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Namrata

@nahuja.bsky.social

Organismal biologist currently working on siphonophore development and evolution in the Dunn Lab. Fascinated by complex body plans in animals. PhD candidate in the Dunn Lab in the EEB dept @ Yale.

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our new tool corpus makes biodiversity literature searchable by AI agents via MCP, with provenance to source text and figures. With @shchurch.bsky.social , Felipe Zapata, and Maciej Mańko. In @currentbiology.bsky.social - www.cell.com/current-biol... Code: github.com/caseywdunn/c...

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Extracting AI agent-accessible data from biodiversity literature with corpus

Church et al. present corpus, a tool that converts a library of biodiversity literature PDFs into a searchable knowledge base of text, figures, and references. It connects to an AI agent through a Mod...

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Namrata @nahuja.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Second chapter of my thesis work in the Dunn Lab out! We worked on the genome of Nanomia septata, re-analyzed RNA-seq from some of the specialized zooids within the colony, sampled population diversity of the Nanomia genus and looked at synteny in siphonophores vs other cnidarians

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New paper with @jacobmusser.bsky.social @dts.bsky.social on reproducibility of LLM assisted research. Much of what we learned about engineering reproducible work in past decades still applies. Central organizing principle is whether the LLM sits on data path or off it. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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