Bryan Lynn
@abstractbryan.bsky.social
Using math & bacteria to answer ecological musings. Lover of cats and doughnuts. he/him. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Post doc | COMMONS Lab | UCI
lynnbry.github.io
Post doc | COMMONS Lab | UCI
lynnbry.github.io
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Bryan Lynn
@abstractbryan.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Hi BlueSky!
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
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After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
Pretty sure if you can be denied rights or assaulted for having any gender identity different than what was assigned at birth- then you’re trans. One would hope we can acknowledge that being nonbinary has its own and different struggles than a binary transition without being exclusionary.. ffs
Sometimes I hear bullshit about how nonbinary people aren't "really" trans and hey look we're right alongside all the binary folks in the line of fire, almost like maybe we should try to maintain some solidarity rn
Ken Klipperstein leaked full passport guidance for trans people:
- X markers will be a focal point
- Existing unexpired passports will remain good
- No guidance on confiscation, but it doesn’t seem like they will
- Renewals less clear but it looks like they will use “a preponderance of evidence”
- X markers will be a focal point
- Existing unexpired passports will remain good
- No guidance on confiscation, but it doesn’t seem like they will
- Renewals less clear but it looks like they will use “a preponderance of evidence”
February 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pretty sure if you can be denied rights or assaulted for having any gender identity different than what was assigned at birth- then you’re trans. One would hope we can acknowledge that being nonbinary has its own and different struggles than a binary transition without being exclusionary.. ffs
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Good strong statement from SSE, specifying what society leadership is doing, and suggesting what members can do to help, including contacting Congress, taking AIBS advocacy training, writing op-eds, and organizing locally
February 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Good strong statement from SSE, specifying what society leadership is doing, and suggesting what members can do to help, including contacting Congress, taking AIBS advocacy training, writing op-eds, and organizing locally
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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
www.evolutionsociety.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
If LGBTQ ppl are not and have not been considered an underrepresented group by NSF, then initiatives to include and increase their participation in science technically (as far as the gov is concerned) does not qualify as DEI, right?
I would love to see malicious compliance make science VERY gay
I would love to see malicious compliance make science VERY gay
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If LGBTQ ppl are not and have not been considered an underrepresented group by NSF, then initiatives to include and increase their participation in science technically (as far as the gov is concerned) does not qualify as DEI, right?
I would love to see malicious compliance make science VERY gay
I would love to see malicious compliance make science VERY gay
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Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science
(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.
The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science
(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)
Hi BlueSky!
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
January 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Hi BlueSky!
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
I’m a scientist who uses math and microbes to answer ecological questions surrounding community interactions and population dynamics.
🦠📈
Im also passionate about my cats and good doughnuts.
🐈🐈⬛🍩
I’m currently a post doc in the COMMONS lab at UCI.
Reposted by Bryan Lynn
1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented.
There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order
Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
1. Yesterday, Trump released a broad anti-trans executive order that could have extreme impacts on transgender people's lives if implemented.
There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
There has been much discussion of what it actually does.
In my latest piece, I go line by line to explain it.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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In the literature of domestication and microbiomes there seems to be the expectation that: domestication should lead to the loss of microbiome diversity and host-control. Alejandra Hernandez-Teran and I were both skeptical of both, so we decided to see what we know so far (1/6)
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shorturl.at/FHY9H
Plant domestication does not reduce diversity in root microbiomes
Domestication has profoundly shaped human civilization and the genetic makeup of numerous plant and animal species. While the effects of plant domestication at the genetic and phenotypic levels are well-documented, its impact on plant microbiome remains less understood. Root microbiomes play crucial roles in nutrient acquisition, pathogen defense, and biotic stress tolerance, yet the influence of domestication on their diversity and assembly is still debated. Two primary hypotheses have been proposed: 1) the reduction in microbial diversity resulting from the domestication process, and 2) the diminished ability of host plants to control their microbiomes. To evaluate these hypotheses, we conducted a meta-analysis of multiple crops, comparing the root microbiomes of domesticated plants and their wild relatives. Our results indicate that the effects of domestication are species-specific and context-dependent, with most domesticated plants exhibiting increased microbial diversity and more structured communities, while others show no significant change. Overall, this study provides evidence that plant domestication does not lead to a uniform reduction in microbial diversity or a consistently diminished ability of plants to influence their microbiomes. Based on these findings, we discuss new perspectives and the need for future studies incorporating native soils and host genetic variation in such experiments, analyzing not only diversity but also microbiome function, and considering how root morphology might affect microbiome recruitment. Finally, we highlight the need for research on the potential adaptive or maladaptive consequences that introgression between wild and domesticated plants could have from a microbiome perspective. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In the literature of domestication and microbiomes there seems to be the expectation that: domestication should lead to the loss of microbiome diversity and host-control. Alejandra Hernandez-Teran and I were both skeptical of both, so we decided to see what we know so far (1/6)
shorturl.at/FHY9H
shorturl.at/FHY9H