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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My first cover of 2026 "Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #sciArt #Scicom #illustration #neuroskyence

A drawing on the cover of the journal Neuron. Each section of the fan has a drawing of a mouse. Each mouse has a slightly different pose. The tassel of the fan resembles a neuron.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New cover "Selectively vulnerable deep cortical layer 5/6 fast-spiking interneurons in Alzheimer’s disease models in vivo" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #scArt #sciComm #neurons #neuroscience #neuroskyence

a lace curtain (made of neurons) fraying at the bottom (layers 5/6)

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Exploring brain circuits, one cell type - or more - at a time" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... This one is for all the #ChandelierNeuron fans out there #sciArt #sciComm #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Cover of journal Neuron shows a female scientists turning lamp-like neurons on and off

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is a first for me - two covers came out the same day! www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... & www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroscience #neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm

Cover of Cell Stem Cell journal depicts a winter landscape with a frozen tree (looking very much like a neuron, sprouting a green branch with pink buds)

A cover of Neuron journal depicts a female gymnast, surrounded by neurons, swinging from an axon...

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I made this drawing in 2016... Unfortunately, it still works today.

An orange fat man with yellow hair wearing black suit and red tie is seen from behind. He is erasing the words 'like home' from the sentence 'there is no place like home' with a crumpled american flag.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Post your most popular art from the bird app... secret lives of synapses #sciArt #synapses #neuroscience #neurons

three whimsical illustrations of what the artist imagines goes on between the cells at the synapse

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

New issue of Cell out today, with my cover illustrating this review - "Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #neuroscience #sciArt #sciComm #brain #neuroskyence #Connectomics #neurons

scientist at her desk in front of many screens showing various methods to investigate the brain.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

This year's first accepted cover - "Long-wavelength traveling waves of vasomotion modulate the perfusion of cortex" www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #sciart #scicomm #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #neuron #illustration

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Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila www.nature.com/articles/s41... #sciArt #scicomm #neuroskyence

Two neurons playing tug of war with 3 ropes

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Made lots of posters for the institute this year... #sciArt #neuroskyence

12 posters announcing MPIBI institute speakers. Depicted are octopuses, mice, bats, squirrels, birds, spiders...

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Yay! Another Nature Neuroscience cover. Dissociating the contributions of sensorimotor striatum to automatic and visually guided motor sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41... #sciArt #sciComm #neurosckynce

on the cover of Nature Neuroscience journal a woman is playing the piano. The notes are neurons.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

rejected cover :-( www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #neuroskyence #sciart #scicomm

Cover of journal Cell shows an image of an old book (yellowing parchment pages) with line drawings of C. elegans in different poses with corresponding dots and lines of brain circuits.
The bookmark is a pyramidal neuron.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Dream assignment: Make a cover illustration in the style of Giorgio Morandi. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... #neuroskyence #sciArt #sciComm #Morandi

cover of the journal Neuron shows a still life with vessels & neurons in the style of the artist Giorgio Morandi

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

looking through old phone photos found this fine creature -

a photo of very orange, very fuzzy caterpillar called the banded woolly bear, woolly bear, or woolly worm. It will become Isabella tiger moth eventually. (according to Wikipedia... I know nothing about this stuff)

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Thanks Mackenzie! It's a rejected cover from a while back.

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

Actually they are on their way to Venice...

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Got the cover of the August issue of #natureNeuroscence for a paper by Wang et al. "Excitatory nucleo-olivary pathway shapes cerebellar outputs for motor control" www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-… #sciArt #scicomm #neuroskyence

on the cover of Nature Neuroscience a (scared?) mouse is running past a Purkinje-cell-like tree, which casts an olive-tree shadow. Caption reads "Cerebellum excites inferior olive"

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Thanks Matteo! Here are some of my favorite mice. Since I can't nominate either you or @joanagcc.bsky.social now... ...I nominate @alexebenmeyer.bsky.social & @lycomorpha.bsky.social

4 drawings
1. mouse psychoanalyst with mouse patient
2. mice at a museum
3. mice playing with tubes of antidepressant drugs
4. three real mice & one AI mouse trying to get at a cheese

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Thanks! Yes, that's the paper - Dissecting the Functional Organization of the C. elegans Serotonergic System at Whole-Brain Scale

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

I know… I had great hopes for them

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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

I know hashtags are not a thing, but let's try to bring #SciArtPortfolioWeek over here, please! I want to see your favorite science graphics, data viz, illustrations, and #sciart 👀

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Hello #neuroskyence. Many thanks @bwjones.bsky.social for the code!!! I am an illustrator, working primarily with neuroscientists. Will be posting a lot of mice. And journal covers - accepted & rejected. Also other stuff. Here are some imaginary synapses. #art #sciart

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Julia Kuhl @somedonkey.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

I am feeling hopeful about this...

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