Cloning Tom Brady’s dog isn’t a “marvel of science”; it is old #BioTech being used in yet another PR stunt by #ColossalBio to grab undeserved headlines… 🐶 🧪 🤷
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
Tom Brady’s dog is a clone of late pet, former quarterback says
The former NFL quarterback revealed his current dog is actually a marvel of science Tuesday.
www.cbs42.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cloning Tom Brady’s dog isn’t a “marvel of science”; it is old #BioTech being used in yet another PR stunt by #ColossalBio to grab undeserved headlines… 🐶 🧪 🤷
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
The #BioTech #ColossalBio is developing will transform healthcare; genetic disease & infertility? Gone. Monetizing tech is the point, not deëxtinction, but that tech begets designer babies (aka eugenics) — this is why critical discussion of their rhetoric matters 🧪 🐋🌱
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?
A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The #BioTech #ColossalBio is developing will transform healthcare; genetic disease & infertility? Gone. Monetizing tech is the point, not deëxtinction, but that tech begets designer babies (aka eugenics) — this is why critical discussion of their rhetoric matters 🧪 🐋🌱
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I don’t have a problem with GMOs, I have a problem with #ColossalBio misrepresenting GMO grey wolves as Dire wolves™️ 🐺 🧪 #ExtinctionIsForever
Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath. Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath
Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. Report: Jonathan Matthews
gmwatch.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I don’t have a problem with GMOs, I have a problem with #ColossalBio misrepresenting GMO grey wolves as Dire wolves™️ 🐺 🧪 #ExtinctionIsForever
#ColossalBio CEO Mr. Lamm is concerned that my “mental health” issues and “stalking-like behavior” threaten his employees’ safety; ad hominem attacks in response to valid public criticism of their #DisInformation campaign is not a mental health disorder 1/n 🧪
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
www.embopress.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#ColossalBio CEO Mr. Lamm is concerned that my “mental health” issues and “stalking-like behavior” threaten his employees’ safety; ad hominem attacks in response to valid public criticism of their #DisInformation campaign is not a mental health disorder 1/n 🧪
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
#ColossalBio “believes it’s safe to assume” I “may have a few enemies.” You don’t make enemies in the back of an ambulance, doing everything you can to help the hurt and comfort the dying; you don't make enemies searching under 30' of pitch black water; I'll never forget some of them 6/n
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#ColossalBio “believes it’s safe to assume” I “may have a few enemies.” You don’t make enemies in the back of an ambulance, doing everything you can to help the hurt and comfort the dying; you don't make enemies searching under 30' of pitch black water; I'll never forget some of them 6/n
Throughout my academic career, I have only uplifted my colleagues; you don’t make enemies that way either. Mr. Lamm may be a charismatic billionaire, but that doesn't make him a good person, or the #ColossalBio #Deëxtinction #MisInformation real 7/n
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Throughout my academic career, I have only uplifted my colleagues; you don’t make enemies that way either. Mr. Lamm may be a charismatic billionaire, but that doesn't make him a good person, or the #ColossalBio #Deëxtinction #MisInformation real 7/n
In which I proudly stay on my soapbox to counter the #ColossalBio #DisInformation; they made GMO grey wolves, not dire ones whether it was for fun, function, or fiction #ExtinctionReallyIsForever 🐺 🧫 🧬 🧪
What did Colossal Biosciences really create when they said they brought the dire wolf back from extinction, and what are the potential ecological and ethical implications of these creatures getting into the wild?
Are dire wolves back and what would that mean? - The Wildlife Society
Colossal claims to have created dire wolves, but what does this mean for wildlife management?
wildlife.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In which I proudly stay on my soapbox to counter the #ColossalBio #DisInformation; they made GMO grey wolves, not dire ones whether it was for fun, function, or fiction #ExtinctionReallyIsForever 🐺 🧫 🧬 🧪
Don’t fall for the #ColossalBio PR #DisInformation, they’re making GMO pigeons not dodos #ExtinctionIsForEver 🐓≠🦤 🧪
September 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Don’t fall for the #ColossalBio PR #DisInformation, they’re making GMO pigeons not dodos #ExtinctionIsForEver 🐓≠🦤 🧪
We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'It's just a weird, weird bird': Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong
The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we have distorted what the dodo was really like.
www.bbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Reposting for all the obvious reasons: we live in a zero-sum media landscape, drawing attention to this "pivotal step" in the #deëxtinction of the dodo takes attention away from other infinitely more important things. #ColossalBio is just making deepfake GMO pigeons, not dodos 🦤 🧪
A sad consequence of all this deëxtinction nonsense is that this lovely story about what the dodo really looked like and art and science has to include a discussion of #ColossalBio and deëxtinction 🦤 🧪
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposting for all the obvious reasons: we live in a zero-sum media landscape, drawing attention to this "pivotal step" in the #deëxtinction of the dodo takes attention away from other infinitely more important things. #ColossalBio is just making deepfake GMO pigeons, not dodos 🦤 🧪
New day, new slander. Criticizing #ColossalBio
and its cofounder Ben Lamm for their de-extinction #DisInformation campaign, now with deepfake AI-generated images of moas, leads to another article about me, this time calling me a misogynist!
www.usadailychronicles.com/what-the-vin...
and its cofounder Ben Lamm for their de-extinction #DisInformation campaign, now with deepfake AI-generated images of moas, leads to another article about me, this time calling me a misogynist!
www.usadailychronicles.com/what-the-vin...
What the Vincent Lynch–Colossal Debate Reveals About Gender Bias in Science - USA Daily Chronicles
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen men without results get to define the narrative, women’s breakthroughs pay the price. Scientific skepticism is vital. But when it becomes a pattern—specifically, one [...]
www.usadailychronicles.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New day, new slander. Criticizing #ColossalBio
and its cofounder Ben Lamm for their de-extinction #DisInformation campaign, now with deepfake AI-generated images of moas, leads to another article about me, this time calling me a misogynist!
www.usadailychronicles.com/what-the-vin...
and its cofounder Ben Lamm for their de-extinction #DisInformation campaign, now with deepfake AI-generated images of moas, leads to another article about me, this time calling me a misogynist!
www.usadailychronicles.com/what-the-vin...
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is much more articulate than me about this; but it is not for nothing we critizie #ColossalBio; sure deëxtinction is a scame meant to garner free press, but the other stuff is far more important, and is mostly ignored by the media 7/n
bsky.app/profile/sash...
bsky.app/profile/sash...
A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵
August 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is much more articulate than me about this; but it is not for nothing we critizie #ColossalBio; sure deëxtinction is a scame meant to garner free press, but the other stuff is far more important, and is mostly ignored by the media 7/n
bsky.app/profile/sash...
bsky.app/profile/sash...
Re-upping given the moa deëxtinction nonsense from #ColossalBio and it’s cofounder Ben Lamm, it’s nominally about dire wolf “deëxtinction” but applies just as well to moas
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Extinction of Truth
Or, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit
substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Re-upping given the moa deëxtinction nonsense from #ColossalBio and it’s cofounder Ben Lamm, it’s nominally about dire wolf “deëxtinction” but applies just as well to moas
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
I have learned some pretty funny things about the founder of #colossalbio , the company pretending it brought dire wolves back.
Someone with an interest in the company is harassing Vincent. So let’s see how unserious the founder, Ben Lamm, is.
Someone with an interest in the company is harassing Vincent. So let’s see how unserious the founder, Ben Lamm, is.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I have learned some pretty funny things about the founder of #colossalbio , the company pretending it brought dire wolves back.
Someone with an interest in the company is harassing Vincent. So let’s see how unserious the founder, Ben Lamm, is.
Someone with an interest in the company is harassing Vincent. So let’s see how unserious the founder, Ben Lamm, is.
He can just invest in #ColossalBio
Earlier this week, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted that he wants to fund a startup that does embryo-editing. It would be a dramatic move into a taboo area. New from @antonioregalado.bsky.social today. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1...
Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech
The stigmatized idea could get a massive boost from “tech bros”—and some scientists are cheering them on.
www.technologyreview.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
He can just invest in #ColossalBio
Without Beth and
without @sunyofficial.bsky.social @albany.edu @UAlbanyBiology I would not be who I am. Thanks to all. I can't prove that #ColossalBio or Ben Lamm gave me this opportunity to remind myself/others of the importance of public education and mentorship, but if they did I thank them!
without @sunyofficial.bsky.social @albany.edu @UAlbanyBiology I would not be who I am. Thanks to all. I can't prove that #ColossalBio or Ben Lamm gave me this opportunity to remind myself/others of the importance of public education and mentorship, but if they did I thank them!
July 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Without Beth and
without @sunyofficial.bsky.social @albany.edu @UAlbanyBiology I would not be who I am. Thanks to all. I can't prove that #ColossalBio or Ben Lamm gave me this opportunity to remind myself/others of the importance of public education and mentorship, but if they did I thank them!
without @sunyofficial.bsky.social @albany.edu @UAlbanyBiology I would not be who I am. Thanks to all. I can't prove that #ColossalBio or Ben Lamm gave me this opportunity to remind myself/others of the importance of public education and mentorship, but if they did I thank them!
#ColossalBio shouldn't be blaming the less-than-glowing outcome of their weird (outdated?) PR strategy on researchers merely doing their jobs. Regardless of your personal take, this is a dangerous pattern of behavior 🧪
June 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
#ColossalBio shouldn't be blaming the less-than-glowing outcome of their weird (outdated?) PR strategy on researchers merely doing their jobs. Regardless of your personal take, this is a dangerous pattern of behavior 🧪
Super normal stuff from #ColossalBio. Just pure class.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Super normal stuff from #ColossalBio. Just pure class.
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I’ve asked #ColossalBio many times if they've done environmental impact or ecological modeling studies to determine if rewilding woolly mammoths would have the beneficial environmental effects they claim. It's been in the works since at least 2022 scroll to 27:03.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uliH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uliH...
Putting aside whether 'bringing back the Moa is possible, here is what Colossal Bioscience is saying they will do in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
I would like to see the conservation assessment etc done by independent parties, and for participatory democracy to be built in to decision making.
I would like to see the conservation assessment etc done by independent parties, and for participatory democracy to be built in to decision making.
July 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve asked #ColossalBio many times if they've done environmental impact or ecological modeling studies to determine if rewilding woolly mammoths would have the beneficial environmental effects they claim. It's been in the works since at least 2022 scroll to 27:03.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uliH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uliH...
This is amazing! One DMCA takedown filed against me by www.dailypixels.net/random-pics79 is for a screenshot I took on 3/17/2024 when #ColossalBio, co-founded by Ben Lamm, blocked me over on Twitter. Is this irony or meta‽ 🧪🤣
Left my original tweet, right the image I supposedly copyright violated!
Left my original tweet, right the image I supposedly copyright violated!
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is amazing! One DMCA takedown filed against me by www.dailypixels.net/random-pics79 is for a screenshot I took on 3/17/2024 when #ColossalBio, co-founded by Ben Lamm, blocked me over on Twitter. Is this irony or meta‽ 🧪🤣
Left my original tweet, right the image I supposedly copyright violated!
Left my original tweet, right the image I supposedly copyright violated!
We have many species concepts all grounded in sound evolutionary theory with empirical support, but none are as nonsensical as the one used by #ColossalBio Chief Science Officer Beth Shapiro to mislead @joerogantop.bsky.social on @joeroganhq.bsky.social – Listen in. It’s just more #DisInformation...
June 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We have many species concepts all grounded in sound evolutionary theory with empirical support, but none are as nonsensical as the one used by #ColossalBio Chief Science Officer Beth Shapiro to mislead @joerogantop.bsky.social on @joeroganhq.bsky.social – Listen in. It’s just more #DisInformation...
It’s impossible; it will be a transgenic emu, aka a #GMO, but it does give #ColossalBio more free press and another #DisInformation campaign to fundraise on 🧪
My latest for @science.org looks into Colossal's claim that the plan to "resurrect" moa is "completely a Māori initiative" with Ngāi Tahu research centre, Te Tira Whakamātaki @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Effort to revive New Zealand’s extinct moa stirs controversy
Suggestions that nation’s Indigenous Māori wholeheartedly back project draws criticism
www.science.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It’s impossible; it will be a transgenic emu, aka a #GMO, but it does give #ColossalBio more free press and another #DisInformation campaign to fundraise on 🧪
OK, this one is just straight-up uncanny. The tech bro billionaire in the book Ghost Species (2020) uses the same public facing rhetoric, restoration ecology, as #ColossalBio to justifying the #deëxtinction of thylacines, mammoths, and aurochs 🧪 🦣 🐃
Nice review:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
Nice review:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
I'm tracking down #SciFi stories where genetic manipulation is used to modify species, for obvious reasons, and found Proteus Island; this remarkable novella from 1936 explores how artificial manipulation of chromosome number and X-rays can create new species by a mad scientist in 1918 🧪 1/n
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
OK, this one is just straight-up uncanny. The tech bro billionaire in the book Ghost Species (2020) uses the same public facing rhetoric, restoration ecology, as #ColossalBio to justifying the #deëxtinction of thylacines, mammoths, and aurochs 🧪 🦣 🐃
Nice review:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
Nice review:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...
To be clear, I have no malice towards any of their employees. If this was #ColossalBio, it is way above their pay grades, only Lamm is responsible…
June 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
To be clear, I have no malice towards any of their employees. If this was #ColossalBio, it is way above their pay grades, only Lamm is responsible…
Apologies, I have to. #ColossalBio says they can do what sponges do: resurrect animals...
"Sponges are the only animals that if broken down to the level of their cells, can reassemble themselves. A sponge is passed through a sieve to break apart its cells. The cells recognize each other and reform into small new sponges." #shapeoflife #spongeThursday youtu.be/ORV3qV8GFF4?...
Sponges - Time-lapse of Sponge Cells Recombining
YouTube video by Shape of Life
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Apologies, I have to. #ColossalBio says they can do what sponges do: resurrect animals...