Heather E Heying

@HeatherEHeying

Evolutionary biologist. Seeker and communicator of truths. Visiting Fellow at Princeton. Spends time in the Amazon. Rhymes with flying.

Portland, OR
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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. 10 hours ago

    The scathing letter that addresses several of the very real problems with the current moment’s activism and ideology seems likely *not* to be from a Berkeley history professor. This raises questions, of course, about who did write it, and why.

    1. There is an email circulating that was purportedly written by a history prof at UC Berkeley that rails against Black Lives Matter and the current antiracist fever in the US. I would urge caution. Nothing about the author has been confirmed and I see a lot of red flags.
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  3. Jun 13

    Join and me today, 12:30pm Pacific, as we discuss the current moment through an evolutionary lens. There is chaos & confusion, anger & despair. Is there space for hope, for optimism? Can we be good to one another, and find strength together?

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  4. Jun 12

    Boston Mayor: "the health impacts of historic and systemic racism are clear in our case numbers." Hmm. Does *misandry* explain more men dying? Why haven't I heard that hypothesis? Maybe, just maybe, the differential impact of COVID19 is due to neither racism nor sexism?

    Today I am declaring racism a public health crisis in the . The health impacts of historic and systemic racism are clear in our case numbers, and the impacts go far beyond the current crisis.
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  5. Jun 11

    Pretending that biological sex doesn’t exist is also bad for trans people.

    I love how my TL is filled with support for . And from predominately transfolk, no less!
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  6. Jun 11

    When you pretend that “biological sex” doesn’t exist, you sound scientifically ignorant and you elevate misogyny.

    When you defend so-called “biological sex,” you sound scientifically ignorant and you elevate transphobia.
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  7. Jun 11

    Now with a functional link:

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  8. Jun 11

    “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.” Orwell, 1949 (in his book 1984).

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  9. Jun 11

    Imagine doing Goliath's bidding, and not realizing it.

    Cool how you can list groups who hold power in society, who are currently crushing immigrants, minorities, LGBT folk, and unarmed protesters and then claim they are the real victims at the hands of powerless people at the same time. Imagine feeling sorry for Goliath.
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  10. Jun 11

    Notpersons increasingly include anyone who steps out of line with the new dogma, the orthodoxy of the moment, the opiate of today's masses. is not what it seems, and and are thinly veiled attacks on Enlightenment values.

    Notpersons are beyond the pale, worthy of contempt and disgust. Notpersons include: Trump voters Gun owners Police Conservatives Skeptics (and therefore scientists) Free speech advocates Whistle blowers The list grows… Notpersons are at risk of becoming unpersons.
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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    1984 “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten...every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”

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  12. Jun 9

    When law enforcement officers in Cary, NC, ritually washed the feet of self-styled religious leaders, the video circulated quickly, and raised many questions. In this exhaustively researched and deeply insightful thread, explores what was going on.

    1. Many of you have seen a viral video in which white people in Cary, North Carolina knelt on the ground in front of black people sitting in chairs in front of them and washed their feet.
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  13. Jun 9

    "Most black lives unfold somewhere between my wife’s story and my own. Neither the reality of her life or mine presupposes the answer to every question of policy and social justice in America." Truth, beauty and depth from .

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  14. Jun 9

    is Wednesday, June 10, noon-thirty Pacific. First hour: conversation on topics arising. Second hour: we answer as many of your Superchat questions as we have time for. Join us!

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  15. Jun 9

    Join and me tomorrow, Wednesday June 10, at 12:30 pacific, for our next live conversation: what to make of the current moment, through an evolutionary lens. We will NOT .

    I like horses but dislike Trojan horses Black lives matter but I can't support I'm horrified by police brutality but oppose I know about abuses in STEM but believe is an antiblack message. Science enlightens, equalizes and empowers
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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    I like horses but dislike Trojan horses Black lives matter but I can't support I'm horrified by police brutality but oppose I know about abuses in STEM but believe is an antiblack message. Science enlightens, equalizes and empowers

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    The false notion that "sex is a spectrum" is foundational to the widespread sex denialism we are currently experiencing in our society. In this essay I outline the science of biological sex, and expose the pseudoscience behind sex spectrum ideology.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 8
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    No, I was one of those "I'm so glad to be rid of many of the gender stereotypes that my foremothers had to deal with!" only to find exactly those stereotypes now being trotted out as evidence of femaleness.

    Replying to @HeatherEHeying @FondOfBeetles and 11 others
    Furthermore, suggesting that boys or men who do enjoy engaging in traditional female-typical gender norms are actually girls or women is regressive, misogynistic, reality-denying garbage. 10/
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  19. Jun 8

    Daniel Radcliffe’s statement erases the identity and dignity of women.

    Daniel Radcliffe said “transgender women are women” in a lengthy response to J.K. Rowling’s transphobic tweets: “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people”
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    Jun 8
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    I have been asked if I see extremists on the left, the right, or both, as the bigger problem facing the United States right now. The question is asked honestly, but has one implicit assumption I disagree with: that “right wing extremists” are in power now. (thread - 1/9)

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    Jun 8

    The DarkHorse Podcast welcomes bio-technologist for a YouTube Premier at 4pm Pacific. We will discuss the origin of SARS-CoV2. I will collect SuperChat questions, and Yuri and I will answer them on a special DarkHorse Q and A broadcast very soon.

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