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Joana L. Rocha

@joanocha.bsky.social

incoming Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at NYU Biology | currently postdoc at UC Berkeley | proud Sudmant lab member | typos and views are my own & I can be wrong :) https://joanocha.github.io/

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As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll “I began to question whether I truly belonged,” this postdoc writes

As an immigrant scientist in the U.S., travel bans and visa uncertainty are taking a toll | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

27.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Visit our website to learn more.

PEQG website live! genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

09.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 39    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 1
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We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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22.09.2025 05:29 — 👍 173    🔁 90    💬 4    📌 5

Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.

20.07.2025 17:28 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats Elise (and team!)! Beautiful paper!

27.06.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Seth!

26.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much Peter! That means the world! If I am 1% of the scientist you are and of the mentor you are and have been to me that is the truly great accomplishment!

26.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Kirk! ☺️

26.06.2025 02:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Will!!! :)

25.06.2025 21:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊

25.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 82    🔁 19    💬 7    📌 0

So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.

17.04.2025 00:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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On my way #PAG32! Excited to reunite with so many friends and colleagues working on plant and animal genomics, and to be giving a talk at the Wildlife symposium!

11.01.2025 01:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Masterpiece

14.12.2024 05:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for re-posting! Wanted my first post on BlueSky to bring some light and optimism to our community <3

25.11.2024 04:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’ From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.

www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/06/c...

25.11.2024 04:20 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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