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3 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
On the left is Michael Jordan.

On the right is Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues, the shortest NBA player ever.
I recently wrote about the importance of height in basketball, where I suggested that short players still had a competitive shot if they had some excellent skills/characteristics that compensated for lack of height.

Bogues had what we might consider "excellent compensatory skills".

The guy was absolutely lightning quick - he could turn and get away from anyone.

Watch this video.
He was agile and strong.
And the best until last?

He vertical leap was, well, insane. 44 inches, still making Top Ten lists in NBA history.
Plenty of females are 5'3'', and plenty of WNBA players are far taller.

Brittney Griner is 6'8'' and can jump about 24 inches. Bogues can get his head higher than Griner.

Highest WNBA vertical leap? About 34 inches.

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30 Apr
Interesting from Eric Vilain here, who works with various sports feds and advocates for inclusion of transowmen in female cats.

“It is not about making everybody biologically equal, and I think that is a common misconception when we start talking about transgender athletes."
“People want transgender [females] to be physiologically identical to [born] females, and if they’re not, it’s unfair.

That is not possible.”
Dr. Vilain referenced the structure of the pelvis and the mass of certain muscle groups as anatomical differences between the male and female body that will always be somewhat different.

But achieving total equality is not the point, Dr. Vilain said.
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22 Apr
Dear @RichardDawkins

While you gently awake, women are being cancelled, deplatformed, sanctioned.

Discuss.
While you gently awake, legislators in Texas are boldly claiming, despite not quite believing, there are six - precisely six - sexes in humans.

People who make laws are using TikTok for their science info.

Your thoughts?
While you gently awake, I am being questioned by my institute about my use of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’.

Apparently, that’s rude.

Discuss.
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19 Apr
Homo = same.
Zygote = of the zygote (fertilised egg).

It means that, for a given DNA sequence, you have the same information on both copies of it. As each copy came from a different parent, it means your parents had the same information as each other.
A common cause is related parents.

If you analyse someone’s entire DNA set, you can get a feel for exactly *how closely related* the parents were. The more events where the sequence is the same in both copies = higher degree of relatedness.
For some genetic diseases, you need two ‘bad’ copies of DNA to have the disease. The chances of you having the disease are therefore higher if your parents are related.
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17 Apr
A perfect example of the muddled thinking regarding testosterone, advantage and sports categorisation.

‘T means better performance. It’s debatable whether that’s a sports advantage.’

🤪
From this article: @TheWillHobson

washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04…
There are two concepts of ‘advantage’ used in the wider discussion. I think of them as Start and Finish Line positions.
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10 Apr
This is an excellent analysis of an article typical of the genre seeking to deny the material reality of sex. @lecanardnoir
This photo is key to Andy’s analysis.

“But which of them is male and which is female? They look different with different wing markings, but unless you are a lepidopterist, it is unlikely you know – and if this was a new species no-one would know.”
“So, our knowledge of the sexes of each individual is non-existent. We do however know that one will be male and the other female.”
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7 Apr
An important review.

Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic and Clinical Studies: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement | Endocrine Reviews | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/edrv/advance-a…
All serious scientific agencies are outlining requirements for clear definitions of sex as it pertains to biology studies.

The Endocrine Society is not the first to make such statements, but this is comprehensive.
Many guidelines, including those from the NIH and the European Commission, demand separation of sex from gender (where the latter is irrelevant in all non-human studies).

And demand clarity on both sex and gender.
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