Science and Society Tweets

One thing I don't like about Twitter is that some thoughts I've had on subjects get lost in the abyss with time (unlike a blog, which keeps a tidy record of them). Here are some tweets on topics I care about.

Genetic Diversity, Equality, Racism

• The timeless Dobzhansky quote.

• Contra Jordan Peterson and Goeffrey Miller.

• On the racism of early population geneticists and the "it was just their era" argument.

Politicization of Science

• Contra the polarization of science and covid origins

Bayesian Statistics

• A thread on Bayesian statistics and how doctors use it without doing the calculations.

PRS and IVF

• On eugenics, PRS, and IVF

Genetics and Law

• Eugenics and reproductive rights

• Forensic DNA and "Phantom of Heilbronn"

Sex/Gender and Transphobia

• On the NYT article Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence

• On anisogamy and arguments.

• Another take on the biology of sex and transphobic arguments

Heritability

• On heritability of fitness and the environment

• On Lancelot Hogben, RA Fisher, heritability and GxE

• RDR vs twin estimates of heritability

• Heritability of various cancers and further down, clarifying what heritability means and doesn't.

Disability, Genetic Disorders

• Deafness on Martha's Vineyard, disability, and genetic founder effects.

• Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World and Charcot-Marie-Tooth

• On disability in prisons

• I love this Tom Siebers quote.

Mental Health, Academia, etc

• In academia, Part I, Part II

• On subtweeting papers

• On bullying in academia

General evolutionary biology

• On mutation, fitness, and causality