Red Haeckel Cluster 3/2020 9 X 9 inches [22.9 X 22.9 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #plankton

This just dropped in my inbox, which means the new issue of SftP magazine is officially out! 🤩 I was particularly excited about this issue on Rethinking #SciComm, and it was my honor to serve as art director, and 'commission myself' (i.e. volunteer) for the cover #SciArt ❤️

"Instead of a belief in an all-knowing science, we are faced with the reality that humans are responsible for what is researched, how it is researched and what conclusions are drawn from such research." Scientists: please read this article by Sig Giordano! 🙏 theconversation.com/scientific-o...

cover reveal 🥹 my new book w/ oni press has been announced! coming to you this december 🫶🏽 details & preview pages here: bleedingcool.com/comics/quick...

here's how to get your fill as soon as it drops. thanks so much to @sagecoffey.bsky.social @mirkdrop.bsky.social and @matteofarinella.bsky.social for taking the time to read the ARC and share your thoughts <333 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-quick-ea...

Great news - keep the pressure on!

I finished another sketchbook this weekend, so here is a small selection of drawings from my favorite local parks. 🌲 #resist #draw #sketch #naturedrawing #observationaldrawing

Great work (as usual) by Argha Manna and Saurja DasGupta "finding a new way to communicate science, both in classrooms and to the general public." global.nd.edu/news-stories... #SciArt #SciComm #SciComics

A quiet morning on Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY Happy to back home in the mountains and looking forward to some Summer drawing 🌲 #inkdrawing #naturedrawing #comics

Great article by @iddogefen.bsky.social on the dangers of technological metaphors 👏👏👏 “...achievements did not come from identifying familiar patterns, but from breaking them through messiness and unexpected mistakes.”

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

Neuroscience through the ages 🧠 ✏️ #graphicanatomy #graphicmedicine #comics #brains #phrenology #vesalius

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

Me: "Who of these guys are ICE? There's the one in the mask, but then the rest just look like random chumps. Like, is this one an ICE guy? Is that an ICE guy?" Josie: "I don't think any of them are nice guys, SI"

I don't want to "wrap my head around this." (part 2). A short and unusual personal (for me) comic about how I feel these days. 💔 #comics #nokings #resist #protest

No human is illegal on stolen land!

When this is over, if we ever get to rebuild, we have to talk about real protections for speech including mass speech. The right to free speech is nothing if demonstrators can be shot and gassed. That has to be flat illegal.

My new piece in Nature Human Behavior: "We need to fight for the next generation of US researchers" All trainees need 3 things to thrive. In the US, those things have been ripped away. Let's brainstorm and fight to get them back. (share link): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another animation I'm proud to have worked on with my colleagues at the Zuckerman Institute 💙 I hope this visual metaphor can help convey the magnitude of the damage we're witnessing in science... the repercussions will be felt for many generations to come 😢 #academicsky #scicomm #sciart

Yay! Thanks to Laura Tran for interviewing me about my unusual career on The Scientist - I think "Don’t wait for permission. If you love it, keep at it." perfectly summarizes all the 'advice' I have to give 😅 www.the-scientist.com/neurocomics-... #scicomm #sciviz #sciart

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

Check out this first page of our comic illustrated by @matteofarinella.bsky.social -- find the full comic and more here bhamla.gatech.edu/comics

Yes! The Fantastic Flamingo comic is OUT 🦩It was such an honor to join the @bhamlalab.bsky.social Curious Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms - a real champion of science comics 💪 #scicomm #sciart #biology

This was SUCH a fun #SciArt event, hearing other people's experiences with something that I've thought was a niche thing until maybe 3 years ago! Thanks for organizing @philippdexheimer.bsky.social ... it was also a good reminder to re-follow some people I lost from the Twitter move whops...

From paleoart to fine art, comics to medical illustration, bioart to space imagery, explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack. 150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡. And no gen AI or NFTs.

📣 Starting soon! Join us for this #sciart marathon 🎨 Thanks to @philippdexheimer.bsky.social for organizing this 💪 I'm really looking forward to hearing from all these people! I will be speaking around 16:45 CET (10:45 EST) #scicomm #illustration #careerchat #academicSky

So pleased with this commission from the Museum of Moving Image, Open Worlds: Science - in collaboration with Undercurrent Design 💙 #illustration #naturedrawing #sciencefilm #sciart #scicomm

Happy #BicycleDay 🚲🍭

Many online events to choose from on this National Day of Action for Higher Ed! #academicsky take a break from research and start #organizing or we won't have research in this country for much longer ✊ www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events #resist #protest #freespeech

Last Friday, 04/11/25, the @aaup.bsky.social bravely sued the Trump administration to end its ongoing $9 billion review of #Harvard federal funding. We stand with the AAUP & encourage all to attend a 4/17 National Day of Action event! find an event near you here 👇 www.dayofactionforhighered.org

This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

#theresistance 💪🏽 #philsky #academicsky #edusky

Trump to halt federal funds for NPR, PBS, other public media www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Excellent ideas from M. Gessen: "Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement." #academicsky

As Donald Trump’s crackdown on elite institutions continues, there are growing calls for other Ivy League schools to attempt to resist #highered #AcademicSky

Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

The AAUP is one of the few institutions saying no to trump.

If we in higher ed keep giving in, the government's demands will keep escalating and things will keep getting worse for freedom and education in the US. The only defensible course of action is to stand up and refuse comply with illegal and unconstitutional demands. #Academicsky

Amidst the general chaos, I forgot to mention the 2nd volume of Graphic Anatomy (Cuore) just came out! www.beccogiallo.it/negozio/grap... It was a pleasure working with the team at #GraphicMedicine Italia and exploring this fascinating organ ♥️ Here are some of my favorite pages #scicomm #sciart

Great #HandsOff turnout in Kingston, NY (despite the pouring rain) - let's keep the pressure on! #resist #organize #mobilize

Not only US universities are proving totally useless in fighting fascism - they are using it at as excuse to become more elitist! 💔🎓

Days of upheaval at Harvard, after 600 members of the faculty signed a letter calling on the university to publicly condemn the US president’s attacks and “legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands” #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I sincerely hope that Harvard has more spine than Columbia. Someone must take a stand!

“I mourn a world in which science must defend itself through its end products [...] If science funding is made contingent on immediately beneficial results, who will be left to tell the story of nature?” well said Daniel Bauman 👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Repurposing this old illustration to remind everyone that tomorrow is a day of mass mobilization. Wherever you are, get out in the streets and stand up against the fascists who are attacking our democratic institutions! 📢 thirdact.org/act/handsoff/ #resist #organize #fightback #HandsOff

Visual Communication, a leading journal published by SAGE, is now on BlueSky 🎉 To celebrate, here’s a look at some of our most-read articles from the past 6 months. Give us a follow and join our BlueSky community to connect with readers and visual communication scholars ✨

#Academicsky We have ONE choice: stand together against tyranny or fall, one by one.

Thousands of health workers are losing their jobs today 💔 This is heartbreaking to watch but we cannot despair. On Saturday, April 5 we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! Join a protest near you ✊ www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve... #RESIST #organize #nihcuts