Ornithologist, evolutionary biologist, ecologist, lover of Bananaquits. Associate Professor at Kenyon College. She/her Lab logo by @Blackmudpuppy
Gambier, OH
Joined April 2012
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Vote down ballot in every election.
Don't skip judges. Don't skip state legislators. Lives literally depend on it.
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It’s a problem if you don’t have kids.
It’s a problem if you have kids.
It’s a problem if you work.
It’s a problem if you stay home.
It’s always us.
Hi.
We are the problem.
It’s us.
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r…
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My senator, @jontester, could very easily be the closest senate race in the election and also the one that tips the senate. I'm feeling fired up, every bit helps.
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Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
It’s embarrassing to see OSU gush over Vance as a model for “Education for Citizenship.” A person who desires an authoritarian takeover of education and says “professors are the enemy” is hardly a model for our students.
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
If it’s not helpful to you, by all means ignore this, but I’m just saying…
It really helps me to recenter myself to think “Oh right. The worst fucking people on the planet want me to feel like we’re doomed. Fuck those guys, actually.”
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
I’m not saying things are ok now (they are not!) or will be ok (they could easily get so much worse!).
But they don’t HAVE to get worse.
We’re more likely to prevent further backslide if we have the energy to fight back.
This is a marathon designed to make us want to collapse.
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
Systematic study of the effects of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities:
🚗⬇️ 23% in nr. of road crashes
⚰️⬇️ 37% nr. of fatalities
🩸⬇️ 38% nr. of injuries
🌫️⬇️ 18% in emissions
⛽️⬇️ 7% less fuel
🔉⬇️ 2.5dB noise reduction
Source: nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-…
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
How I published zero first-author papers during 2023:
- All the data were already collected
- 5 papers could have come from all that data
- I read mostly manuscripts I am reviewing and student assignments
- I write mostly emails
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
Another depressing account of apparent fraud in science, and the difficulty of pointing out the apparent fraud. My own experiences with rebuttals is that you make enemies and those enemies make it harder to get grants and papers published. Shouldn't be like that.
Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained" by MV Srinivasan AM FRS in the 1990s. Except @NeuroLuebbert found his papers are junk. A 🧵 about her discovery & our report: arxiv.org/abs/2405.12998 1/
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
A reminder for no particular reason: you can get a lovely floral “Fuck SCOTUS” sticker for a mere $10 donation to voting rights organizations!
ALT A light green sticker. Floral letters spell “FUCK” and SCOTUS is written in Century Schoolbook, the official font of SCOTUS opinions
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
my class is starting in a few weeks, spent the morning writing out my AI policy
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
My local chamber of commerce conducted a survey with stunning findings.
Residents: 83% prefer walking or biking
Business owners: 51% prefer driving
No wonder it’s almost impossible to remove on-street parking in front of businesses
@LakeviewRoscoe
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
Currently thinking about how research shows that business owners consistently overestimate the number of customers who arrive by car and underestimate the share who arrive by transit, biking, or walking.
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I think about this quote from @GeorgeMonbiot a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
No, gain of function research did not cause COVID-19
The lab leak conspiracy theory somehow still persists.
Don't fall for it; instead, learn about the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2.
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Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
People asking why this is factually incorrect…I’m at a conference today so am pressed for time but I’ll quickly address each of the 5 “key points.”
Bottom line: You can dress up unsupported horseshit in as much polished data viz as you want, but it still stinks.
Key points aren’t actually very key when they are factually incorrect.
Good of the @nytopinion to help the mob sharpen their pitchforks for Fauci’s Select Subcommittee hearing by enshrining the lies that he will be attacked with as truth in the paper of record.
Dr. Natalie Wright retweeted
Going official with the release of something we've been cooking up for the last 3.5 years--a complete phylogeny of the world's birds! We = @snacktavish, @Avibase, and other great collaborators from @opentreeoflife and @CornellBirds. Why is this such a big deal? A few reasons.