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Frank the Fly Guy

@frankmac.bsky.social

👨🏽‍🔬 🧬 🪰🔬🏳️‍🌈 Assistant Professor in SoCal. Developmental biologist by training, but I’m a shameless science dilettante. He/him/his.

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Ready to leave 2025 behind.

Me in glasses and a grey sweater looking out a window

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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I just turned 38.

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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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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 · 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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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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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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Frank the Fly Guy @frankmac.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

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.

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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 · 16/12/2023

*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.

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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 · 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?