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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 9h

The Widow Sasha requires extra cuddles tonight.

An all black bunny with impressive muttonchops is curled up in the crook of my husband's arm

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Black Rabbit came for my beautiful boy, Bunedict Carrotpatch, this morning.

A picture of my beautiful rabbit. He had pale grey fur and a dark grey face and ears, and he was very fluffy and soft and full of personality.

The caption reads "My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today."

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that coconuts have a soft spot that you can stab with a straw just like a juice box. This information has forever changed my life.

A life-changing coconut with a straw in it

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No time to celebrate properly today, but Muscle Husband still bought me flowers for our anniversary this morning. Jo helped pick them out, of course. Everyday I am grateful to be married to the love of my life.

A bouquet of sunflowers, with some smaller purple flowers of unknown identity tossed in. I don't know what those are but they are also very pretty.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good morning from my new house! Who wants to help me paint and unpack? 😅

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Time to get a victrola and become a public menace

A drawing of a woman in a riding jacket and huge bloomers smoking a cigarette and carrying a phonograph on her shoulder. A man with a bicycle in the distance is saying "bloody unbelievable"

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you're mean to me online this is who you're being mean to (a bad, beautiful bitch who doesn't care)

Selfie in a unicorn tapestry dress oh yes

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Also this extremely nifty worm, with very beautiful bristles. A worm in need of a name.

A very tiny polychete worm under magnification

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Someone commissioned a statue of me apparently (at Jungle Prada in St Petersburg, FL)

A concrete statue of a mermaid on a dock looking out over the water

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A few more days before we mobilize on the R/V Hogarth. Let's hope it can contain all this swagger.

Myself and my co-chief scientist standing on an asphalt dock with our backs to the camera, looking at the aft deck of a research ship

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It doesn't look like much yet, but I'm about to treat @rufflejax.bsky.social and @oberoy-ls.bsky.social to the most difficult and most delicious pastry ever created by humankind

A humble ball of bread dough awaiting its first rise

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I have achieved "what if Stevie Nicks was a mermaid" hair once again

A selfie of me with my new hairdo- a shag cut with teal highlights

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

They gave the Frogman his little wizard staff and it's kind of hard to be mad about a little frog wizard

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sam Neill is, in my opinion, a truly underrated scream king. Put this man in more horror movies.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I put the movie poster here but this applies to the stage musical too. The songs are fun and catchy.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The costumes are cool, the gothic cyberpunk aesthetic is pretty to look at, Zydrate Anatomy is a bop, Paris Hilton is actually tolerable, and GraveRobber should be my boyfriend. Also: Anthony Stewart Head. Period.

Movie poster for Repo! The Genetic Opera

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

No one plays trauma like Sheryl Lee. If they had given her an actual three-dimensional character with a backstory, told the film from her perspective, and let her kill Daniel Baldwin at the end, it could have actually been a great movie.

Movie poster for John Carpenter's Vampires

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Amanda Seyfried is lovely and a very good singer, Christine Baranski is always fun no matter what, and I would enjoy watching Meryl Streep doing literally anything, including staring at me silently in judgment. I also unironically enjoy quite a few ABBA songs, including the title song.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tilda Swinton is a very talented actress.

Movie poster for We Need To Talk About Kevin

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The hyper-saturated magenta was a perfect choice to represent the "unnatural" color from the meteorite. Magenta doesn't exist in the visible spectrum- it's a color invented by your brain blending the opposite ends of the spectrum, red and violet.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

There were moments in this movie where I felt absolute dread or genuine horror, the kind that sinks way down into your gut, or follows you down the hall when the lights are turned off.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Reading through this is like that moment in The Big Lebowski when the nihilists set fire to the Dude's car. "Well, they finally did it. They killed science."

Donny, Walter, and the Dude stand outside the bowling alley, watching the Dude's car go up in flames. The text reads "They killed my fucking car."

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Look what I found in the garden yesterday! My strawberry plants have finally decided to bear fruit

A bowl of fresh strawberries from my garden

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force lying on his bed with the caption "It don't matter. None of this matters."

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Graduation was yesterday and one of my students just sent me this, with the following: "I didnt get to show you yesterday, but I decorated my cap with the best piece of advice I've ever been given" I said this to him. He is quoting me, on his graduation mortarboard. I'm having very big feelings.

Graduation mortarboard printed with a stylized DNA double helix and the following quote:

It's not about being smart.
It's about being stubborn and being brave.

That, in my opinion, is what makes a good scientist.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Graduation today; I wore one of my favorite dresses under my wizard robe and hat.

Selfie of me in my yard wearing a long black dress covered with yellow moons and stars, and a black mesh under bust corset

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dieterle's Hunchback is one of favorite movies of all time. I watched it so many times as a kid.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I am taking the cure at the seaside and I am not to be disturbed until September

Me standing on the beach in a white dress printed with brown bats

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Gave the last exam of the semester today, decided to dress like a goth princess about it

A full-length photo of me in my yard, wearing a black floral mini dress with big puffed sleeves, with a lacy petticoat underneath and a black mesh under bust corset on top, black lace tights and black ankle boots.

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Lauren M. Seyler, Ph.D. @darkmicrobio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Tired of late-stage capitalism, manifesting whatever this is instead

Screenshot from Spirited Away, featuring a large number of... duck spirits? Soaking in hot tubs

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