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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...

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The awesomeness of museums

Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is very cool and I suspect more common than we might have expected…

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think a bigger concern with the “dire wolves“ is that Canids are not reproductively isolated — if released these GMO “dire wolves” would interbreed with wild gray wolves, and turn them into dire wolves? And when they mate with red wolves are they now dire ones? www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin...

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Is Synthetic Biology Worth the Risk?

Some say using synthetic biology to change the DNA of plants and animals could help species survive threats. Others say the technology is far too dicey.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The scientists have stressed, however, that this is just an idea and further research is needed.”

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ok what is the most death metal biology term? Cytokine storm? Programmed death 1? Executioner caspase? Other?

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are less than 192 mature individuals left in the world, when species go extinct, so do their unique cultures… #ExtinctionIsForEver 🦝 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozumel...

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Cozumel raccoon - Wikipedia

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you bored or something?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

There are days I regret going into the lab side of biology and not the "scrub a happy alligator named Claude" side.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"How to piss off a judge you appointed (and who issued a relatively modest ruling) in three easy steps."

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is my favorite week in my foundations of DevoEvo course — yesterday we talked about Platonic essentialism and play chair or not chair, tomorrow we talk about whether the X-Men are human! #DevoEvo #EvoDevo 🌱🐋

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reason #4738 i love my job: i get to say terms like “corkscrew vaginas” to students during office hours, for true legitimate science reasons!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Biology don't care about what you think, were lawless over here! 🧪

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🔥 @mammalssuck.bsky.social a madness matchup family inheritance squabble‽ You got all the legs and I got none! But everyone thinks I’m out of proportion but you’re cute!!!

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the stuffed body of Martha, the last known surviving passenger pigeon, on display in the Natural History Building of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum circa 1920 Martha, poor lonely Martha, has an interesting connection to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs... 🧵

black and white photo. Martha, looking to one side towards the camera, on a wooden-looking perch, looking to the camera against a blank background. her appearance is long, slender and upright.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FrescoFriday 🏺 Herculaneum HQ of College of the Augustales: society of freedmen dedicated to imperial cult of Augustus. Shrine room likely held statue of emperor on pillar in blind arch w laurel wreath above. On right Hercules + River Achelous in dispute over Deianira. #Roman

Two walls of the shrine room of the College of the Augustales in Herculaneum. On left is a wide shallow arch with a plinth in the centre that once held a statue, which would have been framed by the square painting behind it. Also within the arch are 2 other faint paintings. On either side of the arch are further paintings of decorative objects, and above these are bands of darker paintings with ?animal figures. Above those two more rectangular ones, with architectural features. Another broad painting above the arch has mostly been removed. The background to this wall is an intense bright blue.
The right wall has a red background. The large main image is painted within a painted arch with three figures. To the left are two paintings: the one at the top shows a winged male driving a chariot with two horses.
The lower part of the image shows bare walls where plaster has been removed. The floor has the remains of opus sectile coloured marble flooring.

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bills fans, is this what Trump meant when he said we’d be so tired of winning?! Victory Monday, Victory Friday! I’m exhausted! Go Bills!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Most think I hate @itiscolossal.bsky.social – I don't. The biotech they develop, if successful, will change medicine forever – simple genetic diseases? Gone. Infertility? Gone. Ways to improve crop yields? Done. It's their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign to gain notoriety that I object to...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/09/2026

Denisovans here, Denisovans there, Denisovans everywhere

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Part 2 is still no; also it’s not possible, so there’s that

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Disappointed by the lack of answers on Bluesky to this good question, any #PopGen colleagues willing to give an answer here?

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“As philosopher Immanuel Kant once said, we can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals,” except for the endangered ones –– just let them go extinct, so we can be done with them already... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/c...

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States File 2 Lawsuits Over Trump’s Cuts to Endangered Species Act

Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial activities.

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think @arambaut.bsky.social has come to the same conclusion based on github.com/artic-networ...

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GitHub - artic-network/peartree

Contribute to artic-network/peartree development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Awesome! Now someone please do SeAl and MacClade — please🙏

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jolynda0221.bsky.social @jolynda0221.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So they figured out how to reverse engineer a Samsung?! 🙄

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

With a little time now past, I'm wondering what pop gen peeps make of this paper... do the findings seem solid?

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve always wondered if free will is common in other organisms but not recognized by our primitive primate brains 🧠, or if there is no free will and we make innate decisions we assign to it‽ 🧐 either way looking forward to the interview!

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