First cover of 2026 is out! How do symbiotic organisms like corals and cnidarians identify their symbionts as such, rather than as debris/food/ etc? #SciArt ...
Maayan Visuals
@maayanvisuals.bsky.social
Science visuals for 10+ years. Denisovans and ancient humans, bugs, birds, earth and atmospheric science, neuroscience, infographics, cover art
A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to speak to graduate students, post-docs and PIs at the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social about how to use visual tools to communicate their science more effectively. This was part of a course in Adobe Illustrator given at the department of Life Sciences...
I'm excited to share this piece of work on #neurodegeneration by the Ciechanover lab @technion.bsky.social and Rambam Health Care Campus. I was thrilled to work on these graphics #SciArt #biology #Neurodegenerativediseases
In the spirit of giving thanks, here are a few things I am grateful for today: 1. Our body’s incredible immune system, and the tireless work of scientists to enhance immunotherapy, using CD8+ T cells that can infiltrate cancer... #immunotherapy #cancerresearch #SciArt #coverart
Tricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...
CRATERs on Cover! Thanks @cp-cell.bsky.social for choosing our study for the cover of the Nov 26th issue! A beautiful illustration by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social and @mgarbelli.bsky.social depicting CD8+ T cells descend into CRATERs on a melanoma, where they will engage with the tumor and kill it.
In the spirit of giving thanks, here are a few things I am grateful for today: 1. Our body’s incredible immune system, and the tireless work of scientists to enhance immunotherapy, using CD8+ T cells that can infiltrate cancer... #immunotherapy #cancerresearch #SciArt #coverart
Happy Halloween ! my thoughts on AI slop
Maayan Visuals@maayanvisuals.bsky.social · 10mo agoTricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...
Tricks and Treats - AI art #SciArt I often get asked how I made a particular piece of artwork (here it's @procreate.com ). I am always happy to share, and the answer you *will not* hear is generative AI. The idea of AI image generation as a magic trick is deceptive...
I usually work on art inspired by science, but this time around the science was inspired by art! Congratulations to Ahyoung Kim and Qian Chen and colleagues for their work on atom-scale stenciling! #SciArt #art #pottery #nanotechnology #nanoparticles
Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first? I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm thrilled to share this article by Ruth Schuster covering scanning the fossil record for Denisovans, a project undertaken by the @david-gokhman.bsky.social lab at Weizmann Institute. 2 pieces of my art are featured :) www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...
I’m excited to share that my art is on the cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials this month. Created for the Korin lab @technion.bsky.social The image shows the use of hydrogels designed for precise embolization of brain aneurysms. #SciArt #medart
I’ll be participating in a group exhibit featuring insects and this reel was made about one of the pieces! #Sciart www.instagram.com/reel/DLhTRUc...
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"AI images don’t succinctly or accurately communicate scientific concepts & could undermine public trust in science... inaccuracies wouldn’t fly if they were created by a person, “but for some reason, having this sheen of fake polish that comes with AI kind of erases all of those standards” 🧪#sciart
Illustrators call out journals and news sites for using AI art
Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions.
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Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt
Björn Schumacher@bjornschumacher.bsky.social · last yr.Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Read here our original article showing the biological age prediction by accumulating stochastic variation alone. With @meyer.bsky.social and a wonderful cover art designed by @maayanvisuals.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Egg Shell Structure, pen & ink. From my book "Manual of Ornithology," Yale University Press: a.co/d/2c4tMLl 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ornithology #birds #anatomy
Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fascinating, really thought-provoking work by Trevor Cousins, @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social and Richard Durbin, now out in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧪🧬 Deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans - Nature Genetics
The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human polymorphism data, cob...
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Super exciting to see the Penghu jaw confirmed as Denisovan— its features line up beautifully with what we predicted Denisovan mandibles to look like! More in the thread 🧵 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31539495/
In this clip, @maayanvisuals.bsky.social explains why AI-generated images miss the mark in science communication: they skip the collaborative, iterative process that ensures scientific impact and creative visual storytelling. Read more on our blog: lnkd.in/gMmf2nn9
This is a first for me- I got to chat about the changing field of science illustration, collaboration, & communication with the amazing Nicolle Fuller and Claire Agosti of the Sayo Studio podcast! Thanks so much for having me! #SciArt #scicomm @sayostudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJc...
How Illustrators Bring Reseach to Life: The Art of Science with Maayan Harel
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The Maresca Lab @imphys-tudelft.bsky.social are using ultrasound to show capillaries and cells in living organs!! I was thrilled to work on this project. Congratulations to David Maresca and Baptiste Heiles on this fantastic work #SciArt
This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours. The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space. webbtelescope.org/contents/new...
1/10 What are Genai astroturf orgs like the “Foundation of American “Innovation” up to? Pushing to take your hard work, property and creative innovation for free by destroying the few protections in our constitution. They know laws are not in their favor so making theft legal is their answer.
