Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
@drpintothe2nd.bsky.social
[he/him]
Judoka/traveler/etc; Staff Scientist at a Place-of-Research && Research Associate at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Gilbert, AZ.
Judoka/traveler/etc; Staff Scientist at a Place-of-Research && Research Associate at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Gilbert, AZ.
*me when the ACA subsidies lapse*
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat
Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits alone on a bus saying "I'm in danger"
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
*me when the ACA subsidies lapse*
Big S/O to other folks who generated and shared their high-quality data with us (some published, some not) to help develop our understanding of the tool and framework.
They truly made this work possible! Folks like @tododge.bsky.social @lngray.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social, to name just a few 🙏🏼🦸♂️🦸♀️🧬
They truly made this work possible! Folks like @tododge.bsky.social @lngray.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social, to name just a few 🙏🏼🦸♂️🦸♀️🧬
🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Big S/O to other folks who generated and shared their high-quality data with us (some published, some not) to help develop our understanding of the tool and framework.
They truly made this work possible! Folks like @tododge.bsky.social @lngray.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social, to name just a few 🙏🏼🦸♂️🦸♀️🧬
They truly made this work possible! Folks like @tododge.bsky.social @lngray.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social, to name just a few 🙏🏼🦸♂️🦸♀️🧬
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🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
July 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🚨Preprint🚨
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Sex chromosome identification & genome curation from a single individual with SCINKD
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Incredible work led by @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social in collaboration w/ @drsimonegable.bsky.social @stuartvnielsen.bsky.social @tonygamble.bsky.social SE Keating & CH Smith
Needs to be said:
I've been studying geckos for 10 years now and have so far received a 0% discount on my car insurance.
I've been studying geckos for 10 years now and have so far received a 0% discount on my car insurance.
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Needs to be said:
I've been studying geckos for 10 years now and have so far received a 0% discount on my car insurance.
I've been studying geckos for 10 years now and have so far received a 0% discount on my car insurance.
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I am thrilled to announce that I will be starting my lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University in January 2026! I will soon be recruiting graduate students and postdocs, so stay tuned and please reach out if you know anybody that might be interested! 🐍🐻🧬
June 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I am thrilled to announce that I will be starting my lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at Michigan State University in January 2026! I will soon be recruiting graduate students and postdocs, so stay tuned and please reach out if you know anybody that might be interested! 🐍🐻🧬
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Gila monsters! One of the rare venomous reptiles. A peptide in their saliva/venom, exendin-4, is the basis of GLP-1 agonists, like semaglutide, to regulate insulin. We developed the first draft sequence of the Gila monster genome and are working on updating this now with newer technology.
June 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Gila monsters! One of the rare venomous reptiles. A peptide in their saliva/venom, exendin-4, is the basis of GLP-1 agonists, like semaglutide, to regulate insulin. We developed the first draft sequence of the Gila monster genome and are working on updating this now with newer technology.
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
Intelligence researcher Robert Sternberg on IQ tests: "Standardized tests, based on modern Western notions of intelligence, are seriously limited and narrow because modern Western notions of intelligence are seriously limited and narrow" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Time Bomb: How the Western Conception of Intelligence Is Taking Down Humanity
During the twentieth century, IQs rose an incredible 30 points—two full standard deviations! Higher IQs may have helped people deal better with computers, cell phones, and other technological in...
link.springer.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Intelligence researcher Robert Sternberg on IQ tests: "Standardized tests, based on modern Western notions of intelligence, are seriously limited and narrow because modern Western notions of intelligence are seriously limited and narrow" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
May 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The average American has three friends.
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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
April 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
This is what we're up to and couldn't be more excited about it!
Come join the party! 🙂
Come join the party! 🙂
We will be focusing on new methods to improve identifying genetic variation, collaborating with clinical collaborators on rare disease, building connections with local hospitals to study placenta and developmental origins of disease, and framing it all using comparative vertebrate genomics.
April 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is what we're up to and couldn't be more excited about it!
Come join the party! 🙂
Come join the party! 🙂
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In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research.
Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland.
We are hiring postdocs & postbacs!
Please reach out :)
Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland.
We are hiring postdocs & postbacs!
Please reach out :)
April 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research.
Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland.
We are hiring postdocs & postbacs!
Please reach out :)
Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland.
We are hiring postdocs & postbacs!
Please reach out :)
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
Here is a little legless lizard from LA County.
People often ask, how come it’s a lizard and not a snake? It really comes down to genetics, but there are some big hints in its morphology: eyelids that blink, a tail that can detach.
Southern California Legless Lizard - Anniella stebbinsi
#herps 🦎
People often ask, how come it’s a lizard and not a snake? It really comes down to genetics, but there are some big hints in its morphology: eyelids that blink, a tail that can detach.
Southern California Legless Lizard - Anniella stebbinsi
#herps 🦎
April 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Here is a little legless lizard from LA County.
People often ask, how come it’s a lizard and not a snake? It really comes down to genetics, but there are some big hints in its morphology: eyelids that blink, a tail that can detach.
