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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a giant leap forward would medical communication field make if the pharma MSL departments learned how to comment on the actual video animatics instead of screenshot PDFs in Veeva.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Discussing a video transition with the team. A colleague: - OK, so this could be like the wardrobe scene in Narnia, where the camera moves through a bunch of fur coats or something—except this isn’t Narnia, it’s a colorectal cancer biopsy.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One more happy client with our animation on their hero page.

Visual Science animation on TwoStep Therapeutics website.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today is this kind of day: www.instagram.com/reel/DcYArFR... With the addition of "we asked Gemini how it would improve your design". FML.

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DAVID PUENTEZ on Instagram: "Who can relate? 👀😂"

885K likes, 3,191 comments - davidpuentez on August 23, 2026: "Who can relate? 👀😂".

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Celebrities die in threes. First, Dolly Parton, then Tim Curry, now Yayoi Kusama.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Importance of thoughtful art-direction. Long time ago we did a 2D animation about some "omics" approaches in oncology. And these were our visuals for the human body and inner organs. If you don't see anything unusual, disturbing, or funny - good for you, you are probably a nice person!

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We recently finished a nice series of animations for the amazing team at Kalohexis. Not every project starts with a fascinating 40-minute lecture from the client’s Chief Medical and Science Officer :)

Screenshot from Visual Science's animation made for Kalohexis. Visualization of MC4R and MC3R receptors involved in appetite control.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very promising company, it was really nice working with them.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One our client just bought another.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Recent Science Magazine covers look great. I googled the artist behind them yesterday, and their works, are truly amazing: riokahayama.com

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Rioka Hayama

Rioka Hayama is a conceptual illustrator working in science, technology, and health with developing training in medical illustration.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nice to see how much well-deserved attention daraxonrasib receives at ASCO. I remember it as a small 3D model file called RMC-6236.

RAS(ON)-CypA-daraxonrasib tri-complex molecular visualization made by Visual Science.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Had an absolutely amazing university class reunion in Dusseldorf this weekend. So happy to see all the friends who now work in academia, biotech, pharma, education, and science communication all over Europe.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Some nice screenshots from our recent project for Shattuck Labs.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One of my favorite recent projects: visual-science.com/projects/syn...

Visual Science case study on the Trogenix project.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A funny mistake we made recently. We were animating some hormone metabolism and made the hormone molecules float freely in the cytoplasm. Then, right before the final animatic, we realized that the hormones we were working with were lipophilic. So...

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Nicole Mortillaro @nebulousnikki.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Guys! Guys! This is SO cool. This is a time lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant over 25 years!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/12/2025

It's the first video evidence of polar bears hunting and eating reindeer—something that had long been assumed, but never clearly seen. Learn more: scim.ag/4s0hU6P #ScienceMagArchives

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 18/12/2025

A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the people who shaped science this year and were chosen for Nature’s 10. 🧪

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Nature’s 10: Ten people who shaped science in 2025

A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

As a person who participated in the protests that failed I have to say that these people better be ready to show up when this will really matter in 3,5 years from now. Show up, stand, and not go away.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

As a biomedical illustrator, I don't like Tregs because you never know how to color-code them. Like, are they good? Are they bad? Are they immunity, or part of TME? Always complex color-coding decisions that end up in brown-ish green in 90% of cases.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is so cool. Sperm whales are probably the most amaizing animals on Earth.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Have to admit, even brilliant Western actors are not very good in expressing what is called a "resting slavic face".

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It’s great when you get the chance to model a complete, functioning eukaryotic replication fork while working on a commercial project.

Replication fork in S-phase with and without functional E2F and cyclin/CDK complexes

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What a great reference for 3D modeling.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

While I agree that the pups aren't true dire wolves, I still find this to be exciting and interesting news. I enjoyed working with the Colossal team on the short animations, which they featured on their website and in the video about the project.

LCORL visualization made by the Visual Science team for Colossal Biosciences.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pluto is about to eclipse Sun, submerging most of Charon in darkness with only source of light being stars and glowing ring of Pluto's blue atmosphere. #pluto #astronomy #space #art

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I cried when I first listened to Khlyvnyuk singing this song. A man of amazing talent and courage. I was a fan of his band Boombox some 15 years ago. The Kiffness is ok, but I wouldn’t put it as the song released by him. He just rode the wave of the moment. The tragic and horrible moment.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 09/01/2025

Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I enjoy #FluorescenceFriday but don't have much to share because we aren’t microscopists. However, we tried to imitate fluorescence images in a couple of projects.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I wrote 15 different scripts in about a couple of weeks mostly on hematology, oncology, and NGS. That’s on top of managing several projects that are already in production. I’m exhausted and very much looking forward to holidays already.

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Philip Hubbard @philiphubbard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

OpenOrganelle is a repo of #CellBiology data, segmented from electron #microscopy at #HHMIJanelia by Aubrey Weigel and the CellMap team, the Saalfeld lab ( @herrsaalffeld.sky.social) and the Hess lab. Here's a macrophage cell, rendered with #Blender driven by neuVid (helpful for more than neurons).

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This beautiful PDB Molecule of the Month image reminds me of the book Molecular Aesthetics, where I came across a thought about the beauty of symmetrical molecular structures compared to disordered ones.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Recently, my Twitter feed stopped providing me with relevant and important information. Bluesky is different—it's nice to see posts like this, especially when every other of our animation projects involves showing TME and immune cell activation.

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Cancer cells impair monocyte-mediated T cell stimulation to evade immunity - Nature

Inflammatory monocytes are identified as important players in T cell restimulation in the tumour microenvironment.

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Yura Stefanov @stefych.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of my favorite artists, Arkhip Kuindzhi, paints trees in a way that reminds me of protein complexes on the surface of a cell or a virus.

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Jan Lammerding - Lab @lammerdinglab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For #FluorescenceFriday, a found an old video of MDA-MB-231 cells in a dense collagen matrix dividing, acquired on a lattice lightsheet microscope at the @aicjanelia.bsky.social. Mitotic chromosomes are fun to watch! This was just a quick test video, hence the limited but still impressive quality.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 22/11/2024

Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.

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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

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Razvan Borza @rborza.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🚨 I want to gather all artists working in Biology, Cell Biology, or Molecular Biology illustration If you know any artists who create this kind of work, let me know so I can add them here. Drop a comment to join! 💬 go.bsky.app/KWAeJxp

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