Really not really. I’ve got some academic perspectives/essays about the impossibility/fantasy of #Deëxtinction in the works or about to drop. Can’t stop won’t stop fighting the spread of scientific #Misinformation and #Disinformation

🧪 #BlueSkyScience #BioSky #Pseudoscience #ScienceCommunication

OK, this one is just straight-up uncanny. The tech bro billionaire in the book Ghost Species (2020) uses the same public facing rhetoric, restoration ecology, as #ColossalBio to justifying the #deëxtinction of thylacines, mammoths, and aurochs 🧪 🦣 🐃

Nice review:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

Throughout my academic career, I have only uplifted my colleagues; you don’t make enemies that way either. Mr. Lamm may be a charismatic billionaire, but that doesn't make him a good person, or the #ColossalBio #Deëxtinction #MisInformation real 7/n

'It's just a weird, weird bird': Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we have distorted what the dodo was really like.

We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Reposting for all the obvious reasons: we live in a zero-sum media landscape, drawing attention to this "pivotal step" in the #deëxtinction of the dodo takes attention away from other infinitely more important things. #ColossalBio is just making deepfake GMO pigeons, not dodos 🦤 🧪

Agreed, but sadly many in the #Deëxtinction space are worse – it's hard to counter the #ColossalBio narrative; the best solution, IMHO, is for journalists to just stop covering these stories 🧪

Ah yes, the disastrous consequences of hubris strikes again #Deëxtinction (yes I know, I’m a broken record)…

This is partly why I'm a broken record about #ColossalBio & #deëxtinction; it's fine to talk about species concepts and genetic engineering with colleagues, but this language is not understood by anyone exposed to their #DisInformation. If I'm on replay, maybe it gets noticed, maybe even heard 🧪🦣🦤🐺

New #ColossalBio #deëxtinction #DisInformation campaign by Ben Lamm just dropped! This time the moa. Too bad deëxtinction is and always will be impossible #ExtinctionIsForerver

Congratulations to @60minutes.bsky.social for ending their story on Tasmanian Tigers, and thier impossible #Deëxtinction, on the truth — #Deëxtinction is a #CossalBio #Disinformation campaign…