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JmSigot

@jean-marcsigot.com

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🌟 Art you can’t see with the naked eye 👀✨
#Pollen caught in a garden #spider’s web — magnified 20x 🔬
📸 @John-OliverDum
#Microscopy #HiddenWorlds #ArtInScience #NaturePhotography www.nikonsmallworld.com

October 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

Through this delicate process, science makes the invisible visible.

#sciart #microscopy #entomology #vectorbiology #infectiousdiseases #publichealth #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience

February 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

They may even offer a lesson for research itself: progress often comes from alternating between curiosity and focus.

#sciart #datascience #animalbehavior #climatechange #agriculture #research #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience

April 22, 2026 at 11:20 AM

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Created by Dr. Spencer Watson uses hyperplexed immunofluorescence data. This work shows how microscopy and computer vision can be combined to better understand complex cellular systems.

#sciart #microscopy #computervision #cancerbiology #tumormicroenvironment #immunofluorescence #artinscience

February 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM

Rem Vileblood 💀⛓️

@remvileblood.com

faltaban las piernas.

#AnatomyArt #DigitalSketch #LowerLegs #FootAnatomy #MuscleIllustration #MinimalistArt #EducationalArt #AnatomicalDrawing #HealthEducation #ArtInScience

December 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM

Beth Hollihead, LSTM

@bethhollihead.bsky.social

I'm a little late for #WorldCollageDay but its never too late to celebrate #ArtInScience

GEAR Up @gearupamr.bsky.social · May 10

This #WorldCollageDay we're sharing our art! We've been using collage to visually narrate complex ideas around #AMR, #gender and equity!
See more: gearupaction.org/picturing-ge...
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@russdacombe.bsky.social @bethhollihead.bsky.social @sushilbaral.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

May 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM

Texas Science

@texasscience.bsky.social

Public voting is now open for our 2026 Visualizing Science contest!

See this year’s entries & vote at txsci.net/2026VisSciEntries

#SciArt #ArtinScience #ScienceArt #ScientificArt #ArtandScience @texas-ib.bsky.social @utaustinchemistry.bsky.social @texasastronomy.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM

Replifate Consortium

@replifate.bsky.social

We’re excited to welcome artist Helen Pynor to @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social as part of the #RepliFate artist-in-residence program! 🎨🧬

From June 24–July 5, she’ll explore how #DNAreplication shapes cell fate & cancer, bridging science & art with our researchers.

#SciArt #ArtInScience

June 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM

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🏆 This image received the Jury Award in 2020.

#sciart #microbiology #fungi #mycology #environmentalscience #bioremediation #microbialworld #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience #research

June 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM

Marcos Heredero

@marcosup5.bsky.social

Just dropped a new scientific illustration for the work of Miryam Criado González et al., published in Materials Horizons by @rsc.org
You can access the article here lnkd.in/daNahS62
#ScientificIllustration #SciArt #MaterialsHorizons #PhotodynamicTherapy #ArtInScience #BlueskyScience

April 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM

D4rkh4wk

@soundersnavygater.bsky.social

Gross but beautiful?

#AgarArt #PetriDishArt #MicrobiologyArt #ScienceArt #LabLife #AgarDrawing #WinterScene #SnowyArt #ScienceIsBeautiful #BioArt #CreativeScience #PetriArt #LabAesthetics #SnowmanArt #HolidayScience #STEMArt #ArtInScience #MicroArt #ScienceCreativity #LabWork #SciArt

December 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

At that moment, Rosaria was listening to Life on Mars? by David Bowie, an unexpectedly perfect match for a scene that felt more like a distant planet than a dish of living cells.

#sciart #stemcells #neuroscience #microscopy #cellbiology #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience

April 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

The golden sun (2021) by Prof. Georgi Yordanov. Crystals of ascorbic acid — more widely known as vitamin C — viewed under a polarizing microscope.
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#sciart #microscopy #chemistry #vitaminc #crystals #polarizedlight #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience #micrograph #scientificimaging

June 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM

Texas Science

@texasscience.bsky.social

Presenting the winners of our 2025 Visualizing Science contest!

This year’s winners encompass a love of mathematical chaos, the magic of dung beetles, the illuminating physics of crystalline chromophore flowers & much more.

#ArtinScience #ScienceArt #ArtandScience #SciArt #VisualizingScience

Top Prize Image for Visualizing Science Shows a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion

The college’s Visualizing Science competition finalists include the winning image of a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion by an undergraduate mathematics student.

txsci.net

March 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Look closely. You may start discovering your own landscapes and characters hidden within the map.

🏆 This image received the Public Award in 2019.

#sciart #microbiology #middleearth #tolkien #soilmicrobes #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience #microbialworld #microscopy #sciencecommunication

May 29, 2026 at 10:03 AM

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Captured by Dr. Sebastian Augustin, the image highlights how even a process as functional as shedding can be breathtakingly beautiful.

🏆 This image received the Public Award in 2019.

#sciart #plantbiology #microscopy #cellbiology #plantscience #arabidopsis #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience

March 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

@mpi-mr.bsky.social

🔬🖼️Science meets art: We are represented at the “Art in Science” exhibition in South Korea, curated by the Institute for Basic Science in collaboration with the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de. 😎 Our image shows cells migrating together.
@senneseneca.bsky.social
#mpimr #artinscience #maxplanck

Art exhibition in South Korea with image from MPI for Medical Research

January 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM

NZ Sea Lion Trust

@nzsealiontrust.bsky.social

Have you noticed the beautiful dancers in the waves at St Clair recently? It's for an amazing performance celebrating pakake!
Tomorrow at 11am - please come support the wonderful crew 🦭
It's free but we encourage you bring a koha for their hard work.
#art #science #artinscience

Saltlines for Sealion Women — Wild Dunedin

At the turn of the tide in this dance performance, witness a movement chorus trace sinuous saltlines across the wet sand at the water’s edge.

www.wilddunedin.nz

April 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

Learn more about freshwater species conservation here --> PMID: 33664788.

#sciart #ecology #conservation #endangeredspecies #freshwaterecosystems #biodiversity #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience

January 21, 2026 at 3:58 PM

ITEFI-CSIC

@itefi-csic.bsky.social

🏛️ Cazando volátiles en el museo
Los "cazadores de volátiles" en plena acción en el @mncn-csic.bsky.social. Una mirada donde la tecnología se encuentra con el patrimonio.🧪✨
📸 Carlos Sánchez Vicente. 👥 Isabel Sayago Olmo y José Pedro Santos Blanco.
#ITEFI #CSIC #Ciencia #Itefi25 #ArtInScience #Science

January 29, 2026 at 10:22 AM

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@figure1a.bsky.social

It’s a reminder that scientific research doesn’t just produce answers. Sometimes, it also produces unexpected beauty.

#sciart #geophysics #environmentalscience #scienceisbeautiful #artinscience #dataasart

January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM

Sarah Cohen

@cohenlaboratory.bsky.social

Also, check out the beautiful #ArtInScience award winning images (including one by Cohen Lab member Sherry Hsu) in Bondurant Hall! researchweek.unc.edu/events/som-art…

https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/som-art…

October 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM