Victor Yan Kin Lee 李欣鍵
viclyk.bsky.social
Victor Yan Kin Lee 李欣鍵
@viclyk.bsky.social
PhD student at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen || interested in human evolution, genomics, culture and information
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Please share widely!
We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!
June 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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🔬 Uploading or finding ancient DNA data a headache? Help fix it!
Join our Standards in Human ancient DNA metadata workshop 🧬
🗓️ June 19, 2025
🕐 13:00–16:00 CET
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June 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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To huge media fanfare, Colossal Biosciences announced that it resurrected the dire wolf, brushing off criticisms from researchers. Now, Colossal's chief scientist has conceded that they are just modified grey wolves after all.
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolves
www.newscientist.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Hello,

Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.
Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability in southern African Paranthropus
Paranthropus robustus is a morphologically well-documented Early Pleistocene hominin species from southern Africa with no genetic evidence reported so far. In this work, we describe the mass spectrome...
doi.org
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM