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Sonhita 🌞
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🎨Science Illustrator artbysonhita.com
✍️Scientific Editor & Illustrator @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
🌱Associate Features Editor @ThePlantCell.bsky.social
📝Previously Editor for @cp-molcell.bsky.social @CellPress.bsky.social

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · Mar 22
So honoured to be featured as the first #sciart artist of this series! 🎨🧬

Thank you @swc-can.bsky.social for supporting Canadian #scicomm, #sciencewriters and #sciartists 🇨🇦🍁🧪🔬
swc-can.bsky.social Science Writers and Communicators of Canada @swc-can.bsky.social · Mar 22
Introducing the SciArt Series! 🎨🧬

We’re kicking things off with Sonhita @sonhita.bsky.social, a biologist and science illustrator whose work transforms molecular biology into whimsical, captivating art.

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A colourful illustration showing DNA replication with a yellow background. A dark laboratory with a wanted poster showing differen functional RNA's Two hands with henna designs cupped and holding a science form with plants and flowers surrounding intertwined with DNA strands and other microbiology illustrations. Patterned organization of DNA and chromatin into higher-order structures superimposed on the fractal architecture of the fiddlehead fern, with chromosome territories enlarging from spores originating in the fern’s leaves.
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lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce the first dedicated Workshop for scientists interested in becoming journal editors.👇

This workshop will teach you transferable skills to support a career as a journal editor or whatever career path you pursue.

Secure Your Spot: www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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rmsbartists.bsky.social
OPEN CALL FOR ART! "Full Spectrum" — A joyful celebration of colors. Submit botanical artworks accentuating a singular hue.

Learn more and sign up at: asba-art.org/content.aspx...
The call closes November 2, 2026, but you must claim your color spot soon!
#callforart #juriedshow #botanicalart
FULL SPECTRUM call for art closes November 2, 2026 (yes, a year away—botanical art is slow art!) YELLOW: A close-up sunflower by member Dorothy DePaulo. VIOLET: A single thistle blossom by member Mary Crabtree. RED: A pairing featuring bright Indian Paintbrush by Jan Boyd Haring.
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia
September 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
🧪New method for anyone interested in protein-DNA interactions and TF mapping, from the lab of @epistrucstab.bsky.social at @unicologne.bsky.social!👇
epistrucstab.bsky.social Robert Hänsel-Hertsch @epistrucstab.bsky.social · Jul 28
🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town.
Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag.
🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)
Image credit: @gloglita.bsky.social‬ @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social‬ captured DynaTag in action: a pA-Tn5 probe (multicoloured) binds an antibody (white), which binds p53 DNA-binding domain (green) on DNA (blue) within 2 nucleosomes
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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epistrucstab.bsky.social
🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town.
Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag.
🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)
Image credit: @gloglita.bsky.social‬ @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social‬ captured DynaTag in action: a pA-Tn5 probe (multicoloured) binds an antibody (white), which binds p53 DNA-binding domain (green) on DNA (blue) within 2 nucleosomes
July 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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prelights.bsky.social
And of course, our recent #sciart graphical abstracts wouldn't exist without @sonhita.bsky.social's workshop on visual storytelling we've hosted recently on preLights 🖌️
prelights.bsky.social preLights @prelights.bsky.social · Jul 21
Flip a switch, control cell adhesion! Light-controlled talin, a powerful tool to study how cells sense and respond to their environment.

Another #sciArt #preLight features graphical abstracts by Barbora Knotkova and Sonhita Chakraborty and presents the work of Ryosuke Nishimura and the team💫
Optogenetic control of mechanotransduction based on light-induced homodimerization of talin - preLights
Flip a switch, control cell adhesion. Light-controlled talin to control cell adhesion and mechanosignaling - a powerful tool to study how cells sense and respond to their environment.
prelights.biologists.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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angelaandersen.bsky.social
Looking forward to this discussion today! biorender.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Funding U.S. Science Through Uncertainty. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join a live virtual discussion with critical voices in the research community – including senior leaders from Columbia, Novartis, and the former Director for Science appointed by President Obama – as ...
biorender.zoom.us
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
Our talented former-journal editors have been writing Snippets: short (1-3-paragraph) summaries of papers that caught our eye. They are digestible highlights of a recent discovery, and why we think you should know about it. You can find the full list at www.lifescienceeditors.com/snippets/ 🧪
July 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
We're welcoming another former Editor-in-Chief to our team, this time Allyson Evans from Cell Metabolism.👇

Allyson joins our other six(!) former EiCs, and our 15 former journal editors. We share our insights directly with scientists to strengthen the visibility and impact of their research.
July 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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angelaandersen.bsky.social
Do you need someone to talk to about an editorial decision, a response to reviewers, or a job talk? Look no further - we're here, we have the behind-the-scenes insight, and we want to help you! www.lifescienceeditors.com/scientific-c...
Illustration of a person consulting with a professional. The person has a tangled thought bubble, while the consultant has a speech bubble showing the tangled line transformed into a neat spiral, symbolizing clarity and guidance.
July 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
🍁🐻🌿Collage for Canada Day 🦌🛶🐡

#digitalcollage #collageart #canadaday #canada #canadianartist #truenorth
July 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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moritznowack.bsky.social
Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Confocal image showing a nucleus of a maize endosperm cell expressing proNAC130:NL-mCherry counterstained with DAPI.
June 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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moritznowack.bsky.social
And please have a look at this super nice In Brief article by @sonhita.bsky.social Chakraborty doi.org/10.1093/plce...
KILing in the name of embryonic growth: KIL transcription factors drive cell death in the maize endosperm
Life's journey within a single kernel of maize (Zea mays) is one of growth and sacrifice. As the developing embryo derives nutrition from the neighboring n
doi.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
sonhita.bsky.social
🛹🧢☀️ He was a skater bird, she said see you later bird… 🛼😎🌴

#CollageArt #SkaterBirds #BirdsWithAttitude #BirdArt #SkateCulture #AvrilLavigne #Summer #CollageArtist #CanadianArtist
Collage of 2 birds, one on a skateboard and one on roller skates, in LA
June 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
If you see this, post a bird!

#redcardinal #spring #toronto
Red cardinal sitting on a branch outside a window
June 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
Throwback to this #sciart cover I made for @cp-med.bsky.social 2 years ago!

🧪 This covers shows pink dendritic cells producing CCL19 (boxes), which acts on blue CD8+ T cells to enhance their antitumor effectiveness in #breastcancer patients

🌈 It also features a rainbow to commemorate #pridemonth
This journal covers shows pink dendritic cells producing CCL19 (shown here as boxes), which acts on blue CD8+ T cells to enhance their antitumor effectiveness in breast cancer patients. It also features a rainbow to commemorate pridemonth
June 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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lifescienceeditors.bsky.social
Our Research Snippets leverage the talent of our scientific editors and communicators to present recent top research in an easily digestible format. 👇 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
Seeking

#digitalcollage #collageart #scienceinspired #sciart #astronomer #sciencefiction
Digital collage of a fish, moon and astronomer
June 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
In fun and good #libcomix news, @torontocomics.bsky.social Libraries & Education Day is happening tomorrow!

Hope to see you there - and again on Saturday and Sunday for TCAF itself!

www.torontocomics.com/schedule/tca...
A mix of comic book characters (including Faith's original characters) gather in front of the Mattamy Athletic Centre. Text reads "Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2024, June 6-8 Mattamy Athletic Centre, FREE!!"
June 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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mathpreu.bsky.social
🧬 #FluorescenceFriday
Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells.

#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy
May 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
🧪 Researchers from Purdue University delve into the genetic mechanisms of sex determination in the model fern Ceratopteris richardii 🌿

📖 Full article: lnkd.in/dJcYUcPm
🔗 In Brief: lnkd.in/d2fZNhjr

#PlantBiology #SexDetermination #PlantScience #ThePlantCell #PlantDevelopment #EvolutionaryBiology
theplantcell.bsky.social The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · May 23
IN BRIEF: Flipping the sex switch: Genetic insights into sex determination factor in Ceratopteris richardii (Sonhita Chakraborty) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
‘Springtime prance’

#art #digitalcollage #collage #botanicalcollage #leaves #collageart #torontocollagecollective #canadiancollage #botanicalart
May 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
sonhita.bsky.social
Science inspired digital collage made from images in the public domain

Čÿćlīñg Ťħřøűğħ, 2025

#digitalcollage 🧪 #scienceart #sciart #collage #moon #celestial #sun #surrealism #art
Digital collage of circular objects against a grey background
May 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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stemfactually.com
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Special shout out to all the #womeninstem balancing motherhood and their careers.
🧪⚛️🧬🥽🍎👩‍🔬 #happymothersday
May 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM