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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · Jun 12

Updated a broken link in my substack post about the
#ColossalBio #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign – dire wolves are still extinct.

open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...

The Extinction of Truth

Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit

open.substack.com

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 14h

It's such a cool story!

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 14h

totally agree!

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 16h

Hyraxes are one of the closest living relatives of elephants (along with manatees and dugongs) #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow 💫 🧪

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 21h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4

The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 1d

This is so cool! Four amino acid changes in the naked mole rat cGAS turn it from a DNA repair inhibitor into an enhancer

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What is going on in armadillos, which have lost the cGAS and STING genes‽ #PetosParadox #EvMed 🧪

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40463121/

A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging

Efficient DNA repair might make possible the longevity of naked mole-rats. However, whether they have distinctive mechanisms to optimize functions of DNA repair suppressors is unclear. We find that na...

www.science.org

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 3d

Our conference on Dialectical Biology, the Marxist tradition represented by the work of Richard Lewontin, is this weekend! Join us Friday to Sunday, online or in Toronto, register here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Help spread the word if you can!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 1d

#TheMoreYouKnow 💫

FanOfWalt @fanofwalt.bsky.social · 1d

Grand Juries are not privy to any details the prosecution does not wish to make known to them.

Yes, legally.

Yes, really.

I know…

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 1d

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrroly....

Pyrrolysine - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrolysine#:~:text=Pyrrolysine%20(symbol%20Pyl%20or%20O,εN%20of%20the%20lysine

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 2d

Have we made America Great Again yet‽ #MAGA

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 2d

This could almost literally have been my entire lecture yesterday (Foundations of DevoEvo)…

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs https://theonion.com/industrial-revolution-provides-millions-of-out-of-work-1819571223/

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 2d

So Bill Gates invented ChickieNobs‽ @margaretatwood.bsky.social's prescience strikes again...

Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 2d

Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat has only been seen at a handful of restaurants. Some states have already banned it for reasons that include “global elites” and “bugs.”

Why? Let's dig in 🍔

Did MAGA conspiracy theories doom the lab-grown burger?

Some states have banned cultured meat for reasons that include “global elites” and “bugs.”

www.motherjones.com

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 2d

It's wild, to not discuss it deprives our students of essential historical memory, yet to do so is "woke"; My wife also includes it in her Spanish for Health Professions and Medical Spanish courses; many students are just unaware of eugenics, forced sterilization, the Tuskegee "experiments," etc...

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

Most people I know know I care a lot about the ethics surrounding informed consent; this isn’t a crack, it’s a black hole…

Noam Ross @noamross.net · 4d

Amelia Knopf, @karmacap.bsky.social and @knelphd.bsky.social write in Pediatrics about how the terminations of clinical trials of children and adolescents represent cracks in the foundation of ethical research, and the moral responsibility to repair them: doi.org/10.1542/peds...

ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF STUDY TERMINATIONS
As of July 2025, the National Institutes of Health has terminated approx-
imately 4700 of the grants it awarded for scientific research, training, and
infrastructure.1 Very little of the public discourse regarding the grant ter-
minations has focused on their implications for research participants who
were or would have been enrolled in the trials the grants supported. The
terminated awards are linked to 200 active registered clinical trials, which
had a total planned enrollment of more than 689 000 human subjects,
approximately 20% of whom are infants, children, and adolescents.1
Nearly all the aﬀected trials that included children and adolescents
focused on stigmatized health issues (eg, HIV, substance use, depression),
and/or persons with marginalized identities (eg, sexual and gender minor-
ity; Black or African American and Latiné). Individuals with marginalized
identities are underrepresented in clinical research,2 even when they are
at greater risk for the illness under study. The issue of underrepresenta-
tion in research is especially relevant for minor adolescents (those youn-
ger than 18 years old) because of ethical and legal barriers to their
participation. Barriers include concerns about minors’ capacity to consent,
confidentiality of sensitive information (sexual behavior, substance use)
when parental consent is required, and researcher and institutional con-
cerns about liability when waivers of parental consent are granted for
minors’ enrollment.3
As adolescent health researchers, we have each invested over a decade
of work to address the complex ethical and legal issues that prevent ado-
lescents from participating in research, especially on sensitive or stigma-
tized health issues. Through meticulous eﬀorts to engage and build trust
with adolescents, parents or guardians, and regulatory personnel, we have
enrolled thousands of adolescents in our studies...

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know if students see it, but we discuss eugenics throughout my Foundations of #DevEvo course; how can one talk about genetics, development, evolution and not do so‽

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

New drinking game for historians of disability and medicine: take a shot whenever you see someone online rolling their eyes and saying ‘you think everything is eugenics!’

Might as well be drunk through the Age of Eugenics: It’s Going to Get Worse and I don’t Know How to Make People See It

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

The @itiscolossal.bsky.social Dire Wolf™ #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign continues to deceive; GMO grey wolves are not dire ones 🧪 🧟 🐺

a black and white photo of a man in a fur coat standing next to a wolf .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a fur coat standing next to a wolf .

media.tenor.com

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

They're just horrific #DragQueens; the guns, the camo, the hemets, the facemacks, the symbolism, everything is just a #DragRace to authoritarianism...

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

This is extremely cool...

Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 3d

control panel of the day #HCI

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

I know nothing of Gurdon’s socioeconomic background, but the Eton education reminds me of this: “Meritocracy creates an inequality, in which rich parents have the opportunity to spend money on their children[‘s] education” — Markovits 2022

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cn1_...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

I got similar comments on my report cards, but they were from places like Long Beach CA and Tappan Zee high in NY. Not Eton.

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 3d

A good day to remember John Gurdon’s school report from his biology master at Eton

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

An old one. Tested for amino acid sites that toggled back and forth between the same pair of AA (if memory serves?). Is Sergei on Bluesky?

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

As you know I always am! And Blat has served me well; come to think of it HyPhy had a method called Toggle which might be perfect for you…

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

If you are about the AA the structure of the codon table should provide some info no?

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

Ditto! This is great…

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 3d

Unless it from a wheat genome.

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