#ZebrafishFunFacts: Unofficially known as the Zebrafish Bible, "The Zebrafish Book" sought to standardize zfish husbandry in early days of zfish research. Originally published by Monte Westerfield, the book is now in its 5th edition. Previous editions are freely available: zfin.org/zf_info/zfbo... 🧪

New paper alert! ‼️

Also, Sam's looking for a postdoc! She's skilled in animal and microbe physiology, analytical chemistry, bacterial genetics, and bioinformatics. She’d like to keep studying symbioses but is flexible. If you have (or know of) postdoc opportunities, please find her and talk to her! #SICB2026

When at #SICB2026, check out Tony Zhou's @zzhou32.bsky.social talk on developmental multi-omics in the "living fossil" spotted gar on Monday. #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

Celebratory drink with @compbiologist.bsky.social to salute the new year AND to cheer for @yhbioinfo.bsky.social’s new article on cross-species comparison methods out in Nature Methods: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Motto for 2026: Yes, We coelaCANth! Thanks @drheathheckman.bsky.social for the nice Fishmas present!

Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle began #OnThisDay in 1831. The five-year trek around the world profoundly shaped his ideas about the natural world; he later said the journey was "by far the most important event in my life." #histsci

Happy Holidays and Merry 🐟-mas from the Braasch @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social Ganz @brainyfishguts.bsky.social and Thompson @xtremo-devo-lab.bsky.social Labs!

Happy Coelacanth Day!

I was today years old when I learned that there is a superb (freely available) documentary from 1961 on early zebrafish development by J.V. Durden. collection.nfb.ca/film/embryon... (1/2)

Germany hosts a world-leading fish research community, yet never had a Fish Meeting. That changes now 🐟 We are organizing the 1st German Fish Meeting to connect the community, support early-career scientists,discuss challenges facing basic research #2026GermanFishMeeting 👉 www.germanfishmeeting.org

A unique feature of gars is those distinctive armor-like scales! Unlike a typical fish’s overlapping scales, gars have interlocking “ganoid” scales that are made up of a material similar to the enamel on our teeth. The name “Lepisosteus” even means “bony scale” 🦴 #25DaysofFishmas

Looking forward to my trip to @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social this week. Thanks to @maxshafer.bsky.social for the invitation!

How do four-eyed fish see above & underwater? 🌤️🌊 Our new preprint reveals how Anableps rewired its retina for dual vision- evolution at work 👁️👁️ Kudos to @perezlouise.bsky.social @josanesousa.bsky.social @keylapruett.bsky.social + team! 🔗 tinyurl.com/3a8r9xy5

OTD in 1880, Charles Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #HistSTM 🦋🦫

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Our lab at the University of Málaga, Spain🇪🇸 is looking for a bioinformatician researcher for a postdoc position (1+1 years). Check the ad, and if you're interested, get in touch! 📅 Starting date early 2026, with some flexibility. 🙏Please, RT!

The #zebrafish sex determination locus must be somewhere in there! @jpostlethwait.bsky.social academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Part 6: For decades, the zebrafish has helped scientists unlock the mysteries of genetics, development, & disease. But the fish that power most discoveries have spent generations inside lab tanks. This video captures footage of zebrafish in their natural environment in Nepal. youtu.be/cCZhZpPALqw

👻 G-g-ghost? Nope, s-s-snailfish! 🤍 Meet the mesmerizing new addition to our Into the Deep/En lo Profundo exhibit, rough snailfish! These ethereal charmers live in the benthic zone, a scientific term for the seafloor.

New preprint up with collaborators Jianguo Lu, @mpodobnik.bsky.social, Uwe Irion, Braedan McCluskey, John Postlethwait and others. New Danio genomes, evolution and pigment pattern variation. Long time in the making www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Surprise #paddlefish cameo in The Lowdown S1E3. Great show, great fish! #EndlessFishMoarBeautiful

Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms. It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.” 🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

This week, we hosted over 100 scientists at Rockefeller University in New York City for our 2025 in-person conference.

Seventies Susumu Ohno vibes! Fashion goes in circles.

One Battle After Another is a great movie, but the paternity test scene is comically, outrageously ridiculous! #facepalmemoji Come on, PT Anderson, genetics can be better represented on the big screen!

Congrats @liujuan.bsky.social, our very own @zzhou32.bsky.social and all co-authors! Fintastic work!

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

This must be the marker gene… #EndlessCellsMostBeautiful

#EndlessCellsMostBeautiful @moma.bsky.social

Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom! #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

World FTD Awareness Week begins today! FTD often starts between ages 45–65, making it the most common dementia under 60. Let’s raise awareness and drive research toward treatments and a cure. #EndFTD #FTDAwareness #USA

@tedmorgan.bsky.social, as requested, here's an impromptu EDGE PI meeting of @tonygamble.bsky.social and @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social in our Ancient Fish Facility @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Gars 'n Geckos - great combo! Thnx, Tony, for a great talk on squamate sex chromosomes @ MSU IBIO Seminar.

Our talk on functional GARnomics at the recent @izfs.bsky.social International Zebrafish Conference in Madison was highlighted in the latest IZFS New Splash: www.izfs.org/newssplash/n... Watch the recording here: www.fishevodevogeno.org

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

Hear! Hear!

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Nemo needs gap junctions, too. New preprint with Marleen Klann, Vincent Laudet, et al. showing anemonefish Snowflake mutant due to E42K substitution in Connexin Gja5b. Found exact same E42K in zebrafish gja5b (= leopard) by ENU, to the nucleotide! Details, inferences: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For no reason in particular, a reminder how weird eel biology is... #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Let me tell you what we do. (But I’m running out of power soon…) #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

Recommendation by the Sturgeon General:

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Going to the gym be like…

Gars haven't survived for tens of millions of years to be your target practice. Bowfishing is for losers who don't have the patience to angle for fish they can't see.