Jerry Coyne

Superannuated evolutionary biologist, writer, humanist, atheist, secularist and ailurophile. On Bluesky at

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Readers' wildlife photos from Mark Joseph, including a leucistic (white) house sparrow.

https://t.co/82oD3hM0Os

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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili proves herself more an empiricist than a theorist.

Szaron: Might there be something delicious hidden in this jungle?

Hili: Find out for yourself. Academic discussions don’t get you anywhere.

https://t.co/l5oNmrYcpv

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This Belgian Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was only a year old, and would have been 85 today had he lived.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

4 June 1941 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Rene Spiner, was born in Antwerp.

In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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From the late and great Andreas Kay, fantastic camouflage.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This caterpillar found in Ecuador mimics the appearance of a feather to avoid detection by predators.

📽: Andreas Kay

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Look how fast it can change colors for camouflage. And then there's the ink and its ability to squeeze into tiny spaces. . . .

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Octopus, the Alien of the Ocean

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Ganesha make an appearance in a resurrected Jesus and Mo strip:

https://t.co/sUsNtLgNMx

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Scott Ritchie found a leucistic plumed whistling duck in Queensland, and it appears to have spread its genes:

https://t.co/yxnibhNw4r

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All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is curious:

Hili: Why is there evolutionary psychology, but not evolutionary sociology yet?

Andrzej: Because the evolution of sociologists took a different path.

https://t.co/qtjjCvR48J

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This is the moment where SS doctors sentence an old Jewish man to the gas chambers. It is the dreaded "selection."

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

The very moment of the selection process, when an SS doctor sentenced an older Jewish man deported from Hungary to death in a gas chamber.

📷 The platform and rail spur inside Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was put into operation in May 1944. Jews who were deported to the camp underwent the arrival selection there made by SS doctors. Most of them were immediately murdered in gas chambers.

▶ Watch a video about the ramps of the camp: https://t.co/SLNpabQ7In

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Phosos: https://t.co/IxCBOs0TcX

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This kid is fantastic!

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

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And yet "progressives" very often side with Hamas over Israel. A gay man has a very short half-life in Gaza.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

TV host on Muslim Brotherhood channel (affiliated with Hamas):

“All homosexuals, without exception, should be killed. Burn them alive, throw them off a high place, or stone them to death.”

Happy Pride Month!

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The new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer roughly doubles survival time from 6 months to about 13, but this is widely misreported as doubling "survival rate" or halving "death risk". This misreporting could grossly mislead patients and the public.

https://t.co/C5EcFVdYCE

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Photos of fungus from Rik Gern.

https://t.co/WF4dvuke72

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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili has a chinwag with the gardener:

Andrzej: What are you guys talking about?
Hili: About mowing the lawn, gnats, and music.

https://t.co/2w6BbLdI7k

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This Polish Jewish girl was gassed as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was 12 years old.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

1 June 1931 | A Polish Jewish girl, Mila Braunfeld, was born in Jordanów.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Bochnia and murdered in a gas chamber on 31 August 1943.

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The person who posted this video of a peaceful protestor in Iran got ten years in jail. It's time for the Iranian people to get their freedom.

[Maryam Moqaddam مریم مقدم @MaryamMoqaddam]

#مسعود_پیاهو، شهروندی که این و‌یدیو را از اعتراض مسالمت‌آمیز یک معترض دی ماه جلوی پاساژ علاالدین و رو در روی یگان ویژه، استوری کرده بود، به ۱۰ سال حبس محکوم شده

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A guest post: why trying to put human colonies on the Moon and Mars is a waste of time.

https://t.co/VrSa9kCepy

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Jan Malik's photos from the Jersey shore.

https://t.co/VBzjWZZ9tC

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It's June! All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej are depressed at the real news.

Hili: Oh God, you look like you’ve just finished going through the news.
Andrzej: You guessed it.

https://t.co/G33yJAmJNJ

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Ah, sexual selection.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Black Sicklebill (Epimachus fastosus) is one of the most remarkable Birds of Paradise. Native to the montane forests of New Guinea, the male undergoes an astonishing, shape-shifting transformation to court females

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