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Cooked Illustrations

@cookedillustrations.com
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Using illustrations and storytelling to increase accessibility to world-class scientific research. We're a #sciencecommunication studio based in Wales. All our links: linktr.ee/cookedillustrations

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the '80s, some of the world's most fascinating animation was made in Uzbekistan. It was a time of "absolute creative freedom with full funding." We're looking at the story behind the scene, and at the gems it produced: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/visions-in...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 02/09/2026
Walking past a megalodon tooth in the Gatún Formation. #Martinaverse is coming, 2027
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 07/07/2026
We call this... confirmation bias. If you get it, you get it. From a collection of illustrations on Unconscious Biases.
Illustration showing three men who look the same pointing at one another. An example of an unconscious bias named "Confirmation Bias".
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 02/07/2026
Classic piece of work for @erinmdillon.bsky.social A good research poster can last several years and still be effective.
Research poster showing a researcher performing marine paleobiology field work. By taking samples from coral reefs, the researcher is able to collect denticles which allow to gauge shark populations throughout history.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 02/07/2026
Things are afoot, at the Gatun Formation.
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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In a vague attempt to lighten mood (and possibly even with educational benefit), I have added a couple more cartoons about the tools of cognitive neuroscience (with brief explanations): www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h.... Thanks to @iancooketapia.bsky.social for prettifying.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 19/06/2026
Hey, sciency people. We want to do an experiment in prebunking. But we need you for it. An audio clip of your research, so we can turn it into a fun, newsy, animated thing to share online. Please get in touch if this interests you. More info coming soon.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 19/05/2026
What kind of magic will take place in this... eh... place? It involves... time travel. But only sometimes.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 07/04/2026
We're making something involving... fish. More soon.
This is actually a little icon of a fisherwoman we created two years, what, no, three years! What is time but a flat circle, eh? Anyhow, she is fishing a fish. Non-descript. At the time we hadn't instituted "scientific rigor" into our drawing process. Apologies to freshwater ictologist. But, yeah, she is from an icon pack you can get on our shop. Keeping that secret as it is currently updating.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 21/03/2026
Hello beautiful people. We launched a new YouTube channel for all of our animated science content. If you like cool science stories, animation, and comedy, you may like it. Here, have one of our first ever productions: youtube.com/shorts/7ezW1...
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When Frogs Stop Worrying About Bats: The Effect of Urban Expansion
YouTube video by Cominata
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 09/02/2026
Blast from the past! This was our very first infographic style comic. Where we found a fun local story and decided to share it as a comic.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 08/02/2026
"The mangrove tree, the cornerstone of the mangal ecosystem, bears its responsibility with poise and grace." Read our short article on mangrove rewilding on our website ↓ cookedillustrations.com/stories/mang...
Illustration showing a mangrove tree in a stylised water bowl. Illustration by Oli Meese.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 07/02/2026
🦈 Look at these cute megalodon teeth. Part of a project illustration examples of elasmobranch conservation and conservation paleo in action around the world. Take a look here: cookedillustrations.com/portfolio/co...
Illustration showing a collection of megalodon teeth and shark denticles in a colourful background. Illustration by Ian Cooke-Tapia of Cooked Illustrations, drawin for Dr Erin Dillon and Dr Catalina Pimiento.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 07/02/2026
This has been one fun collaboration, @rhens.bsky.social! Tools of cognitive neuroscience. Check the link below ↓
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 04/02/2026
Just wanted to share this very cool science-themed illustration by Matteo Farinella. matteofarinella.com/Illustration...
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Humanist Calendar - Matteo Farinella
Original illustrations for a Humanist Calendar, celebrating the birthdays of some of the greatest scientists, inventors, thinkers and major achievements of human civilization. Created in collaboration...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 01/02/2026
" Because women being legally equal to men doesn’t mean that women are culturally equal to men. Legal changes are not cultural changes." New article by Daniel Aaron Levy for our Systemic Sexism Series. Come and read it! Illustration by Feimo Zhu. cookedillustrations.com/blog/systemi...
Illustration showing a man standing on a crumbling wall to the left. On the right, a woman is standing on the floor. There are holes dug in the ground around her. A pair of scales can be seen in the background. Illustration by Feimo Zhu for an article written by Daniel Aaron Levy.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 31/12/2025
Releasing our latest animated short helped put some thoughts into perspective. Expect some exciting and interesting changes coming soon for Cooked Illustrations.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 29/12/2025
The Yoghurt, it is alive! Our most recent animated short is based on these wonderful illustrations created by one of our team. Our goal was to play with the idea of horror, to subvert expectations and flip the script. Watch the short here: www.youtube.com/shorts/r0caz...
The Yoghurt, it is alive!
An illustration, in deep reds and yellows, showing a pot of yoghurt with a monster face dropping in from the top left. On the lower right, a classic "Final Girl" horror protagonist screams in horror.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 25/12/2025
Putting it online! Our first animated educational production (that is not a meme). The yoghurt... it is alive! www.youtube.com/shorts/r0caz...
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The yogurt is alive! #animation #sciencefacts #guthealth #shorts #comics #sciencecommunication
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 13/12/2025
How do scientists know what we are thinking? Cognitive neuroscience is the science of trying to understand how our brains enable our cognitive abilities. To answer this question and learn what the tools of the cognitive neuroscience trade are, read: cookedillustrations.com/blog/tools-o...
Two panel black and white comic, split down the middle between right and left.  Both panels show an observation room with two scientists sat at a desk at the bottom of the image reviewing images on two monitors. The left wall on the left panel has a plaque that reads “Pope Paul XIII institute for neuroscience”, the left wall on the right panel has a plaque that reads “D. Rawkins institute for neuroscience”. Through the observation window in both panels taking up most of the upper right corner is a large tube shaped machine with a person lying within. The person’s head and shoulders cannot be seen, only the left arm legs and feet are shown. The machine is labelled MRI in the very top right corner of each panel. The monitors in the observation rooms show the same images of brain scans, the left monitor shows a grid of various shapes that look like little nuts. The right monitor shows a simplified scan of the side view of within a human head, showing skull and brain with a round white spot. The left panel shows a speech bubble form the scientists that reads “Clear evidence for the ‘God Spot’” the same bubble emanates from the scientist on the right panel but reads “Clearly NOT evidence for the ‘God Spot’”.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...
Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane
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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Using ChatGPT
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 13/10/2025
The Mediterranean Sea is a collapsing ecosystem!
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 12/10/2025
Are you a researcher in the South Wales area? Then you may love to attend our Science and Art networking events. Fieldnotes Stiwdio takes place the last Tuesday of the month in one of three locations. Link in Bio.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 24/09/2025
Progress Over Perfection: how wellbeing and mental health expertise can help us deal with the barriers that stop us from making progress. Join us this Tuesday 30th of September in #Trefforest 🎫= www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fieldnotes...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 16/09/2025
How does challenging the lack of creative training in contemporary education systems look like? Gaz Lawrence, #sciencecommunicator and artist, will share with us his new project all about astrophysics. Join us this Tuesday 30th of September in #Trefforest 🎫= www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fieldnotes...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 26/08/2025
Showing the viability of careers in the creative sector to people from Black and Ethnic Minority Backgrounds is crucial in building racial diversity in the sector. One such finding from a 2023 report by CCW on the state of the film and TV industry in Wales.
An illustration showing four professionals from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the UK. From upper left: a young Central Asian female lawyer dressed in a suit, a middle-aged South East Asian man with a grey beard wearing a yellow hard hat and protection goggles, a young doctor with curly black hair on a wheelchair, and a non-binary black camera operator.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 12/08/2025
Take a look at the great work of our affiliate comic book artist, Scott Devantier. Energetic, whimsical, slightly dystopia-coded, all-interesting.
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Marine calcifiers @marinecalcifiers.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🎥 Animation teaser by @cookedillustrations.com! Our new study explores how bryozoans respond to ocean acidification and warming — showing changes in skeletons, microbiomes, and population decline. Sneak peek below — full animation coming soon! www.nature.com/articles/s42... #MedCalRes
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Aaron O'Dea @odealab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 24/06/2025
The power of artistic co-production to engage young people with the climate emergency. Tammie Esslemont from Nature Over Natter sharing her experience combining hope, community-building and art to create a better future. Join us for future #sciart talks at Fieldnotes Stiwdio.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 10/06/2025
What do Tom Jones and Aneurin Bevan have in common? A little preview of a new project we've been working on to help explain international assessments to school-aged children in #Wales. What do you think of our Dragon? Isn't he just the best?
A red dragon character stands on the lower left with arms extended upwards, excitedly shouting. "Tom Jones and Aneurin Bevan!". The dragon has Welsh Dragon theming.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 09/06/2025
How do you engage general public with complex scientific issues? Join us on Tuesday 24th in Newport for the next #FieldnotesStiwdio to explore how ⚱️ Ceramics as a way to understand cancer diagnoses 💚 Community arts to engage with climate change And much more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fieldnotes...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 27/05/2025
Case studies of conservation paleobiology in action? Of course! Part of an illustration series commissioned by @erinmdillon.bsky.social to showcase how the field can lead to real world changes. The example here shows coastal clam beds in British Columbia and how they support local environments.
A vertical illustration showing a British Columbia coastal landscape. At the top, trees. At the bottom, a coastal line of clams.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 12/05/2025
Dr. Emma Higginswill be talking to us about how drone technology can help in #conservation of rare species, specifically Anolis lizards, in Honduras. Join us for this and more on Fieldnotes Stiwdio, a #sciart event, on the 27th of May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fieldnotes...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 09/05/2025
#Rewilding approaches on Great Britain. Should the Grey Wolf be reintroduced to overgrazed highlands?
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 01/05/2025
#FieldnotesStiwdio has been a success! The first event covered themes of #digitaltwins, #videogames and #VictorianLiterature. Join us on 27/May for another #sciencecommunication and #art evening. Details coming soon.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/04/2025
Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago. This is infuriating. And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 24/04/2025
Folks in South #Wales! Researchers, scientists, and curious minds alike. Next week 29th #FieldnotesStiwdio, a science and art series of talks, starts. With themes of #digitaltwins, #urbanism and #literature. Come along and signal boost! Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-note...
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 10/04/2025
Sandy the Geoscientist is a #beaver studying the geological formations and nature of the Earth. She specializes in mountain environments, from how they form, to how humans build systems within them. Sandy is the creation of Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas and Gerardo Benito. #scicomm #geology
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 09/04/2025
“By redefining what we value and assume about the world, we can transform today’s interconnected risks into opportunities for collective well-being and resilience.” 🌍🧪 - @ununiversity.bsky.social #InterconnectedRisks Report Read more: interconnectedrisks.org
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🧪 Based on similar evolutionary split times, it's like putting some narwhal genes into a beluga and claiming you have a narwhal... (actually it's worse, b/c while LCA times are similar in both cases c. > 5 Ma, the cetacean populations interbred a bit until c. 1 Ma, but dire wolves stayed isolated)
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a pixel art drawing of a blue unicorn with a horn
Alt: pixellated cartoon of a white faced creature that might charitably be seen as a beluga, wearing a blue narwhal costume
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 08/04/2025
Hello, network. We're creating a talk and networking event series all about science and art. If you're in the #Cardiff area on the 29th of April, consider coming along. More information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-note... #scicomm #Wales
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Kate Morozova @brushesandbiomes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Continuing with the weird and wonderful #2025MMM #RootsAndRelicts we have the frilled shark. Note it's bizarre teeth and frilly gills. It faces the interrupted fern, named so for the gap along the stem left by the reproductive parts after they wither away! #watercolor #fish #art #botanicalart 🧪🐡
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 07/04/2025
On this #InternationaBeaverDay we introduce you to Liquid Beaver. Fluid like the river. Strong like the tree. A keystone mammal capable of engineering the very landscape. What adventures will Liquid Beaver get into? #animation #ecology #conservation
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 31/03/2025
Ohoho! This looks so cool.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 31/03/2025
🚽🍅 Urine: the fertiliser of the future? A new study shows treated urine from 3 urinals can grow over 2 tonnes of tomatoes a year – turning buildings into nutrient hubs for urban farming. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm 🧪 #CircularEconomy #Fertiliser
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Urine luck: Environmental assessment of yellow water management in buildings for urban agriculture
The increasing global demand for agricultural production poses challenges to maintain the needs for critical fertilizers such as nitrogen. This study …
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 26/03/2025
Researcher Highlight Day! Human demography and culture has close ties to diseases. @margheritac17.bsky.social invites us to consider the role diseases have played in the earliest periods of our species. #scicomm #paleo #scientists
A single-page spread showcasing Dr Margherita Colucci talking about diseases, demographics, culture and human history.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 26/03/2025
#Mangrove #Ecosystem #Restoration: a short insight We at Cooked Illustrations love to learn about the natural world. And sometimes this turns into #popularscience articles meant for much wider laypeople to understand the world. Please give it a read! www.linkedin.com/pulse/mangro...
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