I have a new set of eco-friendly pins coming this Spring! All inspired by my nature walks. 🫶🏼 Give it a follow! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #art #backerkit #woodenpins #NightMarket #nature

This is so cool! If I ever need to crowdfund a Little Creature again (someday, maybe, I REALLY want to get back into resin) I hope it's still going.

#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Round and well well well, let's bring back some Porpita porpita back on the feed! You can get art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci... (use RSVYQPS for 20% discount) Photo print? lucidillusions.darkroom.com/products/inv... #Photography #SciArt #MarineLife #BSNM

We're so excited to have so many creators already onboard for Beasts & Botanicals!!! A collection of crowdfunding projects celebrating life in all its forms. Check out the projects here - or even sign up to join us! www.backerkit.com/c/collection... #sciart #illustration #artsky

Fortunately I'm a very productive procrastinator. While I was avoiding ordering more pin samples, I had very long conversations with two people I've only said "hi" to in passing before, and I made this drawing of Aequorea victoria, crystal jelly 🐡🤣

Omg procrastination is reaching new heights today, trying to order a second round of pin samples - after *getting it a bit wrong* the first time. ⏰ Oh - that's time! School run! Oh well, looks like I'll have to try again tomorrow 🤦🏻‍♀️

If you're even a bit curious, get in touch with @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social or I and we can answer any questions to help get you started! #sciart #illustration #artsky #scicomm

Whether you're a crowdfunding pro or a nervous baby deer newbie we can all give each other a helping hand to make our projects a success! So why not give it a go and apply below 👇 We're friendly honest!! #Illustration #Art #Backerkit #opencall #artopps www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

Calling all nature inspired creatives! 🍃 The lovely @kathryngarner.co.uk and I have teamed up to run a brand new @backerkit.com group collab and we're looking for creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology to join us! 👇 #SciArt #Nature #ArtSky #WildlifeArt www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

Guess who finally solved the printer issues?? I FINALLY have 2025 Nudivember zines in my shop! This is one of two zines I now produce entirely at home, 100% homemade by my own two hands. Buy here: saimihanma.com/product/art-...

The 3rd Saturday in February is World Pangolin Day to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. 🧪🐡 There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional 🧵

Well, by the skin of its teeth, my crazy bacteria vs castle mash-up project was funded!!! All items available to preorder now. Tell your friends!! #bacteria #sciart #scicomm #microbiology #illustration crenelated-mutants.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Not managed to check out my crazy bacteria vs castles #sciart project yet? Well let me tell you about it #biosky #artsky I like drawing #bacteria, but I wanted to add texture to make the drawing more EXCITING! So I added a map of the village I grew up in. This is a Mycoplasma. (We call her Mimi.)

Love #bacteria? Love castles? Then you'll love Attack of the Crenelated Mutants! Last 49 hours to back this pin & sticker campaign! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #microbiology #biosky #sciart #scicomm #bioart #cellart #illustration

Second day of handing out my #Organoid and #OrganOnAChip stickers at WORD+2025 World Organoid Research Day in Cambridge! Part of me misses being in the lab but the other part thinks what I do now is way cooler 😎 #sciart #scicomm

What if a bacterium was as big as a castle? All the Engulfed Castle designs have been added as stickers. Check out the campaign www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #sciart #scicomm #illustration #artsky #painting #biosky #bacteria #mutants

Not managed to check out my crazy bacteria vs castles #sciart project yet? Well let me tell you about it #biosky #artsky I like drawing #bacteria, but I wanted to add texture to make the drawing more EXCITING! So I added a map of the village I grew up in. This is a Mycoplasma. (We call her Mimi.)

If you love unique and colourful #SciArt might I recommend checking out the fabulous @kathryngarner.co.uk Backerkit campaign..... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #CellArt #Backerkit #ArtSky #Pintopia2026 #Pins #SciComm #ScienceArt

DAY 234 SPECIES 234 - Methanococcus voltae STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen, Derwent color pencil M. voltae is a gram-negative, coccoid-shaped, mesophilic, and strictly anaerobic archaeon commonly found in marine and estuarine sediments #sciart #archaea #art

It's been an incredible first day for Pintopia! $1 million pledged across 228 projects in the first 12 hours!! If you haven't had a look yet, here is the link to my project. You can explore the other projects from there #sciart #artsky #illustration #scicomm www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Proud to be the 1st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Attack of the Crenelated Mutants by @kathryngarner.co.uk ! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... #SciArt #CellArt #Backerkit #Illustration

It's official, the Crenelated Mutants are coming! Only a few hours until launch but it's not too late to click 'follow' for an exclusive pre-launch follower bonus (a Green Tent Sticker!) when you back the project. Bacteria & castles: what's not to love? 🐡 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

A THREAD. Which I have decided to call 'Reasons Why Owls Are Excellent'. 1. They are always putting the needs of others before their own.

