Kari Herrington
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Kari Herrington
@kahsage.bsky.social
Artist and scientist that helps people on microscopes!
Instagram: https://instagram.com/kah_sage
I made teaching tools for training people on the SNOUTY.
Here they are for other people! I recommend laminating them so you can draw on them with dry erase markers :)
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@tanner-fadero.bsky.social told me there was a discussion about the unofficial name for #snouty V3. We have had Mr. Snouty and King Snouty, and there were people suggesting Emperor Snouty. I think it is time for a Lady or EMPRESS snouty. I have created Art to support this.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
@tanner-fadero.bsky.social
Fine. I remembered.
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This was a quick sketch for the super kind postdoc Lisa Randolf who has kindly been providing me with samples to test on our microscope.
April 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Congratulations to Takeshi Tsusaka on their recent publication on Reversible histone deacetylase activity www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Also, thank you to Takeshi for acknowledging our core facility, putting in hardware information about the microscope, and telling me about it all!!!!
April 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Microscopes are Analog to Digital devices!

I drew this for teaching purposes.
#art #SciArt #artwork
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
The sticky note response to when someone tells you your age means “years more of experience” than them
#art #comic
November 9, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Live sketch time!
Train commuters.
#art #livesketch #sketch
November 8, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Osmotic pressure!!!
This is a drawing drom a few years ago insprired by @katrinavelle.bsky.social amoeba undergoing seome osmotic pressure!
#art #sciart
November 7, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Slow-mo Calcium response!
Here is a little neutrophil with a calcium sensor doing its best to respond to a chemoattractant!

Work done by Evelyn Strickland inspired this! Check out her paper on self-extinguishing relay waves in neutrophil swarming

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#art #sciart
November 6, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Decorated pumpkins at work! I had to go with a Vampire microscope because microscopes are light vampires.
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Bonus for anyone who noticed its deadly ultraviolet wings!
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#sciart #acrylic #microscope #vampire
October 31, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Magnification is not resolution!
Resolution is the minimum distance required to distinguish between two objects. You need to take into account how light spreads and refraction. Magnification just makes things bigger.
I drew this for a workshop I’m helping to teach!

#art #artwork
September 15, 2024 at 11:55 PM
#sciartseptember day 4: cursed
There is nothing more cursed in this world then doing lab work on the weekend.

#art #artwork #watercolormarkers #ink #cells #sketch #sketchbook #traditionalart
September 5, 2024 at 12:59 AM
I’m behind on challenges because I guess it was Smaugust, for some reason I thought there was a Smaugtember with all the dragon images on my feed.
Anyway it made me want to draw a dragon and I just like the idea of a giant powerful dragon performing delicate work.

#art #sketch #sketchbook
August 29, 2024 at 4:44 PM
PCR machines are the worst!
Superstition is abound in the lab, so here is a bit of science humor with another little cartoon I drew on the train.

#art #cartoon #sciart #watercolormarker #cells #ink
August 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
August 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Turns out I can’t help but draw microscopes on things. This ended up being an exercise in transposition to draw a microscope on this little marmal toy. I feels like a little puzzle that I will need to work on.

#art #artwork #sciart
August 18, 2024 at 6:47 AM
I found a new toy that you are supposed to draw on and wash off called a marmal (@lovemarmals)

The first order of business was giving it a brain, which led to imagining what its nervous system would look like. It turned out a little bit like a supervillain.

#art #artwork
August 17, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Clown Fish!
From the aquarium, done with acrylic inks!
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#art #artwork #acrylicinc #ink #fish #aquarium
August 17, 2024 at 8:14 AM
August 15, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Beach supplies: sketchbook and watercolors
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#art #artwork #watercolor #ink #beach
August 15, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Optogenetics!
These little cells will have their proteins translocated by our spinning disk microscope and a blue light optoplate!

I drew this to congratulate Kirsten Meyer whom I have had the opportunity to work with over the last few years! Now she is off to start her own lab at Yale!

#art
July 31, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Live drawings from the commute!
Also thanks to the person who sat next to me on the train today and complimented my drawing ☺️ it’s always nice to hear!

#art #artwork #livesketch
July 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Compu-mancy:
Harvesting computer parts from one computer to keep your computer of interest running!
It is closely adjacent to scope-romancy, because the microscope is reliant on that computer.
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#art #artwork #sciart #scienceart #markers #ink #sketch #sketchbook #microscope ##computer #drawing
July 6, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Scope-romancy!
The fine art of taking parts from one microscope to revive another microscope to keep it working!
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#art #artwork #sciart #scienceart #markers #ink #sketch #sketchbook #microscope #drawing #illustration #traditionalart
June 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM