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🔸Symbiartic - exploring the SciArt ecology.
A blog by Kalliopi Monoyios, Katie McKissick, & Glendon Mellow.
https://symbiartic.com
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stellerarts.com
Hi everyone! I’m a planetary scientist who studied clouds on brown dwarf & exoplanet atmospheres. I left academia to start my own business, connecting my passions of science + art. I create unique multi-spectral space paintings by combining different wavelengths of light in interesting patterns. 🔭🐡
Three paintings, from top left: (1) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot with a rectangle of ultraviolet in purple & a rectangle of infrared, (2) Pillars of Creation in a checkerboard pattern (3) Cosmic Cliffs (not finished yet)
October 17, 2023 at 7:44 PM
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elliejameson.bsky.social
#Inktober 2023, Day 17, Demon. Just a demon #phage. Some phages carry toxins, virulence factors out have antagonistic interactions with antibiotics. #SciArt
Black and white ink drawing of a cartoon demon phage next to an Angel phage
October 17, 2023 at 10:14 PM
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palaeojules.bsky.social
Guess what's finished...!!!
I'll post the link tomorrow morning, but if you can't wait that long, it's already up on my blog.
(Be warned, the main diagram is gorgeous, but the rest is kind of a mess😅, so... enjoy!)
#paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #ginkgo #blog
October 18, 2023 at 12:23 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Rudely awaken

A young Scansoriopterygid landed next to the tree hole where a group of Jeholopterus was sleeping and rudely woke them up

Day 17 of my Ink-marker sketches

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology
Two anurognathid pterosaurs (Jeholopterus) coming out of a tree hole. Only their heads and part of their arms are visible. One of them is opening its mouth widely. A small young Scansoriopterygid is perched on the same tree trunk a little bit higher that the tree hole where the two pterosaurs are
October 17, 2023 at 2:28 PM
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easternblot.bsky.social
The winners of this year's NIkon Small World microscopy image competition were announced today and I wrote about it for the Forbes website. 🧪 #scicomm
Image Of Optic Disc Wins Annual Microscopy Competition
A colorful close-up image of the optic disc in a rodent’s retina received first place in the annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2023 at 8:27 PM
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amandamakepeace.bsky.social
The companion piece for the same patron. 🖤 #art #sciart

Polka-dot Wasp Moth
Syntomeida epilais
Small trading card size drawing of a Polka-dot Wasp Moth
October 17, 2023 at 9:59 PM
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mattfossen.com
These are as close to "spooky" drawings as I get. There's a somewhat spectral raven, a cuckoo wasp overcome by fungus, and a death's-head moth.
Drawing of a raven with a blue spectral aura. Drawing of a small green wasp parasitized by fungus. Drawing of a death's-head moth.
October 18, 2023 at 12:12 AM
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drfishsg.bsky.social
For the "cold blooded" theme of #SciArtSeptember a garter snake warms up in the sun.
September 4, 2023 at 11:31 PM
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lgivens.bsky.social
I had a bit of trouble with today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt for day 4: cold-blooded. I’m trying to focus on local species I work with or around!
This one’s a bit of a stretch, but here is a bluntnose stingray 🧪
Let’s call it an abstract watercolor painting of a blunt nose stingray skating over a sandy bed
September 5, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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betterknowafish.bsky.social
For the 5th Day of #SciArtSeptember theme of #Strangling, here's a moray eel in the shape of a strangle knot.
Vertical photo of a crayon drawing of a circle with a moray eel depicted in the style of a strangle knot.
September 5, 2023 at 4:30 AM
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brynphd.com
One of the delights locally is seeing a returning osprey population, especially as they go grocery shopping in the nearby river.

Meanwhile, dinner is Strangling (Day 5) in its’ talons. 🪶🐡 #SciArtSeptember
Close-up shot of an osprey flying overhead, with dinner, an unlucky fish - maybe a perch - clutched in its’ talons. There are several breeding pairs that fish this river, though I’m unsure whether it’s the ones who nest on a baseball field lamp, who I’ve dubbed Ozzie and Sharon.
September 5, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
For the #SciArtSeptember theme “strangling” my gel plate prints of Vincetoxicum rossicum, also known as European swallowwort, or Dog-strangling Vine. Introduced to the northeastern US gardens in the mid-1800s, it’s become wildly invasive in south and central Ontario. 🧪🐡🌿

While it doesn’t 🧵 1/n
my gel plate print of Vincetoxicum rossicum, also known as European swallowwort, or Dog-strangling Vine, in blue and green ink on white paper 11” x 14”
September 5, 2023 at 12:12 PM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
Day 5 of #SciArtSeptember - some heavily stylised constricting bronchioles for ‘strangling’ 🐡
A ring of bronchiole cross-sections showing different levels of constriction with ‘breathe’ handwritten in the centre. The bronchioles have pink walls and blue apertures. The background is a smokey grey.
September 5, 2023 at 2:03 PM
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varaniddoc.bsky.social
#herpetology #lizards #SciArtSeptember It is unfortunate that so many museum specimens are in poor or incomplete condition. Breeders, how might scientists entreat you to donate your dearly departed? Seriously??
September 5, 2023 at 2:06 PM
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daryllmarie.bsky.social
#SciArtSeptember Day 5 - Strangling 🪶 Going with a collared dove today since that “collar” sorta looks like it’s wearing a choker! Photographed in my family’s old backyard in Riverside, CA 🧪🌿🐡
A dove sits on a rooftop clinging to the edge with its beak slightly open.
September 5, 2023 at 5:21 PM
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liapas.bsky.social
#SciArtSeptember Day 5: strangling