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way. For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.

@loadofolbobbins.bsky.social more moths?

Interesting or weird? I can't get out of my own head for these pin designs. This is moraxella catarrhalis X kidwelly castle. Also, whose idiotic idea was this 😭 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

I've published my first RPG-style update with a poll! There's a mysterious illness spreading through the towns and cities. Where are you headed? 🐡 Take a look and follow to vote and be notified of new updates! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

This was a fun one to draw! Bacterium or castle? 🐡 Just 2 more drawings and I'll be ready to start posting my RPG-style updates... Follow along here www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Thread. Something nice happened to me yesterday: the conclusion - or maybe not - of a story of interconnectedness, that made the world feel momentarily very small and intertwined. The story begins on April 21 2024 on a walk I'd taken along the Jurassic Coast for research for a book I was writing.

For folks on the #SciArt feed, #EastCoastKin, #BlueSkyArtShow, anyone else, interesting collab here 👇👇

This painting is a cross-section through a blanket bog: Sphagnum mosses carpet the dark peat below, which rests on metamorphic rock. It’s an archive of time: from minutes to billions of years. #sciart #natureillustration #illustration #gouache

Mycoplasma galli-tent-icum 🐡 Once a menace in poultry, now preys on wild campers in the Lake District 🤣 Mini-pin design, watercolour on paper Follow along www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... I just need to do some more castle pics then I will start RPG-style updates. Ah fun times 😂

Delighted to have contributed to this book and to see my work amongst such fantastic art! It looks amazing!! 🦟 🐡 You've done a stellar job of putting it all together @franzanth.bsky.social & @saimihanma.bsky.social. Loving the cover art too!

My top illustrations of 2025 were a bit of a surprise. For the 1st time my more personal/political work eclipsed scientific commissions. Starting with my explainer of NIH cuts, protest fliers, NoKings comics and art for Science for the People: www.instagram.com/p/DSxLMu4DUB... #sciart #scicomm

Caloplaca cluster. A beautiful seaside #lichen at #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #Lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

DAY 202 SPECIES 202 - Methanococcus vannielii STAGE: Archaea MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, Watercolor. Sakura pen M. vannielii is a motile, gram-negative, coccus-shaped archaeon that was isolated from marine mud. It lacks a cell wall making it fragile. #sciart #watercolor #archaea #art #paint

The final #ArtAdventCalendar post: My most involved artwork of 2025: 3D Lissajous Figures, constructed exactly from their 2D projections. Watercolor pencils on canvas. #SciArt #MathArt See the evolution of this painting step-by-step on my blog: elkement.art/2025/09/17/l... Happy Holidays!

Today is the winter solstice, the traditional start of Christmas (Joulu) in Finland. These gingerbread biscuits illustrate the development of a plant seed #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt 🌱

Day 19 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery, nave of vibration (2017), plays with poetic text to label the cochlea or inner ear.

14. Spiny oakworm moth. This saturniid moth comes from a different part of the world to me, but it's fluffy and colourful and I just think it's neat. #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar

Been a grey, drizzly day which leaves you feeling unsettled today. So I choose day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar to share a Wyandotte Chicken. Each of the birds I've been sharing I've collated into two zines. I created all of them from the last two years of #BirbFest prompts. #BirdArt #SciArt #Procreate

The unadulterated feathery joy of #BirbFest is back next year and the prompts have already been released. Originally created by @birdietam.art and hosted by @monkeymintaka.bsky.social there's even a fab guide website here... www.monkeymintaka.com/birbfest #BirdArt #Illustration #ArtSky #SciArt

For day 18 of #artadventcalendar, another kidney slice Kidney Slice + Cafetiere Plunger 🐡 Acrylic paint on paper, A2

🚨🚨SIGNUP ALERT 🚨🚨 As part of BackerKit’s Pintopia 2026 Event launching Jan 12th, 2026 we’ll be running a campaign to produce some verrry nice hard enamel pins with designs based on our titles! Free & cool gifts for any early signup Backers so get in on the New Year Goat action at the link! 🐐🪽🔥🔥🔥

Some people take watercolour verr verr seriously. But it can also be fun. Doodling & fcking about with watercolour is good actually. This is the hill I will yell on.

In case you need to read this. Lots of good stuff in here. Coaching is working well for me, but whatever gets you back. www.creativeboom.com/tips/how-to-...

Here we can play bacterium or castle? Day 17 of #artadventcalendar and I've spent the morning drawing, desperately trying to claw back control over December 🤣