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Andy Purkiss

@andypurk.bsky.social
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X-ray crystallographer and structural biologist at the Francis Crick Institute. Cats not dogs. Also interested in railways, Sci-Fi and Star Trek (amongst other things). Type 1 Diabetic

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Sophia Jetta @werkoderko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Where are you hiding the dreamies, motherfucker??"
•  A young, nude Oedipus stands pressed tightly against a chimerical Sphinx. The Sphinx has the body of a lion, wings, and the head and breasts of a blonde woman.
• The Action: The creature leaps onto Oedipus's chest, digging her claws into his skin and gripping his flesh. Instead of flinching, Oedipus stands completely calm and holds his spear steady, locking eyes with her in a piercing gaze.
• The Foreground: Human remains—including a severed hand and foot, a king's crown, and a laurel wreath—lie scattered among the rocks at his feet, signaling the deaths of previous travelers who failed the riddle.
• Setting and Symbolism: The vertical, narrow composition features a dark, archaic background. Behind Oedipus stands a bay tree (sacred to Apollo, representing high human achievement), while a fig tree stands behind the Sphinx
The Theme: The painting illustrates the moment before Oedipus answers the Sphinx's riddle, symbolizing the triumph of spiritual intellect and moral force over base materialism and animalistic instinct
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly DJ spinnin', I said, "My, my" Flash is fast, Flash is cool François c'est pas, flashé no deux Blondie - Rapture
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name a Disney Princess, wrong answers only.
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Ponyo Splashing in Water
Alt: Ponyo Splashing in Water
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Lower Decks T'Ana: Keep Scratching
Alt: Star Trek Lower Decks, Dr T'Ana saying "Keep Scratching" whilst her head is being scratched.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s an example of perfect casting?
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miss marple
Alt: Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Peering around a deer whilst sat in front of a fireplace.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A working from home day and just had a #notmycat loudly announce their arrival in my conservatory (I've kept the cat-flap unlocked since Bella went 🌈). It sat in a sunny spot for a few minutes before leaving.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Please sign and share. You can sign outside of Wales. Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients. petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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Petition: Immediately unfreeze gender-affirming surgeries and protect NHS Welsh Gender Service patients.
We call on the Senedd and Welsh Government to direct the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) to: Immediately unfreeze scheduled and approved gender-affirming surgeries for patients who ha...
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Strange how my mind works. Booking tickets / beer tokens for the #WimbledonTap Beer Festival tomorrow and I suddenly thought that I hadn't seen a friend from that neck of the woods in a long time. A quick search and I find @brunn.ing is active here. #TuesdayClub alumni
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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Count Duckula's Scary Carrot Encounter
Alt: Count Duckula and scary carrot.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Change a letter, change a movie Medway
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Probably The Crying Game.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
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Shrek Snow
Alt: Shrek the Third, Snow White singing the Immigrant Song whilst animals attack.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Date yourself with a commercial from your childhood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Nh... "Take it easy!"
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"Hey Mr Beaver!" Caramel Bunny Advert 1989 - WIDESCREEN
YouTube video by Time Travel TV
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How I'll post if Bluesky dies
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Star Trek VI: Sulu Orders to Target and Fire
Alt: Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country: Towards the end of the film, at the Battle of Kitomer, Captain Sulu says "Target that explosion and fire" from the USS Excelsior.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Having seen all of the trilogy of trilogies in the cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiVd... But the final scene from Rogue One is also up there.
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Last Jedi - ONLY Lightspeed Scene (Holdo's Sacrifice)
YouTube video by V media productions
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Heading back to Ridgeway House, from #DLS MX experiment on beamline I04 and saw a cat (seemly slightly surprised to see a human past midnight) heading for the ring. Obviously off to undertake some important science.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Beastie Boys - Sabotage, from Star Trek Beyond www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZc...
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Star Trek Beyond - Sabotage Song Scene - HD 1080p.
YouTube video by Don King
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Mr Spock's Cat @mrspockscat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@angryhacademic.bsky.social vitamin deficiency is not a joke 🐾 🐾😽🐾
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Right. Ice lollies.
Alignment grid of ice lollies. Nine items in a 3x3 grid. The column categories are ingredient purist (flavoured ice), ingredient neutral (has to feature flavoured ice), ingredient radical (has to be frozen). The row categories are Structure purist( can be held, has to be opened, has to be on stick), Structure neutral( can be held, has to be opened, doesn't have to be on stick), Structure purist( can be held, doesn't have to be opened, doesn't have to be on stick).

The lollies are( left to right, top to bottom)
rocket lolly, solero, magnum
freeze pop, solero shots, cornetto
frozen margarita, coffee ice cubes in milk, ice cubes
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Not sure if it is the heat or something else, but my #libre2 + sensor decided to sulk for a bit and then stop this morning. It was 14 1/2 days into its 15 day run. #diabetes
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And Bluesky, which was *not* banned
The tiny tim who did not die scene from the muppets Christmas carol
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
That's an hour and a bit to curate the first week's worth of e-mails from two weeks leave. Of course, I still need to answer some more of them.
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 12/06/2026
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES arrives imminently! The devastating anime classic shows as a BLEAK WEEK opener next Friday 19th June at 6pm as a special preview screening ahead of the film’s wider cinematic return, courtesy of Anime Limited. 🎟️: buff.ly/94glofN
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pavements #poetrychallenge
Poem
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear www.youtube.com/watch?v=JziV...
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Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by BlondieVEVO
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ponyo
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Ponyo Splashing in Water
Alt: Ponyo doing backflips in a bucket of water.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Breakfast at Tiffany's. The Mr. Yunioshi character has definitely not aged well.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's Kiss
Alt: Scene from the end of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Holly Golightly (play by Audrey Hepburn) and Paul Varjak (George Peppard) kiss in the rain whilst holding Cat (Orangey) between them.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Please sign and share this good petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Review anti-discrimination laws to strengthen trans women & LGBTQ+ protections
Launch a review into strengthening legal protections and clearer enforcement against discrimination, harassment and exclusion of trans women and LGBTQ+ people in employment, education, healthcare, hou...
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Elli @ellipsis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I'mma boop you on the nose with a new Goblins page. BOOP! (reposting helps me out) Comic Link: www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-1... Scene starts here: www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-1...
Drawing. A yellow goblin in a cage that is falling off a cliff.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The bubble that I post from:
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Ponyo Floating in a Bubble Underwater
Alt: Ponyo asleep, floating in a bubble underwater
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Email from my energy supplier which started "Your smart meter isn’t currently sending us readings" followed by you are already on the recommended every 30 mins data upload. The electricity meter has NEVER sent anything (and a contractor did come to check and say it needed replacing ages ago).
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Name your favorite alien
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Star Trek Lower Decks: T'Ana's Box Surprise
Alt: Star Trek Lower Decks: Dr T'Ana takes off her white coat and jumps into a box.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Shaka When the Walls Fell! (Star Trek)
Alt: Dathon, a Tamarian captain saying "Shaka when the walls fell!" (From Star Trek The Next Generation episode Darmok)
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Back home after a day in Cambridge for a memorial service for one of my friends, from my undergraduate days at Southampton University, who passed away too soon from pancreatic cancer.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In my ward for the local #election, the choice was three each Arise, Conservative, Labour and Reform plus one each Green and Lib Dem. Not sure the results will be representative of the national state of politics!
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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Register for the June 1 Office Hour on Transitioning to the New PDB Beta Archive, Extended PDB IDs, and PDBx/mmCIF This Office Hour is for all users, but particularly for software developers and journal editors. Details: pdb101.rcsb.org/news...
Anakin Padme 4 Panel Meme:
1 Structures in PDB format
2 Do you mean mmCIF and not deprecated format, right
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4 Right?
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Quote with your vibe if you were a vampire.
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a painting of a duck and a duck in a lab
Alt: Count Duckula jumps out of a painting.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Person 1: All right, we're done. Person 2: You think the language in the second amendment is clear enough? You know, about the right to bear arms? Person 3: Of course it's clear. Every American has the right to hang a pair of bear arms on their wall. How could that possibly be misconstrued?
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a cartoon of george washington asking how could that possibly be misconstructed
Alt: Family Guy cut-away: Founding Fathers around a table, with a pair of bear arms on the wall. George Washington (?) asking "How could that possibly be misconstrued?".
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only. (With bonus second-in-command in this case)
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Alanis Morissette God GIF
Alt: Alanis Morissette (playing God) rubs her hands together whilst Kevin Smith (playing Silent Bob) looks on.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Welcome to #TransTuesday! So much of our society is set up to not even acknowledge the existence of trans people, that it causes us to run into rough roadblocks even with things that should be benign. Let's talk about the problem of DISCRIMINATORY BUREAUCRACY
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DISCRIMINATORY BUREAUCRACY - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This week we talk about something that pops up often in life after you transition, and for lack of a better term I’m gonna call it: DISCRIMINATORY BUREAUCRACY. This sort of t...
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you see this, post a #StarTrek
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a woman says i 'm jadzia now in pink
Alt: The Klingon Kor greeting his old Trill friend Dax (whose host has changed from male Curzon to female Jadzia. Text: Kor: "Curzon my beloved old friend!" Jadzia Dax "I'm Jadzia now" Kor: "Well, Jadzia my beloved old friend"
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The aerial strimmer from "The World is not Enough" has always seemed like a good, if slightly messy, solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjN...
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James Bond's BMW Z8 Sliced Into Half By Helicopter With Tree cutting Saws
YouTube video by AutoJoshNG
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Drop something VEHICULAR 🚘✈️🖤🚁🚂and not forgetting ⛵
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a boy and a girl are in a boat on a river
Alt: Ponyo and Sōsuke in an enlarged Pop-pop boat powered by a candle. From the film Ponyo.
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Star Trek Corrected Captions @startrekcc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Well, it finally happened--I'm burned out on the Muppets. So, that whole series is done. But what the hell am I without a gimmick? Day 1 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #WeirdAlYankovic
In a scene from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "The Serene Squall," we see Spock crouching down behind a wall in an Enterprise corridor with a phaser rifle in his hands. Standing just behind him is Captain Angel. They are both peering down the corridor where "Weird Al" Yankovic is standing, playing the accordion. He has a shocked look on his face--it seems he has spotted the other two.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Me as a Bsky therapist
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a man in a blue shirt is holding a black cat in his hands .
Alt: Spock, in a blue shirt, is holding and stroking a black cat. From the Star Trek the original series episode Catspaw.
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Andy Purkiss @andypurk.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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a man with a wig on says bzzzzzzz
Alt: Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element saying "Bzzzzzzz!" and waving his hand.
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