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White text on a blue box over a blurred photo. Text reads: Australian Science Communicators Regional and Remote Branch Free online networking event Everyone Everywhere All At Once. Wednesday 4 March 4:30pm AEST / 5:30pm AEDT
Are you a SciCommer in Aus? Come to @auscicomm.bsky.social's first networking event for the year!
I'm running the online edition for our new Regional & Remote branch - come chat, share your experiences, and consider joining the ASC!
Register for free: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
In the interest of accuracy, I guess it's time to make an "All Roads Lead to Limpet" graphic!
it is genuinely a crushing tragedy that i cannot hug my besties every day. i think sadly about it all the time.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college[/uni]:
Celtic archaeology
English Romantic literature
Effective drawing
Evolution of the Earth
Archaeology of the ancient Maya
21 years ago, humanity landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
A shiny blue badge showing cartoon seashells and the words "SHELL YEAH"
A black t-shirt with a white design that reads "All Roads Lead to Crab" with a cartoon crab atop the last word
A cream-coloured tote bag printed with a cartoon owl wearing glasses and reading a book, beside text that reads "berd"
A black notebook cover showing a line of four cartoon paper stars in the colours of the asexual flag (black, grey, white, and purple)
Looking for some nerdy merch? My artwork is now on Threadless!
I'll be gradually adding more designs (and could be open to suggestions for science topics you'd like to see 👀)
bluerehn.threadless.com
#SciArt #merch
Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
Ooh, I didn't know about this! Maybe I should make an anteater version 🐜
White block letters on a blue background that read "All Roads Lead to Crab" with a crab standing atop the last word, claws raised
Evolution loves a crab - they've independently evolved so many times there's even a word for it (carcinisation) 🦀
#SciArt #crab #carcinisation #marinebiology
I just heard there's a #birbfest going on, so the berds' time is now!
#birbfest2025 #sciart
A digital drawing of a barking owl wearing glasses and reading a book titled 'the ultimate BIRD GUIDE' beside text that reads 'berd'
Bird nerd (berd) - one for the bird enthusiasts
#digitalart #birdnerd #birding #ornithology
The look of displeasure at his new favourite cage restaurant tricking him
Welcome to your new (but also 3-year-old) home, Casper 👻
A three-panel comic. The first panel shows Plato saying "The definition of a human? A featherless biped." The second panel shows a robot labelled "A.I." saying "Okay, got it!" The third panel shows the A.I. robot showing an unimpressed Plato a screenshot of a security camera view of a dog in a t-shirt labelled "5:20pm Human" and declaring "Behold - a human!"
True story: if your dog is wearing a t-shirt, that's a human (confirmed by AI)
Thanks to my workmate Caitlin for letting me use her screenshot! #comic #AI (but not drawn by AI)
A digital illustration of a wooded hilly landscape with a river running through the middle. On the left, a burn from earlier in the dry season has left trees alive and is not eroding. On the right, a hot late dry season burn has charred the landscape, killing trees and eroding charcoal and soil into the river
A digital illustration showing a creek crossing a dirt road, with rain eroding channels into the road, forming a downstream gully and releasing soil in to the river below
A two-panel illustration showing an eroded alluvial gully releasing dirty water and a remediated gully, covered in vegetation with a rock chute to channel the water flow
Illustrating water quality challenges - this is some of my recent work showing how fire, roads & tracks, and eroding gullies can impact water quality (& how a gully can be repaired!)
These were created for my work with TropWATER & their collab with the Cape York Water Quality Partnership #SciArt
A collection of graphics centred on an anthropomorphised wombat in a waistcoat, holding a magnifying glass and pocket watch, next to the text "Deep Time Detectives". The surrounding graphics include a gumtree flower, a wallaby skull, a tree, a pollen grain, a quoll, a charcoal particle, grasses, footprints, fire, and a potoroo.
An animated GIF of a cartoon wallaby eating leaves off a small tree sapling
A wide image showing an illustrated landscape, transiting from open grassland with scattered trees on the left through to increasingly closed woodland with minimal grass and more dense shrubs
Introducing Deep Time Detectives! 🔎
Deep Time Detectives is an educational resource developed by CABAH on Australia's deep history, featuring a series of animated videos. I drew a collection of original illustrations and animated elements for these videos #SciComm
emmarehn.com/portfolio/de...
Digital illustration of a blond girl with her hair in braids, looking through binoculars at a starling on the left, with one foot on a tree stump. Between them is text: August Adventures 1-7 august Bloom+Journey 8-14 august Meadow+Rain 15-21 august Ancient+Trinkets 22-28 august Sprout+Magic
I have some exciting news to share! A bunch of friends (and amazing artists) and I are hosting an art challenge this August 🌻
We put together a fun and chill prompt list and hope you’ll join us on this adventure hehe
More below 🐥
This describes my side gig! Here's my portfolio - please let me know if you'd like any further info or think my style would be a good fit: emmarehn.com
A three-panel comic. The first panel shows a guy opening a door, smiling and saying "Hey, Lucy!" A label points to him that reads 'brother'. The second panel shows him leaning forward to a chocolate and white Border Collie moving towards him, as he says "Did you miss-" The final, double-width panel shows the dog rushing past him to wag her tail at a woman walking through the door behind him, labelled 'sister-in-law'. He says "...me?" and she says "Hi, Luce!"
My dog definitely plays favourites 🐾
#comic #BorderCollie
A collection of 16 digital sketches on a white background, summarising sessions from an environmental communication conference featuring plants, animals, and people.
Live-sketches from COCE 2025 🌱
This week, I attended & presented online as part of the Conference on Communication and Environment
There were so many great sessions & discussions - I drew these live-sketches during all of the hybrid and virtual sessions I attended! #scicomm #sciart #livesketch
Such an amazing effort! Very deserving of a celebratory puffin
A cartoon showing hands holding a phone displaying an app titled "relative dating", subtitled "Find your fossil assemblage". The app shows a fossil fish, fern, and three-toed footprint captioned "Upper Jurassic 161.5 - 143.1 Ma". Buttons below the caption read "Not for me" and "It's a match!"
A drawing of a top-down view of a landscape divided into two vertical panels, with a large, three-toed footprint in the centre shared across both views. The left panel shows a sandy floodplain with bushes, and the receding foot that created the footprint. The right panel shows seawater lapping and molluscs growing in and around the fossil footprint, with running shoes and a person holding a camera to take a photo of the footprint, with a scale bar beside it
I was recently commissioned to create two illustrations for The Australian Geologist, the quarterly magazine of the Geological Society of Australia
One highlights featured research, the other is just for fun!
Read the TAG June issue here: issuu.com/gsaustralia/...
#geology #sciart #scicomm
A graphical abstract for the OCTOPUS SahulCHAR collection showing a map of Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand with red dots for data points. Text on the right of the image presents key statistics: 425 locations, 531 cores, 687 char records, 23 contributors
New paper for the palaeofire fans!
Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥
Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd...
This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!
A photograph of four clay pendants of a trowel, an amphora, a bivalve shell half, and a colour scale bar, each attached to loops of black cord
Happy National Archaeology Week!
This year's craft in celebration of Archaeology Week is little clay pendants - the scale bar is 4cm
#2025NAW #archaeology #craft
Applications close this Sunday for this year's ABC TOP 5 media residency!
If you're an Australian ECR with an interest in boosting your comms skills, I recommend applying - I'm happy to answer questions as a 2022 awardee
Here's the link to the Science stream (Humanities & Arts also open) #scicomm
Drawings of art supplies around the text "Happy World Art Day" on a multicolour painted background
Everyone please go have fun scribbling, painting, drawing, and otherwise finding joy in making art 🎨
#WorldArtDay #Artsky
I'm in Australia so arguably we should be waiting until 31 April too! But we celebrated for the Americans in the office 🙂
A photograph of a dozen mini apple pies on baking paper
Happy Pi Day! 🥧 This is my first time making pies, so I went for mini ones to share at work
A photograph of a brown and white Border Collie smiling at the camera, laying on a footpath in the centre of a chalk circle in rainbow colours. Chalk writing on the right says "Happy 11th birthday Lucy!"
Happy Lucy day, everyone 🐾