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Biophile Media @biophilemedia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Eating legumes is an amazing way to support your health and protect the planet! Not only do they pack a protein punch, but they can reduce chronic illness and have a lower environmental impact than meat products. Illustrator: Allison Young Editor: @azuravesta.bsky.social #scicomm #sciart #diet

Infographic about the benefits of legumes

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My second cover illustration published this week, and it's in THE Nature! 🤯 It features brilliant research from Dr. Raphael Morscher and Sarah Cherkaoui at U Zurich that shows how a depleted diet can halt protein translation in a pediatric neuroblastoma. #scicomm #sciart #nature #cancer

A Nature journal cover design that shows a plate with cutlery, but the plate is a cancer cell.

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New illustration published in Immunity this week! 🫧🐟 This visual metaphor highlights research from the Pereira Lab at Lund University. They found transcription factor combinations that reprogram cancer cells to become immune cells, which then have an anti-cancer effect. #sciart #scicomm #immunity

An illustration for the journal, Immunity, that represents immune and cancer cells as fish in a cellular ocean.

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Pereira Lab @cellreprolab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📢 New in @ImmunityCP: We have mapped the transcription factor “routes” that program two dendritic cell subsets opening paths for personalized #cancer #immunotherapy. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.im... Here is a summary of what we discovered 🧵: Illustration by @azuravesta.bsky.social

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Aled, I'm a Welsh freelance illustrator and concept artist. I like to illustrate nature, wildlife and anything Welsh! ✨ I think this is the perfect opportunity to show off my new website! 🌐 aledthompson.com 📧 al98thompson@gmail.com

A crow perched on a stump in a pine forest covered in dense foliage

A Forest raven perched on a broken branch

A dense forest environment with a river running through the middle

A fox crawling between some dense forest floor foliage.

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Over the past several months I've been working on bringing this idea to life, and I'm excited to finally share Biophile Media — an online platform that transforms #science, #health, and #climate research into understandable and inspiring visual stories! Check it out here: www.biophile.media

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Biophile Media

Biophile Media is a digital platform dedicated to sharing educational visual media that simplifies research at the intersection of health, science, and climate. Our goal is to help you make informed l...

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

✅ Career goal complete! Excited to say my illustration was selected for the Feb issue of Nature Neuroscience! It was an absolute pleasure working with cutting edge researchers to visualize their study on neural activity in a playful, metaphorical way. #sciart #medcomms #neuroscience

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here's an animation I made that shows fluid flow in/out of the kidneys, with emphasis on the lymphatics since they are often left out of anatomical illustrations: ➡️ Fluid enters via the renal artery ⬅️ Fluid exits via the renal vein, lymphatics, and as urine #scicomm #sciart #kidney #anatomy

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Excited to say this infographic I helped create for Real Chemistry has been translated into Spanish! This 2-part #infographic breaks down what the Social Determinants of Health are and how healthcare providers can address them. PDFs available here: azuravesta.com/the-sdoh #SciArt #SciComm #SDOH

A 2-part infographic series about the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). The first part defines the SDOH and the second part provides a guideline for addressing them in healthcare practices.

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

People always tell me I don't do enough promotion for my books so here is a conveniently timed #throwbackthursday of everything I ever published! If you want to indulge in seasonal shopping you can find links for all on matteofarinella.com #graphicscience #comics #neuroscience #scicomm #sciart

Books display: Neurocomic, The Senses, Science Tarot, Cervellopoli, Ramon Non Ha Sonno

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

POV: you're skydiving through a forest of nephrons (the structure that filters blood in the kidneys)

A sketch of nephrons (the structure that filters blood in the kidneys) from a dramatic bird's eye view

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Wow! Can't believe there's 1,000+ of you following me here in just under 10 days. I can't keep up with the notifs, and I'd love to learn more about what you all do so please feel free to introduce yourself in the comments! And if we've met irl, say hi so I can follow you back 😊

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky seems like the perfect place for me to share this #infographic about how #microplastics affect human health! This is a part of my new media platform (launched today!) called Biophile Media that will focus on the intersection of climate and health. #climate #climatechange #sciart #scicomm

An infographic depicting how micro- and nanoplastics affect human health.

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Blown away by the response after a single day on this platform! A pleasure to meet you all — here's a bit more about me: Besides my career as a medical illustrator ✏️🫀, I'm a big nature enthusiast and hobby photographer 🌲📸, scuba diver 🐙, rock climber 🧗🏻‍♀️, and avid concert-goer (multiple per month 💃🏻🎵)

Woman with long brown hair sitting on a log underneath a cave of ferns

A macro shot of a white mushroom in moss

A baby orangutan clings to its mother as she traverses trees in the jungle

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Outside of traditional medical illustration, I love exploring themes of human connection with nature in my #SciArt. Here's some of my more personal works:

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Outside of traditional medical illustration, I love exploring themes of human connection with nature in my #SciArt. Here's some of my more personal works:

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hello! I've finally made the jump over to bsky as I no longer use Twitter and I'm excited to test out this new platform. I absolutely love the visual communication of science, and I'm a professionally-trained medical illustrator! Here's some of my infographic work: #SciArt #SciComm

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Avesta Rastan @azuravesta.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

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