Heather E Heying

@HeatherEHeying

Professor in exile. Biologist. Seeker and communicator of truths. Spends time in the Amazon. Rhymes with flying.

Joined June 2017

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Sep 2017

    Please engage me: 1st: As a human 2nd: As an individual Last: If you must, go tribal. But understand populations & statistics before you do.

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  2. 31 Dec 2018

    Here’s what I had to say about Patreon a few weeks ago (free to all, but posted on Patreon):

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  3. 31 Dec 2018

    Thoughts on School: How Not to Grow Young Humans - now on my Patreon. “School is, for better and for worse, a stand in for parents, for kin group, for those with whom the child has shared fate. School should not, therefore, teach through fear.”

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  4. 28 Dec 2018

    This is emblematic of the poverty of Grievance Studies. It has neither poetry nor analysis; it reveals nothing new about our world through either artistic or scientific means, instead sucking joy out of what could be beautiful, & badly employing a smattering of analytical tools.

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  5. 28 Dec 2018

    There are *also* things to be understood about how people use bike share programs, how often and when and for how long. For this, let us do science: pose and test hypotheses, analyze data, stand a chance of being wrong.

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  6. 28 Dec 2018

    For this, let us tell and share stories, create fiction, write poetry, make art.

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  7. 28 Dec 2018

    There *is* something to be said about getting on a bike on a breezy Spring day, transporting yourself, your baguette, your book, around a city faster than you could on foot, but slowly enough to pause at a moment’s notice, to watch a bird, to have a drink.

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  8. 28 Dec 2018

    What, pray tell, would those defending Grievance Studies suggest is the scholarly, creative, social, or analytical value of this “research”? Best I can do is that it makes the work of those claiming that the emperor has no clothes...even easier.

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    PODCAST || I talk to Evolutionary Biologist, educator and International Sensible Person about the psychological sustenance of home cooking, cultivating a compassion for being wrong and the hidden danger of safe spaces. Tune in

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  10. 23 Dec 2018

    On why you should stand for your principles: “Most things that are understood to be true, are understood to be true first, by one person.” - HH I loved everything about (having) this conversation. Thank you Kimberley.

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  11. 23 Dec 2018

    Included therein: On the discovery, by students, that there are many questions yet unanswered, and even many yet unasked: “There are new things under the sun. We have not done it all.” – HH On culture: “Life is a full contact sport. You cannot love without vulnerability.” - KW

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  12. 23 Dec 2018

    On cooking and the family table, on campfires and field exercises, on not teaching through fear, on learning to ask questions without access to google, on how children are born scientists and artists – ’s podcast, Breaking Bread:

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  13. 21 Dec 2018

    Seriously, people: Go outside and look at the moon. Not your phone. The moon. It's glorious. And utterly unperturbed by *our* lunacy.

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  14. 21 Dec 2018

    A cluster of astronomical events is happening now: the solstice, a full moon, and a meteor shower. For those in the North, enjoy the full cold moon, the big spirit moon, the snow moon. It’s all one moon.

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  15. 20 Dec 2018

    When aquatic animals go to land, whole systems—locomotor, sensory, digestive—need retooling. When terrestrial animals go back to the water, new solutions evolve. When this lizard dives, it cloaks itself in an air bubble, which it breathes from.

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  16. 19 Dec 2018

    As if puberty isn’t confusing enough for everyone already.

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    18 Dec 2018

    What was going on at Evergreen is exactly how good systems get captured. What is going on in many academic fields—Grievance Studies, so named by , and —is also exactly how good systems get captured. This is what capture looks like.

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  18. 15 Dec 2018
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  19. 14 Dec 2018

    In which discusses the kernel of truth in intersectionality, and its egregious and dangerous failings, in addition to teasing apart the distinction between showing people how not to hate, and teaching people how to love. Terrific conversation:

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  20. 14 Dec 2018

    My conversation with about the hills on which the battle for Enlightenment values will be fought—sex, race, religion, more. We should not conflate individuals with the arguments that they make, nor abide by injunctions to “stay in your lane.”

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  21. 12 Dec 2018

    One widely-held bad idea is that if you experience hardship, it is necessarily because something or someone is out to get you. The more brutal truth is that often, the forces you experience don’t even know that you exist.

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