Heritability is a statistical description of sources of trait variation in a specific set of people under a specific set of environmental conditions. It doesn’t show how malleable the trait is, doesn't index an underlying feature of human biology, & can’t say anything about you as an individual.
I'm collecting together my prior Bluesky threads addressing popular misconceptions about genetics. A thread of threads, beginning with this brief guide to heritability:
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I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic
very excited to read all the interesting arguments for and against atrocities, and about the different, more and less sophisticated ways of thinking about atrocities, in the prestigious publications and platforms read and watched by a society indulging in atrocities without a moment's reflection
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
If you look at the lit on the just world delusion, or cognitive biases (those that survived the replication crisis) there’s ample evidence that every human deludes themselves to varying degrees to cope with this fucked up reality. There’s no escape short of Buddhist enlightenment. Only coping.
Simon Fisher
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What role(s) can non-human animal culture play in conservation? Much has been written on this topic in recent years, but Dawn Barlow, Taylor Hersh, & I offer some new perspectives: "Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice" @behavecol.bsky.social
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