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

Serious Q: Why aren'r eDNA studies being done to find out if there are a couple of these in hiding (or are they); same for Nesse...

Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 5m

The other day I got to hold an ivory-billed woodpecker. It hit pretty hard - some thoughts here.

Close encounters of the extinct kind

I’m a huge museum nerd. When I travel, museums are top of my list – and it doesn’t matter a whole lot what they’re museums of.* But what’s even better than a day at a museum is a chance to tour a m…

scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com

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

My PhD mentor would say inflate your own ego, others will only inflate their own!

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 5m

Yes of course, but which aspects do I pioneer and pose?

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 25m

Writing a biography of one’s contributions to science is hell for a humble person; am I a pioneer or a poser?

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 2h

At this year’s New Scientist Live @flintdibble.bsky.social exposes how pseudo-archaeology distorts history and offers tools to challenge misinformation about our human past.

Join us on the 18th-19th October at Excel London, get your tickets here: bit.ly/40qePB7

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 13h

It's not just medical school; the first contact between patients and healthcare professionals may be EMTs/paramedics. Our evaluation of patients determines everything that follows. (Full disclosure: I haven't been an active EMT for a while but doubt it's changed)...

Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 14h

Oof

A recent study of electronic health records found racial bias in clinicians' assessment of patients' credibility19 Specifically, "clinicians were more likely to insinuate in the electronic health record that black
compared to white patients were not truthful and not competent in reporting their own experiences." In the emergency department, black patients wait longer to be seen by a clinician.

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

No one in the chain of command from Trump all the down has the authority, yet here we are 🤷‍♂️

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 17h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22h

Dire wolves might, but @itiscolossal.bsky.social didn't mutate any genes involved in behavior so their GMO grey wolves can't...

Colossal Biosciences @itiscolossal.bsky.social · 5d

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

Still flew!

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

True. No one really says that.

Colm Atkins, PhD @atkinscolm.bsky.social · 1d

We both know that isn't true.

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

Many people are saying go jets?

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

Go. Bills.

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

Never had one diverted, an aborted landing a few times. Northeasters are tuff folk. Just give me my ginger ale and Biscoff and I’m good…

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

Seems about right. There is a reason people went west…

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

Reminds me of a conversation I overheard in grad school; I was next to two Yale med students joking about how they didn’t need to try too hard because “pass means MD.” Having a degree and mastering a subject are very different things....

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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

I’m writing an essay about how the @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Maddaddam trilogy, particularly Oryx and Crake, predicted all of this. The similarities are remarkable! 🧪 🦣 🦤 🐺

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

#DeExtinction is (almost) always analogized to #JurassicPark, but the more apt analogy is the @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Maddaddam trilogy; in which #syntheticbiology is used for #Aesthetics and profit not conservation 🧪 🐋🍃

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

The age of #SyntheticBiology and development of specific purpose GMOs in the name of #DeExtinction, #ReWilding and #Aesthetics is here; it’s good that #IUCN is not fundraising from the private sector to reduce “anyrisk of perceived conflict of interest.”(@itiscolossal.bsky.social 👀) 🧪 🐋🍃

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

Why should one care about these things in these trying times in the #USA‽ Because we’re in the midst of a return to regulation-less Laissez-Faire economics, without meaningful regulation, in which the ultra rich are allowed to let do, but we cannot abide…

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

#DeExtinction is (almost) always analogized to #JurassicPark, but the more apt analogy is the @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Maddaddam trilogy; in which #syntheticbiology is used for #Aesthetics and profit not conservation 🧪 🐋🍃

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

The age of #SyntheticBiology and development of specific purpose GMOs in the name of #DeExtinction, #ReWilding and #Aesthetics is here; it’s good that #IUCN is not fundraising from the private sector to reduce “anyrisk of perceived conflict of interest.”(@itiscolossal.bsky.social 👀) 🧪 🐋🍃

Wildlife Wire @wildlifewire.bsky.social · 2d

Important topic being addressed at the current IUCN Congress due to recent events: iucn.org/our-work/inf...

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

The age of #SyntheticBiology and development of specific purpose GMOs in the name of #DeExtinction, #ReWilding and #Aesthetics is here; it’s good that #IUCN is not fundraising from the private sector to reduce “anyrisk of perceived conflict of interest.”(@itiscolossal.bsky.social 👀) 🧪 🐋🍃

Wildlife Wire @wildlifewire.bsky.social · 2d

Important topic being addressed at the current IUCN Congress due to recent events: iucn.org/our-work/inf...

Synthetic biology and nature conservation

IUCN and its Members are initiating development of a policy on the implications of synthetic biology in nature conservation. Recent technological advancements in synthetic biology create both signific...

iucn.org

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 4d

It's such a cool story!

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 4d

totally agree!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

🚨 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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