If we replayed life’s tape, we’d see a lot of interesting things including slippery elongate silver-ish things. Those would be Fish. There would be a Lot of them.

Great to be back in the field! The Triassic of Texas

Simons Foundation has a new contest for Ecology and Evolution Graduate Fellowships! Due June 30th. Good luck everyone! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

🐠 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!! My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species. DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!

Ray-finned fishes are famously diverse, but we know little about their brains or cranial endocasts. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social opens this black box with a dice-CT survey of 86 species across the actinopt tree of life. #OA in @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐟🧠 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Very eastern North American pull of animals this evening. The great horned owl chick’s name is Baby Man.

losers selling out for a contract.

Beautiful day in the neighborhood. Thanks Pittsburgh for showing up to support us runners 🫶

East Liberty. 5700 Penn Ave - Whole Foods. Caller says that they are alarmed by a guy walking around with a sword. PD said they know about the guy and that is just what he does

Acanthodian.

different fossil Friday this week. huge congrats to @athenavohs.bsky.social for successfully completing her masters! good luck at CU Boulder!! your passion will carry you far. Athena works on condylarths (enigmatic Paleogene mammals) so I’ve included one here (Anisonchus— read alt text!)

Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in #Ecology and #Evolution #science #scienceSky #evoSky www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Congratulations to our 2026 Huxley Award recipient, Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa, for the educational resource: “evolved: an open-source R package designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in evolutionary biology”! Read more: shorturl.at/1ZdFE@mjanua...

Downtown. Liberty Ave. Caller said that two dudes are taking on about a dozen 10 year olds in combat.

Does anyone know of any good field work/research grants for postdoc fellows in ecology/conservation/ornithology? I've found the Kessel from AOS and some NatGeo, but most of my list is for grad students (if anyone wants a list for grad student field work grants hmu!)

Happy #fossilfriday! @hadeelsaad.bsky.social , Emily Hillan, and I spent the past week in the Appalachian Basin collecting in the Carboniferous. We found a lot of great stuff but the best thing we got was a fossil xiphosuran, Euproops! Very uncommon here. Time to organize it all!

Happy #fossilfriday! @hadeelsaad.bsky.social , Emily Hillan, and I spent the past week in the Appalachian Basin collecting in the Carboniferous. We found a lot of great stuff but the best thing we got was a fossil xiphosuran, Euproops! Very uncommon here. Time to organize it all!

North Shore. A 279 on ramp. The asst chief said that he got a call that a large crowd of possibly lost tourists are trying to look for the draft stuff by walking up the closed highway ramp. They have it on camera at the command center and is asking for someone to intercept.

Insect people, WTF is going on over here? Found in Allegheny County PA. Suburb/forest edge. Large one is Lytta aenea. Small one was biting it? But it wasn’t really moving? So confused.

I am half asleep and have only read a few pages of Tempo and Mode and am immediately realizing that reading this upon arrival to graduate school would have been very useful.

Making bird slop is lame. jacanas are charadriiformes, which are one of my favorite groups of animals.

Currently starting my field season in the Appalachian Basin and OH MY GOD there are so many isolated bones.

Perry North. 4071 Franklin Road - Incarnation of the Lord Church. Caller says a thin guy in a robe went into the church and is yelling out of tune at the choir.

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Excited that my paper on a Jurassic fish with teeth on its nose is now out! Shoutout to my co-authors Ben Kligman and Maranda Stricklin, who is another all-star undergraduate mentee. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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So many Carboniferous fish jaws (28!) to look at and think about on my way to Atlanta. The most rewarding in-flight entertainment, courtesy of @reallyoldfish.bsky.social!

bifrost: an R package for scalable inference of phylogenetic shifts in multivariate evolutionary dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.12.718036v1

Congratulations to all. Both being awarded and HM are huge accomplishments, and you should be proud of yourself either way.

Result from the Zechstein sea #paleostream! This famous deposit from the late Permian of Central Europe (mostly Germany) has a special place in paleontology history and incidentally has a locality not even a km from where I sit right now.

All from today. The world is waking up.

If you’re speculating about the 2028 Democratic nominee right now, might I suggest you get a hobby. Or look up local volunteer opportunities. Something.

The Carnegie special, squishy fishy.

For #fossilfriday I have the holotype of Kalops monophrys, CM 27372. Kalops is a classic “palaeoniscoid” from Bear Gulch , a Mississippian lagerstätte in central Montana. While squished, it’s undeniably a gorgeous fossil.

Some UMMP embolomeres for #FossilFriday: Archeria jaw from the Permian of Archer Co., TX and archeriid bits from the Carboniferous of Linton, OH.

Fossil fish head from the Pleistocene of Galveston, TX

I did not think Bezos would go Howard Hughes Piss Jug Crazy before Elon, but here we are

Cat shots from the past two days. God I love this creature

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Unhinged

You cannot talk about lunar exploration without the U.S. Geological Survey. Case in point: Tim Hait! While he'd join the St. Helens team right after the May 18, 1980, eruption as an information scientist, he was part of the team that trained Apollo astronauts in geology 101. The more you know.

Without these long-term research programs, there is no #2026MMM

Drove through Ohio a few days ago and was stunned at the water levels in the Portage River and surrounding areas. Local news is reporting on people being able to kayak in their backyards. Sounds fun, but think of all the E. coli..

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Carboniferous fossil fishes: brought to you by this.

Our latest: Dermoskeletal histology of Moythomasia and the evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton, led by Xianren Shan and Edine Pape, with a little help from Martin Rucklin @evopalaeo.bsky.social and Davide Pisani @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social