iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For those wondering here is the post from Joyce Carol Oates that got under Musk's skin big time

Post by Joyce Carol Oates, author on X that infuriated Elon Musk

"So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates- scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the 'most wealthy person in the world."

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Shefali @iamshef.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨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.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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/

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Join or Renew Membership - Genetics Society of America

Visit our website to learn more.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Great perspective. There needs to be a paradigm shift in how ‘mechanism’ is defined not only in #devbio but in other fields as well.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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%’

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A sensational Tiger Moth found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The coloring of this moth reminds me of playing cards. (Amaxia sp.) Tandayapa, Ecuador

A bright yellow moth with bright red scripted patterning near the body and red spots on the wings. It has also has some blue on the wings near the body. The moth is standing on drab, rocky ground.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 02/06/2024

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.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Never gonna get over how gorgeous this is. Art by Pablo Delcan. Out July 30, with Authority and Acceptance.

New psychedelic cover with Boschian boar, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

I should start doing this with my own papers. Can anyone recommend some fly-themed pieces? 🪰

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

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.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

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.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Who are your four favorite superheroes? -Emma Frost -Psylocke -Phoenix -Wolverine Guess I just love my X-men 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Please check in on your friends who are Machiavellian, boundlessly cruel, mass-murdering sociopaths tonight 💔

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

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.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

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

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/11/2023

Two NASA space telescopes teamed up to scrutinize a distant galaxy and discovered something mind-boggling: a gargantuan black hole inside a galaxy that’s more than 13 billion years old. The discovery may help solve a cosmic mystery about supermassive black holes.

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Oldest black hole found, and it may solve a cosmic mystery

Two NASA space telescopes teamed up to scrutinize a distant galaxy and found a clue to the potential origins of supermassive black holes.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Post four of your favorite Pokémon and let people assume things about you

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Scholastic Book Fairs is ending their segregated book program. We made ourselves heard.

A letter from the Scholastic corporation that reads "Dear Authors and Illustrators,
I want to update you regarding the Book Fairs Share Every Story/Celebrate Every
Voice case.
First, I want to apologize on behalf of Scholastic. Even if the decision was made
with good intention, we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate diverse
books in an elective case. We sincerely apologize to every author,
illustrator, licensor, educator, librarian, parent, and reader who was hurt by our
action. We recognize and acknowledge the pain caused, and that we have broken
the trust of some of our publishing community, customers, friends, trusted partners,
and sta", and we also recognize that we will now need to regain that trust.
This case will be discontinued starting with our next season in January. For the
remaining fairs in the fall, Book Fairs is working on a pivot plan as we speak. We will
find an alternate way to get a greater range of books into the hands of children. We
remain committed

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Quotepost with a picture you’ve taken of water Tarzan Falls, Guam

A photo of Tarzan Falls, Yona Village, Guam

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 21/10/2023

Everything We Know About The Elder Scrolls VI

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Everything We Know About Elder Scrolls 6

Nothing.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

If I had to pick only one, it would have to be Selene.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

[first day as professor] me: you're going to be introduced to some uncomfortable ideas in here and we'll tackle sensitive issues, but i expect everyone to be adults about it class: [general whispering] me: ok first topic: a pop tart - is it a calzone class: [general outrage]

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

If you’ve stumbled upon this, I haven’t decided what to use this page for so here’s me in a nutshell.

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