Thanks for inviting me!

Thank you for a brilliant book 🙏

Took me hours to download years of notes when I quit. So glitchy. Also reminded me: why on earth did I think *this* thing was interesting, a not altogether reassuring archaeology of my mind

Thank you! Flowers dissolve those subject/I/other distinctions with great style, and I try to do some of this justice

I was wrong. Replies on bluesky are remaining in place. My apologies.

Although I only checked Blue sky. The screenshot seems to be from another platform so maybe I'm just reading too much into things

All comments have evaporated. I have added one and I'm waiting to see what happens

W and C took Franklin's data, without permission or acknowledgement, then Watson spent his life denigrating her and other women in science. He was also an unapologetic racist. His legacy is one of scientific malpractice and vile white supremacy.
Please fix this appalling post.

Important, insightful, and witty. Some great lines

Water oaks make such adorable little acorns. Adorable, that is, until you have to walk down a slope on them, and then they turn into malevolent marbles!

yes, he discovered Franklin's notebooks

Yes, he stood firmly in a tradition of white supremacy established by Linnaeus, Darwin, and most early 20th century geneticists. His was not an isolated set of views. Biology should face up to this so that we can chose a better future.

Pretending that Watson was an outlier does not help. Let's recognize that he stood firmly within an established racist tradition, then chose a different direction for the future.

Most early 20th century geneticists were promotors of racist and classist eugenic policies. All science is embedded in and shaped by cultural context. But science also then affects the wider culture, legitimizing prejudice when it gets falsely dressed up as scientific rigor. thread...

Biology education should face up to the field's troubled roots. For example, Charles Darwin, although an abolitionist, believed in the superiority of his "race" over "savages". Carl Linnaeus wrote white supremacy into his classification of humans. thread...

basically all downhill on the name front since Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur