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Julia Kuhl
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scientific illustrator - https://somedonkey.work
(& unscientific artist - https://juliakuhl.myportfolio.com)
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New cover
"Selectively vulnerable deep cortical layer 5/6 fast-spiking interneurons in Alzheimer’s disease models in vivo"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#scArt #sciComm #neurons #neuroscience #neuroskyence
a lace curtain (made of neurons) fraying at the bottom (layers 5/6)
July 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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some new posters
#sciComm #sciArt #neuroskyence #neuroscience
June 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type - or more - at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
This one is for all the #ChandelierNeuron fans out there
#sciArt #sciComm #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Cover of journal Neuron shows a female scientists turning lamp-like neurons on and off
May 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
somedonkey.bsky.social
two rejected covers - one happy, one sad (but hopeful)
#sciArt #neuroscience #neuroskyence #illustration #sciComm
In the 1st drawing grey zebrafish swimming through ketamine structure become colorful. In the 2nd drawing a paralyzed person in a wheelchair imagines their hands moving
March 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
somedonkey.bsky.social
recent posters -
Two posters - 1) title: "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits per second?". Illustration: a stopwatch with hand in the shape of a walking person 2) title: "People, ants, & pianos". Illustration: Grand piano being carried by many ants, while also being pushed (perhaps the other way) by two sets of human hands.
February 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
somedonkey.bsky.social
some cell biology icons I made for a project last year
#sciArt #sciComm #cells #cellBiology #science #illustration
eight round, grey-scale icons representing various aspects of cell biology
January 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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some fest & meeting t-shirt designs from 23/24

#sciArt #sciComm #T-shirts #neuroskyence #neuroscience #illustration #neurons
December 30, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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this year's rejected covers :(
#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence #neuroscience
December 23, 2024 at 2:27 PM
somedonkey.bsky.social
This is a first for me - two covers came out the same day!
www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...
&
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm
Cover of Cell Stem Cell journal depicts a winter landscape with a frozen tree (looking very much like a neuron, sprouting a green branch with pink buds) A cover of Neuron journal depicts a female gymnast, surrounded by neurons, swinging from an axon...
December 5, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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thedailyshow.com
Jon Stewart’s Election Night Takeaway #DailyShow

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Jon Stewart’s Election Night Takeaway | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 6, 2024 at 5:56 AM
somedonkey.bsky.social
I made this drawing in 2016...
Unfortunately, it still works today.
An orange fat man with yellow hair wearing black suit and red tie is seen from behind. He is erasing the words 'like home' from the sentence 'there is no place like home' with a crumpled american flag.
October 29, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Post your most popular art from the bird app...
secret lives of synapses
#sciArt
#synapses #neuroscience #neurons
three whimsical illustrations of what the artist imagines goes on between the cells at the synapse
October 24, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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some institute posters i made in 2024

#posters #sciArt #sciComm #illustration #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Six posters for scientific talks. Depicted are bird-nests of different shapes, boxing fruit flies, romantic mice, mating butterflies, psychedelic zebrafish, and a fruit fly wearing stereoscopic glasses.
October 23, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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New issue of Cell out today, with my cover illustrating this review -
"Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models"
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#neuroscience #sciArt #sciComm #brain #neuroskyence #Connectomics #neurons
scientist at her desk in front of many screens showing various methods to investigate the brain.
October 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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This year's first accepted cover -
"Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex" www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

#sciart #scicomm #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #neuron #illustration
red suited surfers
July 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by Julia Kuhl
mkonnikova.bsky.social
Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!
December 31, 2023 at 8:29 PM
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Published covers of 2023 -

#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence
December 18, 2023 at 3:52 PM
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Rejected covers of 2023 -

#sciArt #sciComm #neuroskyence
December 18, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#sciArt #scicomm #neuroskyence
Two neurons playing tug of war with 3 ropes
November 26, 2023 at 8:50 PM
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Made lots of posters for the institute this year...

#sciArt #neuroskyence
12 posters announcing MPIBI institute speakers. Depicted are octopuses, mice, bats, squirrels, birds, spiders...
November 14, 2023 at 11:48 AM
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Yay! Another Nature Neuroscience cover.
Dissociating the contributions of sensorimotor striatum to automatic and visually guided motor sequences
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#sciArt #sciComm #neurosckynce
on the cover of Nature Neuroscience journal a woman is playing the piano. The notes are neurons.
October 4, 2023 at 12:02 PM
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rejected cover :-(
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#neuroskyence #sciart #scicomm
Cover of journal Cell shows an image of an old book (yellowing parchment pages) with line drawings of C. elegans in different poses with corresponding dots and lines of brain circuits. The bookmark is a pyramidal neuron.
September 21, 2023 at 8:38 AM
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Dream assignment: Make a cover illustration in the style of Giorgio Morandi.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm #Morandi
cover of the journal Neuron shows a still life with vessels & neurons in the style of the artist Giorgio Morandi
September 11, 2023 at 3:45 PM
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looking through old phone photos found this fine creature -
a photo of very orange, very fuzzy caterpillar called the banded woolly bear, woolly bear, or woolly worm. It will become Isabella tiger moth eventually. (according to Wikipedia... I know nothing about this stuff)
August 25, 2023 at 4:27 PM
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A #rejectedCover from 2021
#sciArt #sciComm #caterpillar #neuroskyence
A a cochlea-like snail (looking worried) is about to enter a brain-like labyrinth. The paper the drawing was made for is titled - "Multisensory coding of angular head velocity in the retrosplenial cortex"
August 13, 2023 at 10:39 PM