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Erik Svensson
@EvolOdonata
Evolutionary biologist, photographer and professor (Lund, Sweden). Preferred pronoun: comrade. Publications: https://t.co/HoEI1f2x7A Photos: https://t.co/VBtDfKefzN
Jan 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Fully agree with @IslandGenomics and @tncvidya about the US-centric discussions on academic Twitter in general and EEB Twitter in particular, including (unfortunately) recent discussions about #diversify #EEB 1/ Many of us not living in the US or not being affiliated with US academic institutions have no clue about many of the specific issues being discussed and various acronyms such as "gre scores", "DEI initiatives" and so on 2/
Jan 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Given the recent discussions on EEB Twitter and (justified) calls to #diversifyEEB, it is striking with the lack of national diversity among participants: it is essentially a discussion where all participants across all camps reside in the US, and to a lesser extent Canada 1/ Judged by my Twitter feed (which is diverse, but admittedly a limited sample), my rough estimate is that 90-95 % of those who have been very engaged the last weeks discussing EO Wilson's legacy (among other things) have North American academic affiliations 2/
Jan 20, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Thankyou @hopihoekstra and @CorrieMoreau for removing your names from this blog post led by Razib Kahn.

I agree that the original article in @sciam was very problematic and deserved a critical rebuttal, but Kahn is not the guy who should lead it.

Thread with some thoughts 1/14 I confess I was not aware of the problematic history and questionable views expressed by Razib Kahn in the past, including his opinions on eugenics and affiliations with the "alt-right", but now I have informed myself. And it is not pretty. 2/
Dec 1, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Exactly the same theory was formalized by Russel Lande in 1976 and developed further by other evolutionary quantitative geneticists, and now the molecular biologists and medical scientists are re-discovering it in 2018 as "the omnigenic model" #ReinventingTheWheel 2/ The historical illitteracy and underappreciation of quantitative genetics as a tool from both molecular biologists and unfortunately also some molecularly oriented evolutionary biologists never stops to amaze me