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Petra Korlević
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Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟

Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jan 14
Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Petra, a staff scientist working on malaria mosquitoes, but I also try to make science more approachable and whimsical with my #SciArt doodles 🦟
a collage of 32 invertebrate drawings on a black background with the list of their scientific names in the middle. DToLtober 2024 1 | Thyatira batis 2 | Sphecodes monilicornis 3 | Halyzia sedecimguttata 4 | Bugulina stolonifera 5 | Meta bourneti 6 | Scaeva pyrastri 7 | Ocypus olens 8 | Vespa crabro 9 | Nematostella vectensis 10 | Papilio machaon 11 | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale 12 | Alitta virens 13 | Allacma fusca 14 | Andrena fulva 15 | Anoplius nigerrimus 16 | Aporia crataegi 17 | Patella pellucida 18 | Bombylius discolor 19 | Chrysoperla carnea 20 | Diadumene lineata 21 | Calliphora vomitoria 22 | Apoderus coryli 23 | Gibbula magus 24 | Mimas tiliae 25 | Lineus longissimus 26 | Parasteatoda lunata 27 | Melolontha melolontha 28 | Marthasterias glacialis 29 | Emmelina monodactyla 30 | Gymnosoma rotundatum 31 | Laothoe populi extra | Nephrotoma flavescens a large widescreen comic in yellow, light green, dark green, of scientists talking about their projects at the Vector Kolymbari Meeting 2024. Panels are split into days and Session numbers. drawing of a beefly and mosquito standing in front christmas trees decorated with yellow lights’, both are standing by an AB blood bag with mugs, the beefly is worried, the mosquito has a christmas hat and spices in a mug full of red liquid. hand holding an A4 sticker sheet with various famous memes redrawn with mosquitoes as the main characters. Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together Captain Picard Facepalm Shia LaBeouf's Intense Motivational Speech / Just Do It Buzz And Woody This is Fine Take all my money Hide the Pain Harold I am cringe But I am free Math Lady Clown at computer Computer stare Spiderman pointing at Spiderman Treat. Yo. Self. Pepe Silvia Homer comfy cinnamon roll Spiderman computer desk Disaster girl Kermit sipping tea Drunk Kitty Peter and Miles crouching
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melcordan.bsky.social
Today for @birbfest.challenge we have a Many-Coloured Rush Tyrant. I’m trying to limit these to an hour but this one took 2.5.

#birbfest2026
#birdillustration
#kidlitart
#melArt🔥
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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aubryjoi.bsky.social
Energy to take into 2026 ✏️✨

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]
A sketchbook page of a cute, stylized little orange tabby cat sitting and looking smug/proud. Around them are various scribbles, doodles, other cat sketches, etc. It reads “just make something” amongst the doodles. All artwork is done in shades of orange, green, purple, and red with both paint pen and colored pencil.
January 3, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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mossworm.bsky.social
hopefully I am capturing the majesty of the silver carp here
fanciful illustration of a silver carp in a lavender colored quilt-like style
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
an utter muppet looking creature

Day 2 of #Birbfest2026 - Many-coloured Rush Tyrant

#SciArt #birds 🪶
sketch of a Many-coloured Rush Tyrant on a grey background, the bird is a ball of yellow, blue eyeliner, yellow eyebrows, a green back, black wings and a tail, and really really long leggies attaching to a ball of a feathery fluff.
January 2, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
This makes me want to call it slop, like, at least 5x as much as I already did.
January 3, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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friend & i have been working on a visual novel w/ bug characters for a while and i found some of my "it's 9pm and my brain is fried, how do i want to characterize a bee" doodles
a digital sketch page showcasing a photograph of a blue bee species as well as various sketches exploring different cute styles the bee could be drawn in
January 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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It never ceases to amaze me that a species with these colors is native to the Southeast US (this is from North Carolina).

Florida predatory stink bug nymph #Pentatomidae: #Euthyrhynchus floridanus
A stink bug nymph sitting on a white background facing right. Its head, thorax, legs, antennae, and row of scent glands on the abdomen are metallic blue-green. The rest of the abdomen is brilliantly shiny red. A stink bug nymph sitting on a white background facing bottom left. Its head, thorax, legs, antennae, and row of scent glands on the abdomen are metallic blue-green. The rest of the abdomen is brilliantly shiny red. A stink bug nymph sitting on a white background facing bottom right. Its head, thorax, legs, antennae, and row of scent glands on the abdomen are metallic blue-green. The rest of the abdomen is brilliantly shiny red.
January 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Brand new, fresh sketch of another beautiful bird I'd never heard of (seriously, go look up photos of this one because wow!)

Trying to find a looser style for some of the art challenges this year because I can't spend 100 hours on everything😅

#BirbFest Bronzewing Pigeon and #Januarty theme #fresh
Digital painting of a a bronzewing pigeon in profile facing to the left against a black background. It is a grayish bird with subtle variations of cream, blue and pink on its body and its wings flash all the colors of the rainbow in the light creating a very colorful and awe-inspiring effect.
January 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Another colorful one for today's #Birbfest...

