T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦

@tryangregory.bsky.social

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Back off man, I'm a scientist. Professor. Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). He/him.

A gorilla would win in a physical fight against T. Ryan Gregory, easily overpowering him due to its massive physical strength, weight, and natural weapons. Combatants T. Ryan Gregory: An evolutionary biology professor at the University of Guelph whose expertise lies in animal genome sizes and science communication, not hand-to-hand combat with wild apes.
"No, T. Ryan Gregory cannot breathe underwater. He is a human, which means he has lungs rather than gills and therefore cannot extract dissolved oxygen from water. Because he is a well-known evolutionary at the University of Guelph, as well as a prominent fishing enthusiast and writer, his name is sometimes mistakenly associated with underwater traits."
Man pointing to his reflection in a mirror, saying "Get in there and make it about you".
... because the T in his name stands for Tirl.
"No, T. Ryan Gregory is not 100 feet tall. He is a Canadian evolutionary and genome biologist who works as a professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario. While it is difficult to find his exact height listed publicly, professors and biologists have typical human heights (generally around 5 to 6 feet), which makes him well over 90 feet shorter than 100 feet."
"No, T. Ryan Gregory is not a tree; he is a prominent Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist. He is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. You may have come across his name associated with trees because of his highly cited academic paper titled "Understanding Evolutionary Trees", which helps clear up common misconceptions about how phylogenetic diagrams (diagrams showing the evolutionary relationships among species) are read and interpreted."
Graph of a world map colour coded by per capita greenhouse gas emissions (2024). Canada has higher levels per person than the US.
Carney: "The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive. On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe. Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."
The long term effects of voting for the "lesser evil". Everything is driven to the right.
Photo of a man wearing a plaid vest with an aluminum canoe covering his head. A character known as Mr. Canoehead, from the 1980s Canadian comedy show Four On The Floor, starring comedy group The Frantics.
CBC, June 16: Carney says he's seen U.S.-Iran framework to end war, calls it a 'game changer' in CNN interview
@malaudhdroit.bsky.social: "Love this frustration for the ableist anti-AI crusaders who want to gatekeep and outright destroy divergent and disabled folks' LLM assistive tools. The only tools that need to go away are them."
"Not all men buy definitely this f*cking guy" in rather extreme 1980s design with shiny letters, bold metallic style font, pink and light blue and purple colours, grids and stars and shapes in the background.
Crudely drawn figure of a person using a stick to poke a large bubble labelled with "AI", saying "C'mon, burst..."
"Carney is scrapping the luxury tax on yachts and private jets."
June 30: Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive'
Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive'
"Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit."
The Simpsons. Kids turned around in class, facing Bart: "Say the line!" Bart, begrudgingly: "No one could have foreseen this." * Kids wildly cheer*
Trudeau: "Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call. But you know who I'm rooting for to take the Cup. 🇨🇦"
18-34 years old: LPC: 32% CPC: 31% NDP: 26%
No, Canadian Senator and former journalist Paula Simons is not married to evolutionary biologist T. Ryan Gregory.
Summary of recent polls from 338Canada.
WHO tweet March 28, 2020, "FACT CHECK: COVID-19 is not airborne".
Parody of "Ingsoc" poster from 1984. "Carngov. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Conservative policies are good, actually."
Evolutionary tree showing divergence between the 2018 and 2026 Andes hantavirus outbreak viruses.
Rage Against The Machine, Bulls On Parade (1996) Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pocket full of shells
The theme for the Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Canada annual meeting in 2023 was "Unmasking the Future".
The Simpsons. Homer Simpson shows his barbershop quartet's second album, "Bigger Than Jesus", to Bart and Lisa.
Scene from Jaws in which Chief Brody yells at the stubborn Mayor of Amity Island as he refuses to close the beach.
Screenshot from Subnautica 2 showing left-handed DNA icon.
Carngov: War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength Conservative policies are good, actually
2022: "What some people don't seem to understand is that *even if* monkeypox or polio aren't going to become major pandemics, what we see of the minimizing and lack of response to them tells us what to expect for future pathogens of concern, one of which may well become a huge problem."
Evolutionary tree of Andes hantavirus samples. Branch lengths indicate divergence. Samples are coloured by date. Based on a small number of samples, the current outbreak virus is notably divergent from previous versions, but it remains to be seen if any of the mutations are significant in terms of spread or virulence or other factors.
WHO tweet "fact check" that COVID is not airborne.
Homer Simpson: "That can't be true, honey. If it were, I'd be terrified."
Scientists create world's smallest violin
American Heart Association: If you played Mortal Kombat on your Super Nintendo, GET OVER HERE and get your cholesterol checked.
Flow chart of whether you should worry about hantavirus. Are you on the ship? You should worry. Were you on the ship recently? You should worry. Were you on a flight with anyone on the ship? There is some risk. Are you around rodent feces? Take precautions. Otherwise, you do not need to worry.
The Simpsons, cult members chanting "The Leader is good, The Leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date".
WHO tweet March 28, 2020: FACT CHECK: COVID-19 is not airborne
Map of national parks in Alberta.
Treaty lands of Alberta.
Jan. 13, 2020: "Canadians at low risk of contracting virus from central China: public health agency"
"Canadians at low risk of contracting virus from central China: public health agency" (Jan. 13, 2020)
We will enhance CBC/Radio-Canada’s available resources and secure stable, long-term funding by: Enshrining and protecting their funding by making it statutory, thereby empowering Parliament and the Canadian people – not ideologues – to decide the future of this critical institution; and, Providing an initial $150 million funding increase, while directing CBC/Radio-Canada to develop a strategic plan consistent with this new mandate. That is expected to require a long-term funding level in line with the average funding of other national public broadcasters over time.
Top panel showing daily COVID vaccine doses administered in the USA. There was a large delivery of vaccines in the first round, and then decreasing rates with subsequent updates. Bottom panel shows daily confirmed deaths in the USA.
Cumulative confirmed deaths per million people for multiple high-income countries including several EU nations, Canada, Australia, Japan, the USA, and the UK. The USA and UK have by far the highest per capita deaths in this sample.
Summary of 7-day rolling average of daily confirmed deaths for multiple EU countries, Canada, Australia, Japan, the USA, and the UK. The general patterns were the same in terms of when waves occurred, which were driven by the combined factors of existing population immunity and variant evolution.
7-day rolling average of confirmed COVID deaths in the USA, showing the major waves up to Omicron BA.1 and BA.2, and indicating when Biden was inaugurated and when he declared the pandemic over.
Confirmed daily COVID deaths in the US
COVID deaths in the US caused by different waves.
COVID deaths in the US by different variant waves.
"Just So Stories for Little Children" by Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories for Little Children
Cartoon of man at restaurant table saying to woman "Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence." Artist: Jason Adam Katzenstein Source: New Yorker, 2018
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a library Line up to tha mind cemetary now What we don’t know keeps tha contracts alive an movin’ They don’t gotta burn tha books they just remove ’em While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells
"When it comes to Western undergraduate education, the focus has traditionally been on didactic learning, with the so-called “sage on the stage” professing to passive audiences seated in indoor lecture halls. In recent years, this model has begun to cede to one with a greater emphasis on more effective teaching practices based on experiential, active, hands-on, and metacognitive learning. These supposedly new and innovative educational methods have, of course, been core to Indigenous ways of teaching and learning for thousands of years [footnote 7]. There is good reason for this: they work."
Button with what appears to be a silhouette of a man with a hat, sunglasses, and a goatee reminiscent of Heisenberg from Breaking Bad.
A power bar plugged into itself.