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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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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…
chasmosaurs.com
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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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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“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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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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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
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My Lemon pig is ready for its new life to watch over my workshop.
Lemon pig still a little green but with a tail of leaves and hope.
January 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Thank you everyone for a great year! Happy new year everyone 🌟
December 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Day 2 of #birbfest2026 with a many-coloured rush tyrant 🐤 i love this guy so much!
a digital drawing of a many coloured rush tyrant
January 2, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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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First bird of the year.
#birbfest2026 #bronzewingpigeon
Acrylics on mdf #traditionalart
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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2: Many-Coloured Rush Tyrant: Riley is a blob but will fight you about anything. Did you just ignore his greeting this morning? Are you late by 2 minutes? He won't hear your ~excuses~, you're a bottomless pit of them.

#birbfest2026 #birbfest #art #mixedmedia
blob-shaped light yellow-beige bird, blue-green head, angerly chirping. Red background, with yellow flash accent near his head.
January 2, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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Bronzewing pigeon for #BirbFest2026 ! I wish I had fabulous clothes like these little guys. Now, who else loves birbs?

BirbFest라는 챌린지에 대해 알게 됐어요. 조류 덕후가 빠질 수 없죠. 블친 분들 중에 조류 덕후이신 분 계시나요?👀

#BirdArt #BirbFest #artmoots
Digital watercolor painting of a bronzewing pigeon
January 2, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Birbfest day 1! 💜 I'm attempting the shorter list so I'm hoping to draw a bird every Thursday of January☺️ #birbfest2026
A digital drawing of a Bronzewing Pigeon, it is brown, blue, and pale purple, with rainbow wings. It is perched on a small branch, the background is white with a pale green rectangle behind the bird, there are doodled hearts in the top left corner and text in the bottom left corner that says "bronzewing pigeon".
January 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
to a year, let’s have a one i guess, maybe midnight ethanol shots will cure me
silly #SciArt doodle black ink on white digital of a sick mosquito covered by a blanket with snot coming out of their snout doing a v sign with their hands text is to a 2026… sretna nova
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them
October 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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welcome 2026!
little doodle of a kitty wearing 2026 antennas
January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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A Bronzewing Pigeon strutting for #birbfest2026 🐦‍⬛
#birbfest #birds #birdart #bronzewing #pigeon
A Bronzewing Pigeon with burnt orange, yellow and blue wings struts its stuff on a pile of branches
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Day 1 of Birbfest - a Bronzewing Pigeon.

#BirbFest2026 #MixedMediaIllustration #BirdIllustration
A pigeon type bird with red and green wings. Illustration created by Julie Spriddle, ©2026 All Rights Reserved.
January 1, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
'tis time... to post feathery bugs

Day 1 of #Birbfest2026 - Bronzewing Pigeon

#SciArt #birds 🪶
drawing of a bronzewing pigeon on a light grey background, the bird is mostly light brown, pink and blue, but has a splash of color (orange, red, green, blue, yellow) on their wings, with a teeny head and very pink feet.
January 1, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Pitcher plants

#pixelart #украрт
Pixelart of various pitcher plants - left-to-right, Sarracenia (trumpet pitcher plants), Nepenthes (hanging tropical ones) and Heliamphora (bog pitchers without a big cover)
February 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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It's time for the passing year!

✨🌟✨Happy new year!!✨🌟✨

Wishing you the best as always, health and success for you through 2026!

Keep it up!
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM