I did not expect to have my mind blown by the podcast episode about earwax. But there you go, @tpwky.bsky.social never cease to amaze! No spoilers, but the bit about whales 🐋 is so cool

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

My Potamopyrgus antipodarum snail silhouette is now also available to download from #WikimediaCommons - free to use and modify #CCBY commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po... 🧪🐡

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

Tagging my favourite co-authors @maurineneiman.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social @clively.bsky.social

EvoKE Webinar – Special Edition Instead of our usual webinar format, our next session will bring together researchers, educators, curriculum developers, and anyone interested in evolution education to co-create a collaborative publication #EvoKE #Evolution #EduSky 🧪 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3SOwelR

It’s the wild strawberry season here in the south of Finland 🍓

Do you know about the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social? A great resource for nature-related collaborative work, with biodiversity literature and images made publicly available. www.biodiversitylibrary.org Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères. 🧪🌍🪶🦊

It's really quite sad how open access used to be presented as the moral thing to do that would disrupt publishing, and in the end, it became a way for publishers to extract more money from universities.

In all the countries where I can read the news, disabled & chronically ill people are being talked about & treated like easy targets/acceptable losses/just garbage rn. I need non-disabled/chronically healthy people to understand: Historically, we're the canaries in the coal mine. You'll be next…

My new illustration comparing reproductive structures between angiosperms and gymnosperms www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

I’m used to saying ”male” or ”female” flowers, or calling anthers the male part and pistil the female part of a flower. But accurate scientific vocabulary is so important! I agree with the argument that plants are much more complex than the binary categories we borrow from human perspective

There’s a bigger idea here, too. The categories humans use to organize nature are never neutral and never complete. They reflect who we are and how we see the world. And when we forget that, we risk mistaking our map for the territory

Plants have been reproducing their own way for hundreds of millions of years. So why do we keep describing them in human terms? Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE #EduSky 🧪

🧠 “Isn’t homosexuality an evolutionary disadvantage because it doesn’t directly produce offspring?” The simple answer is: No. At first glance, that seems logical. But evolution is rarely that simple (thread 👇) #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE 🧪

Tagging the #SciArt feed

I love this illustration and the sentiment on diversity by the wonderfully talented Dr. @dorotdesigns.bsky.social! 🌈❤️🐌

To celebrate Pride Month, here's an iconic queer snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Defying binary classifications, females produce offspring with or without males doi.org/10.1890%2F00... #PrideMonth #scientificillustration

For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/extinct-animals

A really important point about what evolution can teach us to help respond to climate change in regard to crop plants and food security #WorldEnvironmentDay

Nature is queer 🌈 Did you know that same-sex behavior has been documented in more than 1,500 animal species? From black swans forming long-term male-male partnerships to female grizzly bears engaging in same-sex interactions, these behaviors are a natural part of the animal kingdom. Thread 👇🧪

We are also preparing something about the language of plant reproduction 🌼🌾 Follow @evokeproject.bsky.social to stay tuned!

For those interested in #phage biology, enzymes and bacteriophages: 🦠 DepoCatalog: mapping diversity of 129 recombinantly produced Klebsiella phage depolymerases 🧪

Reluctant to post too much about this but I did want to share my favourite finding from the dozens of manipulated or duplicated ThermoFisher verification blots. This one has a giant square. Enjoy!

I'm looking forward to this webinar - really curious about these robots and what they can teach us 👀

Today Polish scientists take to the streets protesting insufficient funding in academia. Limited grants. Extremly low salaries. Lecturer in Poland currently earns below $12k, professors below $23k (after tax) for positions in cities like Krakow and Warsaw, unliveable.

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

On the 22 of May, we celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity. For us at EvoKE, it’s an occasion to share the message that all life on Earth is a product of biological evolution and is constantly evolving! Learn more in the thread below👇 #BiodiversityDay 🧪 @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

Mary Anning(🎂) is a legitimate hero of mine. Working class, not formally educated, made mark in history despite odds. My grandpa wes a miner, grandma a house help, parents upholsters & cleaners. Each time I find myself in a hard place, I tell myself, Mary did that, in 19th century. With less.

Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! 🧪🐡⚒️ #histsci She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought

My Ukrainian #Vyshyvanka shirt feels so festive I can’t wait to wear it on victory day #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Hey artists, especially character designers, here is a gift. I just found out about Ocean Census. In a world full of fake images made by AI is a comfort to see a compendium of real image references. So many different creatures to inspire us. oceancensus.org/species-gall...

Here's a new cartoon, enjoy! 🐝 #invertebrates #WorldBeeDay

14 May 2026 will be remembered in LGBT+ community in Poland. The civil registry office in Warsaw officially transcribed the foreign marriage certificate of two men. Long overdue, but 🇵🇱 is finally catching up on human rights 🏳️‍🌈

More of my illustrations are freely available on Wikimedia Commons, including different tree species and other botanical and biological illustrations 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dp...

Illustration inspired by Forest Euphoria by mycologist & Author, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. I’m not in the business of writing reviews, but this is one of the best books I have read this year. The best way I know to show appreciation is by drawing. #sciart #queerecology

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

The most complex project I've done in a few years. Each bird was painted separately then worked into the larger illustration. I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm looking forward to seeing it printed and installed. #SciArt #birds

More of my illustrations are freely available on Wikimedia Commons, including different tree species and other botanical and biological illustrations 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dp...

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

Polish phage science meets Polish visual storytelling 🇵🇱🦠 To celebrate our last paper, we collaborated with an artist who previously worked on The Witcher 3 — to create a comic about phages and why understanding them matters in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Comic below 👇

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. #GiftLink Nicholas Wade writes @NYtimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...

Reposting to the science feed 🧪: How do temperate phages recognise and breach the sugar capsule of Klebsiella pneumoniae? 👇

Join us for the next #EvoKE webinar with Maria João Fonseca on Monday May 4th to learn about how the museums and science centres make evolution education engaging and fun!

Conference posters have been around for over 50 years. How many books do you think there are about conference posters, specifically? Take a guess. Here's every book on posters I've found so far: sites.google.com/view/posterg... (There are fewer books on this than most people have toes.)

Such an ingenious, informative and fun figure! From a new review on the origins of allopolyploids, where the origins are conceptualized as alternative routes through a maze, comprising a sequence of events🧪

It’s the spring flower season in the south of Finland #bloomscrolling

Are you interested in evolution education? An upcoming webinar from @evokeproject.bsky.social will explore how museums and science centres can support public understanding of #evolution 🧪

Oh what joy to draw seed development again for this recent illustration! I’m open for commissions so do get in touch if you need scientific illustrations, infographics or other visuals 🐡 🧪