A Borg cube we be so cool!

Never thought I’d get to sing “if we’re banned, we’ll be banned together” and “trans rights are human rights!” as part of a church hymn 😭🥹 The composer/author is Pax Ressler:

OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

Science? Pseudoscience? Can you spot the difference? “Charles Davenport’s Eugenics Record Office collected data on 1000s of Americans, hoping to ...create a more perfect human race.” www.mentalfloss.com/science/biol... #GildedAge #GreatGatsby #REALHalloweenHorror #Eugenics #JustMeThinking 🤔

OMG

I haven't shared this in a while, but it seems on topic right now.

LEGO Guinan!!!

Short answer: depends on what universe you're in

Do I know anyone versed in X-men cannon, specifically the X gene? I'm confused; is the X gene in everyone but only "activated" in some? Is it sex linked? If so X or Y? Did it evolve, or were humans genetically modified to have this X gene? Is it not well explained?

A totally cool primer on woolly mammoths 🦣 👀 #ExtinctionIsForever

These signs are awesome!

Don’t you want to just scratch that little spot behind thier adorable ears‽

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? 🧪

Is this Making America Great Again‽

If you’re calling these animals a “sea flap flap,” your taxonomy is out of date and you really need to get with the times. Rays have been called “charismatic pancakes of wonder” for many years now.

Do it!

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Which almost became our national emblem and then almost went extinct…

You only *feel* this if you experienced food insecurity, I did as a kid; born rich djt has never, he thinks those who do are lazy, of course doesn't care b/c it's a game to him and his ego, children, the elderly, disabled vets and others are to be used, not cared for. Is American great again yet?

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...

May his memory be a memory of how to not act…

@annabower.bsky.social @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org any idea or who to annoy about this?

Some context: minor appearing kinetic events, such as car accidents and falls, can have serious health consequences like TBI and CCI. These risks can be assessed, but only if they are...

For the lawyers: I'm an NYS EMT-D, no record, boring middle age cis-hetero white dude; if I observe a situation where I determine an injury is possible (at least in NY), am I allowed to intervene to assess a patient's current condition and medical history before they're detained? Please re-post.

The #ColossalBio Mammouse™️ v2.0 just dropped; same fluffy mouse but now v2.0 Check out Antonio Regalado’s original MIT Tech Review story about how #CollosalBio is attempting to legalize their definition of deëxtinction, but #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪 🦣 www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1...

I do wonder about plants a single celled things; do unicellular organism that turn cancerous just have a growth advantage and can extract resources faster and better and from their neighbors‽ 🧪 🐋🍃

OK, this one is just straight-up uncanny. The tech bro billionaire in the book Ghost Species (2020) uses the same public facing rhetoric, restoration ecology, as #ColossalBio to justifying the #deëxtinction of thylacines, mammoths, and aurochs 🧪 🦣 🐃 Nice review: lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

I assure you, "One question raised by the probabilities recited at Vincent’s birth" is a question many continue to ask. But I still can't shake the feeling that @cbo.bsky.social pasts self is trolling me: academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Woolly Mammoth microbiomes are a thing we can do now! #MammothMonday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Go. Bills.

Evolution just out there doing what it wants….

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Another terrific episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social: The Harvard Plan: We hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

It’s a good model, try it…

If anyone knows of earlier non/fiction stories please let me know 🧪 🚀

In hindsight, this novella predicts one of King and Wilson's arguments about the genetic bases of differences between species – chromosome number and arrangement; pretty prescient......

You have to laugh at some of the quotes in this piece about the smear campaign against critics of @itiscolossal.bsky.social. George Church says Ben Lamm "has faced technical hurdles and skeptics with respect & humor" www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/... 1/2

~75% of my social media posting

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

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Cool cool, what could go wrong‽

The scoop: To get to Mesquite's adventure game, type "ZoL" into the log window. You will find yourself in an open field with a mailbox. 📬 (If that does nothing, then you'll need to turn on "Use Log Window for Command" under File>Defaults>.)

Take it from someone who studies weird animal #Cancer, everything gets cancer…

Just in time for our #FndsDevoEvo conversation about eugenics (and that stupid jeans commercial)!

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

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I don’t have a problem with GMOs, I have a problem with #ColossalBio misrepresenting GMO grey wolves as Dire wolves™️ 🐺 🧪 #ExtinctionIsForever

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

Has anyone read "Extinction: A Novel" by Douglas Preston? 🧪