Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍

devoevomed.substack.comFrom Oryx and Crake to Warhounds: The De-Fiction of Customized LifeThe dogs of war.

Ya'll know I was going to have something to say about the @itiscolossal.bsky.social and Anduril collab on "warhounds," so here it is: devoevomed.substack.com/p/de-extinct...

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Let's just give up the ghost already, pre-publication peer review is neat and all but it is unpaid labor for companies that profit on it. It's sometimes useful but more of a cost in the cost-benefit analysis (and yes I know this is an extreme position)...

Springer Nature@springernature.com

How can AI support researchers in peer review? Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are partnering to co-design an AI peer review assistant that helps reviewers navigate manuscripts and focus on where their scientific judgement matters most. Learn more: spklr.io/63320EVgT8

devoevomed.substack.comFrom Oryx and Crake to Warhounds: The De-Fictionalization of Customized LifeThe dogs of war.

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Aye, updated a couple of broken links about the whole "warhound" thing... devoevomed.substack.com/p/de-extinct...

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾

@plantevolution.bsky.social

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When I talk to lay folks, I often point out that biology is really exceptionology, I.e., the science of exceptions. Today, it has become easier than ever to study “weird” phenomena. I’m a bit of two minds whether that is always good, as “exceptions often prove (only) the rule”, as the saying goes.

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social

So my advice to my biology colleagues and students is to “celebrate the anarchy”. Think of it as job security-ish.

patreon.comWednesday Author Event: Ann Leckie | Cat RamboThis Wednesday from 4-5 PM, we're lucky enough to have Ann Leckie coming to talk with us about her latest book, RADIANT STAR! (You do not ne

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Embrace biological anarchy. We're the only natural science without rules –– that's scientific freedom!

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social

So my advice to my biology colleagues and students is to “celebrate the anarchy”. Think of it as job security-ish.

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Waggoner Lab

@labwaggoner.bsky.social

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The maternal–fetal interface is an early hematopoietic niche enriched in distinct erythro-myeloid progenitors www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natimmunol.nature.com @shwetatikoo29.bsky.social @meduniwien.ac.at @centenaryinstitute.bsky.social @drrohitjain.bsky.social

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Cat Rambo

@catrambo.bsky.social

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I'm excited that this week Ann Leckie will be talking with my Patreon community about her new book, RADIANT STAR. I've read it a couple of times now and really think it's amazing. See the post to find out how you can join us! www.patreon.com/catrambo/pos...

nytimes.comWhat Happened to the Neanderthals?Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left standing?

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May his memory be a blessing 🖖

Earl Grey Frames Club@frames.earlgreymemes.club

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John Hawks

@johnhawks.net

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“It’s probably just chance — when the climate was nice enough, they could make it there,” Dr. Hawks said. “They kept trying, again and again, and to me that’s the bottom line of humans, that throughout the Pleistocene, we just kept coming.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/s...

Colossal’s “ dire wolves” were just a proof of concept. Whoever ever could’ve known.‽

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KidzBoptotenlieder

@theodramatist.com

As I was thinking about Butler today, I was also thinking about how much better the MaddAddam trilogy is than Handmaid’s tale

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍@devoevomed.bsky.social

For fucks sake everyone needs to be readings @margaretatwood.bsky.social's MaddAddam Trilogy. Like Now.

Not for their investors ;-)

Piali Sengupta@senguptalab.bsky.social

What a colossal waste of money

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

For fucks sake everyone needs to be readings @margaretatwood.bsky.social's MaddAddam Trilogy. Like Now.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

If you thought Ben Lamm was a shithead, you underestimated him. He's worse. Genetically engineering any creatures, but dogs especially, to be weapons of war — it's unspeakable. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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Dan Gates

@dangatesj.bsky.social

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Maybe we can quit taking all that deextinction noise seriously and treat them like all the other tech companies that lied to credulous VC funders for 5 years and after failing to develop the product they were promising ran to the safety govt contracts

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Need one say more? I did, boy howdy Nic said it better…

Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social

WTAF www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

mfla.omeka.netWolvog · The Museum of Fictional Literary ArtifactsThe Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts is a collaborative digital collection and literary analysis project created by English for New Media Students at Dakota State University.<br /> <br /> Purpos...

