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. 🔭🐡

#Inktober 2023, Day 17, Demon. Just a demon #phage. Some phages carry toxins, virulence factors out have antagonistic interactions with antibiotics. #SciArt

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

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

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

The companion piece for the same patron. 🖤 #art #sciart Polka-dot Wasp Moth Syntomeida epilais

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.

For the "cold blooded" theme of #SciArtSeptember a garter snake warms up in the sun.

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 🧪

For the 5th Day of #SciArtSeptember theme of #Strangling, here's a moray eel in the shape of a strangle knot.

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

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

Day 5 of #SciArtSeptember - some heavily stylised constricting bronchioles for ‘strangling’ 🐡

#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??

#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 🧪🌿🐡

#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 🧶🩺🧪🐡

Today it begins! 🐡

Day 1 of #SciArtSeptember - Some spacey astrocytes for prompt ‘starry’ 🐡🧪 #neuroart

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

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.⁠ 🧪🐡🧑🏻‍🔬 ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College Cambridge in 1919 🧵1/n

“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

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 🧵 1/2

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!

#SciArtSeptember, Day 1 - Starry. - #SciArt 🐡

#SciArt September day 1: Starry A special #InverteFest double entry! Maratus constellatus, the peacock spider with a constellation on its butt. 🎨🐡🐙

"Starry" for #SciArtSeptember It was hard to pick one since most of my art is very starry and I didn't have time to make new art, but this one is recent and has a lot of stars! This is Thor's Helmet, an emission nebula with a Wolf-Rayet star at its centre! 🔭 🐡🧪

You could use some new art #SciArt www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

#SciArtSeptember? I can play. Here's some nebula. The first is my WIP and is available, the other 3 are sold. Prints for the others are available. #SciArt earthskyart.ca/shop/

What remains of a crab #invertefest 🐡🦑

Oh oh I can do this one! #SciArt #SciArtSeptember day 1: Starry

It's still #InverteFest! Yay! Here is a Fiddler Crab from Inktober a few years back. I challenged myself to draw it in one session, no base sketch, just grab a pen and go. Fiddler Crabs are big favorites of mine, I'd like to have a brackish water tank some day and keep them again. #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 1: starry stars within, stars without (2017) is part of my #symptomatology #embroidery series. This is a map of the paresthesias (tingling) in my upper body due to #MECFS, stitched as I experienced them. #SciArt 🧶🐡🩺🧪

messy sketch of a zupaysaurus because I was bored and wanted something to doodle #paleoart

You are a painter in the Renaissance, and you have this really expensive blue pigment your patron has given you. Which Biblical figure is depicted in blue? [A Symbiartic classic post from 2014 by @flyingtrilobite.com; image by Dexter Soy.] 🐡

In the last few weeks, the people have forsaken Science, and we are now #4 on the discover page. Would really appreciate likes ❤️ on the feed below - which is a different thing to adding ➕ them. This keeps us visible, and the science feed works best when we have a stream of new contributors.

SciArt Feed approved artists: use any ⬇ in text or alttext to post: 🐡 #SciArt #paleoart #medart #scienceink #bioart #dataviz #scientificillustration #medicalillustration #wildlifeart #natureart #scicomm #visualscicomm #botanicalart #paleostream #sciencecomic #sciartportfolioweek #sciartseptember

Smol reminder to take care of yourselves and each other as much as you're able to right now. (However much that is, it's fine, I have whole groups of muscles that aren't talking to me atm so I'm hardly gonna judge!) Have some fungi/lichen/moss 💚🌿

A Pachyrhinosaurus paleoart study from last month. #SciArt

New on the #SciArt Feed! Approved artists can add any of these to their post text OR alt text for their art to appear. #SciArt 🐡 #paleoart #medart #scienceink #bioart #dataviz #scientificillustration #medicalillustration #wildlifeart #natureart #scicomm #visualscicomm #botanicalart

#SharkWeek and so on.🦈 Whale shark watercolor from a few years ago 🐡

🐊 Scratchboard Sketch #art #sciart for the Reptiles & Amphibians feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ffkgesg3jsv2j7aagkzrtcvt/feed/aaaiq5xkfj2ec

Never finished this Diplodocus painting from 2019 sadly, but still one of my favorites 🐡

Since we're talking about birds in flight on the #birds feed today, how about a quick visual guide to swallows? I painted this a few years ago. I'm missing a few species, but it's a start. #sciart #scicomm

I did this a few months ago to let IG people know I was on Twitter. Little did I know it would take on new meaning! #twitter

^bump for the Feed 🐡

Artists and artwork across creative industries are under attack. Can you imagine what would happen to communication if all the images went away? Have a look at the link. 🔸 #SciArt 🐡 #CreateDontScrape #HumanArtists