Ok, I've done this for over 3000 individual US colleges and universities at collegetables.info Here's U Illinois: collegetables.info/145637.html#... . I only used a ten year window. Let me know if folks have suggestions or ideas. Thanks @kateclancy.bsky.social for the thread!

A long fish, the Cornet fish #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #singaporedivers #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #cornetfish

The Silurian jawless fish Americaspis americana (UMMP VP 120281) for the 4th.

One Nation Under Cod: Do you know what your state's of-fish-al state fish is? I've assembled a list of state and provincial fish so you can be the talk of your holiday gatherings! thefisheriesblog.com/2022/07/04/u...

Blue Sucker found to live to at least 61 years of age in the upper Missouri River link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Spiky Productid Brachiopod #paleoart #brachiopod #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt

Ugh omg our train was CANCELLED nooooooooooo

GLP-1, the reason why Ozempic & Wegovy work, was discovered in fish (1987) & lizards (1990). Now, under this new rule, decades of basic FOUNDATIONAL research that led to these blockbuster drugs, that we have access to, would be considered as waste. Get my drift? 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Vacancy for curator position at the Western Australian Herbarium, right in one of the global biodiversity hotspots! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/jobs/princip...

A new look at an ancient face. Big Al’s skull just got a 3D-printed glow up and is ready to meet you… not eat you. Probably. Interested? See #BigAl starting tomorrow, Friday, July 3. Here at #MuseumoftheRockies! #Allosaurus #Fossils #DinosaurSkull #Paleontology #3DPrinting #ScienceAtMOR #BozemanMT

New for @undark.org: Mathematicians have signed the Leiden Declaration for AI. I argue that the life sciences needs one: built for noisy, context-dependent systems, w/ disclosure, human accountability, wet-lab validation, & rules that evolve as fast as the tools do. undark.org/2026/07/02/o...

🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...

No UMMP collections today, but I did see this Egyptian relief of a couple of speared Nile tilapia from ~650 BCE.

‘A society that loses science loses the future’ says Neil Shubin, as he starts his tenure as the NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social - thank you for speaking to us @nature.com 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There were more people at the DNR Fish Pond at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair (as there should be)! Their Reflecting Pool was much clearer too…AND HAD GAR 😎👍

During hot, dry seasons, African lungfish aestivate inside mucus cocoons. And the cocoons are alive.

Working with mitogenomes for eDNA, phylogenetics, etc, but not sure what's available on GenBank? Maybe your study group has weird mitogenome features? Come explore with with my new GenBankMitoReview tool! github.com/dmacguigan/G... #DNA #bioinformatics #eDNA #GenBank

Big update to our R package gatoRs has been accepted by CRAN! Check out our update here: github.com/nataliepatte... And here: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild

Posters printed!

Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation

New paper out of my lab by PhD candidate, Emily Poulin! We looked at performance implications of stingray spine diversity. @tidepoulin.bsky.social

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

Well now, this is worth a deep dive into #EvMed #PetosParadox #DevoEvo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Big news this week from The Rogers Lab. We will be moving to GW University in Washington DC, starting August 1st. We will be hiring postdocs and recruiting new students! Email me if interested or come find me at SMBE!

A great Perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social on Waddington's landscape, including some silly songs recorded for Waddington's 50th birthday party in 1955 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 1/2

Do the software engineers even believe the left part of this graph...?

Help! Structuring my Evolution class, I'm having a hard time going from nat sel as change in allele freqs to nat sel as the creative force behind complex traits--which honestly was also (still is?) the main difficulty for me when learning evo. Currently I'm planning...

New on the Fulcrum blog: minibwa, a faster mapper from @lh3lh3.bsky.social and our @nilshomer.com Its speed is great, yes, but more interesting is the decision to revisit BWA-MEM as infrastructure – keep what still works, change what limits performance, then test downstream impact. shorturl.at/xxqeI

Excellent dive into the bizarre world of turtles and how they completely reworked their bodyplan through gene loss by @leonhilgers.bsky.social #SMBE2026 Especially great detective work on the genes of interest!

Crinoids as "living fossils" drives me crazy. Modern crinoids are more species-rich than extant primates and about twice as diverse as turtles. They live in habitats ranging from the deep sea to coral reefs. And they're quite morphologically & ecologically disparate if you understand how they live!

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

Some people were never even told their grant was terminated; it simply disappeared from NIH's list of funded grants without notification, much less explication. 🧪 www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

I’m excited to share a new paper from my lab, by former PhD student Ben Schultz! It’s a genome paper for the northern redbelly dace, a small freshwater fish with fascinating biology - stay tuned for more cool work enabled by this resource. doi.org/10.1139/gen-...

Where NSF is funding new awards, they are paying up front rather than making future commitments. It appears to be a clearing of the decks to enable shutting down disfavored directorates, shrinking the NSF, or diverting funds to other Presidential priorities. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

NSF is spending more money servicing old grants than making new ones. As of the end of May, more funds flowed to old projects than new, for the first time in recent history. Much of this was for funds planned years ago for new supercomputing structure. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

NEW: The National Science Foundation has been doing everything it can to meet its legal requirements to spend funds while throttling awards going to U.S. Science. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

NSF is making awards at a rate 60-70% below its historic pace, but spending is a faster (but still anemic) 30-40% below. Why is this? First, NSF is *not* making bigger awards. In 2026 the average award size has shrunk by about $100,000 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

What Do You Do When You Lose Gigantic Megalodon Shark Vertebrae?

Love the random things that you find in museum storerooms, like this model of a rookery.

While “disturbing” is indeed a matter of opinion, I disagree, and would point to the critically endangered Gharial parent (the male in this case) taking care of its young (and often times the young of others. Also the photographer of these unique crocodilian shots is Dhiritiman Mukherjee.

Pro Tip (for early career science communicators): Be selective about agreeing to documentary interviews. Can take a big chunk out of your day & there's the danger you'll end up on the cutting room floor (especially if your comments don't align w/ the framing/preferred narrative of the filmmaker).

Looking forward to #JMIH26. My lab is the biggest it has ever been (and will be for the foreseeable future after my first PhD student graduates). I'm bringing a postdoc, 2 grad students, and an undergrad, and together we'll be giving 6 presentations. Find us in the meeting program app!

GTRspmix: Capturing Heterogeneity of Exchangeabilities Across Sites to Improve Protein Phylogenetics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42367944/

A big-headed ant, Pheidole fimbriata, you’ll never guess why they call it that. (Colombia)

Summarizing Evolutionary Trajectories from Phylogenetic Character Maps of Discrete Traits https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42367967/

Confounding effects of inferring gene co-expression networks from pooled data from different biological populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.23.734063v1

#JMIH26 is just a little over a week away. If you're attending, be sure to check out the symposium @danpaluh.bsky.social and I organized celebrating the career and legacy of Aaron Bauer! It will be filled with amazing talks about geckos, snakes, skinks, and more!

1/12 🚨🚨 I am so excited to share chapter 1 of my dissertation, now preprinted here: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We ask if are their fundamental, shared mechanisms that stop us from inferring the relationship of species and their timescale of divergence #biology #science

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...