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Devin Boyles
@dboyles.bsky.social
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Biosafety & public health person, and virology, microscopy, borzoi, bug, bat, hognose, houseplant, and horror enthusiast ☣️🔬🦇🌱 Pittsburgh, PA
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GIF of ReDead (tall, brown zombie enemy) attached to Link, stealing his health.
May 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!
An angled down photo of an individual in a black t shirt holding a western hognose snake.
May 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Cemetery snails for #invertfest!
A group of 7 chocolate-band snails resting along the rounded top of an older, weathered headstone. An additional snail is along the center over the headstone text. Chocolate-band snails along the top of a cross-shaped, weathered headstone. Chocolate-band snails along the bottom of the cross on an older, weathered cross-shaped headstone.
April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits"
From left to right: Deputy Chief Hawk, Sheriff Truman, and Agent Cooper from the television series Twin Peaks.
December 25, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Tree + unimpressed dog and tardigrade ornament!
Christmas tree with white lights and covered with pinecone and mushroom decor. A large, white Borzoi dog is laying in front. Close-up of a green tardigtade ornament on a tree.
December 10, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Everyone's science tchotchke holiday art has inspired me to go pull this out of the time capsule ☃️
Three snowmen made out of cork-top test tubes filled with white gauze. They wear scarves of gauze colored red, green, and blue. Their noses are orange Eppendorf microcentrifuge tubes. Eyes, mouths, and hands are drawn on with black sharpie.
December 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity 🔬
The excitation and emission spectra of DAPI, FITC, and TRITC (three common fluorophores used in fluorescence microscopy) showed as a graph of percent transmission and wavelength in nanometers.
November 30, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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I am once again asking for more substrate 🕷
Screenshot of a tweet with an image of a terrarium with a small layer of substrate with the Bernie Sanders meme photo peaking out of a log. The text reads "my tarantulas when I stare at them every morning".
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Pallid bat!!
A close-up of a pallid bat being held. It looks as though it is smiling, and its top and bottom teeth are visible. (Photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS)
November 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Excited to re-share my raspberry fuzzies on bluesky @contamclub.bsky.social
A close-up of a white, fuzzy mold on red raspberries.
November 22, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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I'll contribute some bones, tea, and fungi ☠️🦴🍄🌿
A close-up of small mammal bones inside of a glass bottle against a dark background. A close-up of roots from a plant propagation within a 500mL Pyrex Erlenmeyer flask. Close-up of the ridges of a morel mushroom. Dried fruit & chamomile tea in a skull and crossbones tea infuser.
November 22, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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Me in my echo chamber
Agent Dale Cooper, the Man from Another Place, and the waiter (characters from the television show Twin Peaks) in the Red Room. The Red Room has long, red curtains as walls, black and white chevron-patterned floors, and black leather chairs. The waiter is serving coffee to Agent Cooper. Subtitles read, "Coffee."
November 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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I was fascinated by animals for as long as I can remember and was interested in being either a veterinarian or zoologist. But I'm pretty sure the animated Balto movie was my first (tangential) exposure to vaccinology and infectious diseases where I went out of my way to learn more.
Cover of Balto (1995) with an animated wolf dog.
November 19, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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Wow this is difficult to narrow down but...
Snowberry Clearwing
Blue Morpho butterfly
Ant-mimicking spider
A snowberry clearwing moth collecting nectar from a deep red batch of flowers A Blue Morpho butterfly with its bright blue wings opened, resting on foliage. An Ant-mimicking spider resting on foliage.
November 17, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
Various cacti and plant species along a dirt path in the Desert Botanical Garden of Papago Park in Phoenix, AZ.
November 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Olive giving a tummy & teeth two-fer
A white borzoi dog laying on her back on a dog bed with her front teeth sticking out from under her lips.
November 12, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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If you see this, post a concert photo you took:

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Phoenix, AZ 11/9/24
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard performing onstage (left to right: Lucas Harwood on bass, Joey Walker on guitar, and Stu Mackenzie on guitar and mic)
November 11, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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The thrashers were fun!
November 10, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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A lil more about me for the bluesky:

Introduce yourself with:
One book 📖
One movie 🎬
One album 💿
One TV show 📺
The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All by Laird Barron The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter I'm In Your Mind Fuzz by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Twin Peaks by Mark Frost & David Lynch
November 9, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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Far left? Far right?
Bitch I’m Far-red
November 8, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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Hey bluesky, I'm here to get the ball rolling on bio- & lab safety memes
September 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM