- Green sea turtle noms jellyfish May 15, 2025
- Ghost clades: a gazillion taxa detected solely by sequencing DNA from the environment (including dolphins’ mouths) May 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 15, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 15, 2025
- . . . and now we are six May 14, 2025
- A new member of the archaea without metabolism: is it alive? May 14, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ art May 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 14, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 14, 2025
- “Free Man in Paris” May 13, 2025
- Bill Maher: New Rules 2 May 13, 2025
- AI comment = banning May 13, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 13, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 13, 2025
- Bill Maher: New rules #1 May 12, 2025
- Once again, if both sex and race are social constructs, why is it okay to declare you’re of your non-natal sex, but not your non-natal race? May 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 12, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 12, 2025
- Nature tackles race and eugenics in a torturous and tortuous article May 11, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 11, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: German street art honoring homeless cats;earliest domestic cats known to arrive in North America; convergence between cat and dog breeds; May 10, 2025
- Duck report—at last! May 10, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Pope May 10, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 10, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 9, 2025
- David Wolpe, once a visiting rabbi at Harvard’s Divinity school, says there’s no doubt about the school’s antisemitism May 8, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 8, 2025
- The reason posting may be light. . . . (PCCE’s wildlife photos) May 8, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Christian Nationalism May 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 7, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 7, 2025
- Ezra Klein interviews Ross Douthat on his Christian religious beliefs (they include angels and demons) May 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 6, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 6, 2025
- NYT whitewashes antisemitic podcaster May 5, 2025
- NSF director quits as grants are terminated and agency budget slashed drastically May 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 5, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 4, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 4, 2025
- Running from Home May 3, 2025
- Now the editors of Natural History back the non-binary nature of sex, showing their scientific ignorance May 3, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cat wanders onto White House grounds; a bookstore where you can read with a cat (and then adopt it); cats as therapy animals, and lagniappe May 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 3, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 3, 2025
- Natural History magazine: Agustín Fuentes rejects the sex binary on ideological grounds, but pretends otherwise May 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 2, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 2, 2025
- Māori lunar calendar takes over New Zealand May 1, 2025
- My Boston Globe op-ed about the fallacies of “de-extinction” May 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 1, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 1, 2025
- A rare carnivorous caterpillar in Hawaii gets its food from spider webs, adorns body with uneaten insect parts April 30, 2025
- Misguided branch of British Medical Association rejects UK’s Supreme Court decision that “woman” is defined by biological sex April 30, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ hijabs April 30, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos and video April 30, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue April 30, 2025
- Same-sex sexual behavior documented in many mammals: does it mean that similar behavior in humans is “natural”? April 29, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 29, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue April 29, 2025
- Three ecology and evolution societies finally remove their “sex definition statement” from the web April 28, 2025
- New film series on evolutionary biology April 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 28, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue April 28, 2025
- Words and phrases I detest April 27, 2025
- Our Mayor dons a keffiyeh April 27, 2025
- Books I’ve just read or am reading (and soliciting suggestions) April 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 27, 2025
- Note to readers April 27, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue April 27, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest bit: Flirting with fascism April 26, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: How do you know your cat loves you?; do cats hold grudges?; the effect of music on anesthetized cats; and lagniappe April 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 26, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue April 26, 2025
- Natasha Hausdorff stands up to a hostile M. P. panel of British inquisitors April 25, 2025
- Now the government is trying to police scientific journals for “viewpoint diversity” April 25, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 25, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue April 25, 2025
- NYT series: Religion is back, and it’s a good thing, too. Dawkins responds and dissents. April 24, 2025
- Installation of the day April 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 24, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue April 24, 2025
- WEIT, now online in Arabic! April 23, 2025
- Harvard sues the Trump Administration April 23, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ apostasy April 23, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 23, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue April 23, 2025
- A new protest sign on campus April 22, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 22, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue April 22, 2025
- Students for Justice in Palestine erects approved installation in our quad, one using blood libel tropes against administration and trustees April 21, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue April 21, 2025
- Is religion on the rise in America? April 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 20, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue April 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos and videos April 19, 2025
- Bill Maher (entire show) April 19, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue April 19, 2025
