2/4 In this paper we discover that the imperiled Birmingham Darter is distributed in Little Blue Creek (Valley Creek system), which will be decimated by the Bessemer datacenter. insideclimatenews.org/news/1606202...

One of my favorite buildings at UM. I love watching the ivy change color throughout the year.

Checks on what the youth are doing......Oh. github.com/hadley/genzp...

Your lab isn't a home until you've hung up your prized Tiktaalik. My Live, Laugh, Love wall decals gotta be in a box somewhere.

Wow. How rude 😅

Coral bothering

Guest lecture went swell today. I got a round of applause after 😅

I lovingly refer to my anubias plant as the "Noodle Tree" since the kuhli loaches love lounging in the roots

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Little guy watching the sunrise 🥰

Mary Sheffield wins Detroit mayoral election, AP projects, becoming city’s 1st female mayor. Great news for my city!

We had a fish election and Henry won. His platform hinged on more treats.

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

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Her makeshift perch

Fixing lights for Henry. You can add electrician to my CV now.

When your Astrobiology class falls on Halloween

💜 Had a nice time presenting the department seminar today.

Emily gave a great talk for this week's departmental seminar. Got a new lab photo to mark the occasion . . .

Indeed! Please create good old fashioned memes!

Nanotyrannichthys is my suggestion if anyone is describing a small lizard fish (fossil or extant)

Do we know if Nanotyrannus lived on land or was aquatic? I have a radical hypothesis that I will share soon.

🐠 Tiny but mighty! New research on goby fishes, supported by Scripps Oceanography scientists, reveals how some of the smallest vertebrates on Earth control their body size at the genetic level, offering clues to the incredible diversity of life on Earth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I love working at a museum because that means I get to create fantabulous SciComm activities 🐟🐡 Visitors will have the chance to match 3D printed living and extinct fish jaws to what they think the fish eats, based on jaw and tooth shape.

I’m going to go into Disney and pitch MYNOCK: A Star Wars Story and it’s just three hours of flying around sucking on power cables

I removed some mushroom corals from this rock and now he has a new perch 🥰

The early ray-finned fish worker experience.

This little guy is doing his best to cheer me up since we lost Percy. It'll be alright.

Continents xkcd.com/3159/

Thank you, Emily, for letting me compare goby size to people size 🙏. Now gotta check on my 22ft cousin.

I made a small necklace with his scales. 💙

Percy, my wonderful little guy, just passed away as I sat by his tank. He'd been dealing with gastrointestinal issues for several years now and I think it finally caught up to him. RIP bud, I'm gonna miss you so much. This part of the hobby is the worst... 😭

Nothing better than spooky fish fossils for a Halloween talk! If you're in the Ann Arbor area next week come check out my talk! 🎃👻🦴🐠

Wow, I think Phil has technically split now. He has 2 mouths and everything 😁

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

News release for my goby paper! Thanks @morgansherburne.bsky.social for writing this up! news.umich.edu/they-might-n...

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/...

Hot off the press is the final chapter of my dissertation now published in @pnas.org Here, I explore the genetic drivers of extreme body size reduction using goby fishes as a model. I'll write up a short summary thread later tonight... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The hype is real. Join me for my paper watch party this week 😂

Lol, snoot

Met this fish today and I love him

Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Found a raccoon(?) skull sitting under a tree at a cemetery. Hope I'm not cursed now. 😅

Swamp Thing preshow commission from NYCC!

Will the real Matt Friedman please stand up.

Going to war against the mushroom corals. I let them get too bad...Now I'm slowly starting to prune them back 🥲

In awe of how large this dwarf water lettuce has become

I...thought this was a pancake