Matthew Cobb

matthewcobb.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:15

Writing about Mendel's astonishing 1866 paper. Have added this footnote: "The French have a word for it: ‘OVNI’ – ‘UFO’ – meaning something unexpected, inexplicable and out of this world. Mendel’s paper was an OVNI."

Matthew Cobb

matthewcobb.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:15

Are you listening @manchester.ac.uk ? AI is an existential threat to scholarship and universities. The self-styled "leaders' need to lead on this, along this lines explained here.

Jerry Coyne

evolutionistrue.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:15

It's Caturday; here are three cat-related articles plus two items of lagniappe. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/17/c...

Jerry Coyne

evolutionistrue.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:14

This French Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was six years old and would have been 89 today had she lived.

Jerry Coyne

evolutionistrue.bsky.social

19 October 2026 17:14

All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili forgot to carp the day that just passed: Hili: And so another day goes by. Andrzej: Carpe diem. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/10/18/s...