Jerry Coyne
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Jerry Coyne
@evolutionistrue.bsky.social
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn Hili shows us when she was a young and arrogant kitten.

Hili: One of us was a living icon, and the other just a wooden god.
Andrzej: Do you recall that?
Hili: Oh yes, I was so young and so arrogant at the time.

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November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Bill Maher on how the creeping socialism of the Democratic party is going to promote our losses in future elections,

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November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Lovely photos of scissor-tailed flycatchers taken by Pratyaydipta Rudra.

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November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Szaron remember the bad old days in Soviet-dominated Poland.

Szaron: Waiting in lines is so boring.
Hili: You’ll see real lines when the Marxists come back to power.

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November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This German Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was nine.
17 November 1934 | A German Jewish boy, Gert Loewenstein, was born in Aken. He emigrated to the Netherlands.

He was deported from Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto in January 1944 and on 16 May 1944 deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered after the selection in a gas chamber.
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being stalked by paparazzi:

Hili: You show up in the basement with a camera?
Andrzej: Yes. I knew you’d be here.

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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Photos of California intertidal creatures by Abby Thompson of UC Davis.

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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Easter Snow," a beautiful traditional Irish song played by Seamus Ennis on the uilleann pipes and his daughter Catherine on the organ.

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“Easter Snow”
I have loved this song ever since, years ago, an Irish friend gave me a CD containing it. This is an instrumental version with Seamus Ennis on uilleann pipes, also called “Irish bagpipes,&#82…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Photos of plants and animals from Southwest Australia taken by Scott Ritchie.

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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Andrzej shows off for the kids (August is the son of one of Andrzej and Malgorzata's friends):

Hili: He often uses me as a pillow.
August: I’ll never believe that.

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November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
More glowing review's of Matthew Cobb's new biography of Francis Crick (I haven't seen a bad one).

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November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Lots of cat items today, including a double lagniappe and a guide to cat stuff in Chicago.

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November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili's feeling sorry for herself.

Hili: Nobody understands me.
Andrzej: It’s a feeling that’s always been in fashion.

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November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Photos in our seminar room in honor of the Jerry Coyne/Honey the Duck Research Fellowship, which I endowed to allow study by grad students of organismal evolutionary biology in perpetuity. This is my (and Honey's) only form of immortality.

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November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Sierra Club's recent drive for "social justice" is wrecking the organization, draining its finances and driving away members, all because the Club is not sticking to its mission.

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Social Justice wrecks the Sierra Club
This happens over and over again. It happened with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It happened with the ACLU. It happened with the Audubon Society. And now it’s happening with the Sierra Clu…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Todd Martin contributes some photos from Taiwan.

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November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili refers to Sesame Street.

Hili: Is the story about the sesame a fairy tale?
Andrzej: Yes, a five-star one.

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November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our seminar room now has a tribute to Honey the Duck, in whose honor I gave a fellowship to the Department of Ecology and Evolution to fund graduate student research in perpetuity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hitler's DNA has been sequenced, revealing a few maladies, but everyone's interested in possible sexual dysfunction, which is speculative at this point. The Guardian and Adam Rutherford get it right.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Jesus and Mo have written a new song, apparently appealing to pity so people will embrace their faiths.

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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the appeal to pity
In today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “appeal”, the boys once again tune up their instruments for a song.  The song also came with an appeal to pity from the artist (see below): I…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pictures from around Hudson Bay from Ephraim Heller.

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November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, the mammals are joshing:

Hili: What day is it today?
Andrzej: The tomorrow of yesterday.

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November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Jerry Coyne
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM