iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 04/10/2026

I don't want to shout about it too loudly because Christmas is most certainly not nearly here BUT... I'm taking part in the @backerkit.com Holiday Market again this year. So, y'know, if you need some biology-inspired gifts... 🐡 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

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Making With Biology Holiday CELLebration

Get notified when Making With Biology Holiday CELLebration launches on BackerKit!

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just 48hrs left to back my insect themed campaign and £63 until we unlock the final stretch goal of a fancy holo effect sticker sheet! #SciArt #BugSky #Insects #ArtistSupport #BSNM #Nature #Illustration #ArtSky www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

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Mini-bee-sts - Insect Inspired Merch

A collection of merch inspired by the buzzing and fluttering minibeasts that live in our gardens.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Marketing notice approved for bananas gene-edited so they don't go brown, to reduce food waste. The Precision Breeding Act 2022 allows crops to be edited, but no genes can be inserted from different species, which is genetic modification and illegal. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Maybe something about fluorescent proteins

Three keyrings glowing under UV light. Blue: crystal jellyfish. Green: green fluorescent protein (GFP). Pink: mauve stinger jellyfish. Background: climbing wall. 🐡

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I'm in need of a new project and I had been thinking of making some 2-minute animations to see if I can. Trying to figure out where to start.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/09/2026

I just did my annual thing of wanting to find something on Twi/X, scrolling for ages and ending up feeling sad for how things once were (not in a good way). The thing I was looking turned out to be not that exciting after all.

Screenshot of a social media post from July 3 2019. Text: My research in #kidney #systemsbio as told using laser-cut wooden #podocytes.

Photograph of 20 wooden podocytes (kidney cells) painted different shades of yellow-orange-red

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🌊🦢✨The finished skateboard ✨🦢🌊

Odette illustration printed on skateboard lying on asphalt for DROP IN: Skate Deck Art Show in Minneapolis Minnesota

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The strawberry overkill @tsoverkill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can't believe I never posted this one before 😱 it's a full moon tonight, harvest moon, apparently 🤔 so I'm posting a sh*tload of moon art today 😁🌛 #moon #harvestMoon #FullMoon #moonArt #sketch #artSky #art

Calendar turned sketchbook.

Inkpen sketch of a portrait of a female figure with a giant moon for a head.

Her face, on the other hand, is the appropriate size for the rest of her body, thus looking very small on the big moon surface. She is looking at a melting ice-cream scoop, with a pattern resembling planet earth, in a cone that she is holding in her hand.

She is wearing some kind of futuristic looking space suit.

In the background a dark starry sky.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 26/09/2026

Power Lines Drawing #144 (Ferndale, MI) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 21/07/2026

We're into the final 24 hours of Making With Biology Summer CELL-out, my Ready-to-Ship Shop! I just added my Jelly Picks - Sea Wasp guitar picks - six colours, each a different thickness :) One even glows in the dark!! Check them out - www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k... 🐡🦑

Six guitar picks with similar Sea Wasp jellyfish design. Arranged on a black card with scribbly writing that says 'Deadly Tangle'. The guitar picks are blue, purple, pink, white, glow-in-the-dark, and black. Graph paper sits at the back.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ladies gentlemen and enbies the #SciArt stupidness is now stickered

A yellow sticker with a fuzzy confused beefly saying "I DO NOT THINK THEREFORE I DO NOT AM" and a pink sticker of a cool mosquito with the text "i'm not like other girls i'm worse"

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In a week I’m having a bit of summer party over on @backerkit.com . Lots of lovely new bird and flowers pins, some snazzy tea towels and a bunch of other stuff will have special discounts… #SciArt #BirdArt #bsnm #illustration www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

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Pin and Sticker Summer Party Launch Party

Get excited about Pin and Sticker Summer Party on BackerKit - come join!

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Calling all #sciArt creators! Apply to the Support League of Science on @backerkit.com | deadline extended to September 1. Goes live on the 7th. www.backerkit.com/c/admin/proj...

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🦀 see a crab, post a crab 🦀 I had to join in, so here's my slightly out of season offering. This hermit brings the party with them!

A digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a hermit crab standing on a sandy beach under vibrant blue sky. Wrapped round their shell is a string of glowing fairy lights that they hold in their right claw. On top of their shell is a glittery gold star, like a Christmas tree.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/06/2026

I missed this! We had such a difficult time choosing our pins... Started off fixed on two birth flowers then ended up changing completely to two owls! They all look fantastic!! 🥰

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The one small spark of joy in this heat has been these new arrivals..... #SciArt #Illustration #Birds #Wildflowers #bsnm

A selection of 20 wooden mini pins created from original illustrations by Loadofolbobbins. They're 25 mm each at their widest points and show different birth flowers and amazing birds. The species are violet, aster, snowdrop, chrysanthemum, poppy, delphinium, marigold, holly, short-eared owl, Magellanic penguin, bluethroat, pink necked green pigeon, white-browed tit warbler, blue jay, barn owl, female sparrow, wyandotte chicken, andean-cock-of-the-rock, snowy owl and a cassowary.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 28/06/2026

I've been staring at ribbon structures for years and only just started drawing them. This is the beginning of a drawing of haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in your blood. I wish I hadn't started on lined paper but already I think it's beautiful. #heart #bioart #sciart

Sketch of the ribbon structure of haemoglobin (hemoglobin). Coils and star-like spaces are emerging. Red biro on lined paper.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 27/06/2026

My favourite biro ran out during this drawing so I had to raid my son's pencil case, which turns out is full of pens he's found on the floor, and broken ones at that. Funny that teenage boys experience a higher than average incidence of exploding pens. #heart #sciart #bioart

Drawing of a human heart in blue and red biro, and watercolour. The walls of the right atrium and ventricle have been removed so that the openings can be seen inside.

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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Native Wildflower Greeting Cards launches on Monday! Be sure to follow so you don't miss the launch. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... So excited to see my watercolor sketches become cards! Which is your favorite flower of these? #BotanicalArt #SciArt #BSNM #greetingcards #wildflowers

Mockups of greeting cards with my native wildflower watercolor paintings on them. 6 white folded cards are shown in 2 overlapping rows. The artwork features White Trillium, Wild Ginger, Ohio Spiderwort, Dutchman's Breeches, Showy Lady's Slipper, and Lanceleaf Coreopsis.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 26/06/2026

After my ready-to-ship campaign it's straight into Super League of Science! I'm thinking #heart cells, molecules, tissues... 🫀🐡❤️

Teaching model of the human heart on a stand

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Calling for all Sci-minded Creators! Add your next #crowdfund to our collab SUPER LEAGUE OF SCIENCE 2026. We go live in August. www.backerkit.com/c/collection... #sciArt #spaceArt #bioArt #dinoArt

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This shade of red? Yeah it is important in this comic and for more than just too much blood = death From EXPOSURES by Lily Williams #GraphicMedicine

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 02/06/2026

The rise (return?) of Zines! "Obara and his creative partner Akihico Mori are among the latest artists to use a printing press offered by the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper, which is aiming to find alternative uses for its machines as subscriptions fall." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Word on the reef is, shrimp are SO in this season. A crab told me. And bonus? These shirts fund our fall Philly Bug mural series. 3 Murals, 3 Artists, 3 Neighborhoods, All bugs baby. Don't get caught without a crustacean. Tell your friends. Get a shrimp shirt. At SquidFacts.net (pls RT)

A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull as a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Opportunity (paid, short-term) for paleobotanists, hosted at my museum (Claremont, California) - looking for folks to assist with ID of plant fossils in our collection. Details here: www.alfmuseum.org/plantfossilp...

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Project Opportunity: Visiting Plant Fossil Specialists – Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 21/05/2026

Arab Strap have shared details of their ninth studio album, Half-Told Tales. You can watch a video for lead track ‘You You You’ here: buff.ly/VG5E4X6

Colour photograph of Arab strap, with a mustard yellow background.

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 20/05/2026

Building on the success of my crowdfunding so far, I've decided to crowdfund my first novel!!!! It's a middle grade adventure story about Violet and her pet colony of bacteria. Here's the link. There'll be a zine in the Summer too, a sort of 'Science behind' :) 🐡 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for Mimi Ate My Spellings

From Kathryn Garner - Get Ready for Mimi Ate My Spellings

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@amyrosegeden.bsky.social Planning another Super League of Science for August on @backerkit.com which is a crowdfunding platform. Hope you will join us for this one. The 1st had 7 projects; all were funded. HOPING to get at least 12-15 projects this year and would like you to be one of them!

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 15/05/2026

we're logging out early. you can too. we called your boss already. just bail

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying ladies and gentlemen the weekend

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

check out this thread full of nature-themed crowdfunded merch projects with only 1 day left. please support the creators you like if you can!

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Next we have an array of colourful coasters. Birds or blooms, birds and blooms the choice is yours, get any combination or just a single one for your book nook brew. #SciArt #Birds #Flowers #bsnm #ArtistSupport www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

A series of eight drinking coaster mock ups showing original bird and flower themed designs illustrated by Loadofolbobbins. Clockwise from left to right they show a close up head illustration of a Cassowary, a female kestrel hovering over some trees, some daffodils with silhouetted black foliage, some pink and red sweet peas with silhouetted black leaves and tendrils, a pink wild rose in bloom next to two just opening buds, some violets and primrose flowers, a barn owl swooping mid flight. They all have inky blue wash backgrounds.

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

OK so there's just 24 hours left to back my latest campaign so now would be a good time to share all the things you can get! 1st up a triptych of bird tea towels, we have ourselves the ever impressive Cassowary, a kestrel and swooping barn owl. #SciArt #Birds #bsnm www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

a series of three tea towel mock ups showing original bird themed designs illustrated by Loadofolbobbins. From left to right they show a close up head illustration of a Cassowary, a female kestrel hovering over some trees and a barn owl swooping mid flight. They all have inky blue wash backgrounds.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/05/2026

I've been doing a little painting 😅

Dozens of ink and watercolor paintings displayed on the floor of a hallway

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 13/05/2026

The Mauve Stinger Fluorescent Keychain has been UNLOCKED!! Final 24 hours... 🐡 🦑 #illustration #artsky #biosky

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.

Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

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Kathryn Garner @kathryngarner.co.uk · 11/05/2026

3 days left and not long until we unlock the third Fluorescent Keychain - the Mauve Stinger! This one will glow PINK under UV light! 🐡 🦑 Do you think we'll make it there? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

Mauve stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) circular illustration made with watercolour and coloured charcoal pencil on paper. Dark blue bell. Long string-like tentacles from orange at the bell to pale pink. Bright pink oral arms that become vibrant red near the bell.

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Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ahh just one stretch goal left to unlock with just over 3 days left to do it?! Will the Andean Cock-of-the-rock and the Cassowary join the final mini pin line up?? Just £13 to go.... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... #SciArt #BirdArt #ArtistSupport #Illustration

A mock up of six mini 25mm wooden bird pins made from original illustrations by Loadofolbobbins. Four already unlocked ones show show a side view of a snowy owl looking out at the viewer, a mildly surprised looking short-eared owl face on, a dapper looking magellanic penguin and a black and white Wyandotte Chicken. Two yet to unlock designs show a male Andean cock-of-the-rock perching on a branch and a head illustration of a Cassowary.

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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

One more week until the end of the Birdtober 2025 Sticker campaign! These are all the stretch goal stickers that have been unlocked so far, voted on by backers. Want to stick some birds on things? Don't forget to pledge by May 14: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #BirdArt #SciArt #BSNM #stickers

10 bird sticker mockups made from my marker drawings of birds. The top of the image says "Birdtober 2025 Stickers"

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