Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍

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Associate Professor | Department of Biological Sciences | University at Buffalo, SUNY | General Science Nerd | I❤️Biology! | 1st Gen | Extinction is forever | Developmental Evolution & Evolutionary Medicine | Innovation, Novelty, Constraint, Homology

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Today is Tridi the 3rd of Thermidor in the year 232. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate melon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/melon

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The @evolmtg.bsky.social schedule is out! Here's when and where to catch presentations of new research on Joshua trees, their pollinators, and how they respond to climate variation, by grad student Pryce Millikin, postdoc Lea Richardson, and yours truly 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2024/07/12/t...

These Yoder Lab presentations bring Joshua trees to Montréal for the Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biologylab.jbyoder.org “Vieux Montréal II (Bonsecours)” by Carl Campbell (Flickr) The Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology — a collaborative meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Europea…

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But SCOTUS said presidents have total immunity

President Biden has tested positive for COVID

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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

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A little lunchtime reading for me today. It's quite remarkable that they apparently managed to capture the tissue-specific DNA-DNA interactions in mammoth skin. Cool (or frozen)! 🧪 www.iflscience.com/woolly-mammo...

Woolly Mammoth Skin "Freeze-Dried" For 52,000 Years Delivers First-Ever 3D Chromosomeswww.iflscience.com A scientific magic trick that pulled a lot more than a coin from behind the mammoth's ear.

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Today is Quartidi the 24th of Messidor in the year 232. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate alkanet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alkanet

Plants are wild…

This little Pacific fern has the biggest genome yet found--50 times bigger than ours. Here's my story on the evolution of extreme genomes. 🧪 [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/s...

Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plantwww.nytimes.com A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.

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Relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.09.602773v1

Relaxed selection can speed the evolution of complex adaptations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.09.602773v1 www.biorxiv.org Natural selection drives adaptive evolution and removes deleterious mutations; these effects are cou

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France: Defeats fascists. NYT:

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is Donald Trump still running for president

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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states. here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:

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🪶 brb gotta stop fascism

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I'm available to work with folks interested in tackling questions of plant ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, and conservation genomics, especially in the Mojave — drop me an email or catch me at Evolution in Montreal, or during ESA in Long Beach jbyoder.org/contact

Applications are open for the 2025 cohort of Smith Fellows! 🌿 Build a proposal with academic and practitioner mentors for a two-year postdoctoral program of applied conservation research — submissions are due Sept 30. conbio.org/mini-sites/s...

Contactjbyoder.org Postal Jeremy B. YoderDepartment of BiologyCalifornia State University, Northridge18111 Nordhoff StreetNorthridge, CA 91330Office Chaparral Hall 5317Lab Chaparral Hall 5306 E-mail At CSUN jeremy.yo…

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under Roberts's opinion, I'm not sure you could use the show as evidence of bribery. maybe you could use re-airings of the show as evidence. maybe you could use the AV Club's summary of the episode as evidence. maybe you could only use the AI aggregation of the AV Club summary as evidence...

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If Trump is reelected, his new weekly show "Who Wants To Buy a Pardon?" is going to be a commercial smash.

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest on recent papers and journal updates. ✅ Research on all areas of evolutionary biology ✅ Society-owned (Society for the Study of Evolution) ✅ Free publication for SSE members Read the latest papers and submit your research at academic.oup.com/evolut

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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

Long lived plants (trees) have lower somatic mutation rates than short lived ones (like mammals!) #EvMed #PetosParadox

Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.601331v1

Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.601331v1 www.biorxiv.org How long-lived trees escape 'mutational meltdown' despite centuries of continuous growth remains puz

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States would have been wrong and dangerous at any time. It’s uncommonly so with Trump poised to retake power, write @qjurecic.bsky.social and Benjamin Wittes. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-de...

A Decision of Surpassing Recklessness in Dangerous Timeswww.lawfaremedia.org The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States would have been wrong and dangerous at any time. It’s uncommonly so with Trump poised to retake power.

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www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-de...

A Decision of Surpassing Recklessness in Dangerous Timeswww.lawfaremedia.org The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States would have been wrong and dangerous at any time. It’s uncommonly so with Trump poised to retake power.

Good advice in general

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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New Wrangel Island 🦣 research by @maridehasque.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social et al! Comments by @devoevomed.bsky.social & Dr. Jacqueline Robinson. Thank you @jtimmer.bsky.social for improving the story! (art: @bzaiken.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/science/2024...

DNA from mammoth remains reveals the history of the last surviving populationarstechnica.com The mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.

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Whatever else you think about the last 24 hours, the punditry has not covered itself in glory

One thing that’s helpful to keep in mind here, imo, is that these days it’s not really clear just what an editorial board is for, and so as a result editorial boards at big papers are constantly engaged in the project of justifying their own relevance

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The Court is intoxicated with power and is now in the "Because fuck you; that's why" phase of its jurisprudence

Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."

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"Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth took its final breath." This week, I edited #AAASMassMedia fellow Claire Yuan's first embargoed story for @sciencenews.bsky.social: www.sciencenews.org/article/last... #paleontology 🧪

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinctwww.sciencenews.org The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from inbreeding, a new analysis shows.

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The last woolly mammoths survived on a remote island till 4000 years ago, wracked for millennia by genetic disorders. Here's my story on what they can tell us about saving endangered species today. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/s...

The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammothswww.nytimes.com The species survived on an island north of Siberia for thousands of years, scientists reported, but were most likely plagued by genetic abnormalities.

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Today is Septidi the 7th of Messidor in the year 232. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate cucumbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cucumbers

Learn about mysterious golden moles from… The Bills‽ #GoBills www.instagram.com/reel/C5ySOig...