#Biology

(Thread) Hey @jk_rowling! Can we chat? Rather, I’m probably just going to chat at you. It’s never too late to change your opinion regarding trans persons. Let me tell you
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Why are the social sciences so bad at predicting and explaining phenomena? I often hear three answers to this question, and none of them are satisfactory.First, there is the appeal
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Goodhttps://twitter.com/BBCSportWales/status/1314638007077490688 A two hundred pound man pretending to be a woman has no business being on a women's rugby team and injuring women. This is misogyny and nothing less. I
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ASSUMPTION:All adoptees who advocate for family preservation must have had negative experiences. If not, then why can’t they just focus on being grateful for their adoptive families?Don’t they want to
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With a bunch of fed scientist positions open in @USGSCoopUnits, many are applying for fed jobs for the first time. Here are some tips to help ensure that your application
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When I was in grad school both of my parents developed cancer (!) and thus, doing mostly stats at the time and with all my bio training, I dug into
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“let’s boycott amazon because we hate the rich” YES“let’s boycott Chick-fil-A because they’re homophobic” YES“let’s boycott fast fashion because sweatshops” YES“let’s boycott the meat & dairy industry because—
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I have read this thread and 90% of the things in it are wrong.I don't like making threads but I will debunk everything here.https://twitter.com/iam_ThePaulo/status/1301493605098549249 1. Atheism makes a claim.If you
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1/ In December 2019, a marine biologist (Helm) wrote a thread about how biological sex can have more complex combinations than male or female. We call this the 'sex spectrum.'
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This is your reminder (or maybe your introduction) that herbal candies were not created as candy but as palatable ways to take medicine and that eating them in mass amounts
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In teaching about women's art, I find that as soon as students detect any biological essentialism, they ricochet over to poststructuralist ideas that deny biology altogether. It's tricky.So, I wrote
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I would like to lay out why this work is scientifically unsound and problematic. Note that my PhD was in a genetics/informatics lab, and I spent time working with population
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I really should do an extremely long thread on this when I've got more time, but the VERY short answer to this question is that society changes, and problems only
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Here's why BL fiction (manga, fan fiction, novel, movies...) Is good to progressively rid the society of homophobia: I am a traditional omegaverse reader, meaning I started reading it when
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a psa about “blobfish.”on a related note, their real name is psychrolutes! the name “blobfish” is akin to if an alien were to name us “blobmen” after what we looked
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I’m not anti trans. Gender dysphoria is real but medical transition is not always the answer. & now, it’s acceptable that you don’t need dysphoria to be trans, which has
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