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Kalyani Twyman
@kztwyman.bsky.social
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PhD student at the University of St Andrews with Prof. Andy Gardner
Evolution, theory, social behaviour, antiracism, trail running, climbing
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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · Jun 26
Now all typeset and pretty! A little summary:
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This is pretty cool
September 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Why does the idea that race is biological persist despite biology so clearly refuting it? Check out a blog @kevinlala.bsky.social and I wrote about our new article titled 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' (coauthored w/ @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marc Feldman) for some thoughts:
Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? « Life Sciences# « Cambridge Core Blog
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public. Why can’t scientists co...
www.cambridge.org
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Here is the link to a short blog that @kztwyman.bsky.social and I wrote about our article (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marc Feldman) entitled "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience":

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? « Life Sciences# « Cambridge Core Blog
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public. Why can’t scientists co...
www.cambridge.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?

@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Image from the blog showing 5 solutions to countering scientific racism 1. Introduce students to the complexities of developmental processes 2. Introduce students to the complexities of inheritance processes 3. Explain that variation between racialised groups in behavioural and cultural traits is not caused by genetic differences 4. Debunk scientific racism in school and university level science curricula 5. Acknowledge and contextualised the racist histories of academic fields
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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kevinlala.bsky.social
Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online.

We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them.

doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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And Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn, whose poster "The consequences of constrained sex allocation under local mate competition" (P02.036) is in Tuesday's session.

This is based on his recent paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
Photo of Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn
August 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Two other members of the research group have successfully made it to @eseb2025.bsky.social ahead of me.

Look out for @kztwyman.bsky.social, whose poster "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality" (P01.068) is in this evening's session.
Photo of Kalyani Twyman.
August 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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It's official! I'm now the newest postgraduate research fellow at the marine mammal research program at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Bio and blog post with more details here:
www.mmrphawaii.org/alec-burslem
www.mmrphawaii.org/post/shippin...
Shippin' out from Scotland
Written by MMRP PostDoc Alec BurslemFor a while it looked like I was going to be a chef. It was 2009, and after a couple of disappointing A-level results in biology and chemistry had shaken my confide...
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July 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
kztwyman.bsky.social
Really happy to share this article I'm grateful to have been a part of: 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman. Check out a preprint here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#ScientificRacism #Antiracism
July 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
In this new article on scientific racism (coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman), we present five impediments to countering racist pseudoscience and suggest strategies for containing its spread.

#ehbea #philsci #histsci #ishpssb2025 🧪

tinyurl.com/4ptyt6w2
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience
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July 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.
July 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience
www.cambridge.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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andygardner.bsky.social
New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social
Figure 1. Unbeatable sex allocation strategy of unconstrained females (r*) as a function of proportion of constrained females (p) under local mate competition with two foundresses colonising the patch. Shown are the result for Godfray’s (1990) erroneous diploidy solution (dashed grey line), our corrected diploidy solution (solid grey line), and our haplodiploidy solution (solid black line). Overlaid are results from individual-based simulations (discs).
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Now all typeset and pretty! A little summary:
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity
The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour
Abstract. Cellular division of labour is closely associated with the emergence of organismality in the evolution of obligate multicellularity. Michod has s
doi.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
AI-generated image using the paper's title and abstract as input.
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Race is a social construct. But what does that mean, and why do we say this? An explainer, in the wake of Trump being racist and wrong (pt 675)

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race
As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race.
www.bbc.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
kztwyman.bsky.social
The Biology Anti-racism Committee hosted the first Decolonising Science Public Lecture at St Andrews yesterday. Prof. Joseph Graves spoke about the science of 'race' and racism, with a focus on how racism, not 'race', causes medical disparities. Thanks @gravesjl55.bsky.social for a great talk!
kevinlala.bsky.social Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · Mar 12
Thanks to Joseph Graves for giving a terrific talk on race and racism, in the inaugural Decolonizing Science public lecture at St Andrews today.

Thanks too to everyone who attended, either in person or online.

Picture shows Kalyani Twyman introducing Joe
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I'm really happy that Dr Joseph L Graves will be coming to St Andrews University on March 12 to give the first Decolonizing Science Public Lecture entitled "Racism not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions".

The lecture will take place at 1pm UK time and will be livestreamed - see link below.
February 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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andygardner.bsky.social
New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping"

with Tom Scott (@tomwscott.bsky.social) & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild.bsky.social) #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
February 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Late but spent New Years up in the mountains, missing it a bit now.
alecburslem.bsky.social Alec Burslem @alecburslem.bsky.social · Feb 6
A wee bit of r&r with @kztwyman.bsky.social in the high Atlas
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Write-up of our new paper on information transfer in plant-fungal networks: "Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapping into underground networks".

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01...

@tobykiers.bsky.social
@stuwest.bsky.social
Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than
A new study led by the University of Oxford has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their
www.ox.ac.uk
January 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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My paper is out! "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis" (#OpenAccess), with @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70806
Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis
We develop a mathematical model to investigate how kin selection shapes the optimal timing of metamorphosis. We consider the full range of larval competition intensities and the full range of related...
doi.org
January 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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asab.org
ASAB will also be at #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata, India, this summer (Aug 25-30). Abstract submission is currently open! #ASABWinter2024
December 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM
kztwyman.bsky.social
Hello - how nice to be off twitter!
I'm a PhD student at the University of St Andrews studying evolutionary theory (my research profile: tinyurl.com/kztwyman).
Would love to connect with anyone working in evolution, theory, social behaviour etc.!
November 29, 2024 at 2:34 PM