Writing essay on #DeExtinction and found this quote from #Darwin: “When a group has once wholly disappeared, it does not reappear; for the link of generation has been broken.”
From On The Origin of Species Chapter X (On Extinction) 😙🤌 🧪 🐋🌱
From On The Origin of Species Chapter X (On Extinction) 😙🤌 🧪 🐋🌱
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Writing essay on #DeExtinction and found this quote from #Darwin: “When a group has once wholly disappeared, it does not reappear; for the link of generation has been broken.”
From On The Origin of Species Chapter X (On Extinction) 😙🤌 🧪 🐋🌱
From On The Origin of Species Chapter X (On Extinction) 😙🤌 🧪 🐋🌱
The #BioTech #ColossalBio is developing will transform healthcare; genetic disease & infertility? Gone. Monetizing tech is the point, not deëxtinction, but that tech begets designer babies (aka eugenics) — this is why critical discussion of their rhetoric matters 🧪 🐋🌱
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?
A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The #BioTech #ColossalBio is developing will transform healthcare; genetic disease & infertility? Gone. Monetizing tech is the point, not deëxtinction, but that tech begets designer babies (aka eugenics) — this is why critical discussion of their rhetoric matters 🧪 🐋🌱
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#DeExtinction is (almost) always analogized to #JurassicPark, but the more apt analogy is the @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Maddaddam trilogy; in which #syntheticbiology is used for #Aesthetics and profit not conservation 🧪 🐋🍃
The age of #SyntheticBiology and development of specific purpose GMOs in the name of #DeExtinction, #ReWilding and #Aesthetics is here; it’s good that #IUCN is not fundraising from the private sector to reduce “anyrisk of perceived conflict of interest.”(@itiscolossal.bsky.social 👀) 🧪 🐋🍃
Important topic being addressed at the current IUCN Congress due to recent events: iucn.org/our-work/inf...
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#DeExtinction is (almost) always analogized to #JurassicPark, but the more apt analogy is the @margaretatwood.bsky.social #Maddaddam trilogy; in which #syntheticbiology is used for #Aesthetics and profit not conservation 🧪 🐋🍃
In which my critical commentary of @itiscolossal.bsky.social's #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign sadly merits a subsection; debate is essential for scientific discourse, it should be heated, never be personal; I'm grateful for @embopress.org coverage; sunlight is the best disinfectant. 🧪 🌱🐋
My first ever non-peer reviewed science-related piece. Together with Howard Wolinsky and Holger Breithaupt @embopress.org
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
It's about how scientists critical of de-extinction are targeted by dark PR tactics: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
www.embopress.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
In which my critical commentary of @itiscolossal.bsky.social's #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign sadly merits a subsection; debate is essential for scientific discourse, it should be heated, never be personal; I'm grateful for @embopress.org coverage; sunlight is the best disinfectant. 🧪 🌱🐋
Throughout my academic career, I have only uplifted my colleagues; you don’t make enemies that way either. Mr. Lamm may be a charismatic billionaire, but that doesn't make him a good person, or the #ColossalBio #Deëxtinction #MisInformation real 7/n
September 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Throughout my academic career, I have only uplifted my colleagues; you don’t make enemies that way either. Mr. Lamm may be a charismatic billionaire, but that doesn't make him a good person, or the #ColossalBio #Deëxtinction #MisInformation real 7/n
We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'It's just a weird, weird bird': Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong
The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we have distorted what the dodo was really like.
www.bbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Reposting for all the obvious reasons: we live in a zero-sum media landscape, drawing attention to this "pivotal step" in the #deëxtinction of the dodo takes attention away from other infinitely more important things. #ColossalBio is just making deepfake GMO pigeons, not dodos 🦤 🧪
A sad consequence of all this deëxtinction nonsense is that this lovely story about what the dodo really looked like and art and science has to include a discussion of #ColossalBio and deëxtinction 🦤 🧪
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposting for all the obvious reasons: we live in a zero-sum media landscape, drawing attention to this "pivotal step" in the #deëxtinction of the dodo takes attention away from other infinitely more important things. #ColossalBio is just making deepfake GMO pigeons, not dodos 🦤 🧪
There is a problem that tech bros (and I guess macho autocrats) think biology education is for girls. Makes them supremely vulnerable to con jobs like living forever as they don’t have the knowledge to see through it. See also AI, terraforming mars, eugenics, alternative medicine, deextinction etc.
