Petra Korlević

@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social

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Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟 Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own 🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧

Photo of an embroidery with two black thread text and a bit of leaves and blackberries with a lil bumblebee The text is Rubus vestitus and Bombus lucorum
Small chalk pavemeny doodle of a mouse like creature holding a small yellow umbrella with rain coming out of a grout hole
photo of a persons finernail, with a big sabethes mosquito sitting on it, it has a shimmery blue carapace and little fans on their midlegs, with the hindlegs being curved over the body in an arch display
silly digital doodle of an emo emu, the emu has a NIN black shirt and an emo bobcut with red and teal glowy bracelets on their legs
screenshot of my tidal feed with three new singles Rent Free Single by Red Vox Crawl Single by In This Moment Easy Street Single by Queens Of The Stone Age
zoom in on te original embrouidery where you see the black thread on white cloth saying Bombus lucorum with an arrow pointing upper left, but there is a blue smudge around lucorum from the pen i used
zoom in on the above art but it is the crumpled yellow flier with a little stickfigure guy doing the ._. face
silly digital doodle of a robin but it is a thin black line on white and bright orange belly with stickfigure leggies and a erplexed expression saying “no seeb?”
really terrible #SciArt doodle of a wren, but it is just a little ball with a disgrunteled look, the beak looking upwards in a angry face and stickfigure leggies
little #SciArt doodle of a purple pink dung beetle, rolling around an orange piss flier, what is supposed to be AI (I can't really replicate nor do I wish to replicate that style), with the text above/below saying "your AI flier looks like shit"
Zoom in on the embroidery above of the bee, black white and yellow thread, and it sitting on the blackberry, with the arrow pointing sayin Bomb...
Me holding a hoop with white cloth and an embroidery of a bramble branch with pink flowers and purple berries with a little bumblebee stopping by a berry, the stitched text pointing to the bramble is Rubus vestitus and the text to the bumblebee is Bombus lucorum
Photo of a book page with a silly brown bird drawing and an arrow pointing at the butthole saying Multipurpose!
Photo of a grey dust and lint ball on a white background, blow it a black square with thr white text saying "A Clump of Common House Dust. Stock Photo - Image of ball, pollen:..."
photo of a deep sea isopod just chillin on some deep sea sand with some deep sea orange worms wiggling around them
photo of an embroidery of a bramble branch with a little bumblebee, most of it is done but a bunch of blackberries and the bee are still unfinished, the text pointing to the bramble is Rubus vestitus and the bumble is Bombus lucorum. there is a bumblebee shaped needlemindier at the bottom left with a needle on her bum
digital doodle in black ink on white of an elden ring character dressed ina very chunky armor including the golden bucket helmet, sitting on the ground getting rained and thundered on by a sassy cloud, their two lightning weapons stuck into the ground, and a very happy earthworm bottom right poking out of the ground
digital doodle in thin black ink on white of the elden ring character "La Mosquita" a gremlin woman with two broken butcher swords, in a tattered outfit and an inverse ill fitting masks, doing a silly wide stance pose looking angry and saying "Your toes, hand em' over."
Photo of an outdoors table with a tray with a massive pain au chocolat, a small cup of ice coffe, and the top of an ipad in a green cover with a procreate folder open with the name "mozzmemes"
Doodle from the observologist book of a very light pink worm on a grey aurface with the text "A WORM THAT GOT TOO WET"
Video of me panning around a pavement with separate blocks and in each block i drew something with coloured chalk, a sunglower a cat, flowers, various invertebrates
Screenshot of bluesky with Windlass @windlass.bsky.social replying "Yeah, no." to a blocked post
A silly drawing of a brown bird showing their bumhole, an arrow is pointing to it with the text "Multipurpose!"
a page covered in drawings of ants and little white ant eggs on a brown background, the text pointing to one white blobby is "Not shredded coconut, an ant's egg"
me holding a hardcover book with a very colourful carpet in the background, the book is WOMEN IN SCIENCE - 50 FEARLESS PIONEERS - WHO CHANGED THE WORLD, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY RACHEL IGNOTOFSKY rhw book features silver text print and silver dots with several women scientist saound it holding dinosaur bones, looking at birds, holding chemistry flasks, atoms, looking at a microscope, and being an astronaut, the with grey, white, black and minimalist color schemes
drawing of a series of sick dance moves performed by a kid in a green shirt and grey pants on how to move like a jumping spider the text is HOW TO WIN THE LOVE OF A JUMPING SPIDER* *results not guaranteed the moves making sounds are: waggle waggle, shuffle shuffle, flick flick
me holding a hardcover book with a cream cover ad a very charming draing of a bright green fly with black striped wings the test is The Observologist a little worm is saying "A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions" Giselle Clarkson GECKO PRESS
