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

Congratulations to Victor A. S. Jones, Megan Ferguson and Annika Guse and their co-authors! This was a very fun piece to work on, and a fascinating topic. #coralreefs #coverart #marinebiology #coralbleaching #symbiont #scienceillustration

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

Appropriate symbiont selection is required for sufficient host nutrient acquisition and could even be tailored to increase cnidarian stress tolerance. The research here reveals integrins as important receptors for symbiosis establishment Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Integrins mediate symbiont-specific uptake in cnidarian larvae - EMBO Reports

Endosymbiosis between dinoflagellate algae and cnidaria is fundamental for coral reef health. Appropriate symbiont selection is required for sufficient host nutrient acquisition and could be tailored ...

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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

It's really exciting to me to see how the institute is giving better tools to its trainees to achieve publication-level graphics and beyond. I'm hoping to have lots more of these types of sessions!

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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

Disruptions to protein quality control + degradation processes (UPS, autophagy) lead to protein aggregates. These aggregates are toxic to cells and interfere with key processes like proteostasis, cell structure and organelle function, molecule trafficking, and oxidative stress and inflammation.

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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 · 26/11/2025

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

3. A new cover- out just in time for Thanksgiving :) This piece is a collaboration between the wonderful @mgarbelli.bsky.social and myself, using a mixture of hand-sculpted T Cells, and digital painting a to show how T Cells are able to make CRATERs in melanoma tumors.

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

2. The chance to collaborate with amazing scientists and wonderful artists to bring visual expression to cutting-edge research and…

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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 · 24/10/2025

But these tricks are in fact tools in the toolbox of a well-trained artist. And when you hire one, the art you can collaborate on will be the real treat. #AI #generativeAI #ArtistsagainstAI #HappyHalloween

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

Real art is also full of tricks- this is true of both digital and traditional media. There are tricks to lighting your image, there are tricks to make something look 3D, iridescent, or ethereal, or humorous. There are tricks to developing a good concept for an illustration....

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

It has no ability to edit, no understanding of its creation, and no training that is not the result of theft. The “treats” it so easily spits out (at huge environmental cost) are so cheap, they are in fact a trick. They trick the prompter into thinking they are an artist.

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

This is an incredibly cool approach for creating unique nanoparticles, drawing upon classical techniques of masking + stenciling on pottery. My illustration drew inspiration from Ernst #Haeckel's famous plates and geometry news.illinois.edu/atom-scale-s... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes and learn new tricks – News Bureau

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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 · 15/09/2025

Hunting for #denisovans in the fossil record is leading to new discoverie! #sciart #paleoanthropology

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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

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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

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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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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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