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
There is a problem that tech bros (and I guess macho autocrats) think biology education is for girls. Makes them supremely vulnerable to con jobs like living forever as they don’t have the knowledge to see through it. See also AI, terraforming mars, eugenics, alternative medicine, deextinction etc.
A few months ago, we released the Styracosaurus TLC! Have a look behind the scenes and see all the work that went into revitalizing this dino's model, textures, and animations.
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #DeExtinction #styracosaurus #dinoTLC
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #DeExtinction #styracosaurus #dinoTLC
De-Extinction - Styracosaurus TLC
YouTube video by Path of Titans
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September 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A few months ago, we released the Styracosaurus TLC! Have a look behind the scenes and see all the work that went into revitalizing this dino's model, textures, and animations.
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #DeExtinction #styracosaurus #dinoTLC
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #DeExtinction #styracosaurus #dinoTLC
The technology used to create the faux dire wolves can be used to introduce genetic diversity into a small red wolf population to prevent a genetic bottleneck.
The deextinction but is for publicity for sure.
The deextinction but is for publicity for sure.
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The technology used to create the faux dire wolves can be used to introduce genetic diversity into a small red wolf population to prevent a genetic bottleneck.
The deextinction but is for publicity for sure.
The deextinction but is for publicity for sure.
Colossal Biosciences brings dire wolves back from extinction with CRISPR—and Peter Jackson & George R.R. Martin are in on it!
#CRISPR #DeExtinction #ScienceMeetsMagic #ColossalBiosciences #Biotech #DireWolves #Conservation #PeterJackson #GeorgeRRMartin #Innovation #NatureRevival
#CRISPR #DeExtinction #ScienceMeetsMagic #ColossalBiosciences #Biotech #DireWolves #Conservation #PeterJackson #GeorgeRRMartin #Innovation #NatureRevival
What Does Colossal Biosciences Do? De-Extinction Secrets Unveiled with Peter Jackson and George R.R. Martin Ties
Ever wondered What Does Colossal Biosciences Do? This Dallas-based biotech powerhouse is rewriting the rules of science by bringing extinct species back to life—think Jurassic Park, but with a real-wo...
www.theomenmedia.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Colossal Biosciences brings dire wolves back from extinction with CRISPR—and Peter Jackson & George R.R. Martin are in on it!
#CRISPR #DeExtinction #ScienceMeetsMagic #ColossalBiosciences #Biotech #DireWolves #Conservation #PeterJackson #GeorgeRRMartin #Innovation #NatureRevival
#CRISPR #DeExtinction #ScienceMeetsMagic #ColossalBiosciences #Biotech #DireWolves #Conservation #PeterJackson #GeorgeRRMartin #Innovation #NatureRevival
Colossal Biosciences achieved a scientific first -- revived an extinct species: the Dire Wolf! 🐾 🔬
But just because we can bring species back… does that mean we should?🤔 NEW Hastings BF essay by @robertklitzman.bsky.social,
READ bit.ly/4lsqica
#HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DeExtinction #DireWolf
But just because we can bring species back… does that mean we should?🤔 NEW Hastings BF essay by @robertklitzman.bsky.social,
READ bit.ly/4lsqica
#HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DeExtinction #DireWolf
April 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Colossal Biosciences achieved a scientific first -- revived an extinct species: the Dire Wolf! 🐾 🔬
But just because we can bring species back… does that mean we should?🤔 NEW Hastings BF essay by @robertklitzman.bsky.social,
READ bit.ly/4lsqica
#HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DeExtinction #DireWolf
But just because we can bring species back… does that mean we should?🤔 NEW Hastings BF essay by @robertklitzman.bsky.social,
READ bit.ly/4lsqica
#HastingsCenter #Bioethics #DeExtinction #DireWolf
Now begins the final set of @TEDxDeExtinction talks: people who are rewilding the planet right now. http://new.livestream.com/tedx/DeExtinction
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new.livestream.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Now begins the final set of @TEDxDeExtinction talks: people who are rewilding the planet right now. http://new.livestream.com/tedx/DeExtinction
'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years #Science #Biology #Genetics #Deextinction #Biodiversity #GeneticsInnovation
'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years
The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences
purescience.news
July 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years #Science #Biology #Genetics #Deextinction #Biodiversity #GeneticsInnovation
We chase the ghosts of the past & the whispers of the future, reviving the extinct, searching the void for life. But what about the present? Species vanish. Forests fall. Oceans empty.
Protect what still breathes.
#ConservationFirst #ExtinctionIsForever #EthicalDilemma #DeExtinction #Astrobiology
Protect what still breathes.
#ConservationFirst #ExtinctionIsForever #EthicalDilemma #DeExtinction #Astrobiology
March 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We chase the ghosts of the past & the whispers of the future, reviving the extinct, searching the void for life. But what about the present? Species vanish. Forests fall. Oceans empty.
Protect what still breathes.
#ConservationFirst #ExtinctionIsForever #EthicalDilemma #DeExtinction #Astrobiology
Protect what still breathes.
#ConservationFirst #ExtinctionIsForever #EthicalDilemma #DeExtinction #Astrobiology
See also the viral news story about the deextinction of the Dire Wolf, albeit zoologists did a much better job of debunking that one immediately than OSINT folks are able to around CECOT fan fiction by random people with access to Google maps.
April 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
See also the viral news story about the deextinction of the Dire Wolf, albeit zoologists did a much better job of debunking that one immediately than OSINT folks are able to around CECOT fan fiction by random people with access to Google maps.
I see we’re doing deextinction discourse again, I’ll bite!
Genotypes (DNA variation) alone do not make a phenotype (how bodies look, function, behave).
Even if we reproduced an extinct genome, that animal doesn’t necessarily have the developmental context and learned culture of the extinct species
Genotypes (DNA variation) alone do not make a phenotype (how bodies look, function, behave).
Even if we reproduced an extinct genome, that animal doesn’t necessarily have the developmental context and learned culture of the extinct species
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I see we’re doing deextinction discourse again, I’ll bite!
Genotypes (DNA variation) alone do not make a phenotype (how bodies look, function, behave).
Even if we reproduced an extinct genome, that animal doesn’t necessarily have the developmental context and learned culture of the extinct species
Genotypes (DNA variation) alone do not make a phenotype (how bodies look, function, behave).
Even if we reproduced an extinct genome, that animal doesn’t necessarily have the developmental context and learned culture of the extinct species
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
#DeExtinction
#ResurrectingTheMoa
10 years to resurrect a giant moa. I wish they would use their research dollars to save existing creatures and their environments
#DeExtinction
#ResurrectingTheMoa
10 years to resurrect a giant moa. I wish they would use their research dollars to save existing creatures and their environments
'We're bringing back avian dinosaurs': De-extinction company claims it will resurrect the giant moa in next 10 years
The South Island giant moa could be the next species that biotech company Colossal Biosciences "brings back" from extinction — but experts say the result will not and "cannot be" a moa.
www.livescience.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
#DeExtinction
#ResurrectingTheMoa
10 years to resurrect a giant moa. I wish they would use their research dollars to save existing creatures and their environments
#DeExtinction
#ResurrectingTheMoa
10 years to resurrect a giant moa. I wish they would use their research dollars to save existing creatures and their environments
Most of the deextinction focus is on modern species, not e.g. Apatosaurus.
July 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Most of the deextinction focus is on modern species, not e.g. Apatosaurus.
I used alamy picture as a reference for the drawing base idea for drawing ✏️💡.
Tags: #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #newpost #newtweet #drepanosaurusunguicaudatus #triassicanimal #animalenclosure #Animalmorphingpower #Deextinction
Tags: #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #newpost #newtweet #drepanosaurusunguicaudatus #triassicanimal #animalenclosure #Animalmorphingpower #Deextinction
September 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I used alamy picture as a reference for the drawing base idea for drawing ✏️💡.
