You don't have to be an artist to make your science look good (& resources galore!)
Or, to put it plainly: Science clip art abounds...but how d'ya find it?!
While it's important to use ethically sourced (and compensated) images for scicomm and scientific communication, it can be a challenge -- dare I say even stressful -- to actually come up with these images.
Over the years, I've collected a fair pile of options that I usually share with students in my courses.
More recently, a colleague asked about advice for developing images that could be used in an infographic or graphical abstract. In other words, this colleague really needed clip art or icon-style images, not photographs.
My colleague doesn't consider themself an artist, and they didn't really have enough time to get up to speed with free or paid illustration software that can be used to generate custom line drawings or s…