Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
@devoevomed.bsky.social
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
"How to piss off a judge you appointed (and who issued a relatively modest ruling) in three easy steps."
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h agoBREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant or Associate Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Biology and Biochemistry Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seeks to hire an evolutionary biolog...
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This is my favorite week in my foundations of DevoEvo course — yesterday we talked about Platonic essentialism and play chair or not chair, tomorrow we talk about whether the X-Men are human! #DevoEvo #EvoDevo 🌱🐋
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Reason #4738 i love my job: i get to say terms like “corkscrew vaginas” to students during office hours, for true legitimate science reasons!
Biology don't care about what you think, were lawless over here! 🧪
New Scientist@newscientist.com · 2d agoAn amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life
🔥 @mammalssuck.bsky.social a madness matchup family inheritance squabble‽ You got all the legs and I got none! But everyone thinks I’m out of proportion but you’re cute!!!
c3rmen@c3rmen.bsky.social · 5d agoLosing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
This is the stuffed body of Martha, the last known surviving passenger pigeon, on display in the Natural History Building of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum circa 1920 Martha, poor lonely Martha, has an interesting connection to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs... 🧵
#FrescoFriday 🏺 Herculaneum HQ of College of the Augustales: society of freedmen dedicated to imperial cult of Augustus. Shrine room likely held statue of emperor on pillar in blind arch w laurel wreath above. On right Hercules + River Achelous in dispute over Deianira. #Roman
Bills fans, is this what Trump meant when he said we’d be so tired of winning?! Victory Monday, Victory Friday! I’m exhausted! Go Bills!
Most think I hate @itiscolossal.bsky.social – I don't. The biotech they develop, if successful, will change medicine forever – simple genetic diseases? Gone. Infertility? Gone. Ways to improve crop yields? Done. It's their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign to gain notoriety that I object to...
Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · last wk.The genome engineering tools @itiscolossal.bsky.social is developing could be useful in the conservation toolbox, but they won't be a panacea or silver bullet. Conservation will come down to the grunt work of predator control, habitat restoration, translocations, & captive breeding programmes. 4/6
Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · last wk.While additional money for conservation is welcome, I find aspects of this announcement of a $4M partnership between @itiscolossal.bsky.social & the IUCN somewhat worrying www.prnewswire.com/news-release... 1/6 🧵
Denisovans here, Denisovans there, Denisovans everywhere
John Hawks@johnhawks.net · 2w agoAlways happy to add new Denisovans. This is quite a record now from ancient proteins, five sites that span a geographic area encompassing all of China. These people had remarkable stories we are starting to understand how to tell. www.johnhawks.net/p/new-deniso...
Wegmans on a game day is a thing to behold #GoBills! 🦬
Ugh. Not good. WTAF were they thinking ‽
Ian Sudbery@iansudbery.bsky.social · 2w agoHoly moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data?
I was kicked off, but it was for the better anyway!
Part 2 is still no; also it’s not possible, so there’s that
Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 2w agoRNZ has released Part 2 of their investigation into @itiscolossal.bsky.social plan to de-extinct moa. This week, the focus is whether it should be done, incl. widespread Indigenous concerns. Both episodes can be found here (www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/ourc...) or tune in at 7.30pm tonight 1/2
Effect size matters. Also cancer is a #DevoEvo phenomenon
Yale Cancer Center@yalecancer.bsky.social · 2w agoA new study from @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social shows how ranking mutations by cancer effect size, not frequency alone, can surface rare, potentially high-impact variants overlooked by standard approaches. medicine.yale.edu/cancer/publi... @plosone.org @yalesph.bsky.social
Don’t let the bower birds know… www.bowerbirdproductivity.com/why-the-name...
Art of the Bower Bird
Professional Organizer and Productivity Coach, Z Smith describes how Bowerbirds inspire her work decluttering homes and offices in Baltimore, MD
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New Scientist@newscientist.com · 2w agoAlthough one reader thinks it would be virtually impossible to tell if animals have a sense of beauty, they give their two cents on why humans do
Disappointed by the lack of answers on Bluesky to this good question, any #PopGen colleagues willing to give an answer here?
Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 2w agoWith a little time now past, I'm wondering what pop gen peeps make of this paper... do the findings seem solid?
“As philosopher Immanuel Kant once said, we can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals,” except for the endangered ones –– just let them go extinct, so we can be done with them already... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/c...
States File 2 Lawsuits Over Trump’s Cuts to Endangered Species Act
Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial activities.
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Awesome! Now someone please do SeAl and MacClade — please🙏
Wayne Maddison@waynemaddison.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol
