Superannuated evolutionary biologist, writer, humanist, atheist, secularist and ailurophile. On Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/evolutionis…
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Well, the tenets of many Muslims (especially the Taliban) are opposed to education for women. It's their loss—they're trying to eliminate half the talent pool.
This was the scene in Bangladesh as Islamic militants stormed a medical school classroom, weapons in hand, yelling: “Educating women is haram!”
Islam is the enemy of civilization.
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This is insane (look at the photo)!
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FIFA has given condiments the Epstein files treatment
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Six minutes of Iranian women who have been partly or fully blinded by police--for protesting. (English subtitles). What kind of monsters would deliberately aim at somebody's eyes, trying not to kill them but to blind them?
If your someone behind you simply for showing your hair or wanting freedom, what would you do?
These women were blinded under
Islamic States in Afghanistan and Iran, where all the laws are against the women.
I am calling on every woman in the world. Watch this. This is a real apartheid against women. Let’s get united for freedom and dignity.
Watch their stories. Share their faces. Say their names. Join our fight.
Every student on every campus. Every young woman who believes in freedom. Every woman who has ever marched, ever posted, ever said "I stand with women."
Now prove it.
@UAGApartheid
@EGACampaign
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Jerry Coyne retweeted
If your someone behind you simply for showing your hair or wanting freedom, what would you do?
These women were blinded under
Islamic States in Afghanistan and Iran, where all the laws are against the women.
I am calling on every woman in the world. Watch this. This is a real apartheid against women. Let’s get united for freedom and dignity.
Watch their stories. Share their faces. Say their names. Join our fight.
Every student on every campus. Every young woman who believes in freedom. Every woman who has ever marched, ever posted, ever said "I stand with women."
Now prove it.
@UAGApartheid
@EGACampaign
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A UC Berkeley math professor argues that we need to bring back standardized tests. In California, for example, the worse the high school you go to, the better the chances are that you'll get into UC Berkely or UC San Diego!
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Bill Maher on Graham Platner, and all the crummy unqualified politicians, including Trump, that dominate American governance.
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You can read the story at the Cornell Daily Sun. Antisemitism is everywhere these days, and this statement could have been made in prewar Nazi Germany.
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A Cornell student got an interview offer on Handshake — the school's own career platform — and replied that he's "not interested in working for a Jew." Austin Franco, 19. Industrial and Labor Relations. The school that teaches employment discrimination law.
When the screenshot went viral he didn't apologize. Said his "experiences with Jews have not been pleasant."
Cornell says it's investigating. Seven months ago Cornell paid the federal government $30 million to close its antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in research funding. The ADL's 2026 report card still grades the campus a C — climate concern rated high, incidents up year over year.
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A Cornell student got an interview offer on Handshake — the school's own career platform — and replied that he's "not interested in working for a Jew." Austin Franco, 19. Industrial and Labor Relations. The school that teaches employment discrimination law.
When the screenshot went viral he didn't apologize. Said his "experiences with Jews have not been pleasant."
Cornell says it's investigating. Seven months ago Cornell paid the federal government $30 million to close its antisemitism investigations and unfreeze $250 million in research funding. The ADL's 2026 report card still grades the campus a C — climate concern rated high, incidents up year over year.
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🚨 Austin Franco, reportedly a student at Cornell University, told a potential employer he's "Not interested in working for a jew."
@Cornell says it's investigating the report.
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Ephriam Heller's photos of animals from a barrier island off Georgia.
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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, the eternal feud between Hili and Kulka goes on:
Hili: Don’t even think about coming over here.
Kulka: I’m going in the opposite direction.
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This French Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was three years old, and would be 87 today had he lived.
14 June 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Michel Crispin, was born in Paris.
On 21 September 1942 he was deported from Pithiviers to #Auschwitz & on 23 September 1942 he was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
ALT A portrait of a young boy with short hair, partially open mouth, and a collared garment.
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Three--count them, three--cat-related items, plus lagniappe.
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A hard day! But yesterday, with help, I rescued 8 ducklings who would otherwise have died. It was physically easy as far as rescues go, but psychologically taxing.
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Spot the two California toads in this photo taken by Robert Lang. Reveal at 11 am Chicago time.
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All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Szaron are playing hide and seek.
Szaron: I know you’re coming this way.
Hili: How do you know?
Sharon: The stones told me.
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This Dutch Jewish boy was gassed as soon as he got to Auschwitz. He was one year old, and would be 85 today had he lived.
13 June 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Heiman Abraham de Jong, was born in Winschoten.
On 26 October 1942, he was murdered in a gas chamber of #Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
ALT A black and white photo of a baby sitting upright in a wooden chair, holding a small object and looking surprised.
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Please retweet this; they've made it impossible to embed. Afghanistan appears to be the world's only country where women are forbidden from getting secondary or higher education, and they're targeted if they try.
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Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.
Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.
Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.
I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.
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AAUP members just can’t help themselves.
“Weakening faculty governance…undermines our ability to effectively address society’s most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.”
If your chancellors are organizing to discredit whole disciplines on your campus, your faculty should get organized too! Joint statement from WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters on the report just dropped:
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We successfully captured all seven ducklings before they got to the pond (where they would be attacked by aggressive ducks) but we didn't get Mom. Ducklings will go to rehab where survival is very high.
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