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Petra Korlević
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
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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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I got permission to #CrabPost

#SciArt #invertebrates
a grid of 3x2 square drawings of crabs (and one shrimp) on a black background, red crab, leopard crab, fluffy crab, orange and purple halloween crab, pipe cleaner red and white shrimp, yellow grey crab with googly eyes
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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@rspbscotland.bsky.social why is this post not on bluesky i need it burned into my retinas and framed in the house
screenshot from instagram, on the left a photo of three baby barn owls, very fluffy very potato shaped, staring at the camera from their tree trunk burrow, with the text above saying "i asked ChatGPT" okay well i asked these barn owls and they weighed your soul against a feather and they said your spirit has been found wanting the text on the right is rspb.scotland follow rspb.scotland 1w we asked the birds and now they're all gossiping about you :/ kalvinkelleys 1w the only parliament you can really trust without doubt Like Reply View all 9 replies nicealanna 1w whoever is doing your social media needs a raise Like Reply View all 4 replies 124,501 likes 4 november Log in to like or comment.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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i love sea invertebrates and all that don't get me wrong but also you will not see me anywhere on or in big bodies of water because that is scary as hell

every time i just think of this meme
stop exploring the ocean (picture of the ocean with a red denied sign) we all know what water is thanks theres no single damn thing in there i wanna see we found EVERYTHING that taste good 1. crab 2. fried shrimp 12,301,320 undiscovered jelly fish go to hell
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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me being utter fashion at work

(minus the cool shirt the earrings are made from upcycled bike tires)
photo of me wearing a destroy ai t-shirt, with a badass rosie the riveter holding a robot head in one hand and a nail bat in the other, standing on a robot horse, i have the black version i'm also wearing bright blue feather like chunky earrings and have yellow earphones
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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very shmol. atomic even.
collage showing the size of a penny (the united states one-cent coin) diameter 19.05 mm, a housefly (musca domestica) body length 8-12 mm, and then zooming in on a speck of dust looking thing is a fairyfly (Mymaridae) body length: 0.139 mm
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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the tiniest parasitoid fairy wasp shows up like "sup"
Very dramatic photo of a yellow fairy wasp on a black background, a teeny wasp with feather like wings and long antennae
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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ask and ye shall receive
really ridiculous #SciArt drawing of a reverse musca depicta! where a realistic fly face is in a baroque dress with tiny people around her, reference of a noblewoman in a dress holding a rose as a reference
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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what the hell happened here
a series of bluesky postst starting with Post not found then John Cullen @nelluchoj.bsky.socia 2mo Always the tortious inteference with these eejits then Nicholas Kole @nicholashole.bsky.social we out here torting followed by an image of testicular torsion showing the spermic duct twisted in a spiral
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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i want to go to the musca depicta art exhibition lol
an art exhibition all about the various artworks that depict a small fly as a part of a much bigger painting, it happened in italy in 2025, and there are various examples from religious paintings to still life
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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counterpoint: medieval manuscript
medieval manuscript showcasing two fly species, the black ones that look like houseflies are on a white background, while the gold ones that look like hoverflies are on a red background
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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but look at butterbird
hyeronymus bosch drawing of a butterfly with a bird face and hands talking to a naked human
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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hyeronymus bosch;s hell painting, with a human building, a couple of ears holding a knife, a spleen or something intrument, a bunch of small erid people, crocodiles eating a soldier, bunch of butts, also there is a little butterfly bottom left
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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redraw of the sickos meme, but it is a mosquito in the sickos shirt at the window saying YES... HA HA HA... YES!
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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NYOOOOM NYOM NYOM NYOOOOOOM
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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freshly hatched and already wigglin
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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the art vs the artist's hand
7x5 grid on a black background of 32 #SciArt invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes in the middle are their latin names in white text: INVERTOBER 2025 1 | Chrysaora pacifica 2 | Graphocephala coccinea 3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica 4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus 5 | Panulirus versicolor 6 | Phalera bucephala 7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum 8 | Mallophora fautrix 9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi 10 | Lumbricus terrestris 11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus 12 | Siliqua patula 13 | Camponotus consobrinus 14 | Eunice aphroditois 15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae 16 | Bathynomus giganteus 17 | Pseudoceros concinnus 18 | Sceliphron caementarium 19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis 20 | Velella velella 21 | Libellula saturata 22 | Clione limacina 23 | Cicindela albissima 24 | Perna canaliculus 25 | Scutigera coleoptrata 26 | Jorunna parva 27 | Dermacentor variabilis 28 | Chrysopa perla 29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus 30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis 31 | Acherontia atropos extra | Aedes aegypti Me doing the italian hand gesyure with a blue teal raincoat and a nice autumny green and orange vegetation in the background with a white fence
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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did we all forget the saying???? what is going on???
Photo of a piece of yellowed paper with thr text in all caps A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST EVET MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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a yassified black and white cow! with a blue bandana massive eyelash eyes, huge red lips and hoop earrings the cow is gettyimages credit gk hart/vikki hart
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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them CLASSY Yorkshire cows
Photo of a cheese wrap with the text Harrogat blue Our exclusive golden-bodied, blue veined cheese, made with mill from classy Yorkshire cows
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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me on the science event when the buffet opens
silly black ink on white doodle of a sassy little jackdaw with a sneaky little eye
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🦉

#birds #SciArt
digital doodle of a scops owls, in a powerful stance, staring at the camera with huge eyes, utterly confused with question marks by their head doodle of a chubby magellanic penguin with a little pin eye shadow standing proudly on a grey background four DND characters on an olive green background, from left: a barbarian owlet with a pack of herbs and an axe, a crow with a bejeweled dagger and a purple orb in a purple robe, a very high looking white fluffy cat in a cream orange robe with a lotus lantern and red and blue patchwork, a weirdo little hooded creature with a huge cyan eyeball peeking under their hood 10 vector drawings of birds in black ink with some red higlights, the birds are eagle, robin, heron, barn owl, ostritch, chicken, parakeet, seagull, teeny hummingbird, joinky sploinky jackdaw
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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creature that ate the plastic foil at the bottom of meat packaging during holidays when no vet works and we were panicking for a week if we will have to get her to urgent GI tract surgery
me pointing to our cat mikmik, a fluffy orange tabby with massive white mustaches, her little teefies showing as she sniffs my finger, she is laying on the nice cold rock windowsil with her front paws outstretched.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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lol lmao dating people are ok sometimes
screenshot of a guardian article with a photo of a robot hand holding a baloon heart while a hand with red nails pops it the text above is 'it shows such a laziness": why i refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT It's the ultimate ick: trying to form a deep, lasting connection with a person who outsources original thought
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Art train time 🚆🎨

Next stops:
@lassflores.bsky.social
@franzanth.bsky.social
@saimihanma.bsky.social
@filonico.bsky.social
two stickers with a white border, one is of a mosquito in a labcoat with pipettes, the other is a diplodocud in yellow and orange painting over an ai sign with the test no genAI images, all human made! semi-realistic #SciArt drawing of a deep sea isopod, very orange, very friend shaped, whiny with chubby segmented leggies, on a black background super silly doodle of a velvet worm sitting on Cthulhu's lap, holding a lolly and wearing a hat, while Cthulhu is a grampa with glasses and grey tentacle beard, behind is a sign saying live laugh lovecraft and a halucigenia drawing with the text saying heart grandma a very pissed looking cassowari bird sitting on their butt, big leggies stretched at the front, on a grey background.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM