Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
@devoevomed.bsky.social
Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, SUNY | 1st Gen | Extinction is forever | DevoEvo & EvoDevo | Science & Society | Friend of Corvids and swans | Science Nerd | I❤️Biology! Lives with Epilepsy
Writing an essay on de-extinction vs deëxtinction. The former is possible, like for endangered Black-footed Ferrets, the latter is just PR BS. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release describing this remarkable accomplishment for BFFs now has an anti-EDI statement. Does this really #MAGA? 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Writing an essay on de-extinction vs deëxtinction. The former is possible, like for endangered Black-footed Ferrets, the latter is just PR BS. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release describing this remarkable accomplishment for BFFs now has an anti-EDI statement. Does this really #MAGA? 🧪
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
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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
Guess what‽ Wilson explicitly includes mutations in regulatory *proteins* AND mutations in regulatory elements; it's not just mutations that matter, but mutations in regulatory things, whatever those regulatory things are...
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Guess what‽ Wilson explicitly includes mutations in regulatory *proteins* AND mutations in regulatory elements; it's not just mutations that matter, but mutations in regulatory things, whatever those regulatory things are...
About half of the Queen Anne’s lace in our park has a small red petals in the center; does anyone know if this has a genetic basis? 🧪
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
About half of the Queen Anne’s lace in our park has a small red petals in the center; does anyone know if this has a genetic basis? 🧪
These three figures get me every time: Our conceptualization of heredity; the explanations which have the most explanatory force. I cannot overstate the importance of this book to #DevoEvo; it wrote us back into evolution; archetypes and all. (Re-reading for my foundations of DevoEvo class)....
October 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
These three figures get me every time: Our conceptualization of heredity; the explanations which have the most explanatory force. I cannot overstate the importance of this book to #DevoEvo; it wrote us back into evolution; archetypes and all. (Re-reading for my foundations of DevoEvo class)....
This is a really fun kids book about the seriousness of extinction; it’s subversive in the best satirical way. Support the author and buy it:
a.co/d/3oQ9XfB
a.co/d/3oQ9XfB
September 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a really fun kids book about the seriousness of extinction; it’s subversive in the best satirical way. Support the author and buy it:
a.co/d/3oQ9XfB
a.co/d/3oQ9XfB
Great quote about moving around the Owen-Darwin-Huxley statues in @nhm-london.bsky.social: "No word yet on where the statue of Huxley will go. But it might be a good idea to put him someplace where he can keep a close eye on Richard Owen." Sure did! #DevoEvo 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
September 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Great quote about moving around the Owen-Darwin-Huxley statues in @nhm-london.bsky.social: "No word yet on where the statue of Huxley will go. But it might be a good idea to put him someplace where he can keep a close eye on Richard Owen." Sure did! #DevoEvo 🧪
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
To oppose fascism is now terrorism…
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
To oppose fascism is now terrorism…
Thanks too whoever ducked me with a Beetlejuice themed rubber ducky; It’s my favorite movie! #DuckDuckJeep
September 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thanks too whoever ducked me with a Beetlejuice themed rubber ducky; It’s my favorite movie! #DuckDuckJeep
Very interesting that neutrophil metabolism plays a role in promoting metastasis in the lung – elephants are among the species lowest percentage of neutrophils in their blood #PetosParadox 🧪 🐘
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Very interesting that neutrophil metabolism plays a role in promoting metastasis in the lung – elephants are among the species lowest percentage of neutrophils in their blood #PetosParadox 🧪 🐘
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
To be fair, half a lifetime arguing with Huxley over the hippocampus minor (aka the calcar avis), among other things, would drain the life force from anyone… 🧪 🐋🍃
August 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
To be fair, half a lifetime arguing with Huxley over the hippocampus minor (aka the calcar avis), among other things, would drain the life force from anyone… 🧪 🐋🍃
August 31st/September 1st 🧪
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
August 31st/September 1st 🧪
@natesilver538.tweet.pub is right, but for the wrong reasons, just drop for-profit publishers like @elseviersej.bsky.social post preprints…
August 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@natesilver538.tweet.pub is right, but for the wrong reasons, just drop for-profit publishers like @elseviersej.bsky.social post preprints…
See, I do other things than fact check 🦣🐺🦤 🧪 GoBills!
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
See, I do other things than fact check 🦣🐺🦤 🧪 GoBills!
I’m a broken record x2. Over on X the slander/pettiness continues from #ColossalBiosciences co-founder Ben Lamm; a pinned post to boot! I wonder who was quoted in a @newscientist.com story about Colossal’s critics‽ Hint, only a few of us; we want answers, and that’s a *big* problem for them…
August 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m a broken record x2. Over on X the slander/pettiness continues from #ColossalBiosciences co-founder Ben Lamm; a pinned post to boot! I wonder who was quoted in a @newscientist.com story about Colossal’s critics‽ Hint, only a few of us; we want answers, and that’s a *big* problem for them…
Yes, I’m a broken record. But meanwhile, over on X, from which I’m still banned but have a perfectly working Bluesky account, the slander and pettiness slanders and pettys on from #ColossalBiosciences et al…
August 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yes, I’m a broken record. But meanwhile, over on X, from which I’m still banned but have a perfectly working Bluesky account, the slander and pettiness slanders and pettys on from #ColossalBiosciences et al…
This is the offending image in question, seems like a colossal misrepresentation, but BUY their stuff. Don’t “but” it, my dictation and proofreading skills leave much to be improved!
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is the offending image in question, seems like a colossal misrepresentation, but BUY their stuff. Don’t “but” it, my dictation and proofreading skills leave much to be improved!
And I’m suspended again on X, and this time seems permanent, but the irony of simultaneously unlocking more posts is real. I guess “someone” really didn’t like how much I like Sir Richard Owen, he’s one of of my favorite biologists. Here he is posing next to a Moa skeleton, real big bird.
July 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
And I’m suspended again on X, and this time seems permanent, but the irony of simultaneously unlocking more posts is real. I guess “someone” really didn’t like how much I like Sir Richard Owen, he’s one of of my favorite biologists. Here he is posing next to a Moa skeleton, real big bird.
And I'm back, account was restored because I have receipts...
July 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
And I'm back, account was restored because I have receipts...
It has finally happened; my X account has been suspended, likely because I’ve accrued too many spurious DMCA copyright violations (for my own content!) or “someone” didn’t like my X thread on the life and times of the good Sir Richard Owen! Love this pic of him standing next to a Moa, real big bird.
July 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It has finally happened; my X account has been suspended, likely because I’ve accrued too many spurious DMCA copyright violations (for my own content!) or “someone” didn’t like my X thread on the life and times of the good Sir Richard Owen! Love this pic of him standing next to a Moa, real big bird.
his back to Darwin. Directly opposite Owen sits Darwin's bulldog Huxley, who like Darwin is cast in white marble, framed by the light of knowledge like a halo; both of them stuck in an eternal death stare end/n
July 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
his back to Darwin. Directly opposite Owen sits Darwin's bulldog Huxley, who like Darwin is cast in white marble, framed by the light of knowledge like a halo; both of them stuck in an eternal death stare end/n
William Whewell, for example, did everything He did everything, including research on ocean tides, mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics, he composing poetry and translated Goethe. He was a proponent of inductive logic 8/n
July 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
William Whewell, for example, did everything He did everything, including research on ocean tides, mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics, he composing poetry and translated Goethe. He was a proponent of inductive logic 8/n
I've got 2 DMCA claims for this pic of Owen, published under a CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal; it's free of restrictions under copyright law, so violation claims against me are just silly. But let's take this opportunity to learn about the life and times of Richard Owen 1/n 🧪 🐋🌱
July 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I've got 2 DMCA claims for this pic of Owen, published under a CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal; it's free of restrictions under copyright law, so violation claims against me are just silly. But let's take this opportunity to learn about the life and times of Richard Owen 1/n 🧪 🐋🌱
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!