New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Attention students: the deadline for our fall collections study award coming up soon! Use the funds to come out and use our LACM specimens for your research.

What a cool study on early jawed bony fishes. Way to go @fishfetisher.bsky.social and colleagues!

Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

A great opportunity if you’re interested in fish macroevolution!

Every year this is a phenomenal resource for postdocs or others on the EcoEvo job market. Keep an eye on it for great job postings!

Great opportunity to work with a fantastic community of museum evolutionary biologists at the LSUMNS!

While scanning some fishes yesterday I came across this Bonytail Chub collected near Blythe, CA in 1933. You can't find this species in Blythe anymore, nor in the rest of California as it is critically endangered. Museum collections like @nhm.org showcasing yet again our changing planet 🐟🐠

"Save The NSF" - a little blogpost I wrote to amplify the #SaveTheNSF mission. The National Science Foundation is one of the world’s premier funders of basic science research; proposed federal cuts would derail how we do science in the U.S. aguidetoacademia.blogspot.com/2025/07/save...

A nice writeup by @caseagrant.bsky.social on the historical microplastic work we're doing @nhm.org along with @nhmlagems.bsky.social, @jessdflores.bsky.social and @jazminenoamie.bsky.social. Take a look if you're interested in what we've found so far! 🐟🧪 caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/fish-ti...

Being part of @prosanta.bsky.social's lab was a large, and formative, part of my academic upbringing. Glad I got see so many past and present lab members at this year's #JMIH25 meeting

And that’s a wrap on #jmih25! Great posters were presented by @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @jessdflores.bsky.social, @romanferraro.bsky.social and others from the @nhm.org Dept of Ichthyology. Overall a good time in St. Paul, MN!

This will be a great resource for future studies on neotropical fishes! 🐠🐟

We're hiring! 🎉 The KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum is seeking applications for a full-time Museum Education Coordinator. Application reviews begin Monday, June 9, 2025. To apply or learn more about each job, click the link ➡️ rockcha.lk/xvx

I'm thrilled to announce that the Entomology department at the NHMLAC is hiring a full-time collections manager! 🪰🐜🕸️🦋 I'm biased, but the museum is a great place to work, and our department is full of fun, thoughtful people. Job description and information for applying are here: shorturl.at/iRqOB

There are hidden worlds all around us, too small to see with our own eyes. Ahead of this weekend’s annual #BugFair, explore those hidden worlds and the behind-the-scenes research made possible with this fantastic equipment in the Scanning Electron Microscope Lab! bit.ly/NHMSEM

Think you know everything about fish feeding? Check this out! So cool to see this paper come out by @mikemihalitsis.bsky.social and colleagues

Really cool paleo work by NHMLA's very own @jvelezjuarbe.bsky.social!

Coelacanths having a great week! First a new live sighting of the Indonesian species, and now this fantastic work on their musculature by Aléssio Datovo and the late Dave Johnson

As the school year comes to a close I always try to get the whole lab together before students leave for summer. Super grateful for this group of hard working employees and students that truly represent the positive impact that federal funds can have on lives and careers. I can't thank them enough!

Stumbled across our Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, in the collections earlier today. Look at that weird pelvic fin!

Proud advisor moment seeing @jessdflores.bsky.social give her first conference talk and @jazminenoamie.bsky.social give their first conference poster yesterday at the SCAS conference

So cool!

Check out the latest paper on a jawless fossil fish, and this time we were able to recreate a full 3D model! Thank you Lisa Schnetz, @nitroshutter.bsky.social, @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, @euphanerops.bsky.social et al. for having me on this @nhm-london.bsky.social #fossilfish #CTscan #palaeotology

🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6

It’s Earth Day at @nhm.org today! If you’re around, come by and learn about the microplastic research we’re doing using fish specimens from our collection. This important work details microplastic consumption across 8 decades in CA! Funded by @caseagrant.bsky.social and @opc-california.bsky.social

I love coming across old documents like this publication written by Vic Springer in 1973 for the ASIH. The world has changed a lot in the last 52 years, and yet many things that Vic wrote about may still seem familiar to any ichthyologist on the job market today

Check out this month's Editor's Choice author interview featuring @jordynneal.bsky.social and Dr. Allison Bronson: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/editors-... Read more about their exciting research on shark skeletal labyrinths here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

World's ugliest animal?! Say it isn't so. They're gorgeous! 🐟🐠🦑 www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's not every day that we get to open up the megamouth/coelacanth tank, so when we do get that chance @realfishdoc.bsky.social and I make sure to document the alcohol level and concentration.

What a cool 3D printed model! I love that the esca glows too

My lab made Pokémon cards featuring Texas fishes for our Darwin Day exhibit

This is a pretty cool opportunity if you're an undergrad looking for research experience!

A little more light hearted news for your feed. 🐟🦑 "The film delves into the complex relationship between humans and nature, promoting a message of harmonious coexistence between the two: something we hope to echo through this naming." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…

Only five more days to apply for this great program. Come work with us!

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between a hoarding and collecting mentality at museums. While I've come across quite a few floppy disks over the years tucked away in drawers, this 20MB massive cartridge predates my computer usage

Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems! DUE: Feb. 17 WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3 WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer) WHO: 10 UGs $: 7k each Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility! sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪

PhD opportunity: I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.

Great insights into #naturalhistory and #ichthyology from Dr. Mark Sabaj (a wonderful writer) ‘Restoring a Local Boy’s Legacy, One Fish at a Time’ www.anspblog.org/restoring-fo...

Applications for our postbaccalaureate program are only open for another 10 days. If you're a recent college grad who is interested in museum careers, but didn't get the opportunity in college to gain research experience, consider applying to work with us for 12 months! Please feel free to share

Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes is such an invaluable resource. Sad to see that Bill passed, but what an amazing career and contribution he made to the world of ichthyology

Every year @realfishdoc.bsky.social and I pin our own publications and those that use our @nhmla.bsky.social specimens on the door to the Department of Ichthyology. It always looks so empty in January. Can’t wait to see how people use our specimens this year!

Hey, I know these exhibits! @nhmla.bsky.social @suethetrex.bsky.social

Two phenomenal postdoc opportunities for those wanting to work on tiny (but important!) fishes, and a great team of experts to work with!

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social says it's #garweek, so here you go with a CT scan of one of NHMLA's spotted gar specimens. You can see the tough ganoid scales and also a brief internal view of the vertebral column and abbreviated heterocercal caudal fin 🐠🐟🦑

I know it's not a fish, but it's so cool to see things like this

Working on a manuscript this morning involving this charismatic species, the Giant Sea Bass. Always grateful to be able to go into the collection and look at the species I'm working on 🐠🐟🦑

Love to see @nhmla.bsky.social specimens going to good use for cool projects like this. Great job, all!