Jerry Coyne
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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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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
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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Hili: You show up in the basement with a camera?
Andrzej: Yes. I knew you’d be here.
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Photos of California intertidal creatures by Abby Thompson of UC Davis.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Photos of California intertidal creatures by Abby Thompson of UC Davis.
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Photos of plants and animals from Southwest Australia taken by Scott Ritchie.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Photos of plants and animals from Southwest Australia taken by Scott Ritchie.
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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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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
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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Hili: He often uses me as a pillow.
August: I’ll never believe that.
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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
More glowing review's of Matthew Cobb's new biography of Francis Crick (I haven't seen a bad one).
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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
Lots of cat items today, including a double lagniappe and a guide to cat stuff in Chicago.
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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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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
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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Hili: Nobody understands me.
Andrzej: It’s a feeling that’s always been in fashion.
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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
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 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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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
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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Hili: Is the story about the sesame a fairy tale?
Andrzej: Yes, a five-star one.
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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
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.
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
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 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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Hili: What day is it today?
Andrzej: The tomorrow of yesterday.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:54 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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Hili: What day is it today?
Andrzej: The tomorrow of yesterday.
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A photo-and-text visit by Athayde Tonhasca Júnior to Lençóis, near Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A photo-and-text visit by Athayde Tonhasca Júnior to Lençóis, near Chapada Diamantina National Park in Brazil.
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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, anomie continues to reign.
Hili: I’m starting to feel tired.
Me: Of what?
Hili: Thinking. I need a moment of mindlessness.
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Hili: I’m starting to feel tired.
Me: Of what?
Hili: Thinking. I need a moment of mindlessness.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, anomie continues to reign.
Hili: I’m starting to feel tired.
Me: Of what?
Hili: Thinking. I need a moment of mindlessness.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/12/w...
Hili: I’m starting to feel tired.
Me: Of what?
Hili: Thinking. I need a moment of mindlessness.
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An enthusiastic book recommendation from me, and also a Pulitzer winner for fiction:
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November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
An enthusiastic book recommendation from me, and also a Pulitzer winner for fiction:
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Some birds (and mammals) from Massachusetts, photographed by Susan Harrison, who rarely sees them since she lives in California.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Some birds (and mammals) from Massachusetts, photographed by Susan Harrison, who rarely sees them since she lives in California.
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All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili encounters a carved wooden figure in the back yard:
Hili: Are all the saints made of wood?
Andrzej: No, marble, clay, and even cement are used too.
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Hili: Are all the saints made of wood?
Andrzej: No, marble, clay, and even cement are used too.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili encounters a carved wooden figure in the back yard:
Hili: Are all the saints made of wood?
Andrzej: No, marble, clay, and even cement are used too.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/11/t...
Hili: Are all the saints made of wood?
Andrzej: No, marble, clay, and even cement are used too.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/11/t...
Photos of Chatham Island flora and fauna (off NZ) by David Riddell, with several of the species endangered. The "fluffball" is the chick of a Chatham Island taiko, of which there fewer than 200 and for which rangers provide special nesting holes.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Photos of Chatham Island flora and fauna (off NZ) by David Riddell, with several of the species endangered. The "fluffball" is the chick of a Chatham Island taiko, of which there fewer than 200 and for which rangers provide special nesting holes.
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All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, the pessimism continues nonstop.
Hili: I’m seeing which way the wind is blowing.
Andrzej: Usually not the way you’d want.
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Hili: I’m seeing which way the wind is blowing.
Andrzej: Usually not the way you’d want.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, the pessimism continues nonstop.
Hili: I’m seeing which way the wind is blowing.
Andrzej: Usually not the way you’d want.
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Hili: I’m seeing which way the wind is blowing.
Andrzej: Usually not the way you’d want.
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A deeply misleading book review in Nature implies that the modern view of evolution is woefully incomplete, making the same tired arguments refuted over a decade ago. Moreover, the author of the book review is a collaborator with several of the book's authors.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A deeply misleading book review in Nature implies that the modern view of evolution is woefully incomplete, making the same tired arguments refuted over a decade ago. Moreover, the author of the book review is a collaborator with several of the book's authors.
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Neil Dawes sends bird photos from the Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, a prime place to watch seabirds.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Neil Dawes sends bird photos from the Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, a prime place to watch seabirds.
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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej are having deep conversations.
Hili: What is progress?
Andrzej: Hard to say, but most often it’s the search for originality by parroting our great-grandfathers’ fanaticism.
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Hili: What is progress?
Andrzej: Hard to say, but most often it’s the search for originality by parroting our great-grandfathers’ fanaticism.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej are having deep conversations.
Hili: What is progress?
Andrzej: Hard to say, but most often it’s the search for originality by parroting our great-grandfathers’ fanaticism.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/09/s...
Hili: What is progress?
Andrzej: Hard to say, but most often it’s the search for originality by parroting our great-grandfathers’ fanaticism.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/09/s...
Three--count them, three--cat-related items plus lagniappe, including the wonderful story of the cat called "Room 8", a must-read for ailurophiles.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Three--count them, three--cat-related items plus lagniappe, including the wonderful story of the cat called "Room 8", a must-read for ailurophiles.
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