- Jay’s Law April 18, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 18, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue April 18, 2025
- Male seahorse gives birth April 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 17, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue April 17, 2025
- The hairtail fish April 16, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ women April 16, 2025
- UK Supreme Court rules that “woman” refers only to a biological woman April 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 16, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili Dialogue April 16, 2025
- Now scientists are afraid to submit papers on evolution April 15, 2025
- Administration to Harvard: Fix yourself; Harvard to Administration: STFU April 15, 2025
- Donating to the Jerry Coyne/Honey the Duck Evolutionary Biology Research Fund April 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 15, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue April 15, 2025
- A new graduate fellowship in evolutionary biology at Chicago (named partly after a duck) April 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 14, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue April 14, 2025
- Bill Maher visits the White House and has dinner with Trump April 13, 2025
- Colossal Biosciences responds to criticism of the Dire Wolf “de-extinction”, but not convincingly April 13, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 13, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue April 13, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: The cat that inherited $13 million; cats in NYT; cats help students learn genetics; and lagniappe April 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 12, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue April 12, 2025
- ABC News (and me) on the Dire Wolf “de-extinction” April 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 11, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue April 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 10, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue April 10, 2025
- Botany Pond features in Chicago Maroon April 9, 2025
- More on the “dire wolf”: Adam Rutherford is furious April 9, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Twelvers April 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 9, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue April 9, 2025
- Dire-ish wolf April 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 8, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue April 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 7, 2025
- Seeking advice: Has anyone here been to Iceland? April 7, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue April 7, 2025
- A visit to the Holocaust Museum, and an interview with the hologram of a now-dead Holocaust survivor April 6, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife photos April 6, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue April 6, 2025
- Here’s Gary the Orange Cat! April 5, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: A new cat coat color; how to play with your cat; New York’s lovable but illegal bodega cats; and lagniappe April 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 5, 2025
- Spot the orange cat! April 5, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue April 5, 2025
- HuMilk for sale? April 4, 2025
- ZeFrank on the waning of fireflies April 4, 2025
- Should scientists become less “humble”? April 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 4, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue April 4, 2025
- Colin Wright gives a history of the gametic definition of biological sex April 3, 2025
- Pamela Paul leaves the NYT April 3, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife videos April 3, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue April 3, 2025
- Now it’s Trump vs. the Smithsonian, and a NYT piece about human races April 2, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the miracle of gayness April 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 2, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue April 2, 2025
- Judith Butler on Trump’s EOs, with an emphasis on sex and gender April 1, 2025
- Did Harvard cave to Trump? April 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 1, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue April 1, 2025
- Anti-semitic poster at the University of Chicago: is it compatible with our policies? March 31, 2025
- My Wall Street Journal op-ed on the kerFFRFle March 31, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 31, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 31, 2025
- Duckapalooza: Many photos and videos of our Botany Pond mallards March 30, 2025
- Eric Clapton is 80 March 30, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 30, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 30, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest bit March 29, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Eighteen celebrities who love cats; cats going up stairs; the American Museum of the House Cat; and lagniappe March 29, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife videos March 29, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 29, 2025
- Books to read March 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 28, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 28, 2025
- ZeFrank: True facts about the duck March 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 27, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue March 27, 2025
- New finding: Iguanas rafted more than 8000 km from North America to Fiji March 26, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ iniquity March 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 26, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 26, 2025
- Facial surgeons wanted in New Zealand, must be intimately familiar with all things Māori March 25, 2025
- Botany Pond ducks (with videos) March 25, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 25, 2025
- Nature touts indigenous knowledge as coequal to “Western” (aka “modern”) science March 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 24, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 24, 2025
- Bill Maher: Why doesn’t Trump cut “the biggest bloat of all”? March 23, 2025
- Nature endorses DEI big time March 23, 2025
- The Society for the Study of Evolution quits Twitter, implying that the site is “unethical”, irresponsible, and “not inclusive”. What they mean is “we don’t like Musk.” March 23, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 23, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 23, 2025
- People weigh in on the meaning of life March 22, 2025
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am