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Tori Herridge
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🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter
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All with legitimate grievances about being there…

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How elephant trunks got their wrinkles: research by @schulzscience.bsky.social et al. with commentary by me-- www.science.org/content/arti...

How the elephant got its wrinkles
How the elephant got its wrinkles

Origin of the famed creases reveals how the trunk became the “most unbelievable grasping organ on the planet”

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Wow!

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Thanks

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Yes that was me

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#PaleoSky

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Thylacine de-extinction in the news. No info except the PR, so of course can only take them at their word & hope science journalists ask the right questions: *what does a 99.9% complete genome mean (telomere to telomere?)? *how long were the vintage DNA long reads? 1/n

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You will have to ask them, but from my convos regarding mammoths I think the plan is to engineer genetic diversity using crispr

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THtoriherridge.bsky.social

Thylacine de-extinction in the news. No info except the PR, so of course can only take them at their word & hope science journalists ask the right questions: *what does a 99.9% complete genome mean (telomere to telomere?)? *how long were the vintage DNA long reads? 1/n

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Another Guardian story on the Hope not Hate investigation into scientific racism, this time reporting that scientific racists unethically accessed UK Biobank data

‘Race science’ group say they accessed sensitive UK health data
‘Race science’ group say they accessed sensitive UK health data

Exclusive: Fringe network recorded boasting of securing data from UK Biobank trove donated by 500,000 volunteers

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THtoriherridge.bsky.social

We all love a good sound byte, and even better a good story. It underpins the insatiable public interest in the whole de-extinction effort. But the (tasmanian) devil is in the detail, and when we have to rely on PR, it’s important we can trust those details.

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Tori Herridge
@toriherridge.bsky.social
🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter
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