A Sad Brain Cell by Immy
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A Sad Brain Cell by

This is a drawing loosely based on a cortical pyramidal neuron. This cell is sad, and tired right to the spines on the branches of her feathery dendritic arbour.

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About Immy

I’m a neuroscientist by day, an insomniac artist by night, and a craft-maker between lab contracts. Biology under my microscope and out of my window inspires me to make art – on public transport, in between experiments, and late at night. I’m interested in the overlap between scientific concepts, biological images, and surreal art from our imaginations. I get an urge to blur the lines between these things. If there are any lines, that is…?

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ink, sadness, brain, cell, neuron, neuroscience, brain cell, nerd, geek

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  • Glendon Mellow
    Glendon Mellow12 months ago

    Oh these are fun.

    I do a round-up of science-art on my blog (http://glendonmellowblogspot.com)that is carried on ScienceSeeker and Scienceblogging.org, and I’m adding a link here to my next round-up post. Try to get some more scientist eyeballs coming your way.

  • Carol and Mike Werner
    Carol and Mike...12 months ago

    Wow! Cool image.

  • Immy
    Immy12 months ago

    Thanks for the comments and blog mention guys! I can’t seem to hit reply due to some kind of Firefox issue so i hope you see this _

  • MedILS
    MedILS7 months ago

    damn. excellence