Two black yellow and white bumblebees going ham on a globular flower, one gets startled and flies off
Photo of a pavement where i painted various invertebrates in chalk with some flowers to the side, there is worm, centipede, rolly polly, ant, snail, ladybug, butterfly, fairy wasp, dragonfly
Photo of 7 embroidery threads, from yellow to orange to dark blue to light blue, with a little card with pink text and the shop name "Sew Susie"
A tower of various colored embroidery thread, with their DMC nunbers above them
A paper container with broken eggshells around it, sitting in a bed of brown and green leaves
a really blurry photo of a hedgehog in dusk eating an egg from a white container with the shell stuck on their long snoot, dried and green plants around them
drawing of a roman phalanx, a bunch of roman soldiers in red and yellow shields making a turtle formation that protects them from attacks, illustration: Giuseppe Rava
youtube screenshot of a video of a VERY round brown chicken in a box, the title is "Mad chicken lays an egg and sings her song" by :Chicken" 139K views, 2 years ago
Vidoe of a very fat creqm fuzzy moth warming up by moving their wings and holding on then scooting around a sunny wall
Photo of a round spiky hedgehog in a pile of dry leaves with some fresh ivy by a wooden fence
A yellow sticker with a fuzzy confused beefly saying "I DO NOT THINK THEREFORE I DO NOT AM" and a pink sticker of a cool mosquito with the text "i'm not like other girls i'm worse"
silly sci art doodle in black pen on white of a sad crouched flatwoods monster crying
extremely bright yellow marker flowers next to a shrub of normal looking flowers but it is only a single orange one the rest are already old or just budding
the soldier staring at a bucket TF2 meme, but i put a screenshot of a fir cone from the cryptid wikipedia article, and the caption is just "A fir cone"
silly digital doodle of a toad with dog legs saying NO GOOSE as a crossed good speech bubble, the text below says “Please be vigilant.”
Video of four jackdaws sitting on an apple tree branch picking at some apples
Screenshot of a post by Wakefield district newa Reports of strange creature in Thornes park duck pond dubbed 'Wakefield's Loch Ness Monster'. The creature describes as half frog half dog was spotted chasing geese early hours Saturday. Please be vigilant. There is a photo of a pond with some ducks surrounded by trees, and a photo of the roundest stubbiest frog like guy like that angry frog video ready to go BIEEEPPP
silly digital doodle of the hairy hands of dartmoor, which is just a pair of disembodied hands with lots of hair, but i gave them a mice pink manecure, and the text around them says “your wheel… give it to us!”
digital doodle of a black kitty with a huge pink tongue and she covered herself in licky treat
back side of a "goblen" i think it is called diagonal stitch, it is the little white cat flipping the double bird with a pink gradient backvround but it almost looks pixelated on the back
#SciArt digital doodle of a bunch of brown fungal cells sassy or bashful faces looking at two cells in the middle smooching (basically having fungal cell sex) one has a star eye other has a closed eye
Me holding a cube croissant, one corner dipped in white chocolate and green pistachio chunks
Cover of the dragonoligy book, the complete book of dragons Bright red with a silver dragon and in the middle an emblem of a green dragon flying above a valley at nighttime
a crappy photoshop of the hanging out with baby meme where a woman is laughing with a cup in her hand, but instead of a baby it is the frogman cryptid looking confused
screenshot of an image from the wikipedia article on isogamy showing a + and - cell where they both look identical, but at the bottom it looks like the + and - cells are smooching text is: Different forms of isogamy: A) isogamy of motile cells, B) isogamy of non-motile cells, C) conjugation (isogamy in the broad sense)
Cover of the GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Love in thr Timr og Cholera book Iy is plumes of smoke turning into birds in a night sky There is a review saying "An exqhusite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny" Sunday Telegraph
cover of arthur c clarke's mysterious world Simon Welfare and John Fairley the cover image is a crystal skull with a light going from stonehedge into the skulls eyeball and creating a big glare
Video of me holding a tiny embroidery hoop of an astronaut bunny in an orange spacesuit surrounded by comets and stars and then it flies off (i move it off screen)
Video of me doing silly hand gestures at an old embroidery of blathers, the owl museum curator in animal crossing
screenshot of sarah's post above with a bit of the catmint showing 23 comments but only 32 likes, she is on thin ice
gef the ghost mongoose of isle of man drawing, but whoever drew him had no clue what a mongoose looks like as it has massive drag queen lashes, squirrel ears, and human hands
the funniest photoshop of two hands with paintbrushed black hair on them holding onto a steering wheel, very pixelated, the text below says "The last thing you want to see while driving on Dartmoor."
Wooden embroidery hoop with a preprint design of a bramble blackberry branch and a little bumblebee, with their latin name embroideries (Rubus vestitus, Bombus lucorum) making it #SciArt In the bottom left is a magnet for the needle in the shape of a bumblebee on a night sky