This symptomatology embroidery, neuraesthenia (2017), depicts the sensation of post-exertional malaise (PEM), the hallmark symptom of ME/CFS. PEM feels like an extreme heaviness, as if the energy system of the body is being strangled. #SciArt 🧶🩺🧪🐡
An embroidery on a pale natural linen, there is the pale outline of a woman’s lower legs and feet, heels together, toes apart. From the soles of the feet, thick red/orange lines coil beneath. From the big toes moving upwards, thick blue and off-white lines rise up through the inner calves and branch off at the knees. These lines coil and intertwine in a brain-like shape, and then move back down in wavy lines like a wide skirt around the ankles.
September 5, 2023 at 6:48 PM
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brynphd.com
Today it begins! 🐡
lizlagomorph.bsky.social Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · Aug 26
Less than a week til the start of #SciArtSeptember! 🐡
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Huge thanks to all who are sharing and reposting. 💜 So excited to see everyone’s work.
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#SciArt #SciComm
Banner for the Sci Art September art challenge. The banner features a sketch, as an example of art to create during the event. It also features the following text: Hashtag Sci Art September. Month-long art challenge. Following that is the 30-word prompt list, included here: 1 Starry, 2 Battle, 3 Favourite, 4 Cold-Blooded, 5 Strangling, 6 Understory, 7 Indigo, 8 Simian, 9 Heart, 10 Gossamer, 11 Lyrical, 12 Overgrowth, 13 Carmine, 14 Glowing, 15 Bird-like, 16 Ochre, 17 Abstract, 18 Talon, 19 Charcoal, 20 Sweet, 21 Misty, 22 Nocturnal, 23 Adornment, 24 Metallic, 25 Alchemical, 26 Threads, 27 Amethyst, 28 Monumental, 29 Tale, 30 Rebirth. After the list is the following text: Hosted by @FlyingTrilobite and @LizLagomorph. Year 3, September 2023.
September 1, 2023 at 9:59 AM
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hanaayoob.co.uk
Day 1 of #SciArtSeptember - Some spacey astrocytes for prompt ‘starry’

🐡🧪 #neuroart
3 stylised astrocytes, vaguely Star shaped sprawling nerve cells, in yellow and pink on a bluey mottled background with extra yellow sparkles around
September 1, 2023 at 11:13 AM
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lampichthys.bsky.social
Hey #SundayFishSketch 🗓️🐠✍️community! We are once again teaming up with @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for #sciartSeptember #Fishytheme s. This Sunday’s word is “Favorite.” So draw your favorite fishes or maybe the favorite of a friend! #sciart
September 1, 2023 at 11:56 AM
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minouette.bsky.social
Welcome to #SciArtSeptember! For day 1: starry, it’s #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), who discovered what stars are made of & that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🧪🐡🧑🏻‍🔬
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Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 🧵1/n
Linocut portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin in a lace collar in front of the sun in oranges and black against the blackness of space. At the bottom of the print is the solar absorption spectrum (a rainbow style gradient of indigo at left through to red and black at the right with specific discrete thin black vertical lines at various places).
September 1, 2023 at 12:23 PM
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stephenmooreart.bsky.social
“OSCARS” the noble Oscar Cichlid in a quartet of its color morphs, oil on canvas 2023. 48X24" #cichlid #Oscar #aqiuarium #freshwater #ecology #aquaticart #aquarium #fineart #fish #tropicalfish #fishart #oilpainting #wildlifeart
September 1, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
Since I’m busily taking part in both #SciArtSeptember & #MinCup23 here’s a silly linocut with #invertebrates & a rock. 🐡

This linocut illustrates a terrible pun: 'Weevil weevil rock U' rather than "We will, we will rock you," of course. The larger weevil is the extravagant, long-necked
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As described, this linocut on Japanese paper illustrates a terrible pun: 'Weevil weevil rock U' rather than "We will, we will rock you," of course. It shows two weevils, a grey rock and a letterpress U. The larger of these two weevils is the extravagant, long-necked red and black giraffe weevil (or giraffe-necked weevil or Trachelophorus giraffa) from Madagascar which can grow to as long as an inch or 2.5 cm in length. The smaller of these 2 is Neocoenorrhinus germanicus, a blue-black weevil, merely 3.9 mm (0.15 inches) found in Southwest Asia, southern Siberia, Russia, and parts of Europe. They are shown roughly 4 times life-sized.
September 1, 2023 at 1:42 PM
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easternblot.bsky.social
The latest issue of my newsletter Mixture went out today and it's about the start of #SciArtSeptember. Some of your #sciart is in this via Instagram embeds (so it includes credits). The next issue is in two weeks and I can share some more then!
SciArt September
A whole month of artists posting their science art on social media!
mixture.substack.com
September 1, 2023 at 1:50 PM
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lizlagomorph.bsky.social
#SciArtSeptember, Day 1 - Starry.
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#SciArt 🐡
An illustration of a golden breasted starling bird. The bird faces to the left and slightly towards the viewer. The bird is cropped at the bottom of the frame and its feet and tail are not visible. The bird is shown in the typical vibrant blue, purple, yellow and green colours of this species. The background is a flat, light pink. The illustration features graphite pencil lines and digital colours.
September 1, 2023 at 2:19 PM