New Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Just translated an excellent academic paper from Spanish about how Tropical Gar (or pejelagarto) were influential in Yokotan Mayan people. They noted the close similarities between gars and crocodiles and prepared sacrificial gar stews to offer to their river deity for good luck on crocodile hunts!

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not’ing more dan de shark well goberned.

I'll be attending the standalone @systbiol.bsky.social meeting in January. Anyone else? #SSB2026

I am *so sorry* and also *so grateful* to you and your colleagues for your resilience and commitment in the face of all of this. The science community sees everything you're doing to keep funding moving during this insane disruption.

NSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃

Axolotls are famous for regenerating limbs. Turns out they can also regenerate their thymus—and that may show us how to someday to the same. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

"We are just another branch in the Tree with no more special a designation than a flea or a cow.”

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Just finished Sarah Boon’s ‘Meltdown’ - a very personal memoir of being a women in academia and a field biologist struggling with mental illness (not easy things to be). It can be a tough read and I wish there was more about her post academic life but maybe that will have to wait for a sequel.

Spent the Thanksgiving break in costal Mississippi where BlueSky is unavailable. Each state really is like a different country. Anyway my kids caught lots of fish and I woke up early on my birthday and caught some mullet before 7am. Good times.

Ahead of the 15-year anniversary of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book “The Emperor of all Maladies,” we catch up with its author, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee.

I wanted to re-read Gould’s ‘Full House’ because I know he wrote it after a cancer diagnosis with a short average life expectancy made him look more closely at the nature of variation (which can look progressive if you cherry pick). I think this might be my favorite book of his. #evolution

Very much enjoyed ‘My Life as a Fish’ by @gdgrossman.bsky.social He survived lots of childhood drama and pain to become an excellent ichthyologist only to be punished by his university admin for being unorthodox. The bio has lots or descriptive art by Ryan Tavarez that helped with readability.

Asking questions during seminars is a great way to practice public speaking. It helps you learn to be clear and concise and hopefully to think deeply about a subject and to be polite. People around you will notice and take note of your words - good or bad.

Honored to be speaking at the @linneansociety.bsky.social online lecture series. Come for the cute bat photos, stay for the fun research 🦇🦇🦇

We thought coelacanths barely changed for 380 million years… Until new research revealed they actually evolved, driven by what they least expected! 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/THflbyo

How do four-eyed fish see above & underwater? 🌤️🌊 Our new preprint reveals how Anableps rewired its retina for dual vision- evolution at work 👁️👁️ Kudos to @perezlouise.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @keylapruett.bsky.social + team! 🔗 tinyurl.com/3a8r9xy5

Our flagship journal's co author from the #NSF Life invited papers, @prosanta.bsky.social wrote this tremendously helpful piece for us all to consider in how we share our lives at work. Consider Sharing #Health Challenges With Colleagues (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I always enjoy reading about the Roosevelt’s - flaws and all - and this book about Teddy’s sons Ted Jr. and Kermit trekking through China in search of the then mostly mythical panda 🐼 was a fun read.

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.