Many-colo(u)red rush tyrant

They didn't have to go so hard with that name 😭😂😍

#Birbfest2026
Digital drawing in a stylized manner of a many-colored rush tyrant, a small bird of many colors, in profile facing right and clinging to a vertical stick with three other sticks in the background in front of a blue sky. The bird has yellow stripes on the top of its head, yellow chest and belly, pea green back feathers, bright blue around the eye and rust under the tail feathers with the rest mostly black with some white accents.
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) #BirbFest 🪶
illustration of extra round stylized pigeon like bird with many iridescent feathers on wing, jaunty foot raised mid step, happy expression, retro mint and orange decorative diamond square shapes in background framing birb
January 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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squidfan.bsky.social
Coming into #birbfest with the many-colored rush tyrant 🐡
Watercolor and ink drawing of a little puffed-up bird frowning with the text “fight me”
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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ground bird
(rerun)
A chicken stares up at a smaller bird in a tree, mocking him saying "haha! Ground bird! 'lost the ability to fly because of selective breeding'-ass bird!" The chicken begins extending its neck towards the branch, the other bird exclaims "oh shit!" The chicken, now at eye level with the smaller bird says "fuck you." later the chicken sits on the edge of a cliff, his neck still incredibly long, and says to itself "the drive for revenge has fundamentally changed who I am into something I can no longer recognize as myself. There is no place for me now in my old life"
January 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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starskynder.bsky.social
Many-colored Rush Tyrant #birbfest day 2.

Watercolor and colored pencils.

#birbfest2026 #birds #animals #illustration #art #wildlife #birds 🦉 #SciArt #sketchbook #watercolor #coloredpencils #sketchbook
A sketchbook spread with a watercolor and colored pencils drawing of a many-colored rush tyrant bird in three poses: two full body poses on a branch and an headshot. The bird are surrounded by flowers.
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Right, here it it my first #BirbFest2026 illustration...the most beauteous Bronze winged pigeon! Like so many have said I am in awe of the colours in the wings of this stunner!

#BirdArt #SciArt #BirbFest #Illustration #Procreate #ArtSky #PigeonSky
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a bronze winged pigeon perched on a gnarled branch. The bird is very much similar in size and shape to a regular common pigeon but with some slightly fancier feather colouring. On it's head there are two bold cream stripes, one below and one above it's eye. The front of it's head is a muted orange colour while the side has a deep brownish purple colour. The chest feathers are a lovely selection of muted browns and greys that all blend together but it's the wings that really stand out for this bird. The areas of the wings that are closest to the chest are a series of vibrant oranges, reds, yellows, greens and further down deep blues, it really has a kaleidoscopic effect. The rest of the wing feathers are grey with very light grey almost white edging. The background of the image is a light blue inky wash against white.
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Day 2 - Many Coloured Rush Tyrant

Design available in my shops. Link in Bio.

#birbfest2026 #birds #birdart ##birbfest #ornithology
illustration of many coloured rush tyrant bird
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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gpike.bsky.social
Alright, #BirbFest2026 because I need motivation lol
I'll include notes on the ones that are on my lifelist, because why not! XD

Day 1 - Common bronzewing (from AvianAugust 2024) - seen in wild in Australia, 2008
Day 2 - Many-colored rush-tyrant from 2014 - seen in wild in Peru, 2011
A colored digital sketch of a common bronzewing dove on a white background from 2024 A stylized digital drawing of a many-colored rush-tyrant on a white background from 2014
January 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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This bronze-winged pigeon is a little late for birbfest day 1 🪶

I could not miss out on drawing this rainbow-winged friend 💛

#birbfest #birbfest2026 #pigeonsky #sciart #pigeon #art #artyear #animalart
A digital drawing of a bronzewing pigeon drawn from the side sitting on a branch. Rainbow colored feathers on its wings stand out between soft puple and blueish greys on its chest and the remaining grey and white wing feathers.
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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All of the dinosaurs with that pavement-ish skin pattern are by Giuliano Fornari! His dinosaurs are great, even if he was “borrowing” pretty heavily from the art of John Sibbick.

Here’s an article on another book from around the same time that he illustrated, there’s tons of great art there!
Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Great Dinosaur Atlas – Part 1
Back in the early 1990s, John Sibbick’s artwork for the Normanpedia (that is, 1985’s The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, authored by David Norman) was simply everywhere. There wa…
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January 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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First post of 2026 - The Ravine ✨
A river running through a pine forest with a densely packed mossy bushy foliage
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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tapping the sign again #art
my hand holding a sticker that looks like a brightly-coloured "no parking anytime" sign vandalized to read "NO AI ANYTIME" instead
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together”

the humble semicolon:
believe me or not, this is a drawing of two black cats, but their shape resembles a semicolon two black cats lying down, their shape resembles a semicolon
January 2, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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adwills.bsky.social
manifesting:
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🕯 🕯
🕯 ai bubble 🕯

🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯

🕯 for all involved 🕯
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I dreamt I was sitting at a table with a couple. The man stood up and said “I don’t feel well” and he then collapsed into a pile of sludge and bones. Their cat dug through the pile and put all the man’s teeth into his mouth. He then whispered something to the woman and she got REALLY mad at me.
I dreamt I was sitting at a little table with a couple. I don’t remember what we were talking about but the man stood up and said “I don’t feel well” and he then collapsed into a pile of sludge and bones on the floor. Their cat dug through the pile and put all the man’s teeth into its mouth. The cat then whispered something into the woman’s ear and then she got REALLY mad at me.
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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crushbort.bsky.social
this post broke my brain for a good week where literally any task i did was followed by the thought “keep trying to be sexy & have fun” and i just heard it again trying a new paint. i will probably be found wandering the streets muttering it at garbage cans
Shane Morris @GShaneMorris Follow ... Millennials who are very cavalier about not having children are in for a shock when they enter their 40s & realize life is only half over. What do you do at that point? Keep trying to be sexy & have fun? I expect to see a lot of sadness & confusion about what to do at that point.
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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#カラフルフクロウ　#透明水彩

お雑煮おいしいね〜！
お雑煮を食べるフクロウ
January 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM