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Daniel Rodrigues Oliveira
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PhD Student at UC Berkeley | Evolution, Conservation Biology/Genomics, Salamanders | he/they 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹
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📢 NEW GENOME ALERT in #G3journal

The first complete, chromosome-scale draft genome of Desmognathus fuscus, a lungless salamander species, offers a new resource for studying salamanders. 🦎

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August 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
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February 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Enjoy this absolute CHONKER of a salamander
Daniel holding a Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Daniel is wearing gloves and there is light shining on the salamander. The surface of the salamander is marbled with brown spots on lighter brown.
January 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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California rains bring so much joy
A hand holding a newt with an orange belly and black/brown dorsum. Specifically Taricha torosa, a California newt. A hand holding two small black salamanders. Specifically they are Batrachoseps attenuatus or the California slender salamander. A hand holding an orange and brown small to medium sized salamander, with yellow eyes. It is Ensatina eschscholtii xanthoptica or the yellow eyes ensatina.
January 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM