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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

An image from Time magazine, which I screen-shot from Colossal Biosciences’ Instagram account of a bluish antelope in a presumably African grassland (that is almost certainly AI-generated). This will likely be flagged as a DCMA violation and taken down.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

FYI, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol authority extends 100 air miles away from the border. You know, where the big cities are and most people live…

Source: https://www.aclu-nm.org/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-100-mile-border-zone/

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I love to talk about shifting perspectives in #EvoBio #DevoEvo told through them, but mostly going on vibes/feels and my own stroll through the mesum to meet my old friends; and an old @theathletic.com article; poor Owen, cast in black hidden under some stairs: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A dual photo of Huxley, carved out of white marble, and cast the backlight of five elegant plate glass windows, facing down a cast iron sculpture of Richard Owen, features obscured in black, meaning passersby with a bone, and hidden; opposite Darwin, hidden under some stairs.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just found out not everyone knows about the “Great Hippocampus Question” in evolutionary biology. Please enjoy a timeline cleanse. 🧪 🐋🍃 #DevoEvo #EvoDevo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water-babies_2.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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? 🧪

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Guess what‽ Wilson explicitly includes mutations in regulatory *proteins* AND mutations in regulatory elements; it's not just mutations that matter, but mutations in regulatory things, whatever those regulatory things are...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

About half of the Queen Anne’s lace in our park has a small red petals in the center; does anyone know if this has a genetic basis? 🧪

A picture of white Queen Anne’s lace with the red spot in the center

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

These three figures get me every time: Our conceptualization of heredity; the explanations which have the most explanatory force. I cannot overstate the importance of this book to #DevoEvo; it wrote us back into evolution; archetypes and all. (Re-reading for my foundations of DevoEvo class)....

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is a really fun kids book about the seriousness of extinction; it’s subversive in the best satirical way. Support the author and buy it: a.co/d/3oQ9XfB

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The similarity between the cast of Owen in tar-like bronze reminds me of Armus from Star Trek #TNG

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Great quote about moving around the Owen-Darwin-Huxley statues in @nhm-london.bsky.social: "No word yet on where the statue of Huxley will go. But it might be a good idea to put him someplace where he can keep a close eye on Richard Owen." Sure did! #DevoEvo 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thanks too whoever ducked me with a Beetlejuice themed rubber ducky; It’s my favorite movie! #DuckDuckJeep

A rubber ducky made to look like Beetlejuice resting on a green Wrangler

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Very interesting that neutrophil metabolism plays a role in promoting metastasis in the lung – elephants are among the species lowest percentage of neutrophils in their blood #PetosParadox 🧪 🐘 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Correlation between body mass and percentage of neutrophils in the blood of Afrotherians; elephants are one of the species with the lowest

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

To be fair, half a lifetime arguing with Huxley over the hippocampus minor (aka the calcar avis), among other things, would drain the life force from anyone… 🧪 🐋🍃

A portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley at the Natural History Museum in London, carved from white marble, backlighting from an array of widows

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

@natesilver538.tweet.pub is right, but for the wrong reasons, just drop for-profit publishers like @elseviersej.bsky.social post preprints…

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

See, I do other things than fact check 🦣🐺🦤 🧪 GoBills!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m a broken record x2. Over on X the slander/pettiness continues from #ColossalBiosciences co-founder Ben Lamm; a pinned post to boot! I wonder who was quoted in a @newscientist.com story about Colossal’s critics‽ Hint, only a few of us; we want answers, and that’s a *big* problem for them…

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Yes, I’m a broken record. But meanwhile, over on X, from which I’m still banned but have a perfectly working Bluesky account, the slander and pettiness slanders and pettys on from #ColossalBiosciences et al…

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is the offending image in question, seems like a colossal misrepresentation, but BUY their stuff. Don’t “but” it, my dictation and proofreading skills leave much to be improved!

Vincent Lynch @DevoEvoMed
Another DMCA takedown filed against me, apparently by Mark Smith at @dailypixelsnett, is for this paenungulata poster from @PepomintNarwhal, it's a cool site with stickers and pins I buy from all the time, it supports lots conservation groups, you but stuff from should too!
I AM THANKFUL FOR
PAENUNGULATA

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

And I’m suspended again on X, and this time seems permanent, but the irony of simultaneously unlocking more posts is real. I guess “someone” really didn’t like how much I like Sir Richard Owen, he’s one of of my favorite biologists. Here he is posing next to a Moa skeleton, real big bird.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

And I'm back, account was restored because I have receipts...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It has finally happened; my X account has been suspended, likely because I’ve accrued too many spurious DMCA copyright violations (for my own content!) or “someone” didn’t like my X thread on the life and times of the good Sir Richard Owen! Love this pic of him standing next to a Moa, real big bird.

