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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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I just turned 38.
May 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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 🪰🧬
A photo of the members of the FlyCROSS mentor matching committee at the Lapper restaurant in Town & Country Resort, San Diego
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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.
A screen shot of text on white background. The top lines say: (d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. The word ‘conception’ is highlighted in orange. The bottom lines say: (e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. The word ‘conception’ is highlighted in yellow.
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Neato

Try it out:
www.arealme.com/vocabulary-s...
A graphic with the number ‘65490’ which is supposed to be a score for vocabulary size. There is an image of a normal distribution/bell curve below, with the descriptor ‘Top 0.01%’
November 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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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.
Break out the leeches and trepanning tools because holy shit we are doomed
November 12, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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Developmental time course of migrating fruit fly muscle cells, taken with a laser confocal microscope over a span of 5 hours. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈
Lateral view of fruit fly embryo showing collective migration of longitudinal muscle cells. A timecourse of migration is mapped with rainbow colors, with most recent positions in white/red and oldest positions in blue/purple.
June 2, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Happy 37th to me
Guy wearing flat cap and glasses blowing a bubblegum bubble. He is wearing a white T-shirt with a picture of Lon Chaney’s Frankenstein’s monster blowing a bubblegum bubble.
May 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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First workout of 2024: Done.
First caloric setback of 2024: Also done.
Guy in cap and black horn-rimmed glasses with arms crossed. He is wearing a black shirt with a printed image of Godzilla and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man walking off hand in hand into the sunset.
January 2, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Wanna do an #artshare? Drop some original pieces. Any medium. No AI bullshit. Reskeet. Share. Follow artists. Make bluesky a beautiful place 🖤🎨🙏
A fine-point Sharpie drawing of a plague doctor. A portion of the Sharpie is visible coming from the lower right of the paper. Originally done as part of Drawlloween. “Nepenthe” - Benedetto always had a cure, but never a treatment. A pencil sketch of Kenneth Branagh during his ‘Hamlet’ days. A digital drawing of a skull with blue eyes done in a techno-organic style. Illustrated with GIMP. “Techno-Lich” A digital drawing of Richard Madden as Robb Stark. Illustrated with GIMP.
December 19, 2023 at 1:57 PM
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*swoons*
Top panel shows a person whispering into someone’s ear, overlayed with white text saying “I don’t know enough about this subject to make an educated opinion.” Bottom panel shows a close-up view of skin with piloerection.
December 16, 2023 at 7:51 PM
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Who are your four favorite superheroes?

-Emma Frost
-Psylocke
-Phoenix
-Wolverine

Guess I just love my X-men 🤷🏽‍♂️
Emma Frost Psylocke Phoenix Wolverine
December 1, 2023 at 10:41 PM
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Got my Thanksgiving shirt ready. 🍴 🕳️
Guy wearing a black shirt with a graphical representation of a black hole, and a partially obscured equation for calculating the Schwarzchild radius.
November 23, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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One of the students in my Intro to Biology class baked cookies depicting the steps of mitosis and meiosis (using sprinkles to highlight homologous recombination and independent assortment), and I have never had more hope in the next generation until now. Also, mei-dough-sis, amirite?
Home-made frosted cookies depicting metaphase I, anaphase I, and telophase I of meiosis, with color-code chromatids depicting homologous recombination
November 14, 2023 at 12:49 AM
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Post four of your favorite Pokémon and let people assume things about you
Shellder, from Pokémon Torterra, from Pokémon Duosion, from Pokémon Espeon, from Pokémon
November 6, 2023 at 11:55 PM
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Quotepost with a picture you’ve taken of water

Tarzan Falls, Guam
A photo of Tarzan Falls, Yona Village, Guam
October 23, 2023 at 9:19 PM
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If I had to pick only one, it would have to be Selene.
Selene Gallio from Immortal X-men #12
October 21, 2023 at 10:40 PM
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If you’ve stumbled upon this, I haven’t decided what to use this page for so here’s me in a nutshell.
September 18, 2023 at 10:32 PM