Apropos of nothing: THERE WILL NEVER EVER EVER BE A CLONED MAMMOTH. <Message ends> - ThreadSky

evilwitch79.bsky.social•2 days ago

What that fluffy mouse can’t transmogrify who’d have guessed it 😂😂🙄

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chrismo76.bsky.social•2 days ago

Was it apropos of the really hairy mice I just saw on the news?

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dvb44.bsky.social•2 days ago

They might make a cuddly elephant though. That’d be good, right?

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jspieve.bsky.social•1 day ago

If we start referring to them as transgenic elephants, the Trump government will soon ban them

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every journalist or scientist who repeats these obviously bullshit claims is a stenographer for science miscommunication, bio-unethics and corporate greed. They make people stupider.

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•2 days ago

In a time when science in America is literally under attack from a despotic regime that is scientifically illiterate and proudly so, to report on these nonsense claims is professional dogshittery.

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•2 days ago

Here are some of my views expressed on the Infinite Monkey Cage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025dvn

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•1 day ago

One more point in my increasingly irate and humourless response to this absolute bollocks. The made a hairy fucking mouse.
Why? This is not to study a disease, or to uncover a molecular mechanism that might elucidate some basic biology. They made a mouse hairy as a little sideshow for their circus.

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adamrutherford.bsky.social•1 day ago

The techniques to do this have been around for years. It's technically proficient but not any great accomplishment. And we minimise animal use in biological research to reduce suffering. SO WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU WANT A HAIRY MOUSE.

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alanrew.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good thread on the genetics by Tori Herridge here

https://bsky.app/profile/toriherridge.bsky.social/post/3ljkqqns7m22d

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angrydigit.bsky.social•1 day ago

The next post in my timeline, following this:

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dmhardcc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is it a precursor to flogging “genetic baldness” cures to gullible techbros?

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roybattynxs6.bsky.social•1 day ago

Clarke's 1st law?

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matthewcobb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Especially when they have existed for years, produced by mouse fanciers using traditional breeding techniques. And the key fat-altering mutation they introduced had no effect…

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concretebadger.bsky.social•1 day ago

The phrase "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" springs to mind. It also reminds me of this:

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durrellb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Forgive my ignorance on this, but aren't mice already hairy? What purpose does making a more hairy mouse serve?

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nealshepperson.bsky.social•1 day ago

So mice no longer need comb-overs !! I

Go science !!!

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izabella2001.bsky.social•1 day ago

its a gerbil mouse

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ianwac.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was trying to remember earlier today where I'd heard or read a brilliantly articulate rant about de-extinction of mammoths - and here it is! Thank you!

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nealshepperson.bsky.social•2 days ago

2 questions, is there a lot of swearing and what film reference should I look out for ?

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lallysticks.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

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dottyloug.bsky.social•2 days ago

oh yay, now I know what to listen to tonight....

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shedfpl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Would you buy a hairy mouse with a trunk and tusks though?

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izabella2001.bsky.social•1 day ago

sir, that’s clearly a miniature mammoth

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mrparadise.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bigly.. I think some of us tech bros call it "fast fail". Not been tried on the population of the world before though. The stakes are normally lower.

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endofthepier.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh go on Adam, tell us what you *really* think?

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matthewcobb.bsky.social•2 days ago

I said this (in politer terms) and was told that it was the news organisation’s duty to tell the story in the round. Balance, man. I have been the voice of balance for 11 years (hi Kirsty Wark!) and it has made no difference to how journalists present this guff or how the public misunderstands it.

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matthewcobb.bsky.social•2 days ago

So, no more. Science journos need to learn to ignore crappy press releases (this one was a doozy; the article is more sober, but not newsworthy). They have to realise they are bring used as part of a PR exercise to get more funding.

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edhollox.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm probably reading to much into it, but seems a bit of a dead cat story (dead mammoth?). From CB website

“In 2014, I asked my friend Elon Musk who he knew who was poised to make profound changes in the field of genomics, and he said: George Church"

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polyhymnia.bsky.social•2 days ago

I might be re-listening to "The Book of Humans"... less depressing than "How to argue with a Racist" given the current climate where the bigots seem to be winning :-(

There will never be a better named mating strategy than the Sneaky Fucker!