I know, I know I'm a broken record about @itiscolossal.bsky.social's kayfabe. Most of you have probably muted me over it by now, but re-upping this for the obvious reasons, and to my advertise my substack post tomorrow: WTF they're making wolvogs now‽ mfla.omeka.net/items/show/248

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍@devoevomed.bsky.social

Updated a broken link in my substack post about the #ColossalBio #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign – dire wolves are still extinct. open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...

open.substack.comThe Extinction of TruthOr, a Colossal Pile of Bullshit

The giving up our kideny's thing is in @margaretatwood.bsky.social's The MaddAddam Trilogy too. Just saying...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war

@jbyoder.org

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

On the one hand, people have been reshaping dogs to our purposes for centuries and those purposes absolutely include hurting other people On the other hand, what the ever-loving HELL, people

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦

@tryangregory.bsky.social

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Colossal Hype Company in the news again.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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Ed

@notdred.bsky.social

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

This is quite simply not going to work, and in the process of not working is going to reach absolutely horrific levels of animal cruelty

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

With just a pinch of Eron and a generous amount of Theranos...

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick.net

Straight to jail. Equal parts fraud and unethical.

I'm telling ya’ll read MargaretAtwood.bsky.social’s MaddAddam Trilogy, especially Oryx and Crake. She predicted nearly this exact scenario with companies like @itiscolossal.bsky.social...

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social

this is even more laughable than the "dire wolf resurrection" they tried to pass off as an accomplishment genome engineering of complex behavior (much less a tailor made "war dog") is beyond a pipe dream meanwhile we can train dogs to do nearly anything b/c of domestication & breeding so dumb

Or the use of slave hunting dogs in the American South, I guess those deepfake "dire wolves" really weren’t about de-extinction after all ––– they were proof of concept 🤷🐺

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forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

I've been working on an essay for months in which I argue Jurassic Park is the wrong narrative framework to understand @itiscolossal.bsky.social, the correct one is @margaretatwood.bsky.social's remarkable MaddAddam Trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake; I'll post it on my Substack tomorrow...

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

Yet again, @margaretatwood.bsky.social predicted the future. @itiscolossal.bsky.social is officially in the wolvog market now…..

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠@sababausa.bsky.social

This heelturn was completely foreseeable and I have been pointing out the giant red flags around Colossal Biosciences for years Fuck these people and fuck anyone who boosted their bullshit

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@sababausa.bsky.social

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.

This heelturn was completely foreseeable and I have been pointing out the giant red flags around Colossal Biosciences for years Fuck these people and fuck anyone who boosted their bullshit

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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Nic Rawlence

@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social

rnz.co.nzRare moa egg set to return to NZ after selling at US auctionA rare South-Island moa egg will return to Aotearoa from America after resurfacing at a public auction and selling for about NZ$18,500.

It's great that a moa egg, which was taken from an urupa (Māori burial), is returning to Aotearoa NZ. It's a pity that it has been caught up in @itiscolossal.bsky.social latest publicity stunt at the Colossal (sorry, fossil birds) conference in Christchurch www.rnz.co.nz/news/science... 1/4 🧵

rnz.co.nzRare moa egg set to return to NZ after selling at US auctionA rare South-Island moa egg will return to Aotearoa from America after resurfacing at a public auction and selling for about NZ$18,500.

Another publicity grab by @itiscolossal.bsky.social –– grifters gonna grift 🤷

Nic Rawlence@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social

It's great that a moa egg, which was taken from an urupa (Māori burial), is returning to Aotearoa NZ. It's a pity that it has been caught up in @itiscolossal.bsky.social latest publicity stunt at the Colossal (sorry, fossil birds) conference in Christchurch www.rnz.co.nz/news/science... 1/4 🧵

*BIG Q* for us: How did Pd get here‽ (For its own sake, but also future prevention & prevention interventions?) 🦇

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

How could BANANAS save some BAT species from extinction? Let's talk about the devastation caused by White Nose Syndrome, and share some good news. White Nose Syndrome has killed > 6 million bats since its first discovery in 2006 in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) near Albany, New York.

reuters.comFeared extinct, Bangka slow loris primate rediscovered in IndonesiaThe Bangka slow loris is one of Earth's most exotic primates, a slow-moving tree dweller that happens to be venomous. It was listed as critically endangered and possibly extinct, last scientifically ...

This is what #DeExtinction looks like...

Dr Ross Barnett@deepfrieddna.bsky.social

www.reuters.com/business/env...

Understatement of the publishing industry year! @currentbiology.bsky.social literally rocks...

Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social

It's a truth universally acknowledged that Current Biology rocks! So we thought, why not put a rock on the cover? True, not a super current rock, at 2.5 billion years old, but deeply connected to biology. To find out more, check out our special issue on Life & Earth! www.cell.com/current-biol...

people.comScientists Find 46,000-Year-Old Bone Fragments in a Cave, Leading to Groundbreaking DiscoveryScientists identified 46,000-year-old Neanderthal hand bones in Spain’s Abauntz cave, with remarkably preserved DNA offering new clues about the species.

Ya'll remember when aDNA wasn’t a thing, and when it became so, was limited to mtDNA‽ How times change 🤯

Dr Ross Barnett@deepfrieddna.bsky.social

people.com/46-000-year-...

Things did not turn out well for Robespierre and his friends –– the Angel of at least had the (in)dignity of walking out on his own two feet

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠@sababausa.bsky.social

First, during the scuffle, the erstwhile Hanriot was defenestrated from an upper floor and landed in a dung heap in the Place de la Maison Commune, alive but with an eye gouged and hanging out from its socket

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Mark Harris

@markharris.bsky.social

nytimes.comWhat Can We See in All the Recent Art About AIDS? (Gift Article)Nearly five decades after the disease first appeared, many filmmakers, writers and others are finding new meaning in catastrophe.

There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

careers.uoregon.eduCurrent Opportunities | UO HR Website

Matt Barber@biobarber.bsky.social

🚨 Our department is hiring! Looking to fill an endowed position in genetics/genomics to join us in beautiful Oregon. Search is at the Associate/Full Professor level. See below for details and share with your colleagues!

I don’t really care about American football other than I desperately want the Bills to win and the jets and pats to loose. Like I’m so confused right now…

patentimages.storage.googleapis.compatentimages.storage.googleapis.com

In which @itiscolossal.bsky.social plagiarizes our work on p53 retrogenes and a duplicate LIF gene to spinoff another vaporware company: Compare their patent Fig 1a patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/79/35/4c/01f... With our Fig. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.11994 🤷

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social

🧪 Missed this #ColossalBiosciences update: - "mammoths" might take another decade, because it's harder than they thought 🙃 - "woolly pigs" promised in meantime - biotech spin-offs inc cancer-related from elephant research, being pursued by their new company "Astromech" time.com/article/2026...

time.comThe Woolly Mammoth’s Comeback Is Taking Longer Than ExpectedColossal Biosciences now estimates that it will de-extinct a woolly mammoth sometime in the 2030s.

They probably should have the right to vote…

The Onion@theonion.com

Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

washingtonpost.comThe Plaza Hotel is closing for years of renovations. Cue the wedding panic.The storied hotel and its grand event spaces are closing for about four years, leaving some couples scrambling.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan is closing for an extended period to repair and restore its historic stone-and-marble facade. Those in the wedding and events industry have been shocked, said one bridal industry insider.

theguardian.comCan hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen PilcherA new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is key, says science writer Helen Pilcher

🙌

Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social

Quote: "This is what real hope looks like... Real hope has its sleeves rolled up and is prepared to get messy. It leaves room for uncertainty and failure but refuses to believe that there’s nothing left to do. ...The opposite of hope isn’t despair. It’s inaction" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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On the Media

@onthemedia.bsky.social

lnk.toOn the MediaThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

In his new book, researcher Saul Newman dives into the stories of famous centenarians (100-year-olds) & supercentenarians (over 110years old) who turned out to be frauds. What do his findings mean for the field of longevity science? lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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Micah Loewinger

@micahloewinger.bsky.social

wnycstudios.orgHow to Live Forever (or Die Trying) | On the Media | WNYC StudiosFrom ‘Blue Zones’ branded food to anti-aging peptides, the marketplace is flooded with products promising to help us live longer and better. On this week’s On the Media, a researcher ...

A fun jam-packed @onthemedia.bsky.social about the very fraught "longevity" industry. I spoke with Saul Newman, the author of Morbid a new book claiming that most of the science behind extreme old age is BS. @kerryhowley.bsky.social of NY Mag helps tell his story. Produced by @cwango.bsky.social!

lnk.toOn the MediaThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

All you know about maximum human maximum lifespan is probably wrong…

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social

Researcher Saul Newman thinks that most people over 110 years old are either younger or actually dead. His research calls into question the entire field of longevity science. @kerryhowley.bsky.social explains the fight in this week’s show lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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Jonathan Pritchard

@jkpritch.bsky.social