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Diana Aguilar-Gómez

@dianaguilr.bsky.social
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/dee-AA-nah/|Postdoc at UCLA|computational biology PhD / popgen, genomics and conservation | she/her/ella 🇲🇽

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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Come to my flash talk tomorrow at Vandsalen room, second session of “Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world “ #SMBE2026 to learn about Rice’s whales genetics, a unique species from the Gulf of Mexico with estimated population of 50 individuals.
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Chris Kyriazis @ckyriazis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Michael Wasney @michaelwasney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am thrilled to present my latest work, which finds that bacterial genetic diversity (in the form of co-colonizing strains of the same species and the genetic variants they harbor) is uniformly distributed along the gut. Read more about it at Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that while species composition varies significantly across gut regions, genetic diversity within species is remarkably uniform and driven by similar strain frequencies along the...
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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The “Fraud Squad” is a more accurate name. And this is horrible for Rice’s Whale and other endangered wildlife.
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Holding a meeting of the ESA God Squad for NMFS’s jeopardy biological opinion on the effects of oil development on the endangered Rice’s whale is absurd even for Trump Implementing the BO’s Reasonable & Prudent Alternative is an economic & physical no-brainer www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3//2025-05/...
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
plus a nice dispatch on the island-hopping kaleidoscopic frogs www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A great compliment. I drew most of the graphical abstract and put a lot of love into it 🥰. I cannot take credit for the amazing photo that was my collaborator @yusanyang.bsky.social
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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur
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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And guess what’s on the cover of Current Biology today 🐸
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...
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The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN
The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...
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Diana Aguilar-Gómez @dianaguilr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio
Aguilar-Gómez et al. use exome sequencing of 347 strawberry poison frogs to uncover the genetic basis of color variation. They identify that kit, ttc39b, and bco1 underlie blue-red, yellow-red, and gr...
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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In the midst of the darkness, I am pleased to announce that UCLA will be hosting the upcoming Southern California Evolutionary Genetics (SCalE) conference on November 1! Registration & abstract submission is here: www.scalemeeting.org/home Deadline is October 13! Hope to see you at UCLA!
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The SCalE Meeting is a free, one day regional academic meeting focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics. This year's SCalE Meeting is hosted by UCLA, sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative ...
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Infidelity, divorce, and real-estate drama in the Alpine swift: Dumas et al. found that mate switching behaviours in the Alpine swift likely follow a win-stay lose-switch strategy. Summary & analysis by Diana Aguilar Gómez: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...
Alpine swifts nesting in wooden rafters
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 18/08/2025
A new PNAS Special Feature combines speciation genomics and conservation biology to address habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. The articles explore how monitoring and restoring gene flow can support resilient ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Learn more: www.pnas.org/topic/574.
PNAS Special Feature. Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Antropocene.
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