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quasi-mediocre.bsky.social•2 days ago

Woolly mice are pretty cool, though.

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mrdaz.bsky.social•2 days ago

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oscarfrankford.bsky.social•2 days ago

If it could be done it would certainly be a really, really, exceptionally large task... Can't think of the word for such a task, I'm sure there is one.

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segyges.bsky.social•2 days ago

how about dodos

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scassian.bsky.social•2 days ago

Saving this for when, after the financial apocalypse and fallout, Trump Jr is raising funds for his father’s prison wing by opening Trump Dino World, with real mammoths*.

*Jason Miller standing on Steve Bannon’s shoulders in a woolly suit.

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gvigary.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only because Jesus doesn't want to do it.
Except, maybe he might, just to prove YOU wrong!
But he won't, because like I said he doesn't want to, I'm pretty sure.
It's definitely not that he can't.
Nor that he died a couple of thousand years ago.
No siree, Bob.
Shut up and leave me alone!

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staffanlandin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Meh, that was our last hope for anything good or cool over the next couple of decades.

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endofthepier.bsky.social•2 days ago

There might one day be floofy elephants.

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jeanjeans.bsky.social•2 days ago

Teeny tiny floofs 😍

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robertansell.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can't get big enough frogs.

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gringene.org•2 days ago

Not with that attitude, there won't.

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tracyking.bsky.social•2 days ago

You’re gonna feel so foolish when I ride into town on one

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feeshkeeng.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not in this economy.

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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•2 days ago

Love Taylor Swift.

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antiprofessor.bsky.social•2 days ago

😆😂🤣

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mckay.me.uk•2 days ago

Oh, god, now I'm singing Adam's post! Thanks. 🙄

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autumnattic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Was it infinite monkey cage that discussed this? Don't think I've ever heard you so frustrated lol
💯👍

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marcusbrig.bsky.social•2 days ago

Great…
There go my dinner plans.
Thanks a BUNCH.

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misshap.bsky.social•1 day ago

People have eaten mammoth before. At least one group tried frozen mammoth steaks. I imagine the freezer burn from thousands of years under ice affected the taste a bit.

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abinr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I always point this out to my husband when he throws out any meat that has been in the freezer for more than 3 months, along with freeze-thaw, non-gutting, non-shrinkwrapping, but still....

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nealshepperson.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ohh, there was a guy on the radio from some genetic/tecbro start-up saying they planned to have a Wholly Mammoth inside a year THEN the very polite scientific journalist pointed out the gestation period for an African elephant and it all went a bit pear-shaped for him...

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abinr.bsky.social•1 day ago

They'll be using Asian elephants, which makes this even funnier (in a 'if you don't laugh, you'll cry' way)

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lukecsmith.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well I didn’t expect there to be AI that could intelligently write Shakespeare, or code advanced applications either. What if AI takes science in ways you don’t expect?

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amb-markab.bsky.social•2 days ago

If my gramma had wheels she could have been an autobus.

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hunt1976.bsky.social•2 days ago

To paraphrase Python, "Where's the foetus going to gestate? Are they going to keep it in a box?"

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frankshallot.bsky.social•2 days ago

☹️

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petergates.bsky.social•2 days ago

What could possibly go wrong?

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timeveleigh.bsky.social•2 days ago

News for many (mostly Americans): Jurassic Park was not a documentary.

#NotAllAmericans

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dannykodicek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Would you say there's an outside chance we might be able to get a cloned dodo? I'd have thought that's at least vaguely feasible

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fyrdrakken.bsky.social•1 day ago

We're still at the stage where cloning requires a surrogate mother to cover the zygote-to-live-animal stages and I gather the eggshell situation makes it problematical to work with birds.

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dannykodicek.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, absolutely, we're definitely a million miles from being able to do it now. Even so, those feel more like technical issues rather than fundamental limitations. In the case of cloning mammoths or dinosaurs, it's 100% impossible. In this case, maybe 95%?

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