Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
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Superannuated evolutionary biologist, writer, humanist, atheist, secularist and ailurophile. On Bluesky at https://t.co/Ny3Z1XXT8n
The University of Chicago
Joined March 2010
RT @HenMazzig: Don’t forget: just last week the Red Cross complained about Israel taking photos of released prisoners as they were discharg…
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Three professional societies in evolutionary biology, ecology, and systematics, issue a statement once again (as they did in 2018) that sex is not binary, but some kind of multifactorial combinatorial way. It isn't science but ideology.
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In today's readers' wildlife photos, John Avise gives us installment 9 of the butterflies of North America.
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All the news that's fit to post, including Hili rebuking Andrzej for not keeping his resolutions (Hili knows Andrzej very well): Hili: You’ve decided something again. Andrzej; Yes, but this time… Hili: Yes, yes, I know.
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This electrician and a member of the anti-Communist resistance lasted about a month in Auschwitz before he died.
9 February 1903 | A Frenchman, Octave Hervaux, was born in Romorantin-Lanthenay. An electromechanic. In #Auschwitz on 8 July 1942. No. 45660 He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942.
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@TitsyTheDwarf @RadiantSad Both of you--knock off this one-on-one on my Twitter feed and take it to email or I will remove this whole thread. Enough is enough.
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And yet gazillions of young people are on the side of Hamas. It is unbelievable!
I’m having an emotional meltdown. It has just hit me how f*cking depraved this is: Hamas forced Eli Sharabi to read out a script on mic in front of thousands of Gazans saying how “he is overjoyed to returned to his family, wife and two daughters” Hamas knowing that they had brutally murdered his brother, wife and two young girls on Oct 7th 2023 Eli had no idea they had been slaughtered until he got back into Israel.
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Caturday felid trifecta. Three--count them, three--items plus lagniappe. Here are a few vintage cat photos. You surely recognize two of the staff!
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Matt Moran's photos of amphibians and other animals from Monteverde in Costa Rica.
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All the news that's fit to post: follies in Washington and, in Dobrzyn, Hili disdains extremism: Hili: I’m losing hope. A:ndrzej: For what? Hili: for the victory of moderates.
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Mengele died on this day in 1979; he had a heart attack while swimming. This most odious of all Nazi doctors lived safely in Brazil for 34 years after the war.
7 February 1979 | Josef Mengele, an SS camp doctor who made selections & perpetrated deadly pseudo-medical experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, died in Brasil. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life. SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele was researching the issues of twins and the physiology and pathology of dwarfism in close cooperation with the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Genetics, and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem. He was also interested in the etiology and treatment of the gangrenous disease of the face, a little understood disease endemic to the Roma prisoners in Auschwitz. In the first phase of the experiments, pairs of twins and persons with inherited anomalies were put at the disposal of Dr. Mengele and subjected to all imaginable specialist medical examinations. They were also photographed, plaster casts were made of their jaws and teeth, and they were toe- and fingerprinted. As soon as these examinations were finished, they were killed with lethal injections of phenol to the heart so that the next phase of the experimentation could begin: autopsies and the comparative analysis of their internal organs. Listen to our podcast about the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele:
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A Kurdish-Iranian activist who is a political prisoner but sentenced for "armed rebellion against the state", which nobody believes.
She could be executed at any moment, her last hope has been destroyed! The court has rejected Pakhshan Azizi’s request for a retrial, despite clear evidence of her innocence. This was the final hope for her family, her friends, and all of us who fought for her freedom. Now, at any moment, her life could be taken. is not a criminal, she is a humanitarian who risked everything to aid those suffering from war and violence, even working on the front lines in Syria to help children affected by ISIS. Her only “crime” was standing up for the most vulnerable. Yet, she has been sentenced to death for an offense she never committed. This is not just one execution, it is part of the Islamic Republic’s brutal retaliation against the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. I call on the international community, especially women across the globe, to stand with us Iranians in the fight to save her life. We cannot let this courageous woman, who fought against terrorism and injustice, be executed in silence.
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One aboriginal tribe in Australia (there are over 400 with different languages) plans to create an indigenous periodic table of the elements, but their plan seems to piggyback on the table of elements that we already know, but aren't recognized by tribes.
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Readers' wildlife photos: Bill Dickens's pictures of an unidentified hawk taking a squirrel.
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All the news (lots!) that's fit to post. And, over in Dobrzyn, Andrzej is squabbling on the Internet: Hili: You’ve answered somebody again. Andrzej: And again I don’t know whether I did the right thing.
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But Carville predicted that Harris would win! Now he has the wisdom of hindsight. My choices, though, would be Gretchen Whitmer or Mayor Peter.
James Carville takes Kamala Harris to the woodshed by calling her a '7th string quarterback' that couldn't put together a sentence: James Carville: "We ran a presidential election, if we were playing a superbowl, we started our 7th string quarterback. You can't address a problem unless you're honest about a problem. The staggering talent that exists in today's Democrat party: People would have seen that. 'I didn't know they had people like that, that can actually complete a sentence, that actually know how to frame a message, actually have a sense of accomplishment of doing something." James Carville does not agree with the sycophants who repeated the mantra of 'Kamala Harris ran a flawless campaign' as a daily coping mechanism.
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RT @clairlemon: Tucker implies that Western Civilisation stopped after WWII. "Where is it?" he asks, shaking his head. Well, here are some…
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Gassed to death upon arrival at Auschwitz. He was five.
6 February 1939 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Aron Weisz, was born in Budapest. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz, where he was murdered in a gas chamber.
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Was this cat raised with a d*g?
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