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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1h

All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, the dialogue is opaque again!

Andrzej: What are you up to?
Hili: Listening to ovations marching toward their doom.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3h

This Czech Jewish girl was gassed as soon as she arrived at Auschwitz. She was twelve years old.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11h

15 October 1930 | Czech Jewish girl, Gertrud Gunst, was born in Prague. In March 1939 she emigrated to Norway.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

A young girl in white blows with some patters and curly hait. She is photographed somewhere outside - some. blured buildings in the background.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 21h

Why are the Democrats in Congress so loath to show joy over the return of the hostages (and also the Palestinian prisoners)?

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Where are celebrations from Democrats in Congress of the hostages’ return?

Yesterday I spent a while looking on Twitter for various Democrats in Congress celebrating the return of the hostages to Israel, or even the return of Palestinian prisoners to Gaza. I looked at all…

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 22h

Paleoanthropologist and science presenter Ella al-Shamahi describes how she came to accept evolutioon after, as a pious Muslim, learning about it in order to debunk it.

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A Muslim creationist accepts evolution after hearing the evidence, but was forced to leave her world

Although people argue that you can’t bring creationists to accepting evolution simply by showing them thge facts, this Radiolab audio shows that that isn’t an inviolable truth. The pod…

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 23h

Photos from Costa Rica by Charles Dunlop.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili makes a funny:

Hili: I’m thinking out loud.
Andrzej: I don’t hear anything.
Hili: That’s because I only think out loud inwardly.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

A rare prisoner revolt began on this day in 1943 at the Sobibor camp, with about 300 escaping after killing most of the SS guards. About 50 prisoners survived the war.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

14 October 1943 | At 15.30 prisoners of the German extermination center at #Sobibor began a revolt. Most of the SS guards were killed. Around 300 prisoners managed to escape, some 50 of them survived the war.

Learn more: https://t.co/YxFnsWN4lI

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

Once again the Free Press touts religion again, in an excerpt of a pro-Christian book by Paul Kingsnorth. He says that the West began losing its moral compass about 1500.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Dawkins explains why the gamete-based sex concept not only applies universally, but lists 14 phenomena that can't be understood without it. Thus the concept is not just universal, but utilitarian: no other concept can explain those phenomena.

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Videos: Dawkins on sex differences; Neil deGrasse Tyson on sport and sex

The first article in the new anthology The War on Science (compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Lawrence Krauss) is a piece by Richard Dawkins called “Scientific truth stands above h…

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 1d

The gulls of British Columbia: photographs by Kevin Krebs. Growing chicks:

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 2d

All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Andrzej are into deep ideological discussion:

Hili: A house cat is just a jobless proletarian on a hefty allowance.
Andrzej: I’ve suspected your radical leftist leanings for a while now.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 2d

A French Jewish boy, almost one year old, was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He woiuld be 83 today had he not been exterminated.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2d

13 October 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Stolowicz, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 491 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Black and white photo of a young boy wearing a traditional outfit with a detailed collar.

Vintage black and white photo of a young boy, sitting and looking directly at the camera.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 2d

Coleman Hughes's well-balanced view of the treatment of slavery in the U.S. by museums and the media. Both left and right get criticized for distorting and neglecting history.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 2d

A critique of why we shouldn't neglect the erosion of science by the left, even as Trump goes after it from the right.

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Why it’s not stupid to criticize aspects of leftist ideology that pollute science

I’m getting tired of virtue-flautning miscreants who yammer about our anthology The War on Science (Lawrence Krauss, ed.). Their beef? By and large, the 32 chapters by 39 authors discuss the…

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d

Photos of birds (and landscapes) of Oregon by Susan Harrison.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d

All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili's had some human noms.

Hili: What exactly was I supposed to do once the plate was licked?

Andrzej: Remind me that I still need to wash it.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d

This German Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he arrived at Auschwitz. He was two years old. Had he lived, he'd be 85 today.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 3d

12 October 1940 | A German Jewish boy, Denny Deutsch, was born in Berlin.

In March 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Black-and-white photo of a young boy in a straw hat and plaid jacket.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Andrew Kinkella's podcast reviews Agustín Fuentes's recent book, "Sex is a Spectrum," and pinpoints all its problems. The conclusion: "It's not very good, and it's a waste of everyone's time. . . [it has] "false statements, stated boldly."

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I Read “Sex is a Spectrum” and I’m Not Convinced - Ep 172 — Pseudo-Archaeology

I noticed some heated online arguments in the anthropology world about human sexuality, where several noted anthropologists recommended the book “Sex is a Spectrum” by Agustin Fuentes, so I read it. W...

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d

Three--count them, three--cat-related Caturday stories, plus lagniappe.

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Caturday felid trifecta: Making a cat into a feline influencer; Nimbus, Mt. Washington’s resident cat; beloved store cat hitches ride to distribution center in another state, but is returned home; an...

The Guardian has a piece by Ruth Lawes who, observing the social-media stardom of cats like Nala, decided to turn her black cat Olly into a social-media star. Did she suceed? Click below to find ou…

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 4d

Five turtles removed from Botany Pond several years ago when it was drained and restored have been re-introduced to our pond after several years of residence in another pond (they were marked). Pix and video of the re-introduction. They're red-eared sliders.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 4d

All the news that's fit to post. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili, who hates Kulka, wants her gone.

Hili: This form of cohabitation doesn’t suit me.
Kulka: Maybe I shouldn’t have come here at all.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 4d

This Dutch Jewish boy was gassed to death upon arriving at Auschwitz. He was only 8 months old, and would have been 84 today had he lived. His mother was gassed with him, and his father died in the camp less than a year later.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4d

11 October 1941 | Dutch Jewish boy, Heinrich Lange, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with his mother Berta. His father Hans perished in the camp in September 1942.

Family portrait of Lange family. The father and mother stand with a baby. The father holds the baby in front of them.

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 4d

Brendal O'Neill ponders what the Israel haters will do now that there's a cease-fire in Gaza.

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Brendan O’Neill ponders the unemployment of Israel haters

The lead story on last night’s NBC News was about the cease-fire in Gaza, and it showed Israelis celebrating the return of the hostages, and Gazan civilians celebrating the cessation of war. …

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 4d

Philosopher Kathleen Stock (OBE) says her faith in science is "undermined" by a new creationist book. Oy!

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Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 5d

Readers' wildlife photos (mostly plants but also a spider) from Rik Gern in Austin, TX.

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