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Jerry Coyne

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Jerry Coyne

@Evolutionistrue

Superannuated evolutionary biologist, writer, humanist, atheist, secularist and ailurophile. On Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/evolut…

The University of Chicago

whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com

Joined March 2010

Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Nov 14, 2022
"Actual science" done by biologists shows 2 sexes, one with small mobile gametes and the other with large, immobile ones. There is no third sex. Disorders of sex development are not new sexes, and biological sex is binary. Let's not conflate sex, gender & developmental anomalies.
Sean Carroll
@seanmcarroll
Nov 14, 2022
Actual science would like a word.
Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Dec 29, 2024
Richard Dawkins has joined Steve Pinker and I in resigning from the Freedom From Religion Foundation because of its recent actions. His letter of resignation is at the link.
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A third one leaves the fold: Richard Dawkins resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
Well, that makes three of us. Steve Pinker, I, and now Richard Dawkins, have all decided independently to resign from the Honorary Board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The organiz…
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Dec 29, 2024
Steve Pinker resigns as President of the Honorary Board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Resignation letter at the link:
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Another one leaves the fold: Steve Pinker resigns from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
Like me, Steve Pinker has resigned from the Honorary Board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). His resignation was sent yesterday. Steve is a bigger macher than I. both intellectually …
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Dec 29, 2024
In which I resign from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The site contains my letter of resignation.
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I resign from the Freedom from Religion Foundation
This is the result of a dispute I’ve explained before (see here). Because the FFRF has caved into to gender extremism, an area having nothing to do with its mission, and because, when they le…
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Dec 30, 2024
@jk_rowling The Freedom from Religion Foundation deleted a piece I wrote on their site criticizing the view that a woman is anyone who thinks they're a woman. This grossly unbiological view led me, Steve Pinker, and Richard Dawkins to resign from the FFRF
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The FFRF removed my piece on the biological definition of “woman”
When I wrote yesterday about my critique of Kat Grant’s “What is a woman?” piece, a critique published on the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s (FFRF) website, I had no ide…
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Mar 28, 2024
This is what we've come to: vicious ideologues heckling a old Holocaust survivor who was in Dachau, all for supporting Berkeley's Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation.
JCRC Bay Area
@SFJCRC
Mar 28, 2024
Replying to @SFJCRC
WATCH: Susanne DeWitt, an 89 year-old Holocaust survivor who was arrested and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp at age 4, was repeatedly heckled by demonstrators as she spoke in favor of the City of Berkeley's Holocaust Remembrance Day proclamation.
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Apr 19, 2024
Dan Dennett died today. A huge loss. RIP, big guy!
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Feb 4, 2018
“We are not fighting against a piece of cloth,” Ms. Alinejad told me. “We are fighting for our dignity. If you can’t choose what to put on your head, they won’t let you be in charge of what is in your head, either.” goo.gl/KMiGCg
Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Apr 4, 2025
Stephanie Turner refused to fence against a large, trans-identified man, and was expelled from the competition. That doesn't seem like "hate speech" to me; it seems like taking a stand for fairness.
USA Fencing
@USAFencing
Apr 3, 2025
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Aug 11, 2025
Why do academics in the humanities read their papers aloud, word for word, when they give talks at universities or at meetings, while scientists generally speak extemporaneously? If you read, you might as well just hand out the paper. It's a mystery.
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Why do academics in the humanities read their papers aloud?
One of the big differences between academics in the humanities and in the sciences is that, at professional meetings or during lectures, humanities scholars read aloud from a paper they are holding…
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Dec 23, 2023
whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/12/23/the… Yes, the most respected journal in anthropology has denied that there are two sexes in humans, on ideological grounds of course!
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Jul 10, 2024
This letter just appeared in Nature, responding to a special June issue on sex & gender that conflated them. It emphasizes the biological definition of sex, based solely on gamete size and the developmental apparatus behind big vs. small gametes. nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Oct 18, 2023
The NYT keeps changing its headlines about the hospital bombing. First it was Israel's fault, then they ditch that and say it was a "strike", then "strike" is changed to a "blast", then the death tolls change. The first photo is from the Free Press. Some journalism!
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Jerry Coyne
@Evolutionistrue
Jan 1, 2025
The Spectator reports on the KerFFRFle. archive.ph/Epo26
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