Chris Lane

It's just amazing to me that our senators, @SenWhitehouse and @SenJackReed talk about caring about America's military but can't find the fortitude to call for resignations in light of the recent Nat Sec scandal. When will they meet the moment?

@SenJackReed Senator Reed, please stop tweeting tough and then voting for Trump appointments, as you did again yesterday. Your RI constituents would like some adult supervision on your recent voting record.

The Trump Admin must reverse course & stop the chaos. Whether it’s messing with Social Security or spilling national security secrets in a group chat – this isn’t what Americans want. Time for adult supervision. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

@SenWhitehouse Thank you for coming to this conclusion.

Mr. Kennedy has not come remotely close to providing adequate assurances that he will follow the well-established science on vaccines, nor remedy the ways CMS hurts Rhode Island, so I cannot support his nomination.

Sounds like a press release about a bird building its nest

@HabeoCanceres Thanks.

@LaneLabURI This is awesome. Congrats!

I know everything is on fire, literally and existentially, but I'm really proud of this paper out today, led by Kristina Terpis, with some amazing collaborators. We expanded sampling in photosynthetic stramenopiles and show total plastid loss twice! cell.com/current-biolog…

New tribe-level classification of Loricariidae by Jon Armbruster and myself now out in Neotropical Ichthyology. We also assign these two upper Orinoco endemic species, formerly in Pseudancistrus, to new genera and a new tribe.

Learned today that some people make mashed potato by kind of rehydrating / frying / mushing crisps.

@mbeisen @Patriots Not sure you could dial up a more frustrating season.

Fucking @patriots

Man, I would like one year as Department Chair where the college and/or university is not facing some existential crisis, but this is not the year. Luckily everything at the national level should be chill....

Makes you wonder who their CEO is too

@e_hehenberger @ERC_Research Congrats, looking forward to the work!

I'm extremely honoured and grateful to have received an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant. So many people have supported this effort, from my wonderful lab and colleges to the reviewers and panel members - thank you everyone! Very excited to start this project! #ERCCoG

@mark_carnall @fburki onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi…

@LaneLabURI @fburki Great, I look forward to reading!

LOL, the biases of your eukaryotic taxa of interest largely not even appearing on a list of taxonomic bias.

@mark_carnall It’s already published. I’ll send a link when I’m not on my phone, but I think @fburki has an even more comprehensive analysis than the one we did on SAR. Those papers are out there.

@LaneLabURI Write the paper then dude! Run the same analyses with the other 70% of eukaryotes. Hell throw in prokaryotes, bacteria and archaea too. Do a living planet index using these groups too. Create a citable paper trail to address the problem.

@mark_carnall You’re conflating different things. Nevertheless, my original point was that a paper on taxonomic bias that ignores 70% of eukaryotic diversity is simply perpetuating the problem and is a ridiculous way to highlight a real issue.

@LaneLabURI I honestly admire your optimism but 'knowing what a kelp forest' is is a weak measure of interest, engagement and understanding of a whole difficult to grasp group of organisms.

@mark_carnall Which is why teacher training and classroom visits are important. But we also can’t escape the fact that federal research dollars overwhelmingly go to animal work. NIH only funds non-animal research on parasites that infect animals.

@LaneLabURI And that's great work and where we put resources. I don't think it's dismissal though it's passive ignorance. Most people are only exposed to biological ideas at school and that's obviously a limited curriculum.

@mark_carnall But there are absolutely biases stemming from the fact that people relate better to what they see on a regular basis. And part of that is education. Some of us are doing the work to get K-12 kids looking at the real diversity of life instead of dismissing it.

@mark_carnall For one, we stop using the absurdity of “top to bottom” because animals or not the “top” of anything in evolution. I also think that federal agencies, like NSF, and doing great work to fund non-model organism research.

@mark_carnall People are literally “doing it”. But those amalgamating research for major reports ignore the information. And your argument about public engagement is super weird when using brown algae as an example. Find me a person who doesn’t know what a kelp forest is.

@LaneLabURI And here's where that stat comes from: Now, this is obviously flawed but we're never going to get away from extrapolating from comparatively over studied groups because outside of those many questions have the answer 'we don't know' why don't we know? Nobody is doing it.

@mark_carnall Do papers in Cell about the global importance of lineages you ignore excite you? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… I’m sorry I treated you like a serious person for a minute.

@LaneLabURI Oooh green algae. That's very exciting.