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David Pollock

@genomesevolve.bsky.social

627 followers 714 following 453 posts

Evolutionary and Mathematical Biology, sequence structure and function, genomes evolve, statistical theory and knowledge, empirical-theoretical interface, communication of evolutionary genetics, collaboratives, the mind-body problem, humanism

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Great post. Enough people with minimal background try to over-interpret this that I thought it might help make good faith (but not inside baseball) interpretation easier to quickly annotate your graph with more general explanatory language.

Graphic annotating some of Dr. Andersen's main points from his post onto his figure for prediction of MRCA date. Titled "Estimated date when pandemic genomes started diverging".

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I hope this will be fixed. Doesn't seem to agree with their "about" page: they "actively promote development of novel research tools for analysis of genomic data and helping developers facilitate the integration, or connection of their tools to analyze gisaid data."

screen shot from gisaid about page saying they actively promote development of novel research tools for analysis of genomic data and helping developers facilitate the integration, or connection of their tools to analyze gisaid data.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

So you're saying that this was not the obvious solution?

type I secretion system molecular graphic that is incredibly complicated but also incredibly beautiful

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Is It Moral For Catholics To Bet On Who The Next Pope Will Be? Where did you put your money?

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Extracted blurb our department received from biotech company, surcharge to "maintain our operational integrity" and "retain flexibility". If you are lucky enough to still have a grant, be prepared to cut anyway.

blurb from biotech company about adding Tariff surcharge to all orders "to maintain our operational integrity" and "retain flexibility"

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

dates of matters arising and article retraction

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

information about the reasons for article retraction

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

things changed fast

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How does this end? Not well. "Confident that biology would conform to ideology in the end...Lysenko's ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions of Soviet people." "The adoption of his method in China had similarly calamitous results." Wikipedia

Annual world population growth, 1950-2100, from Our World In Data. Text highlights the impact of the "Great Leap Forward" famine in China.

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There is a snark font and even a snark mark.~ Why did I waste my time on this? Do I need to know more than that Ne allows me to run simulations on a fixed population size and pretend it applies to everything?~

It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near them

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David Pollock @genomesevolve.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And I got a link to a pretty page out of it... 👍

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