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mol mir
@molmir.bsky.social
🔸 sci viz specialist @ the Stowers Institute
🔸 artist & biologist
🔸 they/them
🔸 molmir.com
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Hey! I’m Meghan, a lifelong artist; painter and drawer. The deep ocean has my heart and I adore painting unusual critters you don’t usually hear about ❤️ I’m contracted for writing and illustrating a deep ocean children’s book releasing in 2026. I also use deep ocean images in my personal work.
February 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Sketchbook land save me 🐡 #sciart
February 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Each morning I'm like oh shit I need to remind people to buy Love Bugs valentines (cute art! facts about insects! & how you can help that insect!). But that means I am only reminding the morning crowd repeatedly & never the late night goblin crowd.

OH WELL. Buy valentines: squidfacts.bigcartel.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anyone else experiencing some serious art block? I'm itching to escape into my sketchbook, but every time I get a chance to, I struggle 😵‍💫 everything feels so forced!!
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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For all the folks out here who can't believe what's happening is happening so fast, with so much acquiescence...don't be so naive. This is America. Many of us who have been trying to fight for a democracy that just recognized us since the 1960's tried to tell you this ish was fragile.
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Good morning, please have a nice bug.

#invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky
January 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It was such a pleasure to host you both at our #CellBio2024 #SciArt Show & Reception! Thank you for making this event so special, and for bringing your creativity and enthusiasm to our community 😍
Turning #science into art, one masterpiece at a time! 🎨🔬
Check out some incredible
#sciart from last night's Science Art show at #CellBio2024 featuring the work of Institute members @snowotarski.bsky.social and Mol Mir! @beatascienceart.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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After our #SciArt subgroup at #CellBio2024, join us for a very special Science Art Show & Reception, where you'll get to interact with our amazing speakers and other pioneers in this field. We are honored to feature over 30 scientists/artists in the exhibition! RSVP: beatascienceart.com/artshow2024/
December 14, 2024 at 7:32 PM
In San Diego for #CellBio2024 & couldn't pass up the chance to visit the tide pools!!
December 15, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Coming Out—Before, During or After Getting a New Job?

3 members of ASCBs LGBTQ+ Committee who have recently obtained Asst Prof positions share their perspectives on navigating their LGBTQ+ identities in application materials and interviews.

Read more: www.ascb.org/diversity-eq... #cellbiology
Coming Out—Before, During, or After Getting a New Job? - ASCB
Three members of the ASCB LGBTQ+ Committee who have recently obtained Assistant Professor positions at major U.S. universities share their perspectives on navigating their LGBTQ+ identities in applica...
www.ascb.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Some recent #sketchbook stuff 👻
December 4, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about 🐡🧵
November 27, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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It's about that time of year- time to remind you all you can get your FREE christmas grub STL for 3D printing from either my MyMiniFactory or Cults3D pages. Enjoy and if you print one, I'd love to see pics! 🐡
November 25, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Many bivalves can see! Scallops have hundreds of eyes, which they can even use to resolve simple shapes, to help them navigate while swimming. Giant clams and some other cockles have them too. Juvenile oysters have an eyespot for navigating in the larval phase #clamFacts 🧪
November 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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I also drew this guy today! #colorpencil #drawing
November 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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If you love science-based art, check out the 2025 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators juried art exhibit-I was honored to have 2 pieces accepted.
www.gnsi.org/2024-gnsi-ju...
#SciArt #art
www.gnsi.org
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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3 Years of papercut marine invertebrates 🐌🦑🪼
November 4, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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The Anji Biota, a diverse glass sponge reef roughly 1000 metres below the waves of Ordovician China, in the aftermath of Earth's second worst mass extinction event.

Archopterus anjiensis, a small eurypterid, glides leisurely through. #paleoart #sciart
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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That was our last slug of the evening (we had lost the light and didn't want to lose skin off our knees as it got harder to navigate). Here's a roundup of the evening's sea stars -- plenty of ochre stars in purple and orange, a bat star, and hundreds of little six-armed stars!
November 18, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Shamelessly taking advantage of the bluesky migration to share again some of my favorite echinoderm pics 😀🤩

🔽 Acetylated tubulin (nerves and cilia) and phalloidin (muscles) stains in a juvenile sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) just after metamorphosis ⭐
November 17, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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And of course the cool and soothing #invertedLUTs
with my new favorite combo: inverted grey + white.
and a last reminder, for social media sharing of cool microscopy, it's fine and good to use gamma correction to adjust the contrast without saturation!
November 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM