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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922. They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪

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PANCREATIC EXTRACTS IN THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES
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PRELIMINARY RePoRT By F. G. BANTING AND C. H. BisT, Depl. of Physiology
J. B. COLLIP, Dept. of Path. Chemistry
W. R. CAMPELL AND A. A. FLETCHER, Dept. of Medicine, Unisersity of Toronto, and Toronto General Hospital

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@originsciences.bsky.social show how their simple OriCol™ device can help spot bowel cancer and pre-cancerous polyps earlier 🧪 @natcomms.nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... #medsky #biosky #sciart

Image of the full colon with a medical device at the bottom that can collect samples. There are different biological elements floating in the colon - DNA, bacteria, immune cell, molecular markers, cancer. Insets highlight some of these - DNA damage, gut microbiome, DNA methylation

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🎂🧪🔬 Happy 5th anniversary Med 5️⃣🤖🧬 Thrilled to share that my latest #SciArt is featured on the cover of @cp-med.bsky.social med.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ss.bsky.social Check out the full issue here: www.cell.com/issue/S2666-...

Med celebrates five years of publication with cover art inspired by the anniversary editorial. A pixelated silhouette with a bionic arm, set against a backdrop of electric circuits and DNA strands, embodies the transformative potential of AI, bioengineering, and genomics in shaping the future of medicine. The design reflects Med’s dedication to advancing research that shifts paradigms and improves human health, while embracing the opportunities and uncertainties brought by disruptive technologies. The glowing anatomical heart symbolizes Med’s commitment to compassion, editorial integrity, and the human connections at the core of the journal’s mission and community.

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🧪 Latest #sciart cover art for @ndosenbach.bsky.social and team's very cool paper on how #stimulant meds boost arousal and reward network activity, not core attention systems, out today @cp-cell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social #medsky #biosky #neurosky

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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We’re excited to announce the first dedicated Workshop for scientists interested in becoming journal editors.👇 This workshop will teach you transferable skills to support a career as a journal editor or whatever career path you pursue. Secure Your Spot: www.lifescienceeditors.com/workshop3-si...

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RMSBA @rmsbartists.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

OPEN CALL FOR ART! "Full Spectrum" — A joyful celebration of colors. Submit botanical artworks accentuating a singular hue. Learn more and sign up at: asba-art.org/content.aspx... The call closes November 2, 2026, but you must claim your color spot soon! #callforart #juriedshow #botanicalart

FULL SPECTRUM call for art closes November 2, 2026 (yes, a year away—botanical art is slow art!)

YELLOW: A close-up sunflower by member Dorothy DePaulo.

VIOLET: A single thistle blossom by member Mary Crabtree.

RED: A pairing featuring bright Indian Paintbrush by Jan Boyd Haring.

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Highly recommend for anyone considering a career as a journal editor! 🧪🧬🔬🥼 #sciencecareers #scientificediting #journaleditor #careersoutsidescademia

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🧪New method for anyone interested in protein-DNA interactions and TF mapping, from the lab of @epistrucstab.bsky.social at @unicologne.bsky.social!👇

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Robert Hänsel-Hertsch @epistrucstab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new #TranscriptionFactor mapping method in town. Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than #ChIPseq, #CUT&RUN and #CUT&Tag. 🔗 Our @natcomms.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)

Image credit: @gloglita.bsky.social‬ @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social‬ captured DynaTag in action: a pA-Tn5 probe (multicoloured) binds an antibody (white), which binds p53 DNA-binding domain (green) on DNA (blue) within 2 nucleosomes

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preLights @prelights.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

And of course, our recent #sciart graphical abstracts wouldn't exist without @sonhita.bsky.social's workshop on visual storytelling we've hosted recently on preLights 🖌️

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Our talented former-journal editors have been writing Snippets: short (1-3-paragraph) summaries of papers that caught our eye. They are digestible highlights of a recent discovery, and why we think you should know about it. You can find the full list at www.lifescienceeditors.com/snippets/ 🧪

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Snippets - Scientific editing and writing experts - Life Science Editors

"Scientific editing and writing experts for manuscripts and grant

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We're welcoming another former Editor-in-Chief to our team, this time Allyson Evans from Cell Metabolism.👇 Allyson joins our other six(!) former EiCs, and our 15 former journal editors. We share our insights directly with scientists to strengthen the visibility and impact of their research.

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Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Do you need someone to talk to about an editorial decision, a response to reviewers, or a job talk? Look no further - we're here, we have the behind-the-scenes insight, and we want to help you! www.lifescienceeditors.com/scientific-c...

Illustration of a person consulting with a professional. The person has a tangled thought bubble, while the consultant has a speech bubble showing the tangled line transformed into a neat spiral, symbolizing clarity and guidance.

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Confocal image showing a nucleus of a maize endosperm cell expressing proNAC130:NL-mCherry counterstained with DAPI.

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Throwback to this #sciart cover I made for @cp-med.bsky.social 2 years ago! 🧪 This covers shows pink dendritic cells producing CCL19 (boxes), which acts on blue CD8+ T cells to enhance their antitumor effectiveness in #breastcancer patients 🌈 It also features a rainbow to commemorate #pridemonth

This journal covers shows pink dendritic cells producing CCL19 (shown here as boxes), which acts on blue CD8+ T cells to enhance their antitumor effectiveness in breast cancer patients. It also features a rainbow to commemorate pridemonth

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Our Research Snippets leverage the talent of our scientific editors and communicators to present recent top research in an easily digestible format. 👇 🧪

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In fun and good #libcomix news, @torontocomics.bsky.social Libraries & Education Day is happening tomorrow! Hope to see you there - and again on Saturday and Sunday for TCAF itself! www.torontocomics.com/schedule/tca...

A mix of comic book characters (including Faith's original characters) gather in front of the Mattamy Athletic Centre. Text reads "Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2024, June 6-8 Mattamy Athletic Centre, FREE!!"

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Mathieu Preußner @mathpreu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧬 #FluorescenceFriday Stepping away from 3D today to appreciate the architecture from within: a cryosection of a zebrafish gill filament, stained with phalloidin (bluish) and DAPI (yellowish), revealing the lamellar vascular network structured by pillar cells. #Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🧪 Researchers from Purdue University delve into the genetic mechanisms of sex determination in the model fern Ceratopteris richardii 🌿 📖 Full article: lnkd.in/dJcYUcPm 🔗 In Brief: lnkd.in/d2fZNhjr #PlantBiology #SexDetermination #PlantScience #ThePlantCell #PlantDevelopment #EvolutionaryBiology

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Science inspired digital collage made from images in the public domain Čÿćlīñg Ťħřøűğħ, 2025 #digitalcollage 🧪 #scienceart #sciart #collage #moon #celestial #sun #surrealism #art

Digital collage of circular objects against a grey background

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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Special shout out to all the #womeninstem balancing motherhood and their careers. 🧪⚛️🧬🥽🍎👩‍🔬 #happymothersday

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Eric Miska Lab @miskalab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

@fxquah.bsky.social 's paper is finally out @genomeresearch.bsky.social and we made the cover!! This was only possible due to the brilliant illustration by @sonhita.bsky.social Paper here: genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5... See below for more details 🧵

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🐡 My new cover art highlights research from the Miska lab @miskalab.bsky.social at U of Cambridge @cambiochem.bsky.social 🧪 The authors present the first pangenome for Lake Malawi cichlids built from the genomes of seven representative species. Full paper 🔗 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5... (1/3)

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Lake Malawi cichlid pangenome graph reveals extensive structural variation driven by transposable elements

An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Really important points - we're also seeing manuscripts of trials that don't meet publishing standards. Nature Medicine leading the way with clarity and support 👏

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🧪 This month in #SciArt history: Happy birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal! 🎂🧠 The father of #neuroscience & a gifted artist, Cajal revealed the brain is made of neurons — not a network — earning a Nobel in 1906. His stunning neuron drawings inspired the watercolour painting here 🎨 #SciComm

A Purkinje neuron from the human cerebellum, captured in stunning detail by Cajal, with its numerous and intricate dendritic branches - Santiago Ramon y Cajal ca 1900 (Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid).

‘Net Neurality’, one of my earliest science-art paintings, inspired by Cajal’s drawings. The title is a wordplay on net neutrality — the idea that internet providers should treat all data equally — and reflects how both the internet and the brain form intricate, decentralized networks of information flow.
#Neuroscience #HistoryOfScience #SciArt #ScienceComm

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Join me and an inspiring lineup of science artists as we share our journeys and what it means to blend creativity with curiosity. 📅 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 8th May 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟔:𝟎𝟎 - 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 (𝐂𝐄𝐓) 📍 Virtual and free! 🔗 Register at scienceartsummit.com 🧪 #SciArt #ScienceCommunication #ScienceArtSummit #SciComm

poster for 6 speakers for the science art summit

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It was a pleasure to illustrate @esmolock.bsky.social and bring focus to the important work she was doing for the recently defunded NIH-funded Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP). As an scientific editor, her story especially resonated with me. #scienceart #sciencecommunication 🧪

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🌏🌱🔬🍁 My latest @theplantcell.bsky.social In Brief article is online! 🧪🌾🌐🌺 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plce... #Biosky #ThePlantCell #PlantScience #PlantBiology #FernBiology #Botany #PlantEvolution

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our upcoming 4-hour interactive workshop for PhDs and Post-docs at the Huntsman Cancer Institute next week is hosted by @sfmatheson.bsky.social and @angelaandersen.bsky.social, both former Cell Press editors. DM us if you want us to host a workshop at your institute.

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Also, don't give baby lagomorphs to small children for Easter, it's a vicious thing to do.

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The scientific sections of this stunning research report from @cemm-vienna.bsky.social were written by one of our most talented writers, Katy Woolcock. Check it out (probably the most impressive research report - thematically, visually and textually - you'll ever see). 👇

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Sonhita 🌞 @sonhita.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🌸 Spring-ing into pattern season with these new collages made from images in the public domain 🌼 🖼️ More on Instagram: @paraframed 🔗 Linktree: linktr.ee/paraframed #SpringVibes #CollageArt #Patterns #SciArt #SpringPatterns #BotanicalArt #TexturalBloom #Art

images of birds, flowers and butterflies made out of images in the public domain

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The scientific research updates in the CeMM Annual Report 👇 (Research Center for Molecular Medicine at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) are beautifully composed by our scientific writer Katrina Woolcock 👏

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Life Science Editors @lifescienceeditors.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We're delighted that @sonhita.bsky.social has just joined us as an Illustrator, because she can do amazing things like this 👇 She's also extra special because she was a former Mol Cell editor (@cp-molcell.bsky.social), and so she also helps scientists write better manuscripts and grants 👏

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