Next they’ll buy a bunch of plecostomuses to eat the algae and they’ll shit so much it blooms again

sad laptop storage

Is it carbon monoxide

** Baby sea urchin doot doot doot ** The test (shell) of this one is only about 2-3 mm across, giving it an apparent size of about 5 mm across (lego bump size) with a halo of tube feet around

Always a fan fav

I try to go to a museum to distract me from thinking of my MCMC analysis and what do I find but Monte Carlo in the wild.

Today is National Pigeon Day, celebrating arguably the world's best bird.

Happy #fossilfriday ! Today @hadeelsaad.bsky.social and I began the long-haul process of driving 600 specimens from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Missoula, Montana. These specimens are from the famous Bear Gulch lagerstätte (located in Montana).

I'm a real paleontologist now 😅

Just some noodles

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

This is really incredible! "This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last week I lost Milk Dud for a few days. Turns out she was just blending in on the back of the driftwood

I remember Tegeolepis like it was yesterday

Sitting around waiting for MCMC chains to converge must be the 21st century equivalent of watching paint dry.

Art for my new office 😅

CryptoVision "Integrating deep learning, biological hierarchies, and high-resolution imagery to create a new identification tool for cryptic coral reef fishes" Reginato & Brandl 2026 @plos.org #ichthyology #OA journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I was really excited to write a dispach piece for @currentbiology.bsky.social led by @fishfetisher.bsky.social available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ooh how appropriate for my current research focus 😅

The concise history of modeling character evolution. Handy timeline. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

I will be in Cleveland for #Evol2026 in 2 weeks so feel free to chat with me if you will be in attendance! 🐠

I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

Me: I need more examples of how animals are important for my zoology students *monkey paw curls*

Almost have all my books packed 🙃

So apparently June 3rd is #nationaleggday. To celebrate, here's my favorite UMMP specimen not on display: an intact egg of the recently extinct elephant bird Aepyornis (📷 @fishfetisher.bsky.social).

Absolutely overjoyed to share our new paper describing the oldest occurrence of soft-tissue preservation in crinoid echinoderms and their ecological significance 🧪

The in-person Evolution meeting begins in just over two weeks! Several workshops are being offered on June 20th: Writing Effective Science Op-Eds, Diverse Careers, Storytelling, and more! Log in to the meeting registration portal to sign up: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/at... #Evol2026

And this North Carolina-looking thing is it's lower jaw!

NEW PROFILE PIC ✨ Happy #PrideMonth, shoalmates! Our avatar Danny-O is rockin' their favorite guitar throughout the month 🤘🏳️‍🌈 #RockOn 🧪

Oooh this looks neat!

CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

New nerite snail loves to tunnel hehehe.

Our #evol2026 cheatsheet is live, coinciding with the program release. Your one-stop shop for all the Society events during the meeting. Bookmark it and check back often in case of updates! www.systbio.org/evolution-20...

Lovely day for tea

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

This is Tumbleweed. She is an artist, and this is her art. Doesn't expect everyone to understand. 13/10 (IG: winstonandtumble)

Oooh, I think my betta (Sylvie) is starting to change color. She appears to have some blues and reds coming in on her fins. When I got her she was pure white. Wonder how her glow-up will look like...

Om nom nom

Didn't I do this 2 years ago... 😶

Yessss found it

I made a frutiger aero soft soap themed xenomorph...

What does it mean if a cat walks over your grave 🤔 🐈‍⬛️

Had to go to PetSmart instead. I ask the fish area guy for 2 nerite snails. As he goes to reach for a net, I say "You probably won't need that." Then as he's bagging the snails up, he asks me if I know how to tie the rubber band around the bag 🙃

Triacanthid fishes also have these cute little grooves to holster their tripods. Very streamlined.

They don't call these tripodfishes for nothing!!

Gobies truly are the jelly beans of the reef 😅

Oh dear

🍁ICVM2027 Logo Competition🍁 We are excited to launch the logo competition for ICVM2027, 20–24 July 2027, in Halifax, Canada. Members of the ICVM community are invited to submit logo designs inspired by vertebrate morphology and the spirit of Atlantic Canada. 🖌️ Details: www.isvm-icvm.org/icvm-2027

I was cleaning some bubble algae off my live rock and it popped in my eye....If you don't hear from me soon, I have become a plant.