A bit under my goal, but got thru 10 books this year. Might get to #11 before the end of the week...

I saw this and it’s wonderful!

Honored to have a photo on the cover of Current Biology!

A bit of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, just north of Strong City, Kansas. A scenic, rolling plain.

Taking in some Kansas sunshine

What an incredible opportunity it was to drive the HEX beamline at NSLS II (Brookhaven National Labs) with @friedmanlab.bsky.social , @james-v-andrews.bsky.social , and others. We gathered a TON of great 🐟 data; I am hopeful that what we gathered will lead to more fishy discoveries.

Playing around with plotting transitions from an ancestral state estimation....Pretty neat.

He had a late night party. Please keep it down...

Making way for Fishmas

Another #ArtAdventCalendar nature pun 🐡

wow, it's Shonisaurus, the giant Triassic ichthyosaur!

Trimma berumeni or Mikey’s golden pygmygoby, named after my former advisor and all around good guy, Mike Berumen. Glad to see more Red Sea gobies being described 😁

Please enjoy my goober

Hard at work

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind discovery

Preview of my #SICB2026 talk on early fish jaws. Paleozoic ray-finned fish systematics is a mess. Someone should really work on that😅

Thought he was a cheeto

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i love it

Interesting preprint suggesting that recently described fossils from Brazil described as a new ctenochasmatine pterosaur, Bakiribu, preserved within a regurgitalite, instead represent the gill arch apparatus of an actinopterygian fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Just two ladies dressed in black

Nice one, Spidey.

extremely realistic basilosaurus reconstruction

Got our NSF grant submitted today 🤞

In the early Devonian #lungfishes — now considered "living fossils" — were all the rage! A new #fish from China attests to this early diversification. www.cell.com/current-biol...

tfw you’ve had a spectacularly bad week and your brother goes to get you a Fudgie The Whale™️ to cheer you up but they don’t have any. it’s the thought/concept that counts

Guy on Jeopardy tonight just misidentified a mammoth tooth as a Megalodon tooth.

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

All ready for Manta Claus...

this is adorable

Oh lawd he comin' 😅

Who has made this 🤣

What a guy

Hooray! It's finally out

Lovely bristled creature

Neat!

I'm sorry, everyone, I'll just drop out of the field then 😂🙈 This is what it is like to be a woman in internet-based sci-comm. I also now wish to be referred to exclusively as a "septum-goblin."

There should be a Year in Review for academics but it's all the papers you meant to read but didn't.

Forget Snakes on a Plane; how about Ticks on an Eel? cc @greenleejw.bsky.social entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...

Yay stickers

It's rare to see Topaz, my Nassarius snail, out and about during the day. Guess she popped out of the sand to say hello.

One of my favorites is from "On Being the Right Size"

Lil guy passed away in quarantine 😭 No clue what was wrong. RIP Milo.

ok this joke might be a little too specific

Good night

yup

This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time. The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.

#fossilfriday One of the most famous "pregnant" ichthyosaurs, a specimen of Stenopterygius quadriscissus from the Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany, preserved either during birth or as the fetus was expelled post-mortem.

#HappyThanksgiving from WitmerLab! You have your holiday traditions, and we have ours! Yes, we CT scanned our turkey on our best turkey platter. Science has never been so delicious! And like any good dinosaur biologist, I prepared and accessioned the skeleton—OUVC 10789. 🦃🦖