Southern California Legless Lizard - Anniella stebbinsi
#herps 🦎
People often ask, how come it’s a lizard and not a snake? It really comes down to genetics, but there are some big hints in its morphology: eyelids that blink, a tail that can detach.
Southern California Legless Lizard - Anniella stebbinsi
#herps 🦎
Capitalism will not save us from the problems that it helped create in the first place
We need real solutions to our very real climate and biodiversity crises
Hank makes great points about why what colossal is doing isnt what they publicly claim (and they know it too): youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?...
We need real solutions to our very real climate and biodiversity crises
Hank makes great points about why what colossal is doing isnt what they publicly claim (and they know it too): youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?...
They Didn't Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something…Else
YouTube video by hankschannel
youtu.be
April 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Capitalism will not save us from the problems that it helped create in the first place
We need real solutions to our very real climate and biodiversity crises
Hank makes great points about why what colossal is doing isnt what they publicly claim (and they know it too): youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?...
We need real solutions to our very real climate and biodiversity crises
Hank makes great points about why what colossal is doing isnt what they publicly claim (and they know it too): youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?...
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
www.scientificamerican.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
I make up a tiny, tiny portion of the HHS contract spending. I still don't know if I'll be cut.
Please don't forget that contract spending includes contract workers. These are the folks who have kept the government going through FTE expansions and reductions. They are important federal workers.
Please don't forget that contract spending includes contract workers. These are the folks who have kept the government going through FTE expansions and reductions. They are important federal workers.
"DOGE has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to reduce all of its contract spending by 35%" www.notus.org/health-scien...
DOGE Orders HHS to Cut 35% of Contract Spending
In one email obtained by NOTUS, NIH employees were told they could not “use mission criticality as a justification to not make cuts.”
www.notus.org
April 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I make up a tiny, tiny portion of the HHS contract spending. I still don't know if I'll be cut.
Please don't forget that contract spending includes contract workers. These are the folks who have kept the government going through FTE expansions and reductions. They are important federal workers.
Please don't forget that contract spending includes contract workers. These are the folks who have kept the government going through FTE expansions and reductions. They are important federal workers.
Today, G**gle search AI cited my own work to say that a species I study has the wrong number of chromosomes.
Never accept AI vomit as fact.
Never accept AI vomit as fact.
April 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Today, G**gle search AI cited my own work to say that a species I study has the wrong number of chromosomes.
Never accept AI vomit as fact.
Never accept AI vomit as fact.
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No. Absolutely not.
March 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
No. Absolutely not.
Me: "Unfortunately, today isn't opposite day.."
8 yo: "Oh, dang!"
Me: *whew*
Me: "Yeah, big shame that.."
8 yo: "Oh, dang!"
Me: *whew*
Me: "Yeah, big shame that.."
March 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Me: "Unfortunately, today isn't opposite day.."
8 yo: "Oh, dang!"
Me: *whew*
Me: "Yeah, big shame that.."
8 yo: "Oh, dang!"
Me: *whew*
Me: "Yeah, big shame that.."
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
How should federal unions respond to Trump's push to cancel union rights for roughly 700K workers?
Seize today's media spotlight to call on hundreds of thousands of fed workers — & millions of other union members & supporters — to take to the streets on April 5
Then escalate
Seize today's media spotlight to call on hundreds of thousands of fed workers — & millions of other union members & supporters — to take to the streets on April 5
Then escalate
March 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How should federal unions respond to Trump's push to cancel union rights for roughly 700K workers?
Seize today's media spotlight to call on hundreds of thousands of fed workers — & millions of other union members & supporters — to take to the streets on April 5
Then escalate
Seize today's media spotlight to call on hundreds of thousands of fed workers — & millions of other union members & supporters — to take to the streets on April 5
Then escalate
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
Dear Democratic Members of Congress,
Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it.
Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it!
Signed,
Americans
Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it.
Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it!
Signed,
Americans
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Dear Democratic Members of Congress,
Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it.
Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it!
Signed,
Americans
Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it.
Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it!
Signed,
Americans
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If you're a unionized worker looking to fight back, get in touch with your union as well as @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
www.federalunionists.net/join-us
www.federalunionists.net/join-us
Federal Unionists Network - Join Us!
Join Us!
www.federalunionists.net
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If you're a unionized worker looking to fight back, get in touch with your union as well as @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
www.federalunionists.net/join-us
www.federalunionists.net/join-us
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We don't actually have to listen and report on what these assholes say. Having billions of dollars does not make your opinions more valuable than anyone else.
In fact we shouldn't listen to your opinion on anything because you are a little dragon hoarding wealth and watching people suffer.
In fact we shouldn't listen to your opinion on anything because you are a little dragon hoarding wealth and watching people suffer.
It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
www.nbcchicago.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
We don't actually have to listen and report on what these assholes say. Having billions of dollars does not make your opinions more valuable than anyone else.
In fact we shouldn't listen to your opinion on anything because you are a little dragon hoarding wealth and watching people suffer.
In fact we shouldn't listen to your opinion on anything because you are a little dragon hoarding wealth and watching people suffer.
Reposted by Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."