Tags: #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #newpost #newtweet #drepanosaurusunguicaudatus #triassicanimal #animalenclosure #Animalmorphingpower #Deextinction
Tags: #drawingoftheday #dailydrawing #newpost #newtweet #drepanosaurusunguicaudatus #triassicanimal #animalenclosure #Animalmorphingpower #Deextinction
Podcast: Can & should we resurrect extinct species? Practical insights from Restoration Ecologist & Professor - Virginia Matzek - on the #Case4Conservation Podcast.
First how #DeExtinction “works” then the various arguments “for” & “against”.
shorturl.at/JJZLU
First how #DeExtinction “works” then the various arguments “for” & “against”.
shorturl.at/JJZLU
40. Should we resurrect extinct species? (Virginia Matzek)
January 2024
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December 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Podcast: Can & should we resurrect extinct species? Practical insights from Restoration Ecologist & Professor - Virginia Matzek - on the #Case4Conservation Podcast.
First how #DeExtinction “works” then the various arguments “for” & “against”.
shorturl.at/JJZLU
First how #DeExtinction “works” then the various arguments “for” & “against”.
shorturl.at/JJZLU
The quagmire of attempting to re-animate the dead https://theconversation.com/can-we-resurrect-the-thylacine-maybe-but-it-wont-help-the-global-extinction-crisis-178425 #deextinction #conservation #biodiversitycrisis
November 20, 2024 at 1:17 AM
The quagmire of attempting to re-animate the dead https://theconversation.com/can-we-resurrect-the-thylacine-maybe-but-it-wont-help-the-global-extinction-crisis-178425 #deextinction #conservation #biodiversitycrisis
#NotTheOnion – #woolley #mouse raises appetite for annexing #Canada & #alignment with #Russia. Like the #Ukraine war, this project goes on for a while.
Zimov, Sergey A. "Pleistocene park: return of the mammoth's ecosystem." Science 308, no. 5723 (2005): 796-798.
Zimov, Sergey A. "Pleistocene park: return of the mammoth's ecosystem." Science 308, no. 5723 (2005): 796-798.
March 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#NotTheOnion – #woolley #mouse raises appetite for annexing #Canada & #alignment with #Russia. Like the #Ukraine war, this project goes on for a while.
Zimov, Sergey A. "Pleistocene park: return of the mammoth's ecosystem." Science 308, no. 5723 (2005): 796-798.
Zimov, Sergey A. "Pleistocene park: return of the mammoth's ecosystem." Science 308, no. 5723 (2005): 796-798.
A species is whatever we want it to be, so everyone is correct 👏🏼
This short interview by the New Scientist gets to the crux of the whole thing pretty well.
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
#colossal #direwolf #evolutionarybiology #deextinction
This short interview by the New Scientist gets to the crux of the whole thing pretty well.
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
#colossal #direwolf #evolutionarybiology #deextinction
![So these pups aren’t really dire wolves at all, then?
It all comes down to how you define species, says Shapiro. “Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ubnozaapk5skk4mmovqtenq/bafkreibu4vuypl2xmqxqvc5ib5i6firc7zpdymtxeygvr5cnnqcnlqbxoi@jpeg)
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A species is whatever we want it to be, so everyone is correct 👏🏼
This short interview by the New Scientist gets to the crux of the whole thing pretty well.
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
#colossal #direwolf #evolutionarybiology #deextinction
This short interview by the New Scientist gets to the crux of the whole thing pretty well.
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
#colossal #direwolf #evolutionarybiology #deextinction
My comments on #deExtinction prospects and conservation risks here:
www.thenationalnews.com/future/scien... inspired by those that have demonstrated it could easily yield net biodiversity loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.thenationalnews.com/future/scien... inspired by those that have demonstrated it could easily yield net biodiversity loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
The $10 billion Jurassic Park-style plan to revive the woolly mammoth and the dodo | The National
Colossal Biosciences has an ambitious vision - and its chief executive says making de-extinction a reality is 'closer than many people think'
www.thenationalnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My comments on #deExtinction prospects and conservation risks here:
www.thenationalnews.com/future/scien... inspired by those that have demonstrated it could easily yield net biodiversity loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.thenationalnews.com/future/scien... inspired by those that have demonstrated it could easily yield net biodiversity loss www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