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Frank the Fly Guy
@frankmac.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in SoCal. Developmental biologist by training, but I’m a shameless science dilettante. He/him/his.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Hydra (Hydra vulgaris) ✨Small but mighty! Hydra can regenerate its entire body, even its head 🧠 A classic model for regeneration, stem cell dynamics, and body axis patterning 📸 Image by Daniel Bressan de Andrade #ModelMonday #DevBio #Regeneration
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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For those wondering here is the post from Joyce Carol Oates that got under Musk's skin big time
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I just turned 38.
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Calling #Drosophila #grad students #postdoc and #pretenure #faculty to participate in FlyCROSS and be matched by a #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs !
#genetics #dros25 #phdlife

@flybase.bsky.social @bdsc.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Nothing like a great research conference to get one’s mind off the current state of science funding in the USA. Thank you #Dros25 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🪰🧬
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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There is a 0.0% chance that this was written or approved by anyone at NIH with any experience.

2/n
a man wearing headphones is smiling with the words no way written above him
ALT: a man wearing headphones is smiling with the words no way written above him
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social is "advocating for science and for scientists. We seek to cultivate an inclusive, diverse research community that engages with the public...& serves as an authoritative source of information." Pls consider joining genetics-gsa.org/membership/
January 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is astoundingly incorrect. At conception, everyone is sex-less. Through early development, everyone is female-presenting. Cis XX men exist. Cis XY women exist. Intersex people exist. Trans people exist. This is a blatant attempt at justifying further attacks on body autonomy.
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Great perspective. There needs to be a paradigm shift in how ‘mechanism’ is defined not only in #devbio but in other fields as well.
A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology

Read this Perspective Article from B. Duygu Özpolat @biyolokum.bsky.social , Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social and Mansi Srivastava:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204605/365016/
January 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
November 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education
November 12, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Gonna inform my research group that our focus has shifted from unlocking gene regulatory mechanisms of organogenesis to determining which crystals cure depression in fruit flies.
November 12, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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A sensational Tiger Moth found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The coloring of this moth reminds me of playing cards.
(Amaxia sp.) Tandayapa, Ecuador
November 11, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Developmental time course of migrating fruit fly muscle cells, taken with a laser confocal microscope over a span of 5 hours. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈
June 2, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Happy 37th to me
May 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Taints & Sinners
Change a letter, ruin a show:

Will and Grave
Change a letter, ruin a show:

Goonlighting
April 25, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Never gonna get over how gorgeous this is. Art by Pablo Delcan. Out July 30, with Authority and Acceptance.
April 5, 2024 at 12:54 AM
I should start doing this with my own papers. Can anyone recommend some fly-themed pieces? 🪰
April 4, 2024 at 10:23 PM
First workout of 2024: Done.
First caloric setback of 2024: Also done.
January 2, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Wanna do an #artshare? Drop some original pieces. Any medium. No AI bullshit. Reskeet. Share. Follow artists. Make bluesky a beautiful place 🖤🎨🙏
December 19, 2023 at 1:57 PM
*swoons*
December 16, 2023 at 7:51 PM