What even are rabbit snails

I stumbled on to a secret meeting 😅

IOB - out now! Twist and Snout: Head and Body #Morphologies Determine Feeding #Kinematics in Substrate-Biting #Fishes Tal Perevolotsky, Jacob M Brotman-Krass, Yarden Ratner, Yael Avigad, @fishguy.bsky.social , @cmdonatelli.bsky.social , Roi Holzman doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #morphology #science

Evidence of tiny gobies in the Eocene 🐟

My ideal life would be living in like a swamp cave and emerging once a year with comics

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

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Tradition dictates I post this.

Apistogramma cacatuoides: I've always thought of these guys as punk rock cichlids 🤘

Dinner time for the noodles and kittens

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Gave the website a facelift! emilymtroyer.weebly.com

Probably the most important thing to survive grad school is having a supportive mentor. I'm so lucky to have had the best advisor who I continue to work with 💜 @arciladk.bsky.social

This is an undescribed lungfish tooth plate from the Devonian Genshaw Fm. near Alpena, Michigan. It's such a strange piece. Most fish material from this area has a bluish tint which you can see near the bottom. #FossilFriday

She's off to her construction job...

✨ They say true beauty is on the inside… This zebrafish took that personally 🐟 🟢 Bone 🟣 tendon & ligament🔬Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen #FluorescenceFriday #DevBio #Zebrafish

Yet another reason why publication count is a poor indicator of ability

The paper: the genetic program that enables digit formation in limbs is derived from the system that drives cformation of the cloaca. Me, the headline writer:

Couple of noodles in a cuddle puddle

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

When you want that algae wafer but there is a snail in the way.

I made a repository for some of the functions I've written for manipulating/handling phylo objects in R. Maybe they'll be useful to someone, but mostly it was a good excuse to start actually using git. github.com/miltontan/RP...

After a new paper comes a deluge of spammy emails

New from #BiologyLetters: Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses buff.ly/abJm5Zv | #Evolution #Palaeontology #Taxonomy

And now I can't find Allan.... I don't want to think this guy is having tiny snacks, but at this point he is the most likely suspect 😑 😬 It's so strange bc I added the pandas 2 months ago... why decide to eat them now 🤔

My two panda garra are either inter-dimensional beings or just really, really good at hide and seek because I will search everywhere for them only to have them pop up like nothings happened.

Attention students: the deadline for our fall collections study award coming up soon! Use the funds to come out and use our LACM specimens for your research.

Goodnight

It's just a lil guy

The NSF GRFP is back. Students interested in applying to work in my lab at SIO can email me directly with a CV and a letter to outline how their interests and research experience might align with the work we do. I'm recruiting students interested in biomechanics. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... 🧪 🐟

Giving Thistle hats is quite entertaining. I love to look over at the living room reef and see where my little cone head is 😅

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

Past is Prologue: CT scan models of a fossil (Eocoelopoma curvatum) and a living (Scomberomorus cavalla) scombrid fish separated by ~50 million years of evolution.

Old #paleoart depicting a small prehistoric equid dressed up as the racehorse American Pharoah. Eohippus was pretty small & would've given off more "small tapir or forest deer" vibes than this. I still like the idea though

Some tiny friends on my potted flowers 🐛🕷🌸

That's a "no-touchy" boi if I ever saw one.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

I guess all it takes to get published in Nature these days is find evidence of possible life on Mars 😂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Is My Hole! It Was Made For Me!

It's weevil time

These AI summarized articles about my recent paper are...something else. 😬

Ohio State is searching for an entomologist at the Associate/Full level! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

A Marvel mash-up I can get behind. I want to see them take on Kingpinfish 🐟

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

And then this man gives me a heart attack. He is fine just sleeping....

Ack, one of my panda garra has gone missing.... 😭

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Jokes on you, that's his treadmill

It's Wacky Hat Day

🐟 Bite by bite: @umich.edu researchers traced how jaws fueled the rise of vertebrates. In the Devonian, lobe-finned fishes (ancestors of today’s coelacanths & lungfish) drove jaw innovation—before stalling out. #Science news.umich.edu/bite-by-bite...