I just glanced at the dashboard, and saw that this post is number 25,005. That means that this morning’s Hili Dialogue was post #25,000! That is a buttload of posts, and had somebody told me in January, 2009 that a website aiming to give a bit of new evidence for evolution once every two weeks or so would turn into a hydra that never stopped growing heads—and not just heads dealing with evolution—I would have laughed. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
The post before this one:
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Thank you. I never miss any of them.
If this blog is a hydra, that makes you the hydra’s head! Or should it be “heads”? Congratulations on 25,000 quality posts. Looking forward to the next 25k.
How dare you say the word! 😃
+1!
He said it! He said it! Where’s the garlic!
Oh, is “hydra” a bad word? It wasn’t in my Woke Dictionary or my Unwoke Dictionary. 😉
Oh, THAT word! Oops. My bad. 25000 apologies.
See my comment at #33.
Congrats
Congratulations. It’s the first thing I read every day. YOU make my day!
That is about 5 to 6 posts a day, isn’t it? Crazy! I googled ‘most prolific blogger’ (for that is the word those people use) and hit upon Darren Murph who, it seems, has not been as prolific.
Bravissimo!
🏆👏
Congratulations! How many readers’ comments? (Excluding my inane ones would take the total down considerably, I suspect.)
1,195,599 comments. They are dropping over time, as I’ve mentioned before–perhap because more readers are reading it in emails, or perhaps because,. . . . well, I don’t like to think of that.
Wow, that’s impressive- as is the convivial tone of the discourse below the line, another achievement to be heartily celebrated.
We’re all happy WEIT is chugging along so well after all these years. Thanks!
Great job Dr C! Almost no one in the world I have learned so much from!
Wow…and it’s not like your posts are brief or banal. Keep ’em coming! WEIT has been such a fun part of my everyday life for years, and I hope it continues well into the future.
Here I am every morning with my coffee in hand. Congratulations and thank you for the time and effort WEIT requires.
Fantastic! I think I started following around 2010 and enjoyed or learned from every post.
Keep going!
Congratulations and thank you!
Congratu-effing-lations👍 keep up the good work
Congratulations on this terrific accomplishment. As a regular reader I am constantly amazed at the reading, research and writing that you do everyday across such diverse fields to bring us this website. And the general high level of discourse among the commenters brings even more food for thought each day. Like others above, it is pretty much the first reading I do when 0730 ET arrives after filling time before that with the local obits (to make sure I am not listed) and starting the daily print edition of Wapo. Thank you for founding and continuing this very high level of content.
Thanks, Bat, but why don’t you just check your pulse rather than the obituaries?
I like to see my name in print….seriously jerry, the infotmation that you bring to all readers and elicit from commenters is really wonderful. And over a million comments!
That’s testing a different thing. If you are looking for your own name in the obituaries, you are checking to make sure that people don’t wrongly think you’re dead.
Reports of my death etc etc.
Impressive.
Thanks Jerry! Thanks Hili!
And Kulka and Szaron (I’m sure I’ve forgotten one of the Polish cats…)
Argh! I forgot two – Leon and Mietek Mea culpa maxima. And not forgetting Honey and the other mallards of Botany Pond, of course…
Mietek and Leon: the cats of Elzbieta and Andrzej the Second
My first reading every day, too. Sorry to have missed most of the first 25,000. You are so prolific I can’t go back to see what I missed, else I’ll get hopelessly behind on the new ones.
Congratulations.
But I did go back to the beginning and read your letter to Charles Darwin in 2009. Surely everyone else has.
If they haven’t (and I’ve got some catching up to do myself, it seems) here’s the link: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2009/01/22/letter-to-charles-darwin/
I just did, thanks for the link. The best to go with my morning coffee!
Goodness lorb!
Congratulations. I’ve been appreciating them since close to the beginning, and I think they make up a paragon of a house in this worldwide neighbourhood called the Web.
The comments begin from the fifth post with Liln pointing out an error in a hyperlink 🙂 And then the numbers go up quickly.
As others have indicated as well, this is number one on my daily read. I read the local newspaper, then WEIT, then maybe the Washington Post. It’s difficult to assess how much of what I know is from this source, but it is substantial.
Congrats Jerry, Jango approves. Here’s to the next 25.000!
You are a treasure, indeed, and your daily bloggs amazing for their breadth and depth. As a New Zealander, remote from much of the goings on in USA, you provide vital information and opinion on politics, science and current fads there otherwise hidden from us (ie by our local media!). Thankyou.
Fantastic and congratulations – your efforts are appreciated. For the past five years or so I’ve enjoyed it every day. Thank you!
D.A., J.D.
NYC
Congratulations! That’s a very big number. I’m looking forward to number 50,000!
So glad I found you this year. Congratulations! I check you out before any Canadian news. Amazing contributions you have made.
Aw shucks, I wasn’t asking for approbation, but reporting a figure. But I appreciate the kind words and I certainly won’t eschew them! And, as someone pointed out above, a huge portion of the success of this site is due to the readers, who are intelligent, thoughtful, knowledgeable, funny, and civil.
Just think how many more if Greg had not got so many unfinished posts! 😎😃
Oops – entered email wrongly again
Congratulations! Thanks for hosting this website
Congrats! Please keep ’em coming.
I think Hili on Saturday was 24,999 (counting back from this post on my RSS feed). 25,000 was Readers’ wildlife photos.
Congratulations, Jerry. I’ve been following from very early on and love both the posts and the comments.
With reference to the Word That Must Not Be Spoken, I just copied this quote from your second ever post (my emphasis):
Just sayin’ 😀
Oooh! Hoist by his own petard! 😁
Well I love you even if you can be grouchy 😉
Well done. Channel the same energy into the next book!
Dr. Coyne:
25,000, what an amazing accomplishment! Your blog is my first go to on the topic of evolutionary biology, and the major social events of the day. Your depth of knowledge on both the aforementioned topics is astoundingly impressive as are the responses to various topics of many of your followers. I learn something relevant from this blog everyday. I congratulate you and wish you many additional years of educating those you have come to admire you.