Channa Prakash

Thank you @agbioworld.bsky.social! I’m honored and deeply humbled.

Liquid lunch? Wild chimps likely ingest the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks daily A survey of the alcohol content of fruits eaten regularly by African chimps shows that their diet could deliver 14 grams of ethanol a day. Given their body size, that's nearly two cocktails' worth.

It’s not just us, our primate relatives love alcohol, ingest much everyday! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/liquid-...

Welcome to the club Dr. David Ortega! As a past laureate of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Borlaug Communication Award, I congratulate you on this honor for 2025. See you in Washington in December!

cast-science.org/2025-bcca/

How’s your mitochondria doing today?

World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo Argentina, widely regarded as the global capital of polo, has welcomed cloning and other breeding innovations. But CRISPR is different – for now.

World’s first gene-edited horses are being turbocharged with CRISPR, faster sprinting for polo, in Argentina
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Tuskegee University breaks ground for new Center for Genomics and Health Disparity Research - WAKA 8 A new research center is coming to Tuskegee University.

“It gives me great pride that moving forward, after I’m long gone, there’s going to be a building that is sitting here that is going to help the future generations of students and scientists here, and that that’s how things move forward,” www.waka.com/2025/08/25/t...

Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying n the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the successes of the Green Revolution

The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/08/25/v...

Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen YouTube video by Be Smart

Not directly related, but Joe Hanson has a new video. Am I wrong in thinking this contains unsubstantiated fear mongering?
youtu.be/H8c1ObYSlQI?...

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap Fighting back against the Trump administration means they start to look more like activists.

Fighting back against the Trump administration means scientists start to look more like activists www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Law students should not interview with these firms.

Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms

10am: apple

12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt

3pm: banana

6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing)

8pm: frozen yogurt

830pm: 2 cookies

845pm: 4 cookies

850pm: 8 cookies

9pm: bag of Doritos

930pm: Big Mac and fries

Science is hard. You gotta prove it, test it, and reproduce the results.
Pseudoscience is easy. You make it up, add some fear, and watch ignorant people spread it.

Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent Political attacks and other problems appear to be driving an exodus of Ph.D.s and faculty from higher education, threatening a diminished experience for undergraduates.

An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment crises. It’s a trend federal data and other sources show began even before Trump returned to the White House.
hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...

Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

The legacy of Lysenkoism was decades of scientific stagnation and a staggering death toll, as well as a cautionary tale about what happens when evidence-based scientific methods are exploited or suppressed by political ideologues to serve a tyrant.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

Lysenko’s pseudoscientific ideas led to policies in the Soviet Union that did kill millions in the past. Bhattacharya tried and failed to do that with the Great Barrington Declaration, but now, as NIH director he is on track to succeed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/bhattachar...

JosephMaina | Africa's quiet biotech revolution Africa's quiet biotech revolution

Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2

How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut

How an M&M Sparked the Search for the Next Perfect Peanut
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/d...

“We cannot afford to play politics with food or health. The consequences are too serious. Our policies must be grounded in science, reason, and data, not ideology. That is the only responsible path forward”

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Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications On Ag BioTech, communications, learning from tradition, and learning mindsets

My Interview -
'Dr. Channa Prakash: A masterclass in Ag BioTech and Communications....has been a leading biotech and genetics researcher, educator, and social media personality. He has spent time with Pope Francis, was friends with Dr. Borlaug ..
www.metaldoglabs.ai/dr-channa-pr...

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.

The weeping beech, Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula', is a cultivar of the deciduous European beech. The original tree was found in the grounds of an English park, and it has been propagated by grafting, then many distributed widely @wikipedia

Genome edited wheat, which could be beneficial to health thanks to increased fiber content, approved for field trials.
Meanwhile, me waiting for genome editing to be allowed in EU/Switzerland:

Smart insect pretending to be a stick!

A high-fiber wheat developed at Chile gets a regulatory nod to advance to field trials. This is the first CRISPR-edited wheat to receive such regulatory approval in the Americas! @DanielNorero‬⁩
neocroptech.com/en/regulator...

Mackenzie Burnett: On Agriculture and American Progress Mackenzie Burnett is a patriot.  She is the CEO and co-founder of Ambrook, whose mission is to build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses. She believes in America...

On Agriculture and American Progress: Talk with Mackenzie Burnett, CEO and co-founder of @Ambrook, - build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses
@rpethe

www.metaldoglabs.ai/mackenzie-bu...

The Race for Global Food Security: Free session on the innovations from the spheres of genomics, advanced biology, and AI with the potential to transform the global food system. @FT Register at event-registration.ft.com/register/2fe...