Sign in

JoAnna

@joannascience.bsky.social
140 followers 364 following 49 posts

science writer and illustrator-for-hire joannawendelcomics.com

PostsRepliesMedia
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 4h
Family was playing a dictionary game where we all made up definitions of obscure words. The word was "sprag." My uncle wrote "shotgun-like bowel discharge." From then on in my family, we didn't have to "poop" or "go number 2," we had to go sprag, or we "spragged" etc
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 6h
i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're the $15,000 bird that kelly clarkson tried to buy
1505
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Me when I get left behind by AI
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
You already know that flamingos eat shrimp (and that's why they're pink!) but have you ever thought about HOW they eat shrimp? Read about tiny underwater tornados in my new comic with @snexplores.bsky.social: www.snexplores.org/article/flam...
Illustration of a flamingo with its beak in the water, fishing for shrimp. Text reads "A Flamingo's Spin on Dinner. Written by Sofia Caetano Avritzer, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel."
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Feeling weepy with joy for all the Mariners fans out there tonight! Congrats y'all THEY FUCKIN DID IT. What a game, and I only started watching in the 9th inning!
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
he watches most games every single year. He has to go through this EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. I'm holding on for dear life
010
Reposted by JoAnna
alex remembers the big cow 🐄 @thebigcow.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Watching Da Mariners
081
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I don't normally watch baseball, but my brother has been a die-hard Mariners fan for his ENTIRE 36 years of life, so I'm watching the playoffs in solidarity. I do not know how he does this YEAR after YEAR I can barely handle NINE INNINGS. how has his HEART survived, I mean literally the organ
140
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
MARINERS I STG
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I don't normally yell when I watch TV, but tonight I'm watching the Mariners play and my cat is VERY concerned
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
THAT WAS A STRIKE DAMMIT
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Being a Mariners fan is so hard 😭
120
Reposted by JoAnna
Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Banana slug enjoying a leaf in the rain 10x speed
17215
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
snorse
Drawing of a snail+horse hybrid with a snail body, horse head and snail eye stalks. And snail shell. It's called a snorse.
031
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hey did you know I take commissions for pet portraits?? These are bespoke works of art that capture your pet in fun and whimsical ways! DM me or email me at petsbyjoanna@gmail.com for more info! #artcommissions #petportrait #hireanartist
Photo shows a flier advertising pet portraits by JoAnna. Text says the portraits start at $50 for your pet on a plain background, with extra add-ons available like a more detailed background. Email petsbyjoanna@gmail.com to learn more.
020
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I also recently published this comic as well with Science News Explores, about SEA ROBINS and their TONGUE-LEGS. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming. #sciart #sciencecomic www.snexplores.org/article/sea-...
Illustration shows a brown-spotted fish with big fins and weird little legs coming out its underside. The fish is eating a clam. Text reads "Sea Robin Legs Double as Tongues. Written by Andrea Tamayo and Maria Temming, Illustrated by JoAnna Wendel"
1133
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Check out my new comic at Science News Explores! It's about goats, sheep, llamas...and optical illusions! Written by Maria Temming #sciart #sciencecomic www.snexplores.org/article/shee...
Comic panel featuring a stupid-looking llama munching on some grass. Text reads "Optical Illusions Fool Hoofed Animals Too. Written by Maria Temming, Illustrating by JoAnna Wendel"
040
Reposted by JoAnna
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
216132415372
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Hiked Catherine Creek in the gorge yesterday, it was so beautiful!
020
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Let me know what ecosystem-specific mermaid I should do next! #sciart #ocean
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Annnnd finally, we reach the shallow sea and find out Kelp Forest Mermaid. She has green skin, flowing green hair, and competes with sea otters to gobble up all those pesky sea urchins
Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in a kelp forest. She has green skin and hair and is eating a bright purple sea urchin.
100
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Moving up, we find our Open Ocean Mermaid! She evolved alongside whales and sharks, with counter-shading for camouflage, a lot of blubber for warmth, and she even evolved a melon for echolocation! She doesn't need her arms, as she's a filter-feeder like a baleen whale #sciart
Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the open ocean. She has tiny arms, lots of blubber, and blue skin. Her backside facing the surface is darker blue, for camouflage
100
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Staying in the deep sea, we find our Hydrothermal Vent Mermaid, who has similarly big eyes and reddish skin, with some defensive spikes on her tail. She feeds on chemosynthetic bacteria and thrives in hot, dark places #sciart
Illustration of a mermaid that evolved at a hydrothermal vent. She has reddish skin, big eyes, and long fingers.
100
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What would mermaids look like if they evolved in different parts of the ocean? First we've got our deep-sea mermaid with her translucent tail, weird long fingers, big eyes and bioluminescent lure #sciart #illustration #comics
Illustration of a mermaid that evolved in the deep sea. She's got big eyes and teeth, long fingers (one with a bioluminescent lure), reddish skin and a translucent tail.
130
Reposted by JoAnna
KetrinDarkDragon (comms open) @ketrindarkdragon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
74234767405
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I wish I could send my therapist funny therapy reels and be like "us lol"
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yeah I've got a GROWTH MINDSET I bloom once a year and then go DORMANT for the winter
052
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Frog Matisse
Henri Matisse's Blue Nude II painting but it's a frog
030
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
yesss I got three tattoos there last year! A crawdad, a snail, and a garter snake!
110
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Birdhouse???
110
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Gonna try posting more. If you're a scientist/science writer or science artist, give me a shout so I can follow you! In the meantime, here's a cover I illustrated for the August 2024 issue of Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social
Photograph shows a stack of magazines called Science News Explores. On the cover is an illustration of a young girl flying over pink mountains and a green river. It's the illustration to accompany the cover story, called "Journey into the Dreamscape," about lucid dreaming.
020
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Goin to be at the aquarium next week ON MY BIRTHDAY I could literally not be MORE EXCITED
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Practicing one-panel gags!
Cartoon shows a cat sitting on a chaise lounge, talking to a butler. The cat says "Tell the human I want a belly rub, then I'll claw him. It'll be a gas."
000
Reposted by JoAnna
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Reminder: Your friends want books for the holidays. Lots and lots and lots of books. You also want books. You should probably buy yourself a book while buying books for your friends. Bored? Read a book! Got a wobbly table? Fix it with a book! Missing shingle? Nail in a book! Gas leak? You can <boom>
271049334
Reposted by JoAnna
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition! The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5 🗃️🧪
B&W drawing of the 1st Thanksgiving, showing a table full of vegetables and eels. In the center are a pilgrim man, dressed in black and white, with a silly hat and giant collar. He's holding a bowl of grapes, and looking incredibly disengaged. Standing with him is a Native American man, with feathers in his hair. He's not wearing a shirt, but he is wearing several armbands. In all, he looks far more comfortable. He's reaching for a grape, or pointing at one as if to say, "This one has the poison."

