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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
@devoevomed.bsky.social
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Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY | 1st Gen | Extinction is forever | DevoEvo & EvMed | Science & Society | Friend of Corvids and swans | Science Nerd | I❤️Biology! Lives with Epilepsy
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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
devoevomed.bsky.social
Massive revision to our paper on relaxed selection of male reproductive genes in gorillas. TL;DR, they are eroding away coincident with the shift to polygyny in gorillas; big bodies no need for good sperm. 🦍 🤷 🧪 #EvoBio #SpermCompetition

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
a close up of a gorilla eating a strawberry with itv news written on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a gorilla eating a strawberry with itv news written on the bottom right
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January 12, 2026 at 2:56 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing…
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 1d
“Follow the Science”? Only when there’s good gatekeeping!

Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
There is often an expectation that the public should exhibit strong, if not unconditional, deference to science, as exemplified by campaigns urging people to “follow the science”. This paper argues for a more nuanced stance toward such deference. It contends that non-scientists may, at times, have good reasons to withhold or qualify the extent of their deference to science, particularly when there is evidence of inadequate gatekeeping within scientific communities. Gatekeeping can fail in different ways: it can be excessively restrictive, excluding theories, methods, or other elements that deserve consideration; or unduly permissive, allowing elements into scientific discourse that do not merit serious attention. In both cases, these failures undermine the pluralistic exchange of ideas that is essential to scientific inquiry and progress, and can give rise to four degenerative patterns of consensus formation or revision: premature consensus, belated consensus, premature consensus revision, and belated consensus revision. When non-scientists have sufficient reason to believe that such dysfunctions are present, it may be rational for them to adjust their level of deference accordingly.
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Also keep an umbrella at hand..,
nantanreikan.bsky.social Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 3d
Minneapolis, after the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Excellent info about trauma first aid. Get yourselves a tourniquet and make some homemade anti-pepper spray…

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January 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
In this house we’re ctenophore-sister. Great work here…
caseywdunn.bsky.social Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 3d
Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
TL;DR (yet), but remember when this absolute banger dropped‽

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23431001/
January 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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carlzimmer.com
I talked to @latif.bsky.social at @radiolab.bsky.social about brain organoids for their new episode. Listen here: radiolab.org/podcast/brai...
Brain Balls
Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?
radiolab.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
This is a very cool way to learn something and support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
dariia.bsky.social Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 3d
❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 15 , 6 pm CET titled R package development in Positron by
@stephenturner.us

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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friendsofdarwin.bsky.social
08-Jan: Born on this day in 1823, the man who independently of Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Here’s a post I wrote about Darwin’s and Wallace’s friendship…
friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar...
#HistSci
Modesty and candour: the Darwin-Wallace friendship
To mark the 200th anniversary of Wallace’s birth, an article exploring the friendship between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
friendsofdarwin.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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gregpriest.bsky.social
Alfred Russel Wallace born OTD in 1823.

He said he shared with Darwin “an intense interest in … the variety [of living things] that catches the eye of the observer even among those which are very much alike, but which are soon found to differ in several distinct characters.”

🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM #EvoBio
Caricature of Wallace, including the words “After you, Mr. Darwin, kind sir.” By David Hughes for the New Yorker.
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
ICYMI:

Our new (in December) paper offers advice for early career scientists who want their research to help influence conservation and management policy. Lots of people say that they want to do this, but lack the policy training to do it meaningfully and usefully. Our paper can help!

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Shark scientists want their research to help save threatened species, but don’t know how. Our new paper can help.
Sharks are some of the most threatened animals on Earth, and accordingly many scientists who study sharks want their research to be useful for conservation. However, most scientific training does n…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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mikehixenbaugh.com
The New York Times states it plainly in display type:

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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3rdreviewer.bsky.social
Final version of paper with @smishra677.bsky.social now published in a wonderful issue of GENETICS!

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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npr.org
We built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 4, we show how federal investigators found the rioters and built the largest criminal case in U.S. history.
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
n.pr
January 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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toriherridge.bsky.social
When we were filming, the dating evidence hadn't come in. There was a pot that could have been Roman.... And there was a Roman coin in a different context... Tantalising, but...

Now, JUST IN TIME FOR BROADCAST, the OSL dates are in -- and...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#DiggingForBritain
Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland
Discovery of more than 800 whetstones, used to sharpen weapons, seen as one of the most significant finds in northern England for a century
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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toriherridge.bsky.social
well done to Gary Bankhead, Vedra Hylton, and the team at @durham.ac.uk!
toriherridge.bsky.social Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 4d
When we were filming, the dating evidence hadn't come in. There was a pot that could have been Roman.... And there was a Roman coin in a different context... Tantalising, but...

Now, JUST IN TIME FOR BROADCAST, the OSL dates are in -- and...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#DiggingForBritain
Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland
Discovery of more than 800 whetstones, used to sharpen weapons, seen as one of the most significant finds in northern England for a century
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February.

We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3)

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Symposium | Exploring Queerness in Natural History
A one-day, interdisciplinary symposium centring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the environmental sector.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
It If I can I will!
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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npr.org
NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
n.pr
January 7, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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hanliconius.bsky.social
It's been a good few weeks for cool bird genomcis - incl this, on warblers sharing colour genes through hybridisation (with evidence of between-genus introgression journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
journals.plos.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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johannajoyce.bsky.social
Understanding why cancers relapse - sometimes years or decades after successful treatment - is a major challenge in the cancer field

This perspective in Nature discusses several of the important recent advances and new studies in the field of tumor dormancy 🧪⚕️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why cancer can come back years later — and how to stop it
Researchers are targeting dormant tumour cells that might explain why some cancers reappear long after successful treatment.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
devoevomed.bsky.social
Evolutionary cell bio comes of age, #EvoCellBio as the hashtag?
jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 6d
Issue 24 is complete

Marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social 100-year anniversary celebrations, our cover features members of the JCS community, including some researchers from our ‘First Person’ & ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ interviews.

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
JCS cover: Marking the end of The Company of Biologists' 100-year anniversary, the final journal cover of 2025 features members of our community, including our academic and guest Editors, our FocalPlane Advisory Board, some of the ‘First Person’ and ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ scientists featured this year, and our in-house team of administrators and editors at our editorial office in Cambridge.
January 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
devoevomed.bsky.social
TNG is good but DS9 is something else.
January 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM