NIAID releases alternative to BioRender, all illustrations freely available in public domain
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
October 30, 2024 at 2:46 PM
NIAID releases alternative to BioRender, all illustrations freely available in public domain
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The hidden danger of Biorender
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The hidden danger of Biorender
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
(& the death of scientific illustration)
A short thread 🧵
Created in BioRender
September 25, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Created in BioRender
Not enough people know about bioicons.com
Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.
Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.
November 8, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Not enough people know about bioicons.com
Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.
Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.
A whole generation of scientists has been destroyed by biorender
December 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
A whole generation of scientists has been destroyed by biorender
Bioart: a cool freeware alternative to Biorender bioart.niaid.nih.gov from the NIH
Bioart
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 18, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Bioart: a cool freeware alternative to Biorender bioart.niaid.nih.gov from the NIH
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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Stick figures >>> BioRender
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 8, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Stick figures >>> BioRender
When you are the only one in the lab that knows how to create nice figures on BioRender
November 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM
When you are the only one in the lab that knows how to create nice figures on BioRender
Cool new way to tell extortionate Biorender to go kick rocks!
Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy!
The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.
Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪
The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.
Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪
October 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Cool new way to tell extortionate Biorender to go kick rocks!
learn 2 draw or use the wonderful biorender, which has already democratized things for those without design experience
Also new @nature.com, how to use #AI to create a graphical abstract in minutes. By Ananya Thakur. 🧪🎨🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to use AI to make a graphical abstract in minutes
Artificial intelligence is a democratizing force for those without graphic-design experience, as long as it is used conscientiously.
www.nature.com
July 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
learn 2 draw or use the wonderful biorender, which has already democratized things for those without design experience
Absolutely no thank you.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Absolutely no thank you.
Here are other resources of *free* science illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, inkscape.org, biogdp.com
They still look like BioRender style thou.
They still look like BioRender style thou.
🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Here are other resources of *free* science illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, inkscape.org, biogdp.com
They still look like BioRender style thou.
They still look like BioRender style thou.
🚨 Great FREE alternatives to BioRender are Now Available!!
📢 NIH offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 SciDraw is a free repository of anything that might be useful for scientific presentations scidraw.io
❤️🔄 FREE Science!! RIP BioRender!
📢 NIH offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 SciDraw is a free repository of anything that might be useful for scientific presentations scidraw.io
❤️🔄 FREE Science!! RIP BioRender!
October 29, 2024 at 12:55 AM
🚨 Great FREE alternatives to BioRender are Now Available!!
📢 NIH offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 SciDraw is a free repository of anything that might be useful for scientific presentations scidraw.io
❤️🔄 FREE Science!! RIP BioRender!
📢 NIH offers a collection of public figures and icons for everyone bioart.niaid.nih.gov
📢 SciDraw is a free repository of anything that might be useful for scientific presentations scidraw.io
❤️🔄 FREE Science!! RIP BioRender!
Apparently, Biorender now does graphing. Do not use. Terms of service likely include them owning your first-born child.
December 9, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Apparently, Biorender now does graphing. Do not use. Terms of service likely include them owning your first-born child.
June 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Stick figures >>> Biorender.
There have been two papers on this topic:
"Pressures produced when penguins pooh—calculations on avian defaecation" in 2003 (source of figure above) & a 2020 paper "Projectile Trajectory of Penguin's Faeces and Rectal Pressure Revisited" (source of figure below).
Delightful!
"Pressures produced when penguins pooh—calculations on avian defaecation" in 2003 (source of figure above) & a 2020 paper "Projectile Trajectory of Penguin's Faeces and Rectal Pressure Revisited" (source of figure below).
Delightful!
December 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Stick figures >>> Biorender.
This is about comics, but also: stick figures > Biorender.
As a guy who is not super technically skilled, 100% agree
Also and I say this all the time-ability to draw is over rated in comics. Sure it’d be nice to draw beautifully but storytelling and putting work out there will do more for you!
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is about comics, but also: stick figures > Biorender.
If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”?
If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein.
Think I’ve finally found a way.
If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein.
Think I’ve finally found a way.
May 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”?
If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein.
Think I’ve finally found a way.
If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein.
Think I’ve finally found a way.
Biorender unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s
January 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Biorender unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s
I will be doing the miniatures on the side margins. Definitely NOT using BioRender
I get the sense that, like medieval monks, there will soon be a couple hundred people writing ideas in cursive with ink on paper, preserving real books, engaging in the scientific method, doing actual research, & safeguarding knowledge, while 99% of the world thumb into phones, “grok is this rele?”
March 24, 2026 at 7:22 AM
I will be doing the miniatures on the side margins. Definitely NOT using BioRender
I HATE biorender! Bring back drawings of mice with personality. I want graphic design is my passion energy in figures
December 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I HATE biorender! Bring back drawings of mice with personality. I want graphic design is my passion energy in figures
This is not an attack on Biorender, which serves a useful function.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is not an attack on Biorender, which serves a useful function.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.
It’s exposing a troubling phenomenon that is unconsciously sucking the artistry out of science and reinforcing a silent conformity in its presentation and perception.