decision-making on Antimicrobial Resistance

More detail below:
#amr #scicomm #ux #design
thecgps.bsky.social Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance @thecgps.bsky.social · Apr 22
Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch - a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
April 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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sophia-david.bsky.social
Preprint on our new amr.watch tool from @thecgps.bsky.social - this incorporates and analyses genome data of key resistant pathogens from the public archives on an ongoing basis (every 4h) & presents the output via an interactive platform for monitoring AMR trends: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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microbesng.bsky.social
✨ We’re doing a #GIVEAWAY to celebrate #WorldBookDay &
#InternationalWomensDay 📚👩‍🔬

Win a wonderful #microbiology colouring book by 2 fabulous women @noemiematthey.bsky.social & @drsarahwettstadt.bsky.social 🦠🎨

To enter:
- Follow us
- Like
- Repost this

Winner chosen at random 10/03/25 #MicroSky
March 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
oioimolloy.bsky.social
Happy P-p-p-p-pancake Day! Don't forget to add a little Flower ;)

#pancakeday
#dannyjohnjules #maidmarian
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Pancake Day - Maid Marian
YouTube video by Swimace
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March 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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zaraslattery.bsky.social
This is my permitted contribution to the UK government's AI tech ambitions for our copyrighted material & livelihoods. If they're talking innovation, invest in people, creatives, in the Arts. #handsoffourcopyright P.S. I teach drawing, happy to take on more students!!!
A blank piece of watercolour paper. Rich with possibilities, waiting to be explored!
February 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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lucysullivan.bsky.social
See @dacs.org.uk for info on the Creative Rights in AI Coalition!
Creative Rights in AI Coalition post image. A hand holding a placard with rights demands for UK artists.
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
This definitely needs boosting to 🧪 & #SciComm

I can’t recommend Anna’s courses enough - you’ll see storytelling, and the stories you tell in a completely different way.

And this one’s FREE!
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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thomasappere.bsky.social
Animation des mosaïques acquises par la caméra de navigation du rover Curiosity entre avril 2022 et décembre 2024.
Ces mosaïques ont été assemblées Steve Albers qui les poste sur un site permettant de les parcourir facilement stevealbers.net/allsky/sites...
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers
January 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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scipexplorist.bsky.social
Do you think you're sitting still right now?

- You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s

- That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s

- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.

Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.
December 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
Carnegie Science contributes to LACMA exhibition on cosmologies across cultures

The exhibition, "Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures", at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, explores the relationship to the cosmos of more than a dozen civilizations.

🧪 #Cosmology #LosAngeles #Art
Carnegie Science contributes to LACMA exhibition on cosmologies across cultures
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the relationship to the cosmos of more than a dozen civilizations. The program, called "Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultu...
carnegiescience.edu
December 24, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
Comics-based practitioner research in the healthcare humanities

Doctoral thesis by Muna Al-Jawad

#GraphicMedicine

research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
Comics-based practitioner research in the healthcare humanities
research.brighton.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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big-stem-network.bsky.social
The Little Event is hosted by BIG members. Come along and learn from their vast experiences in the world of Scicomm and Public Engagement. January 16th & 18th via Zoom, tickets from £50 www.big.uk.com/thelittleevent You won't regret it.
December 13, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Students in my intro comics class do a self portrait in the style of all our major readings for the term. Get them thinking about the art styles and sneakily give them a lot of extra drawing experience with little pressure! A collection of some of the coolest ones this term!
Student self portraits in the style of the readings we did across the semester Student self portraits in the style of the readings we did across the semester Student self portraits in the style of the readings we did across the semester Student self portraits in the style of the readings we did across the semester
December 12, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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wellcometrust.bsky.social
Antifungal resistance is an important part of antimicrobial resistance.

But there are many fungal pathogens we don’t know anything about. Could bioimaging be part of the solution?

Learn more from Dr Elizabeth Ballou @exeter.ac.uk in 'Behind the Research' ⤵️
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Can bioimaging build capacity in fungi research?
This month's guest expert is Dr Elizabeth Ballou, Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Exeter. Fungi are beautiful and very charismatic.
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December 13, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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thisisjam.es
My visual notes on the book The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins. Atkins is a BBC News journalist and great at explaining complex situations quickly with authority. Highly recommended.
#infographic #dataviz #sketchnotes
#sciencecommunication #booksky #book
thisisjam.es/reviewing/th...
The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins – The website of James Johnson
Visual notes of the book The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins. Atkins is a BBC News journalist, who is especially good at explaining complex situations quickly with authority.
thisisjam.es
December 7, 2024 at 9:19 AM