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Andrew Pomiankowski
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JBS Haldane Professor of Genetics, University College of London

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · 12d
A rare posting from me, on the Origin of Life - a fundamental constraint in the emergence of genetic heredity www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
First growth, then information: the path to genetic heredity in protocells
Most theoretical work on the origin of heredity has focused on how genetic information can be maintained without mutational degradation in the absence of error-proofing systems. A simple and parsimoni...
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12d
Lovely review of CRICK by Peter Lawrence - who knew Francis well and took the photograoh below - in @currentbiology.bsky.social. “Scintillating… a biography to savour.”
Francis Crick: A thoughtful biography to savour
“His aim was not just to make discoveries about two of the major riddles of science, he was also driven (…) to understand our true place in the Universe, shorn of superstition and religion.”
www.cell.com

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Alison Wright @alielw.bsky.social · 13d
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬

We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.

Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Jun 19
Why did I take Zoology at Oxford, because of read Niko Tindbergen

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Jun 19
We never did get a date in the diary. Try again

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · May 1
Oh shit, again.

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
Who cares about ageing. I do!

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
A gamble worth taking

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
Which one

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Feb 13
Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species

"In vitro and in vivo data demonstrated that wBol1Y (Wolbachia) feminized splicing and expression of lepidopteran sex determination pathway genes."

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Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species
Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...
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Reposted by Andrew Pomiankowski, Pavel Kratina

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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · Feb 12
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Andrew Pomiankowski, Renske E. Onstein

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Anna Dewar @annadewar.bsky.social · Jan 8
Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2

We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets.

These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit.

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A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics
Nature Reviews Genetics - Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The...
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