Behind the Native American are several others, fading into the background. Behind the pilgrim are two figures, presumably his wife and kid, and couple of houses with thatched roofs. The wife, carrying a basket of apples, has an uncertain expression on her face. It's likely that she's checking out the half-dressed man in her yard, and thinking about how her husband doesn't stack up so well.

On the table in the foreground, in pride of place, is a plate piled high with eels. NOW it's a feast.
110526
Reposted by JoAnna
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/08/2023
Today's newsletter is about how society is desperate to return to a pre-pandemic world that no longer exists, and how executives are doing everything they can to take us back to a wasteful in-office economy - even if it's obviously a bad idea. tinyurl.com/wyat81023
1031472
Reposted by JoAnna
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
We built a StumbleUpon for links that have been shared in Garbage Day random.garbageday.email
1367
Reposted by JoAnna
lifeofahunter @lifeofahunter.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
ACAB includes the posting police I don’t make the rules.
0249
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2023
Why do koalas look animatronic
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
The other night I was high and watching Secrets of the Zoo (my all time favorite show) and it struck me that elephants and rhinos should be reptiles. I know they *technically* have fur but come on. How is that skin different than a turtle
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
Wait no if GIRAFFES were carnivores what would they eat??? Would they just snatch birds out of trees???
110
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
If elephants were carnivores what would they eat
110
Reposted by JoAnna
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
"after all...its not like they can use it again in some one else's mai tai"
screenshots from the fellowship of the rings film of bilbo baggins holding the ring and thinking but instead of contemplating keeping the ring he is thinking about taking a blue cocktail umbrella home
151579269
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
👀👀👀
000
Reposted by JoAnna
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
Who will win? Bluesky or Threads? Neither. Because rich people don't want us to bother them online anymore and are breaking the way the internet has functioned for over 20 years to make sure it's not possible ever again. www.garbageday.email/p/paying-to-us…
361019345
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
My feed is a blank screen, I cannot see any posts yet!!!
010
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
The show Secrets of the Zoo has taught me that being a zookeeper means spending a not insignificant amount of time waiting for two animals to fuck
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
Mario Kart is Fast and Furious for furries is this anything
000
JoAnna @joannascience.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
I might cross out "republican" and write "libertarian" and give this to my dad
Picture shows a greeting card that says "you may be a republican but you're still the world's greatest dad"
010