There’s no reason he couldn’t have a guest biologist tweet through his account. It’d be a good way for him to introduce people to other scientists.

Consider yourself starred, since I can’t for some reason.

The same thing happened to Sagan when he gained celebrity status. This is just being compounded by shit like Twitter.

He’s clearly not a zoologist. This, folks, is why the AAAS guidelines stipulate that when a scientist is expressing an opinion outside of their specific area of training and expertise, the comment should carry no more weight than that of Joe Blow on the street.

I feel like there was a semi-political reason for him tweeting this, which is that sex is not meant to hurt humans (and maybe the idea that a woman’s first time is supposed to be painful is a myth). Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it wouldn’t be the first time he’s tried to communicate his stance in scientific…

I saw him speak in my hometown and was hoping for an in-depth talk, but it was actually very simple, surface stuff. But even that seemed hard for most of the audience to understand—hence their laughing nervously at stuff that wasn’t meant as a joke and fixating on his discussion of Pluto not being a planet without…

There is currently no evidence that any creature down to about the complexity of crustaceans lacks the neurology necessary for consciousness, according to a consensus statement of leading researchers in the field - the Cambridge Declaration on Animal Consciousness.

I’m a biologist who loves NGT. The man knows a lot and has done amazing things for science literacy. I can personally forgive him for not knowing a lot of details of the sex life of various species, and how complicated the male vs. female never-ending sex competition is.

It seems like, not surprisingly, he made a…

It’s one of those things, for me, that’s both hilarious and painful.

Ah the wonder of Twitter: What else can turn even the smartest, most learned among us into a loud-mouthed dumbfuck?

Except when you consider the number of women (and men) who find sex painful, it’s not just about being a biologist. It’s noticing what sex is like for people other than yourself. I wish someone had tweeted vaginismus/dyspareunia at him.

We went to see him speak, and he said more than one incorrect thing about evolution. Not young-earth creationist wrong, but some small details that- while they fit nicely to his overall thesis- were not entirely true. Seriously, if he wants to talk about biology, he doesn’t even need to hire someone to vet his shit,…

He could argue that the term “sex” is quite different than the term “mating.” Bonobos, dolphins, and some other mammals have sex. Most of the animal kingdom mates. Mating is not always pleasant.

I am loving #biologistspacefacts. I was coming here to suggest everyone go check it out!

The correct statement: “If there were ever a species for whom sex was ineffective, it surely went extinct long ago—except for species which reproduce asexually.”

He’s definitely a little overexposed, but generally I don’t mind him popping up for cameos everywhere because he’s a science educator, bringing science where it may otherwise dare not venture.

Hey Neil, big fan.

See, I thought the point of science versus religion is that your heroes AREN’T literal gods, and can make small, trivial mistakes without everyone screaming that their life is over.

And yet we got #BiologistSpaceFacts out of his goof.

He lost me when he had all those tweets about why Gravity was bad. It’s like, Neil, I know a lot of stuff happens in space movies that does not accurately depict how space works, but the amount of exposition you’d need to explain why things that work differently in space would make for a shitty movie. Which actually…