Cooked Illustrations

Blast from the past!

This was our very first infographic style comic. Where we found a fun local story and decided to share it as a comic.

Illustration showing a mangrove tree in a stylised water bowl. Illustration by Oli Meese.

"The mangrove tree, the cornerstone of the mangal ecosystem, bears its responsibility with poise and grace."

Read our short article on mangrove rewilding on our website ↓

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Illustration showing a collection of megalodon teeth and shark denticles in a colourful background. Illustration by Ian Cooke-Tapia of Cooked Illustrations, drawin for Dr Erin Dillon and Dr Catalina Pimiento.

🦈 Look at these cute megalodon teeth.

Part of a project illustration examples of elasmobranch conservation and conservation paleo in action around the world.

Take a look here: cookedillustrations.com/portfolio/co...

This has been one fun collaboration, @rhens.bsky.social!

Tools of cognitive neuroscience. Check the link below ↓

Humanist Calendar - Matteo Farinella Original illustrations for a Humanist Calendar, celebrating the birthdays of some of the greatest scientists, inventors, thinkers and major achievements of human civilization. Created in collaboration...

Just wanted to share this very cool science-themed illustration by Matteo Farinella.

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Like that term. "Politics of refusal" - anywhere one could read more about that?

Illustration showing a man standing on a crumbling wall to the left. On the right, a woman is standing on the floor. There are holes dug in the ground around her. A pair of scales can be seen in the background. Illustration by Feimo Zhu for an article written by Daniel Aaron Levy.

" Because women being legally equal to men doesn’t mean that women are culturally equal to men. Legal changes are not cultural changes."

New article by Daniel Aaron Levy for our Systemic Sexism Series. Come and read it!

Illustration by Feimo Zhu.

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Releasing our latest animated short helped put some thoughts into perspective. Expect some exciting and interesting changes coming soon for Cooked Illustrations.

The Yoghurt, it is alive! An illustration, in deep reds and yellows, showing a pot of yoghurt with a monster face dropping in from the top left. On the lower right, a classic "Final Girl" horror protagonist screams in horror.

The Yoghurt, it is alive!

Our most recent animated short is based on these wonderful illustrations created by one of our team. Our goal was to play with the idea of horror, to subvert expectations and flip the script.

Watch the short here: www.youtube.com/shorts/r0caz...

The yogurt is alive! #animation #sciencefacts #guthealth #shorts #comics #sciencecommunication YouTube video by Cooked Illustrations

Putting it online!
Our first animated educational production (that is not a meme).
The yoghurt... it is alive!

www.youtube.com/shorts/r0caz...

Two panel black and white comic, split down the middle between right and left. Both panels show an observation room with two scientists sat at a desk at the bottom of the image reviewing images on two monitors. The left wall on the left panel has a plaque that reads “Pope Paul XIII institute for neuroscience”, the left wall on the right panel has a plaque that reads “D. Rawkins institute for neuroscience”. Through the observation window in both panels taking up most of the upper right corner is a large tube shaped machine with a person lying within. The person’s head and shoulders cannot be seen, only the left arm legs and feet are shown. The machine is labelled MRI in the very top right corner of each panel. The monitors in the observation rooms show the same images of brain scans, the left monitor shows a grid of various shapes that look like little nuts. The right monitor shows a simplified scan of the side view of within a human head, showing skull and brain with a round white spot. The left panel shows a speech bubble form the scientists that reads “Clear evidence for the ‘God Spot’” the same bubble emanates from the scientist on the right panel but reads “Clearly NOT evidence for the ‘God Spot’”.

How do scientists know what we are thinking?

Cognitive neuroscience is the science of trying to understand how our brains enable our cognitive abilities.

To answer this question and learn what the tools of the cognitive neuroscience trade are, read:

cookedillustrations.com/blog/tools-o...

Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

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Using ChatGPT

These are visual notes captured by our creative director, @iancooketapia.bsky.social, during the 2023 conference for the International Union for Quarternary Research, taking place in Rome, Italy.

The Mediterranean Sea is a collapsing ecosystem!

Are you a researcher in the South Wales area?

Then you may love to attend our Science and Art networking events.

Fieldnotes Stiwdio takes place the last Tuesday of the month in one of three locations.

Link in Bio.

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

Progress Over Perfection: how wellbeing and mental health expertise can help us deal with the barriers that stop us from making progress.

Join us this Tuesday 30th of September in #Trefforest

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How does challenging the lack of creative training in contemporary education systems look like?

Gaz Lawrence, #sciencecommunicator and artist, will share with us his new project all about astrophysics.

Join us this Tuesday 30th of September in #Trefforest

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An illustration showing four professionals from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the UK. From upper left: a young Central Asian female lawyer dressed in a suit, a middle-aged South East Asian man with a grey beard wearing a yellow hard hat and protection goggles, a young doctor with curly black hair on a wheelchair, and a non-binary black camera operator.

Showing the viability of careers in the creative sector to people from Black and Ethnic Minority Backgrounds is crucial in building racial diversity in the sector.

One such finding from a 2023 report by CCW on the state of the film and TV industry in Wales.

Take a look at the great work of our affiliate comic book artist, Scott Devantier.

Energetic, whimsical, slightly dystopia-coded, all-interesting.

🎥 Animation teaser by @cookedillustrations.com!

Our new study explores how bryozoans respond to ocean acidification and warming — showing changes in skeletons, microbiomes, and population decline.

Sneak peek below — full animation coming soon!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#MedCalRes

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?".

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Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

The power of artistic co-production to engage young people with the climate emergency.

Tammie Esslemont from Nature Over Natter sharing her experience combining hope, community-building and art to create a better future.

Join us for future #sciart talks at Fieldnotes Stiwdio.

A red dragon character stands on the lower left with arms extended upwards, excitedly shouting. "Tom Jones and Aneurin Bevan!". The dragon has Welsh Dragon theming.

What do Tom Jones and Aneurin Bevan have in common?

A little preview of a new project we've been working on to help explain international assessments to school-aged children in #Wales.

What do you think of our Dragon? Isn't he just the best?

How do you engage general public with complex scientific issues?

Join us on Tuesday 24th in Newport for the next #FieldnotesStiwdio to explore how

⚱️ Ceramics as a way to understand cancer diagnoses
💚 Community arts to engage with climate change

And much more

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Are they your ñeques, or are you their human?

We believe this particular case study is thanks to the research of @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social who combines coastal archaeology and conservation paleobiology to look at human-animal-environment relations.

A vertical illustration showing a British Columbia coastal landscape. At the top, trees. At the bottom, a coastal line of clams.

Case studies of conservation paleobiology in action?
Of course! Part of an illustration series commissioned by @erinmdillon.bsky.social to showcase how the field can lead to real world changes.

The example here shows coastal clam beds in British Columbia and how they support local environments.

Dr. Emma Higginswill be talking to us about how drone technology can help in #conservation of rare species, specifically Anolis lizards, in Honduras.

Join us for this and more on Fieldnotes Stiwdio, a #sciart event, on the 27th of May:

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