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telling science stories with the power of visuals✨ a little bit of this and that, too 🧳 Graphics Editor | Quanta Magazine 🎓 MScBMC, MScGeochem/Astrobio 🎨 Founder of artscistudios 📍 NYC | 🇨🇦🇭🇷 https://linktr.ee/artscistudios

mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

A playful graphic contrasting the cGAS–cGAMP pathway in multicellular versus bacterial systems. It shows how complex organisms have retained this ancient, primitive machinery, repurposing it to drive different immune outcomes. Full story: www.quantamagazine.org/the-ancient-...

A lot of fun making this graphic of mycorrhizal fungi for a story on the symbiosis between plants and fungi! Really pleased with how this turned out. Story here: www.quantamagazine.org/an-arctic-ro...

Bird retinas today at Quanta 👁️🐦

Quanta's special feature on climate science is nominated for a Webby for Best Individual Story Feature! A ton of blood, sweat, and tears went into making this. Would really appreciate a vote for us in this category! Thanks so much! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

If you've got a couple minutes, the Quanta team and I would appreciate a vote for our project "How We Came to Know Earth" for the Webby's this year! Voting ends tonight! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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Kinda love that journals will paywall their papers but not their figures. What's the logic of that? (tho I'm not angry)

Are the Malofiej Awards ever coming back? 😢

A fun illustration I made for Quanta's story on deSitter space www.quantamagazine.org/in-expanding...

mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

A new graphic illustrating a 'hydraulic jump' in flowing electrons, from today's story at Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-m... #physics #particlephysics #electrons #science #electronflow #condensedmatterphysics

mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

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Did you know that infinity comes in different "sizes"? "Bigger" and "smaller" descriptions of infinity exist! Seems paradoxical, right? How can an endless concept ever have a defined size? I helped visualize a story describing this. Check it out here! www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-infi...

mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

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mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

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mark belan | science illustrator + info designer

I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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