I got some sourdough starter from my sister in law, so crusty loaves are coming soon!

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

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 🐡 🧪

Congratulations to Dr. Maurine Neiman, recipient of the 2025 ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! She will present her work during the IDEA Award plenary at the virtual Evolution meeting this May. #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @maurineneiman.bsky.social

The intuitive understanding of species is like putting each in its own little drawer. The biological continuum is hard to wrap your head around, even for biologists. A nice thread on species concepts 👇

All participants heard the same lecture. Half read a relatable backstory for the lecturer; the others were told that the voice was AI generated. The backstory fostered a greater sense of personal connection, which translated into greater curiosity to learn more about the 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤. 2/4

A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm writing a talk on the current problems with scientific publishing. It's getting harder and harder to avoid just screaming at the computer. Here's a typical slide 🧪

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Reproductive investment and phosphorus availability 👇🧪

What’s your sign?

I was campaigning to highlight achievements of Polish Women in Palaeontology. And bang, here's a children's book about this very topic. 🧵 Rarely you come across books covering both, turbulent Polish history.

The fresh hell of LLMs

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

I recently worked with @amarques.bsky.social to make illustrations and finalize figures for three scientific publications focusing on the evolution and function of holocentric chromosomes I can also help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics 🧪🐡

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

Reposting to the science feed 🧪

Happy #DarwinDay 🧬🌿! To celebrate, why not share a story about #evolution with a #FutureScientist? My book, Little Changes, is a fun bedtime story for young readers to explore how small changes shape the living world. littlestories.co.uk/little-chang... #ScienceForKids #STEMBooks

In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts! Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn... Happy Darwin Day!

Today we celebrate Darwin Day! 🎉 Today is not just about celebrating Darwin, but about how evolutionary biology helps us address today’s challenges. Evolution is not only about the past. It’s a way of thinking for building more sustainable futures. How are you marking Darwin Day?

Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Some of the amazing scientists that shaped Evolutionary Biology: Barbara McClintock, Jane Goodall, Rosalind Franklin… I’m also thinking about my wonderful academic mentors: @maurineneiman.bsky.social @pyhatanja.bsky.social

Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

I agree, owls are really great. Which one is your favourite? #SuperbOwl 🦉🐡

Reposting for the science feed 🧪: Maize vs. human diversity 🌾

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

From weird posts on salamander sex to teaching generations the proper names for the gynaecological anatomy, the Vagina Museum is free. We're supported by donations from eager beavers like you. There's just 24 hours left on our fundraising appeal - help push us over the edge www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

I recently worked with @amarques.bsky.social to make illustrations and finalize figures for three scientific publications focusing on the evolution and function of holocentric chromosomes I can also help you illustrate your research with effective figures, graphical abstracts, and infographics 🧪🐡

There’s a blackout in Kyiv Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of residents are without electricity, water, and heating. The water pumps don’t work without electricity and the pipes are freezing. Send help if you can. I link a trusted organization (Polish Humanitarian Action) 🇺🇦 www.pah.org.pl/en/

There’s a blackout in Kyiv Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of residents are without electricity, water, and heating. The water pumps don’t work without electricity and the pipes are freezing. Send help if you can. I link a trusted organization (Polish Humanitarian Action) 🇺🇦 www.pah.org.pl/en/

Hello #PortfolioDay 🐡 I’m a scientific illustrator with a PhD in biology and research experience in ecology and evolution. My work includes infographics, illustrations, learning materials, and branding I’m open to commissions and/or a full-time job in communications or educational design

We’re posting boardwalks! Finland has a lot of great ones. This one goes around a very large swamp in the Torronsuo National Park

Hello #PortfolioDay 🐡 I’m a scientific illustrator with a PhD in biology and research experience in ecology and evolution. My work includes infographics, illustrations, learning materials, and branding I’m open to commissions and/or a full-time job in communications or educational design

Fellow biologists, this is a poem that discovers the tonal beauty of the word "ribosome"

I'm really enjoying this memoir on the history of numerical methods in phylogenetics by F. James Rohlf: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

OK, I’ll take it #Your2026Word

Hello 2026

A few years ago, through luck and vibes, I managed to produce this blue colored bean variety. This was an early step in trying to answer the question, [paraphrased] "Why isn't blue as common as red in beans, even though they're both anthocyanins and the plant has the genes for both?"

I really enjoyed working with Dorota on making the figures for this paper and here is a lovely thread from her about making it!

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 🌱

This figure from a scientific review paper on plant phenology (the cycles of seasonal changes) was a commission from @richardnair.bsky.social and we worked together to bring it to this final form Link to paper in Alt text More on the design process in the 🧵👇 #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."

If you’re interested in how gen A.I. is affecting academic publishing, How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals? doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!

I see lots of job ads on LinkedIn for training AI - PhD expertise required. So surely it will change in future, but will it ever be reliable? So far the „scientific” graphics are especially terrible

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

The Red Queen running with the snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum and its trematode parasite. It’s quite niche #SciArt, but if you know, you know #ArtAdventCalendar

This is one of my favourite projects from this year - three infographics for a conservation genetics workshop. Free to use and modify #ConsGen 🧪 #biodiversity