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“MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER THE first time I looked a common green bottle fly in the eye. I didn’t know it then, but those big, beautiful compound eyes would set the trajectory for the rest of my life.
Staring down a bog-standard light microscope at creatures that feed on dung, carrion or living tissue was hardly glamorous, but it captivated me and