#Geneticists

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Another evergreen reminder - ethnicity (or "race") is a process of self identification, often ticking a set of boxes, or gestalt assessment using visible characteristics of people (skin colour, hair

Cathryn Townsend, PhD.

CathrynTownsend

Racial IQ hereditarians claim there's a "taboo" on their work. This trope "supplies a ready explanation for the failure of the hereditarian research program to convince the larger scientific community

Keerthik Sasidharan

KS1729

Deadly coronavirus comes in three variants, researchers find. 'Types A, B and C are all derived from the pathogen first found in bats but have evolved in different ways, according

Razib 🥥 Khan

razibkhan

one of the phenomenon that you notice when looking at genetic and ethnographic data isbtwn group variation in culture >>> btwn group variation in geneticsto anyone familiar with cult evolution

Michael E. Smith

MichaelESmith

Short thread: “the attitude of population geneticists to any paleontologist rash enough to offer a contribution to evolutionary theory has been to tell him to go away and find another

Coronavirus Brasil

CoronavirusBra1

Geneticistas da Grã-Bretanha e Alemanha mapearam o caminho evolutivo do #coronavirus e descobriram que existem atualmente três versões espalhando pelo mundo. Descobertas mostram que o vírus se adaptou bem à

Dr. Jennifer Raff

JenniferRaff

Okay, so this has been RT into my TL a couple of times this morning and I want to talk about it. This is my field: I'm a geneticist who

Yee Lian Chew

wormychew

Morning everyone! Here in rainy Wollongong, I’m starting my @science_a_thon #dayofscience by watering my office plants @MolHorizons @uowresearch, supervised by Dr Worm (a leaving gift from @LabSchafer) In our lab,

Kathy Burch

ksburch_

Academics: if you’re staying silent because you’re “not political” or “science + politics are independent” yet you saw the SpaceX launch as a “hopeful moment” for humanity, please do us

Amy Harmon

amy_harmon

Apropos of Race-IQ Twitter complaining I didn't spell out its argument for why black people are intrinsically less likely than whites or Asians to be mathematicians, allow me to again

Arminius

ArminiusThe

The "Cheddar Man" Hoax (thread):Back in early 2018 we were bombarded by every major news outlet telling us that the first Britons were black. A claim made based on the

Elizabeth Fieg

ElizFiegCGC

Less than an hour into the @TheACMG session on #HR3235 and it's been nothing but inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and veiled insults. Here are some of the most outrageous statements being made

James Thompson

JamesPsychol

Experts, intelligence, racehttp://www.unz.com/jthompson/experts-intelligence-race/ Academia makes a tradition out of slowness: the last survey on this matter was in 1988. By this reckoning the next survey will be in 2052. No

Sarafina Nance

starstrickenSF

i want to tell you a story about being navigating healthcare and advocating for myself as a young woman in the US. after testing positive for the BRCA2 mutation, which

Molle Guillaume

molleguillaume

A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,

yair, visionary of the burning abyss

vsvp_y

in the spirit of earth day i wanted to make a thread ab the ancestry of maize bc corn rly is that bitch (1/10) for a long time until the