Great story of Andrew Pomiankowski mistaking Richard Dawkins (who had just interviewed him for a place at New College, Oxford) for a fellow candidate. Brief Candle in the Dark (2015, pp 20-21)

Congratulations Ziheng Yang's Group, very well deserved reward for your many, significant and diverse contributions the study of Molecular Evolution. (We are delighted to have you as a colleague in CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL Biosciences ).

Meiotic drive does not impede success in sperm competition in the stalk-eyed fly, Teleopsis dalmanni academic.oup.com/evolut/article… A unique example in which destruction of half the sperm makes no difference in sperm competition Sadé Bates Sasha Bradshaw @fcamus

The first paper from my PhD is out in Evolution Journal: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…! Thanks to everyone who made it possible. Read the 🧵 below to discover how male stalk-eyed flies can cope with a drive gene that destroys half their sperm. #evolution #genedrive #spermcompetition

John Maynard Smith — half a century ago — on population geneticists and calls that profound changes to evolutionary theory are imminent.  From the Introduction of his 1972 book On Evolution (Edinburgh University Press) wellcomecollection.org/works/hjwu49pc…

R. A. Fisher obtained his famous sex-ratio argument from an earlier paper by J. A. Cobb, find out more in Notes and Records royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #notesandrecords #twitterhistorians Andy Gardner

“Disappointingly little blood” John Maddox reviews the 1995 The Linnean Society of London debate between John Maynard Smith and Stuart Kauffman for nature. nature.com/articles/37355…

"Mendel’s randomness: from allowing complex life to facilitating causal inference", 13th Feb, 3.45pm UK time, in person or on-line at UCL with Dr Adam Rutherford warm chardonnay to follow if in person (or buy your own warm chardonnay in advance if online) ucl.ac.uk/health-of-publ…

Postdoc Sexual Selection in stalk-eyed flies, Univ Sheffield and UCL, with Alison Wright Alison Wright jobs.ac.uk/job/DFW388/res…

Locally adaptive inversions in structured populations | Genetics academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

OK with LINK this time! Lectureship in Invertebrate Palaeontology at UCL. Please RT!! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Boomers vs Millennials 💰 New research on #GenerationalWealth from Prof James Sefton unpicks the narrative that Boomers have benefited at the expense of Millennials & finds there may be more solidarity at play 🤝 Watch the full video: imprl.biz/3KseZiV #IBKnowledge

Horn size is linked to Sertoli cell efficiency and sperm size homogeneity during sexual development in common eland (Taurotragus oryx) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I would really appreciate retweets of this amazing PhD opportunity in a fabulous training network of European labs. Lots of opportunities for learning and travelling and networking. Deadline is end of June.

Check out our new review on the evolution of tailocins in Trends in Microbiology tinyurl.com/5665979b with Talia Backman and Talia Karasov (tkarasovlab.org) UCL Biosciences CLOE: UCL Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution UCL Faculty of Life Sciences University of Utah School of Biological Sciences

Science Magazine x.com/hernanaburbano…

JOB OPPORTUNITY. Research Fellow position in Prof Nick Lane’s group. Origin-of-life enthusiast, with a strong interest in life as a guide to its own origin. Closing date 6th Oct 2024 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Bye bye. Its time to move to Bluesky  Andrew.bsky.social

I've moved to Bluesky. Slowly blocking or unfollowing all X without prejudice. Twitter was good but less so now. Bluesky free of nonsense ATM, except plenty of bots.