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David Pollock
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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
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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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."
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
So you're saying that this was not the obvious solution?
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Is It Moral For Catholics To Bet On Who The Next Pope Will Be?

Where did you put your money?
May 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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.
May 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
things changed fast
April 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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
January 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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?~
December 11, 2024 at 5:20 PM
And I got a link to a pretty page out of it...

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December 9, 2024 at 4:21 PM