Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault These attitudes are shaping policies that affect millions of people

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy's View, It Might Be a Patient's Own Fault www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Texas researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport A legal permanent resident with a green card who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at the San Francisco I...

apnews.com/article/texa... researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport

Scientists Found Sticky Goo Inside a 2,500-Year-Old Jar. Seventy Years Later, They Finally Know What It Is By studying the mysterious substance's chemical makeup, scientists determined the pot was once full of honey

It's reassuring to know that letting your beverages dry out in your workplace coffee mugs and turning them into disgusting gobs of sticky goo is an ancient and time-honored practice.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Are you even a PI if you don’t‽

Don’t handle bats, unless you know what you’re doing like @jacquelyngill.bsky.social; we study bats, and make bat cell lines from skin biopsies, but I’d never handle one myself 🦇

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Osprey?

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

Press release out today on our new paper detailing the convergent origins of obligate ant and termite eating in mammals!

From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

5 dynamical systems concepts every developmental biologist needs to know! This came out of the 2023 Morphogenesis Program. @pauformosa.bsky.social ‪@perez-carrasco.bsky.social‬
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Sydney Sweeney in an American Eagle ad wearing a denim jacket and jeans.

I've had enough.

In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.

This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵

This thread keeps getting better…

Working on a ceramic report from my early research on Aztec-Period Morelos. Here is a polychrome serving bowl (Xochicalco) a cacao goblet (Coatetelco) and a pulque pitcher fr an undetermined site. Most of my work is with fragmentary sherds, and these whole vessels help identify the sherds. 1/

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

Queen of the Steppe
(yes it's a 3d render)

New cave lion just dropped…

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

WTF missed this…

Gasp! A gender neutral pronoun…

Quite the prescient thread here.

Biggly

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65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics Researchers closely examined the genomes of 65 individuals to paint a more complex, and more complete, picture of human genetic diversity.

Complete genomes alert! @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social, and I were on @scifri.bsky.social today talking about "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes"
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📻 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/65-...

good lord

Was on a trail run in Utah and came across a big female with a little calf; turned around immediately…

Lawfare Live: Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 1 YouTube video by Lawfare

Talking politicization of the Justice Department live on @lawfaremedia.org YouTube now! Tune in: youtube.com/live/vkiYdSv...

Happy Friday and congratulations on surviving another week! We hope birds bring you some relaxation and joy this weekend. 🐦

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

Same, thanks for calling this out. It can be hard to discern information from disinformation these days.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.

'Not since the Red Scare, when researchers at the University of California had to sign loyalty oaths, and those at the University of Washington and MIT were disciplined or fired for being suspected Communists, has American science been so beholden to political ideology'

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters!

We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