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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

First cover of 2026 is out! How do symbiotic organisms like corals and cnidarians identify their symbionts as such, rather than as debris/food/ etc? #SciArt ...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to speak to graduate students, post-docs and PIs at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social about how to use visual tools to communicate their science more effectively. This was part of a course in Adobe Illustrator given at the department of Life Sciences...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This has been an interesting year, one with lots of opportunities to create! I am so grateful for all of my clients and collaborators. Let's bring on a new year of creativity, peace, love and family #SciArt #academia #coverart

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I'm excited to share this piece of work on #neurodegeneration by the Ciechanover lab @technion.bsky.social and Rambam Health Care Campus. I was thrilled to work on these graphics #SciArt #biology #Neurodegenerativediseases

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

In the spirit of giving thanks, here are a few things I am grateful for today: 1. Our body’s incredible immune system, and the tireless work of scientists to enhance immunotherapy, using CD8+ T cells that can infiltrate cancer... #immunotherapy #cancerresearch #SciArt #coverart

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Tricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...

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Aya Ludin @ayaludin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

CRATERs on Cover! Thanks @cp-cell.bsky.social for choosing our study for the cover of the Nov 26th issue! A beautiful illustration by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social and @mgarbelli.bsky.social depicting CD8+ T cells descend into CRATERs on a melanoma, where they will engage with the tumor and kill it.

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Happy Halloween ! my thoughts on AI slop

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I usually work on art inspired by science, but this time around the science was inspired by art! Congratulations to Ahyoung Kim and Qian Chen and colleagues for their work on atom-scale stenciling! #SciArt #art #pottery #nanotechnology #nanoparticles

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Anders Sejr Hansen @andersshansen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first? I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I'm thrilled to share this article by Ruth Schuster covering scanning the fossil record for Denisovans, a project undertaken by the @david-gokhman.bsky.social lab at Weizmann Institute. 2 pieces of my art are featured :) www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I’m excited to share that my art is on the cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials this month. Created for the Korin lab @technion.bsky.social The image shows the use of hydrogels designed for precise embolization of brain aneurysms. #SciArt #medart

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"AI images don’t succinctly or accurately communicate scientific concepts & could undermine public trust in science... inaccuracies wouldn’t fly if they were created by a person, “but for some reason, having this sheen of fake polish that comes with AI kind of erases all of those standards” 🧪#sciart

nature.com

Illustrators call out journals and news sites for using AI art

Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions.

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt

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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Egg Shell Structure, pen & ink. From my book "Manual of Ornithology," Yale University Press: a.co/d/2c4tMLl 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ornithology #birds #anatomy

Very detailed close-up view of the structure of the avian egg, pen and ink illustration.

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Cristian Gutierrez-Ibañez @gallinaciega.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David Gokhman @david-gokhman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Super exciting to see the Penghu jaw confirmed as Denisovan— its features line up beautifully with what we predicted Denisovan mandibles to look like! More in the thread 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/

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SayoStudio @sayostudio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In this clip, @maayanvisuals.bsky.social explains why AI-generated images miss the mark in science communication: they skip the collaborative, iterative process that ensures scientific impact and creative visual storytelling. Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/gMmf2nn9

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is a first for me- I got to chat about the changing field of science illustration, collaboration, & communication with the amazing Nicolle Fuller and Claire Agosti of the Sayo Studio podcast! Thanks so much for having me! #SciArt #scicomm @sayostudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJc...

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How Illustrators Bring Reseach to Life: The Art of Science with Maayan Harel

YouTube video by SayoStudio

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Maresca Lab @imphys-tudelft.bsky.social are using ultrasound to show capillaries and cells in living organs!! I was thrilled to work on this project. Congratulations to David Maresca and Baptiste Heiles on this fantastic work #SciArt

Cells and capillaries are being revealed by un ultrasound intersecting beam

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours. The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space. webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is the closest photo of Saturn ever taken. 🔭 🧪

This is the closest image of Saturn ever captured by the Cassini spacecraft. It shows the planet in a majestic and serene light, with its rings in the foreground. The planet's golden hues are highlighted by the sunlight filtering through its upper atmosphere. A notable feature is the intriguing hexagonal storm at the north pole, a unique weather phenomenon in our solar system. The image provides an unparalleled, close-up perspective, inviting viewers to appreciate the intricate details of Saturn's cloud bands and the sheer vastness of its ring system. It is a stunning portrayal of the beauty and complexity of this gas giant, captured from a vantage point closer than any human-made probe has ventured before.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution. They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.

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Such a definitive approach would have a number of benefits. First, it would immediately lower the risk of engaging in model training, likely encouraging many new entrants to join the market for new Al products and services.
Second, it would counter the existential risk posed by the pending lawsuits against the leading American Al companies, allowing them to continue growing toward becoming as dominant globally in the 2020s as American social media and technology companies were in the 2000s and 2010s.
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 13/01/2025

Fleeing Facebook and Instagram? Discover one of the best corners of Bluesky: the SciArt Feed 🐡. 🎨 Hundreds of artists 🧪 Science-focused ✅ Curated contributors 🥳 No NFTs or gen AI Like & pin it today:

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Excited to have my graphics in this fascinating study of Oocyte development and the Balbiani body formation! #SciArt

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

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Dan 🐟 C @zebrafish007.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Looking down at the head of a transgenic 17-day-old #zebrafish, blood vessels in magenta, lymphatic vessels in green. Extended depth of focus #WeinsteinLab 🧪🔬

A highly detailed gray image of the dorsal view of a zebrafish head pointing to the left with two large black eyes on either side. A complex network of magenta blood vessels look like tangled spaghetti in the center (brain region) of the image. There are dozens of ameba-shaped green cells around the brain blood vessels and a few well-defined green lymphatic vessels on either side of the head. Protruding from the skin on each side of the head, to the right (posterior) to the eye, there are three volcano-like structures with long, transparent, hair-like projections. These are hair cells that the fish uses to sense changes in water flow.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/12/2024

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next year’s workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#Artvartist2024 plus some spots from a larger project I have yet to share :) To a new year of creativity and #SciArt

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#Artvartist2024 plus some spots from a larger project I have yet to share :) To a new year of creativity and #SciArt

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’m just now getting a handle on this platform And I’d love to know who’s here- please let me know who you are by commenting! Are you scientists? #academia or industry? How many artists or #sciart folks? Thanks 🙏

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Nice little display of my work At The Technion’s department of #biomedicalengineering PATH lab 😊. #SciArt #coverart

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Korin lab at the Technion want to make #heartvalves inspired by the #flowdynamics in birds wings. Link to paper below! (art by Adara Koivula and myself) #biomimicry #SciArt academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ar...

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A couple of years ago I got to create this reconstruction of #denisova 3 for a TV France documentary. It’s something I’m very proud to share. You can view the clip here #SciArt drive.google.com/file/d/14bp1...

image of denisovan girl based on denisovan 3 finding. The image is a reconstruction made by sculpting the features then painting over a photo of the sculpture. The girl is standing in the opening of denisovan cave

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Forgot to quote this properly for the #SciArt list

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Maayan Visuals @maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wanted to share one of my recent favorites made with supersculpey and digital media for the Alon and Shema labs at Weizmann institute!

The image depicts two “balls” of chromatin; one closed (blue) representing a luminal breast cancer cell and one more open (red) representing a basal-like breast cancer cell. The balls are separated by a Waddington-like epigenetic landscape “hill”. The LATS1 tumor suppressor fortifies the “hill” by associating with NCOR1 nuclear corepressor to close the chromatin of basal-like genes.
Artwork made with supersculpey painted digitally

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Olena Shmahalo @natureintheory.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Wow, what a gem of a person.

Screenshot of an article with a sliver of an image that was cropped off. Since the image contained Zuckerberg's photo, the cropper did not feel it was valuable enough to include.

Text: "Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI / ‘If they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content

By Adi Robertson, a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
Sep 25, 2024, 2:15 PM EDT

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter. In an interview with The Verge"

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"he's not the same since he published in Nature"

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Would you prefer to lead a lab alone or together with a science buddy? How interesting would be a research institute where joint labs are the standard?!

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