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31 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Also Stanley:
I’ve read Stanley, and about this period. I understand about analysing people by their time and not ours. I know he said some things which were perhaps less racist than his contemporaries, and had mixed views for his time.
And yes he was a virulent racist and a fucking monster.
Study him by all means. Understand his views and the roles he played in history, most definitely. Put him on a literal pedestal? I think not. For he was a shit. In any age.
I now await Team ‘everyone was racist then’.

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I wrote a feature for the Mail on Sunday about human evolution, including the latest findings about the big headed Chinese/Maguire skull from last week, and general debunking of some of the simplistic old narrative of humankind's journey. HUMANKind
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Hmmm, this looks a lot like scientific racism to me. paging @TinaLasisi for her take.
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An interesting tale of science communication, journalism and the culture wars has just dropped - ​🧵
​@JenniferRaff @ewanbirney @aylwyn_scally @minouye271 + I recently published a paper about the lexicon of genetics, and how it needs to be addressed
bit.ly/3ddQu96
We argue that certain terms are confusing, scientifically invalid, and some are wedded to the racist history of our field.
Last night, the Telegraph published a hit piece on it
bit.ly/3xWvPOI
...which misrepresents the arguments, misquotes the paper, and spells two of our names wrong. Nice work.
I wonder if this might be some latent revenge, as I have a previous run in with the author over some of the most comically wrong reporting of a science story ever
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21 Jun
New paper klaxon! @JenniferRaff @ewanbirney @aylwyn_scally @minouye271 and I have been working on this a while: sparking a conversation about the lexicon of genetics, which continues to utilise scientifically redundant, confusing and racist terminology.

arxiv.org/abs/2106.10041
We’re definitely not prescribing or policing language, but want to prompt a dialogue with colleagues in similar and adjacent fields about our terminology m, datasets and tools, and move towards a lexicon that both serves the science and frees us from a racist past.
This is to be a conversation, so please please please let us know what you think. This is a preprint, it is also in with a journal, but this is a community effort to move genetics forward. 🧬
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