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mol mir
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🔸 sci viz specialist @ the Stowers Institute
🔸 artist & biologist
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Sketchbook land save me 🐡 #sciart
Photo of a sketchbook page. In the center, there's a pencil sketch of a face which is surrounded by squiggly blobby puffy organelles. A golgi in the bottom left, mitochondria and ER all around the face as if it were the nucleus Photo of a sketchbook page. There are squiggles drawn in different colors of marker, all packed together. Different colors of colored pencil have been used to add shading to the marker squiggles and the color pencil name is written next to each.
February 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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!!
Photo of sketchbook pages with drawings of fish. One fish is very simplified and hovers in front of a stone structure, tears trailing from a human-shaped eye. The other fish is a realistic drawing of a banggai cardinalfish.
February 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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In San Diego for #CellBio2024 & couldn't pass up the chance to visit the tide pools!!
Photo of the vertebrae of a large animal, possibly a dolphin? On a pile of sea weed Photo of an anemone sparkling in the sunshine! Photo of a large turban shell in a tide pool filled with rocks and algae Photo of a hole in a rock packed with various snails attempting to stay moist. The rock is also covered in small barnacles
December 15, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Some recent #sketchbook stuff 👻
Photo of an open sketchbook. The left page has an ink drawing of a woman with short hair. The right page is a painting of a spiral intertwined with a mesh. The background is painted pink. Photo of an open sketchbook. On the right of the image, we can see part of a curious pet cat. The pages are filled with five teal loops of paint. A red colored pencil shadow has been started to be filled in behind the loops Photo of an open sketchbook. The left page is a tangle of branching vessels, with the background filled in with blue paint. The right page is a similar style, with the background filled in black.
December 4, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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What I see when I'm painting 🤪
Very zoomed in photo of a paint palette. Framed in the center of the image is a glob of light pink paint that looks like a cartoon axolotl, facing left This is the same photo, but with an overlay, emphasizing the cartoon axolotl head with a line drawing.
November 14, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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Hiiii bsky people! I'm Mol 🌻
I'll probably be posting biology stuff & sketchbook pages #sciart

I am a science viz specialist & I love creatures and cells and art!! 🪲🕸️🐌🪱🌷🐚🍀🌗
Photo of a sketchbook page with abstract line drawings. The sketchbook is open on a table that is covered in seashells, some on top of the sketchbook as well Photo of a tank of moon jellies. The jellyfish in the center of the image has 5 gonads instead of the usual 4 Photo of a hand holding up a shiny, dark, roughly spherical (or egg-shaped) object in front of a green ocean. This is called a sailor's eyeball or bubble algae Photo of a sketchbook page with a drawing of a red fish with white spots. The handwritten text says Snowy grouper
November 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Hi Bluesky!! I can't wait to see you people in Boston this weekend. I'm giving a talk about drawing in biology as part of this incredible subgroup --> Science and Art: Bridging Two Creative Universes.

If you see me, say hi!!! Check out the full lineup here:
#CellBio2023
A return to the practice of drawing in the biological sciences 1:57 PM - 2:07 PM Cell Bio 2023 Science and Art: Bridging Two Creative Universes Sat Dec 2nd 1:00 - 3:30 PM Cell Bio 2023 Special Interest Subgroup Science and Art: Bridging Two Creative Universes There is a list of 12 talks by 12 people: David Goodsell, Gaia Pigino, Helena Jambor, Thao Do, Mol Mir, Leonora Martinez-Nunez, Mary O'Reilly, Christopher Prinz, Duygu Ozpolat, Alex Ritter, Bryan Welm, and Melanie Stegman. The organizers are: Francesca Bartolini, Carsten Janke, and Beata Mierzwa. Saturday, Dec 2 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm in room 254A
November 27, 2023 at 9:18 PM
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Sometimes all I want to do is draw
Photo of an unfinished digital drawing depicting some sort of secretory cell, secreting lumpy yellow spheres Photo of unfinished drawing on an iPad, it is a secretory cell using the colors of the sunset, purple, pink, orange, yellow
October 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM
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Clouds, nature, light... 🌥️🌫️
Photo of a gray 3D print, fresh from the printer, hanging upside down from the build platform Photo of a bright and cloudy sky, flowers in the foreground appear silhouetted against the sky.
October 4, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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Back at it 😎 #3Dprinting
Photo of a gray resin 3D print, hanging upside down from the build platform Photo of two tiny green 3D printed koalas in the palm of my hand
September 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM
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My first sand dollar! And idk?? Does anyone know what I found in the second photo? 🔍
Photo of a hand holding a sand dollar skeleton Close up photo of a hand holding 3 tiny pieces of something... a shrimp or crustacean molt maybe?
September 21, 2023 at 5:08 PM
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Beach! Beach! Beach!
Photo of a bird on the beach at sunset. Photo of a bird on the beach running away from the incoming wave and the wet sand reflecting the colors of the sunset Photo of a bird on the beach at sunset. The sky is completely clear of clouds and there is a person silhouetted in the distance Photo of a bird on the beach at sunset.
September 19, 2023 at 2:26 AM
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Really enjoying looking for shells and pokémon 🤭🐚
Photo of the beach at sunset. The ocean is in the background and wild oats in the foreground Photo of the beach with a stormy sky. At the right of the image, there is a staircase leading down to the sand and grass. The ocean is visible on the left.
September 15, 2023 at 5:44 PM
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Some photo moments. I'm visiting family right now & about to head to the beach!!!!! 🐚🌊🌾⛈️
Photo of marigold flowers in a raised bed Photo of a raspberry croissant on a plate at a coffee shop. Photo of a hallway lined with small framed photographs. At the end of the hallway there is a graphite portrait drawing. Photo of an open sketchbook that has some writing and several drawings of sea shells.
September 13, 2023 at 3:01 PM