Finally put together my 2025 Art vs. Artist. Made some cool artwork, and overcame my fear of being upside down. :) Here's to more science visuals and handstands in 2026!

Love the caption of Fig. 3 in this impressive preprint: "A Goodsell-esque 3D orthogonal rendering of an IsoNet2-processed FIB-milled tomogram of C. reinhardtii" doi.org/10.64898/202... Since I am no expert, what does the cryoET community think of IsoNet? @cellarchlab.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

My recent #sciart on kinetochore structure is now live! 👇 Congrats to the authors! 👏

My trading cards are ready for the Association of Medical Illustrators mentor mixer! Who's going to be trading with me in Grand Rapids? #AMI2025 #sciart

Wanted to share this fun side project for the last day of Pride month - DNA strand with the colors of the Progress Pride flag. :) #sciart

Want to follow my #sciart, but don't want to slog through a feed to find it? Then I've got the newsletter for you!

@capitalweather.bsky.social is there a technical definition of sky? If so, what are the upper and lower bounds? Asking for a 4 y/o who wants to know if buildings touch the sky.

Our first Teach In is on the map...and it's a big one with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social! You can RSVP at the bottom of this page: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... #standupforscience

Inspired by Vietnam-era activism, Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of teach-ins around the USA this summer, focusing on the importance of science and science funding. I’m doing one May 30th in Silver Spring. Many of you should consider doing one too, and I’m happy to help you plan it 🦑🧪🌎

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Registration for our July 13-19 Visual SciComm Conference is now open! We invite everyone to join us for a week of social events, #SciArt camaraderie, and presentations by pioneering visual science communicators. Register by May 5 for early bird pricing. www.gnsi.org/visual-scico...

Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At the bottom of her email newsletter, @falconierivisuals.bsky.social writes "This newsletter is 100% human created. If I can't be bothered to write it, I won't bother you to read it!" and I really really love that! It perfectly sums up how I feel about using ChatGPT, even for simple tasks.

Getting ready for #standupforscience2025 on Friday. Will you be there? #sciart #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall

On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone. Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

I'm going to be at Stand Up for Science in DC on March 7! Come join me!

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

I had to message Google support just to *enable the button* to turn Gemini AI off for my work email. If users actually wanted the feature, it wouldn't be set up like this.

You had me at "pyroptotic corpses". 🔥😂 But seriously this is a great bluetorial with fascinating microscopy!

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

Part 5, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2018, just getting established as a freelancer. I was lucky to work with Synlogic Therapeutics on this image that ended up on the cover of Science Translational Medicine!

I recently had my appendix out and this is a horrible week to not be able to work out.

I'll be speaking at Science Talk '25 in April! Let me know if you're planning to attend so that we can connect! 👋 #SCITALK25 #SCIENCETALK25 #scicomm #AssocSciComm

I reject “AI or die”. 🧵

I loved these as a kid! Which probably explains why I ended up in medical illustration. 😂

Part 4, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2017, putting 3D electron microscopy (FIB SEM) data of the salivary gland in context. In collab with Kedar Narayan, NCI's CCR Volume EM lab. 🧪 crtp.ccr.cancer.gov/vem/

Greetings, Bluesky!

Part 3, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration 2016, my first piece for Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social - HIV surface spike (Env) attaching to a host cell. 🧪

Part 2, 10 years of molecular #sciart and medical illustration Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy animation, 2015: This video for the Subramaniam Lab (then NCI, now UBC) shows how single particle #cryoem reveals molecular structures.

Let's get caught up, shall we? Over the next few weeks I'm going to share #sciart highlights from my 10 years as a professional medical illustrator. First up, my 2014 image of beta-galactosidase, created in collaboration with Doreen Matthies (NIH), illustrating #cryoem resolution breakthroughs

GenAI has given fraudsters a powerful new way of making fake images. My story in @natureportfolio.bsky.social looks at what people are doing to try to stop this problem from spiraling out of control: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The right science. The right style. Always. :)

Hi Bluesky! I'm a Certified Medical Illustrator and animator, specializing in cellular & molecular visuals. Nice to meet you!