Thank you @agbioworld.bsky.social! I’m honored and deeply humbled.

It’s not just us, our primate relatives love alcohol, ingest much everyday! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/liquid-...

Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December! cast-science.org/2025-bcca/

How’s your mitochondria doing today?

World’s first gene-edited horses are being turbocharged with CRISPR, faster sprinting for polo, in Argentina www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“It gives me great pride that moving forward, after I’m long gone, there’s going to be a building that is sitting here that is going to help the future generations of students and scientists here, and that that’s how things move forward,” www.waka.com/2025/08/25/t...

The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...

Not directly related, but Joe Hanson has a new video. Am I wrong in thinking this contains unsubstantiated fear mongering? youtu.be/H8c1ObYSlQI?...

Fighting back against the Trump administration means scientists start to look more like activists www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Law students should not interview with these firms.

Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries

Science is hard. You gotta prove it, test it, and reproduce the results. Pseudoscience is easy. You make it up, add some fear, and watch ignorant people spread it.

The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment crises. It’s a trend federal data and other sources show began even before Trump returned to the White House. hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...

The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

Lysenko’s pseudoscientific ideas led to policies in the Soviet Union that did kill millions in the past. Bhattacharya tried and failed to do that with the Great Barrington Declaration, but now, as NIH director he is on track to succeed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2

How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...

My Interview - 'Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications....has been a leading biotech and genetics researcher, educator, and social media personality. He has spent time with Pope Francis, was friends with Dr. Borlaug .. www.metaldoglabs.ai/dr-channa-pr...

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.

The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia

Genome edited wheat, which could be beneficial to health thanks to increased fiber content, approved for field trials. Meanwhile, me waiting for genome editing to be allowed in EU/Switzerland:

Smart insect pretending to be a stick!

A high-fiber wheat developed at Chile gets a regulatory nod to advance to field trials. This is the first CRISPR-edited wheat to receive such regulatory approval in the Americas! @DanielNorero‬⁩ neocroptech.com/en/regulator...

On Agriculture and American Progress: Talk with Mackenzie Burnett, CEO and co-founder of @Ambrook, - build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses @rpethe www.metaldoglabs.ai/mackenzie-bu...

The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...

Science at the service of humanity. s/

Potatoes today might have evolved with help from an early tomato, according to a new paper published in the journal Cell www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

My Facebook page AgBioWorld with 110k followers has been hacked or taken down by FB! Another called The Story has changed its name to Agbioworld. See www.facebook.com/forestislandy Frustratingly FB is not responding to my complaints. Can someone help me on how I can have this page restored?

A 7-year feeding study with insect-resistant & herbicide-tolerant GM maize was conducted on monkeys. No statistically significant differences were observed in the majority of parameters between the GM-fed and control (non-GM and normal diet) groups. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40705638/

Same old. 30 years of safe use.

A 7-year feeding study with insect-resistant & herbicide-tolerant GM maize was conducted on monkeys. No statistically significant differences were observed in the majority of parameters between the GM-fed and control (non-GM and normal diet) groups. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40705638/

Here’s your swamp, MAGA, you blockheads. Nice pedophile savior you’ve got there. Keep flying those baby rapist flags. Keep rocking those baby rapist bumper stickers. Deplorable hillbilly dumbfuckers. You’ve destroyed America with your bottomless idiocy.

Strangely enough half of Americans actually believe they are living in the greatest country in the world? Its got the education system and propaganda media like FOX

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your future www.americanprogress.org/article/mapp...

How a wild peanut strain help scientists develop a better variety, an awesome PlantBreeding story in ⁦‪@nytimes‬⁩! Congratulations ⁦‪@BotanyBert‬⁩. Remove the paywall at archive.is/2025.07.24-1... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

A new med school by Walmart heiress has emphasis on whole health, which a touch of art & humanities! time.com/7303692/alic...

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Bombardier beetle sprays hot, toxic chemical as a defense against predators that can reach temperatures of boiling water

Must be for growing tomatoes ;)

😞 Poachers have killed two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya, leaving just one in the world. The 2 giraffes to be killed were a mother and her seven-month-old calf. The white appearance of the giraffe is due to leucism, a genetic condition www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Cancer is now less deadly than you think, thanks to science! The world is making impressive progress averting cancer. And there are more improvements to come www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Thank you Stephen Colbert for your willingness to speak truth to power. Staying far from timid. And never bending the knee to a wannabe king.