Daniela Tejada-Martinez, PhD
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Daniela Tejada-Martinez, PhD
@genomegaia.bsky.social
Genomics | Evolution 🐳🦭🐒🦅🦉🐢🦎
Bioinformatics | Aging | Single Cell & Spatial
Weinberg ALS Center
Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

Former postdoc:
@marcotrizzino.bsky.social Lab
Tucci Lab, Human Evolutionary Genomics at Yale University
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🧵 1/ New study on squamate color evolution hits the press: we show that brightness variation in lizards & snakes is strongly linked to habitat openness 🌞 This reveals how ecological pressures drive color evolution in one of the most diverse groups of tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants.

#IDsky
#Medsky
#Episky

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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And this is the paper figure of my Lonchura illustrations. Paper by Knief et al 2024 #Sciart
January 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Despite carrying lethal pathogens, bats rarely develop disease — a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for decades

https://go.nature.com/4hBWz
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Viral tolerance enabled by a bat-specific genomic tweak
Comparative genomics reveals how virus-carrying bats resist disease.
go.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#consgen #PopGen
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM