I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ you don’t need to struggle alone (advice that is not possible for everyone to take).

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Hey I’m an ☄️ asteroid thanks to @spacepod.bsky.social What a cosmic honor! minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/sh...

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social, Director of the LSU MNS, on being named a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences! An ichthyologist studying fishes worldwide, he’s described 15 new species, published 5 books and 150+ papers, and is a passionate science communicator. 🌎🐟

Check out the @lsu.bsky.social LSU Museum of Natural Science Fall 2025 newsletter. Lots of stories of fieldwork and research from our students, staff and curators. And my first as Director. www.lsu.edu/mns/files/ne...

@solomonrdavid.bsky.social did you see the “gar girl” skit on SNL from last night - your promotion of #garweek hit the big time

Preview of this year’s #GarWeek sticker from @garlab.bsky.social! Featuring scale patterns of all seven living gar species in the letters, and our unique Hybrid Gar! Once again, debuting @bsky.app first! credit: I.Terzian & S.R. David

Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers | This quotes me and is very thorough. Check it out.

Loved the audiobook for the new Mark Twain bio by Rob Chernow especially all the folksy quips delivered in a slow drawl. I then reread Huck Finn which is a tough read in today’s context but I found ‘James’ a great revenge story that helps fill in the sad gaps from ‘Jim’s’ story that Huck missed.

Congrats @danielgeldof.bsky.social on defending your Master's today. It's been wonderful having a CT expert and poacher enthusiast in the lab. Well done.

Thanks to @coralreeffish.bsky.social and @raynacbell.bsky.social for nominating me to be a new Fellow of the @calacademy.bsky.social California Academy of Sciences. It is an honor. Natural history is more important than ever.

By looking at some of the smallest vertebrates on Earth, our study offers novel insights into the genetic basis of miniaturization and highlights the value of studying non-model organisms to uncover the fundamental processes governing vertebrate size evolution.

Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An invited speaker told me today they share my paper with their students to show them what's possible, and I'm going to ride that validation for a while. In this paper we applied comparative genomics to study genome evolution: elifesciences.org/articles/65394

New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths) bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Loved this fish-themed float in the Baton Rouge ‘Fifolet’ Halloween Parade. Yes it is Nemo and Dory but still cute. My youngest caught enough candy to last her through elementary school. And now I can’t wait for Mardi Gras …

I know I have colleagues who get 5K citations a month, but this is a nice little milestone for me. What really matters is the impact of your work and who and what it influences. You can't quantify that. But, I do like the symmetry of these numbers.

Starting day 2: Laymon Ball speaking about her work on #Herbaria! #BINHMS

Loved visiting the recreated wunderkammer or "cabinet of curiosities’ at the Houston Museum of Natural Science today. I always wondered what it was like to stroll through these early natural history collections so eclectically curated. Also couldn’t resist a coelacanth selfie.

Yay! It’s today! Our Black In Natural History Museums conference starts today at my work! So excited! #BINHMs #BINHM

Up next, Hank Bart discussing diverse, museum science and fishes! #BINHMS

Petting a ray to save your day.

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

This acorn has a shark teeth hat. 🦈 🧢

Job alert #TeamFish. Curator of Fishes gig!

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

I’ve had an MRI, CT, and PET scan this month. MRI was loud. CT prep was gross. PET prep included radioactive ☢️ dye. Now I know how the poor fishes @danielgeldof.bsky.social scan feel:good thing they are long dead. Dan will be defending his thesis on CT scanning Agonids next month! He is a wiz!

Check out our new paper in Nature describing trends in US freshwater fish biodiversity! Great to be part of such an amazing team.

Another great anatomical innovation brought to you by your fishy ancestors …

There were perhaps too many parallels between me and the author of ‘The Last Lecture’ - 3 kids, 46 years old, cancer ♋️ … but maybe the most important is being thankful for living out your childhood dreams and for the people you have in your life.

“We evolved from fishes. We do what we do, including breathing through lungs, having nostrils that fill those lungs, having arms and legs, and big brains, all of which came from our aquatic ancestors. So did kidneys, lungs, and being able to pee!”— @prosanta.bsky.social

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida! www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...

On the teeth of the Spotted Ratfish www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

Loved this book. Gives one a sense that human progress in understanding the living world is so embedded in culture. Perhaps we’re on the eve of a Buffonian Renaissance.

Just finished the excellent ‘Every Living Thing’ that focuses on the taxonomic battle and lives of Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon. The former gave us Systema Naturae and the binomial system we use for classification; the later gave us Histoire Naturelle which anticipated evolutionary theory.

Sad to hear about the passing of the great paleontologist Mark Norell - who I knew during my postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History. I once asked him to sign this mammoth 🦣 tooth because we both thought it would be funny. It is still funny but a little less so with his passing. RIP Mark.

Curator job opening at the fabulous American Museum of Natural History in New York City! Know a marine fish person 🐠 or oceanographer who might be interested?

Do you work with data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (@gbif.org)? Please take our survey as we conduct a broad review of current experience and beliefs within the biodiversity data community on issues related to Indigenous data governance & sovereignty gbif.link/Indigenous-d...

Fun fish tank at my doctors office with South American cichlids and Asian rainbow fish among other critters from around the world. Who is this cat @ichthyangela.bsky.social ?

Had fun giving a Museum tour to a graduate class in geology explaining the ways biology can inform geology from DNA-based phylogenetic trees being used to estimate the separation of landmasses (freshwater fishes are great for this) to looking at living species to help us understand extinct forms.

Going to give a talk to LSU undergrads about NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). Are there still 0 awards in the Life Sciences? Image from www.science.org/content/arti...

A comprehensive survey of scientists across ecology, evolution, and marine science has revealed significant disruptions to federal research programs following executive branch actions that began January 20, 2025. www.firsthandaccounts.org/home

Fun #Jaws night with @lsu.bsky.social LSU Museum of Natural Science folks. We’ve learned a lot about #sharks since this movie came out. Like they don’t live for thousands of years, and won’t eat up your boat. 🦈 🚤

What's a suitable venue for an opinion/advice piece that is like the Chronicle of Higher Education, but is not the Chronicle?

Gratitude. Just made a little video while out for a walk on my birthday to express my gratitude to all the people and organizations that help protect and preserve the natural world and make it accessible. Thanks to all of you. #gratitude #nature #birds #hiking #birthday #california #yolobypass

Really proud to be an @lsu.bsky.social LSU Tiger 🐅 this school has been really good to me #GeauxTigers I wish everyone in academia could get a job 🏫 that fits them best. Unfortunately not everyone has the ability to move, or can overcome bad timing on the job market, etc. I’m very privileged.

I’m the host of @lsu.bsky.social #LSUsciencecafe and it is one of my favorite things I do. We have LSU researchers speak to the general public to talk about their work. It’s not just great for the attendees but #scicomm practice for the speakers discussing their work in broad and approachable terms.