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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Looking forward to sharing one of my favorite projects of all time, developed with some of my favorite people! (with astonishing illustrations by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social) Tuesday 12:00 pm Room 21 #Evol2026

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

And, big thanks to Julie Johnson @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social for her help with scientific illustration! Take a look into her work, she's terrific!

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Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

6 - These results highlight host traits and cross-kingdom microbial interactions as key drivers of colony-level microbiome assembly, beautifully illustrated by @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social in the final fig. We hope this guides discussions in microbiome research to bee eco-evo and conservation.

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Lilian Caesar @liliancaesar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Our manuscript on the microbiome of a stingless bee hive is out! 🦠🐝 So excited! Here’s a short thread with some findings, going from the assembly of a consistent multi-kingdom microbiome to discussions on host traits that contribute to it. Please take a look and share : ) rdcu.be/eVNFJ

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Spatial segregation and cross-kingdom interactions drive stingless bee hive microbiome assembly

Nature Communications - Here, the authors characterize the microbiome assembly across an entire stingless bee colony, revealing site-adapted within-hive communities, and showing that nest...

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New research looks into the anthropogenic causes of behavioral diversity loss, and their consequences. I created a figure to show the pathways by which anthropogenic disturbances ultimately increase or decrease behavioral diversity.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Here are just a few of the many fish I painted this year (not to scale). It's fun to stick a bunch of them together into a collage and see some of the incredible diversity of body shape and color patterns. Merry Fishmas! 🐡🐟🐠

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Don't forget about your favorite #smallbusiness this holiday season! As a bonus, if you buy manta ray stuff from my shop, the rays get a gift too! A portion of all manta ray sales will be donated to support conservation research at the Mobula Conservation Project. www.lifesciencestudios.com/shop

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A scientific figure showing speciation and explaining the concept of species delimitation, and including a quote by the paper's first author.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

New lab logo just dropped! @michaelgbertram.bsky.social's lab studies how chemical pollution disrupts animal behavior, using Atlantic salmon and European perch in much of their research. The logo needed to showcase study organisms with an ecotoxicology twist. Enjoy your new lab logo, Bertram Lab!

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Gobies big and small. Not just small…. teeny tiny! I painted 6 gobies, 3 of them not even an inch long, for this paper about the evolution of miniaturization. (To be clear, the fish are tiny, but the paintings are not.) Big congratulations to @fishfetisher.bsky.social and colleagues. 🐡🐟🧪

A page from Troyer, et al. 2022 showing that miniaturization in gobies evolved multiple times.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yellowfin tuna get his fins painted. This fish is built for speed! 🐡🐟

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We find that miniaturization has evolved multiple times in gobies! It is especially prominent within the dwarfgobies (Eviota spp.), pygmygobies (Trimma spp.) and the infantfishes (Schindleria spp.). Shoutout to @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social for providing these beautiful goby illustrations!

Figure 1. Repeated convergence on miniaturization across the goby phylogeny. Maximum Likelihood Gobioidei phylogeny estimated in RaxML-NG, showing the ancestral character reconstruction for total body length. Warmer branch colors indicate smaller body sizes while cooler branchers indicate larger sizes. Branch lengths are given in molecular substitutions per site. Three clades, each containing a large-bodied (circles) and a miniature species (stars) in close phylogenetic relation, were further selected for comparative transcriptomic analyses. Node numbers correspond to Gobioidei families: 1) Odontobutidae; 2) Eleotridae; 3) Oxudercidae; and 4) Gobiidae. Illustrations (scaled to relative total length for each clade) depict the six species used in comparative analyses: Amblyeleotris guttata and Coryphopterus personatus (Clade 1), Gobiodon citrinus and Eviota atriventris (Clade 2), and Valenciennea puellaris and Trimma hollemani (Clade 3). Illustrations by Julie Johnson.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Who is on my desk today? A shark mackerel! This shiny #fish lives off the north coast of Australia. Unlike his living counterparts, who are busy in the ocean eating little fish, this guy will help scientists communicate their research by adorning scientific figures. Which is also an important job.

🐟 A watercolor painting of a shark mackerel fish, a paintbrush next to the painting.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

What do you mean, as big as a car!? Manta rays and devil rays are caught as bycatch in tuna fisheries, and releasing them back into the ocean is like trying to lift a car off the deck of a boat. How can this be done to maximize the likelihood that the manta ray survives the ordeal? 🧪 #conservation

This poster shows watercolor paintings of manta and devil ray species, distribution map, and graphics showing how to and how not to release rays.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Gathering guppies! 🐟 🐟 🐟 The figures I create often include a mix of illustrated conceptual elements with data. This figure needed to show how guppy shoaling behavior upstream (no predators) and downstream (predators) differed, and how those differences lead to parasite transmission. 🧪🐡

An illustrated figure from Walsman, et al. 2022 in Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just finished @maryroach.bsky.social new book Replaceable You and the Epilogue really got to me. Our loved one got a kidney transplant two weeks ago, and it’s awful to think of all the life saving research that has been halted by the current administration’s NIH and science funding cuts. 💔

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I thought it might be fun to show you a little behind the scenes of creating a fish scientific illustration from sketch to painting to publication. 🐟 🐡 #evolutionarybiology #thereisnofrogfishemoji

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

When creating fish illustrations, it is very important to have a sleeping cat on your desk. Across the middle of the desk is the ideal positioning.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hey ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Is this you? ➡️ "This concept is way too complicated to show in a way reviewers and readers will understand" Ask for help! Life Science Studios is here to create engaging figures that clearly explain your research. 🧪 #academicsky #evolutionarybiology

Scientific illustration of a Colias butterfly with zoom-ins of the scale structures. Research by Arnaud Martin

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

You share this crazy wild world with manta rays. And maybe you'd like to wear a T-shirt that reminds you of that fact! Visit www.lifesciencestudios.com/shop.html if you want more mantas in your life. A portion of sales supports the Mobula Conservation Project. #mantaray 🐡 #marineconservation

My BFF wearing a bright blue shirt with paintings of manta rays and devil rays on it. She's wearing sunglasses and clearly loves rays!

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

✨Starting on Monday!✨ #SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿 Post on your own schedule. Post new work, old work, work-in-progress. Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞) - #SciArt #SciComm #Nature

A banner image promoting the month-long art challenge, Sci Art September 2025. The banner features an animal illustration plus text describing a monthly theme, weekly themes, and daily prompt words. The month-long theme is conservation. In order, the weekly themes are: Lands, species, water, people, and a shared future. Finally, the list of daily words is as follows. Week one: Islet, canopy, jewel, riverbank, corridor, prairie, boreal. Week two: Niche, vanishing, tawny, venomous, wandering, bottleneck, mimic. Week 3: Spawning, rift, trawl, cenote, depths, glacial, reef. Week 4: Fellowship, scouting, numbered, tireless, forage, bounded, harvest. Week 5: Foresight, dream. The event is hosted by LizLagomorph and LucyGemArt.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Species paintings can really enhance your figures. There are real organisms underlying your data, and they are such beautiful organisms! Adding images of your study species can help your audience instantly understand what your work is about. 🐡 🧪 #scientificillustration

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

@chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @tjnear.bsky.social et al. reveal that amblyopsid fishes colonized caves at least four times from ancestors adapted to low-light environments, and use genomic data to infer ages of subterranean ecosystems in N. America. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf185 #evobio #molbio

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Convergent Evolution in Amblyopsid Cavefishes and the Age of Eastern North American Subterranean Ecosystems

Abstract. Genomes provide tools for reconstructing organismal evolution and larger Earth system processes. Although genome sequences have been jointly anal

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Who is on my desk today? A yellow perch, Perca flavescens! This guy was the perfect excuse to use my gold-green paint, which is practically neon. #sciart #scientificillustration #fishart

A watercolor painting of a yellow perch laying on a desk with a messy watercolor palette and paintbrushes next to it.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Painting brings me closer to the incredible organisms of the world. In creating these paintings of manta rays and devil rays, I got to spend time looking closely at them and learning more about their biology, behavior, and the threats they face. 🐡 #marinelife

Super awesome blue T-shirt, mug, and water bottle featuring manta ray paintings

Totally cool white stainless steel water bottle with paintings of manta rays on it, sitting on a boat with ocean in the background

Gorgeous white ceramic mug with paintings of manta rays, sitting on a boat with ocean in the background.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just a pic of my bestie beating the summer heat with her new manta ray water bottle. Manta and devil rays need our help! For every sale of gear featuring my watercolor ray paintings, I will donate 20% to my friends at Mobula Conservation Project. Get yours at www.lifesciencestudios.com/shop.html

The very talented Rani Davidson hanging out at a marina with a super cool stainless steel water bottle covered in paintings of manta rays and devil rays. Photo by Tanem Davidson.

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

1/16 🚨🚨 New paper!! I am thrilled to share our study that uses fossils, genomes, and a bit of geology to investigate how many times cavefishes evolved, and how they can help us figure out the ages of caves themselves! Link: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

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Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It’s that time again. 🌟 - #sciartseptember #sciart #scienceart #scicomm

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Come join our community science program!! Including online monthly nerd jams meetings open to the public. Please share far and wide, and welcome our new community coordinator @colinjanthony.bsky.social! 🧪🌊

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I have been away from home all summer, which means away from my desk and my watercolors. It’s so good to take a break, but I am itching to get back to painting! It’s like a fundamental need. Taking the long flight home tomorrow, I’ll see you soon, wall ‘o fish!

Watercolor paintings of colorful wrasses

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I went to visit my friends the other day and they both wore their mobula shirts! Thanks for making my day 🥰 #sciart #marineconservation #mantarays

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

One of the challenges we faced when designing the figures for this paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), was how to show representatives of many groups of fish in the phylogeny, but highlight the endothermic species such that they are emphasized and stand out for the reader. #🧪 #🐡

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Wouldn’t it be awesome to share your morning coffee with a manta ray? I’ve got you covered! Mobula mugs are for sale on my website, and a portion of sales goes toward manta and devil ray conservation! #MarineLife www.lifesciencestudios.com/shop.html

A really awesome ceramic mug with paintings of species of manta rays and devil rays on it with their species names labeling each painting. The mug is sitting on a boat with the ocean in the background.

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators @gnsiart.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

GNSI VISUAL SCICOMM CONFERENCE 2025 LIVESTREAMS We are thrilled to be able to offer a small selection of this year's conference presentations as free #SciArt livestreams on our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@GNSIVideo/s...). Read on for our schedule...

A banner that reads "Four Livestreams & Recordings Available!". It shows four icons of different pictures and, underneath each, the respective presentation and presenter. There is one for each talk described in the body text.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m the weirdo taking photos of my water bottle at the beach yesterday. If you want your own manta/devil ray bottle, so you can be as cool as I am when you go to the beach, they are on my website and a portion of sales supports conservation! www.lifesciencestudios.com/shop.html #marinelife #🐡

Super cool stainless steel water bottle with paintings of manta ray and devil ray species with their scientific names. The bottle is held up by my hand with a beach on a sunny day in the background.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Sometimes I’ll walk into my studio and find that my daughter has added her own fish to the wall ‘o fish… and it’s just the best thing ever.

A colorful painting of a fish with a sticky note next to it with a child’s drawing of the same fish.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This is Pogonophryne barsukovi, the stubbeard plunderfish. Such a great name. They live in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, and they have a pretty great dorsal fin. #sciart #teamfish

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Such cool research on endothermy in marine fishes. I had fun creating the #sciart and helping with figure design for this paper. Not only did I get to paint an opah, but also a leatherback sea turtle, penguin, and great white shark! Congrats to the authors, this is super interesting stuff.

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My wall o’ fish continues to grow! Why do I tape my fish paintings to my studio wall? So I can easily use them as references for similar species or when I need to use a similar technique. (Plus my drawers are too full to fit more paintings.) #sciart #teamfish

A wall covered in watercolor fish paintings

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here are all of the fish I painted for a paper about anglerfish diversification. Many of these guys live in the “midnight zone” of the ocean and have sexual parasitism, where the male is super tiny and attaches himself to the female. Crazy stuff! Not to mention the camouflage on those frogfish. #🐡

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A watercolor lizard is getting ready for his role in a complex research figure design. #sciart #ecology

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Someone asked me to make a mug design with Amanitas and Psilocybe mushrooms on it. So I did! They are now for sale in my shop 🍄 www.lifesciencestudios.com/store/p133/p... #mushrooms #sciart #🍄

photo of a mug covered in colorful amanita and psilocybe mushroom paintings

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Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My 7 year old snuck into my office and drew her own fish. Then my 3 year old colored it. I’ve never been more proud! 🥹

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