The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

This is one of those 'wait what, LimeWire still exists?? Wait what Fyre Festival still exists??' moments. What happens when two binfires collide?

Luin @adamrutherford.bsky.social :n ”Lyhyt historia meistä kaikista - Ihmiskunnan tarina geenien kertomana” (#ISBN 978-952-279-665-3), suomennos: Veli-Pekka Ketola. Geneetikko: rotua ei ole. Termillä ei ole käyttökelpoista tieteellistä arvoa. #kirjataivas #kirjat

Me right now

As the Terminally Ill Adults Bill begins its Lords stages, here is the @humanists.uk assisted dying campaigner @nathan-stilwell.bsky.social on what happens now. humanists.uk/2025/09/11/w...

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Gone floppy.

I love this! It reminds me of Maurice Sendak’s best ever fan mail:

This editorial on Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech, was written by William Rees Mogg.

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Excellent ep as always. But on racism, an interesting thing is that incidences of racism directed at East Asian people skyrocketed during Covid. This was at every level from Trump calling it 'Kung Flu' and 'China Virus' to...

Lucy Van Dorp is one of the best scientists and people that I know. Join her lab, and do amazing work.

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Genuine question: what has AI provided so far that is actually good? That is deliberately open to interpretation.

I’d love to know where Doug gets his info from. Cos this is pretty straight up bullshit.

the best idea anyone ever had. Here's my take with the ever brilliant @ppfideas.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0_0...

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social wait, when did you start bleeping @iandunt.bsky.social?? Also: two excellent eps. Thanks you c**ts

Oh my Weapons is so so much fun. Proper scary, proper funny, totally gross 10/10

Excellent writing advice from one writer to another

Mansplaining your own obviously made up but still hopeless attempts at humour to your own robot. All Musk wants is to be funny and liked and he’s neither. This is how the world ends.

If you take all the repeated letters out of Gregg Wallace’s name you’re left with r and c. Edward Woodward reduces to E. Why, yes, I am on a book deadline.

DJ Shadow at Southp Facing, Crystal Palace, was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen.

An absolute scam. Does this serve science? No it does not. www.thebookseller.com/news/springe...

Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column. Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄

There’s an anti-sunscreen movement??

Good lord cricket.

Really excited to share the first paper from my PhD - it’s all about assumptions in modelling and the history of early population genetics… 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

'Mystery'

I love scrabble.

An Early View: A new commentary by @andyjmwalton.bsky.social, Dr Aylward, Prof Thomas, and ‪Dr @adamrutherford.bsky.social revisit the intellectual origins of #panmixia, revealing how essentialist assumptions shaped its early adoption in evolutionary theory, long before the Modern Synthesis.

I wonder what former scientist Beth Shapiro thinks about this. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Thorough discussion and dissection of ‘panmixia’ in population genetics - the idea that organisms in a group being studied reproduce randomly with one another. It’s an assumption at the heart of many analyses in population genetics even though true ‘panmictic’ populations are rare.

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨 The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists. doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨 The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists. doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

What about when Tony Stank invented a new element in Iron Man?

True

Viz, yet again 100% accurate.

For the third time, I demonstrate what good parenting is.

Fantastic Four is SUPERB. Total return to from. As good as the best MCU. Great casting, amazing design, fun, funny, thrilling. I've been waiting a lifetime to see that team, and the Herald. And fuck me, GALACTUS.

FF time. Please don’t disappoint. @iandunt.bsky.social is still cross with me for hating Superman.

Scientists don’t say this. Finding molecules in space that are biomolecules in living organisms only shows that the universe finds chemistry much easier to do than biochemists.

One for @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social

I’m sorry, what?

Oof. Superman is a total mess. Incomprehensible, shockingly bad special effects, zero originality, unwatchable fight geography, and worst of all, boring. Even though he spends most of the film lying down beaten up, David Corenswet is an excellent Soop though. Otherwise dreadful.

Such a good joke.

I am writing a new, fully revised, ten year anniversary edition of A Brief History Who Ever Lived. What should I include? It is notable how much influence Robin from Ghosts has had on my thinking.

Can someone lend me a couple of quid? www.peterharrington.co.uk/on-the-origi...

Grifters. Cynical, deceitful grifters.

1) The Ulster Institute doesn't exist. It's a PO Box. 2) 'We'? It's a 1 author paper, he's not the fucking queen. 3) PGS for populations separated by 1000s of years are different? I'm surprised Nature didn't go for that Breaking News. Typical total risible arsefapp from Mankind Quarterly clowns

Well this is confusing. All institutions interested in actually serving science rather than maintaining the corrupt hegemonic scam that is scientific publishing *should* cut ties with Springer, Elsevier etc. But I am pretty sure that this is not the reason. Eeeesh. www.nature.com/articles/d41...