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After careful review, we determined your account broke the X Rules. Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can't post, Repost, or Like content. You won't be able to create new accounts. If you think we got this wrong, you can submit an appeal.

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

his back to Darwin. Directly opposite Owen sits Darwin's bulldog Huxley, who like Darwin is cast in white marble, framed by the light of knowledge like a halo; both of them stuck in an eternal death stare end/n

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

William Whewell, for example, did everything He did everything, including research on ocean tides, mechanics, physics, geology, astronomy, and economics, he composing poetry and translated Goethe. He was a proponent of inductive logic 8/n

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I've got 2 DMCA claims for this pic of Owen, published under a CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal; it's free of restrictions under copyright law, so violation claims against me are just silly. But let's take this opportunity to learn about the life and times of Richard Owen 1/n 🧪 🐋🌱

Publisher
John Murray (Firm)
Engraver
Walker & Boutall
Place of publication
England--London
Format
Image
Text
Genre
Publications
Extent
22 cm H
Language
English
Subject
Naturalists
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Portraits
Scientists--Biography
Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0
Credit line
Courtesy of Science History Institute

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is amazing! One DMCA takedown filed against me by www.dailypixels.net/random-pics79 is for a screenshot I took on 3/17/2024 when #ColossalBio, co-founded by Ben Lamm, blocked me over on Twitter. Is this irony or meta‽ 🧪🤣 Left my original tweet, right the image I supposedly copyright violated!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It has been 0 days since a spurious DMCA violation takedown and lockout of my X count, 5 this weekend, it seems “someone” is still trying to get my account suspended 🦤 🐺 🦣 🧬 🧪

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Yet another DMCA copyright violation takedown and lockout of my my X account, four this weekend so far. It seems some is trying to get my X account suspended 🦤🐺🦣🧬

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

“Someone” has filed three DMCA copyright violation claims on X against me so far today, all from different people, but all in a country with the code IN 🦤🐺🦣🧫

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It has been 0 days since “someone” has filed a DMCA copyright takedown against me over on X, fortunately I was able to deëxtinct my account! 🦤 🦣 🧫 🧪

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

these gorilla-specific damaging AA changes are also enriched in GO terms and mouse KO phenotypes related to sperm biology and male infertility prod--epp.elifesciences.org/iiif/2/94563...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

this suggests that these amino acid changes are deleterious, so we used PolyPhen-2 to predict their deleteriousness, and they are likely more deleterious than amino acid changes in other gorilla genes (Fig 2C) prod--epp.elifesciences.org/iiif/2/94563...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

we used @hyphy_software FEL to characterize the strength and direction of selection acting at individual AA sites in each gorilla relaxed gene and found that almost all AA changes occur at sites that are under purifying selection across mammals (Fig 2A) prod--epp.elifesciences.org/iiif/2/94563...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

those 96 genes aren't enriched in any particular GO terms, but the 578 are enriched in many GO biological process and molecular function terms related to sperm biology, and their expression is enriched in cell-types undergoing spermatogenesis (Fig 3A) prod--epp.elifesciences.org/iiif/2/94563...

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In contrast, species that have intense sperm competition have large testes and fast sperm – the dynamics of pre/post-copulatory sexual selection between males affects a suite of male reproductive traits. I mean, look at the size of this chimpanzee testicle compared to its brain!

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#MammothMonday 🧪Mammoths/Asian elephants diverged from each other only 2.5 million years ago. In contrast, the human/chimp lineages split ~6.5 million years ago. Cold adaptations evolved *fast 🦣🪾🐘 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... timetree.org enter human/chimpanzee, or any other species pair 🦈–🦋 😃

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Over X I’ve been accused of posting sexual/pornographic pics. Who might be responsible for this #Colossal, extremely silly complaint against me‽ It doesn’t take any imagination 🦣 🦤 👀 The offending pic? A vervet monkey. The context? The beauty of color in nature. 1/n

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A process server delivered a letter regarding my "hostile" and "defamatory" attacks on #ColossalBio co-founder Ben Lamm, insinuating I'm a misogynist and a failed scientist. Nothing I've said is defamation, but you can read it a judge for yourself. I've redacted my home address 1/n

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Narrator: They are not one step closer to bringing Tasmanian tigers back into the world. #ColossalBio: Things are what we say they are. Narrator: That’s not how science works (engineering maybe)

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is what we’ve all been warning about; Colossal’s lies about “deëxtinction” devalues conservation, their cooption of academic debates over species concepts invalidates the need for species. Of course an admin hostile to conservation, science, truth, and integrity will take advantage of it

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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Ah yes, the morphological species concept, so snakes are lampreys are hagfish! www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

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