New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paper tiger masculinity

Need some motiv-ocean to leap into the weekend? 🐟 Leaping blennies are amazing amphibious fish who can launch themselves off rocks and into the air up to 50 times their body length. 🌊 These extraordinary terrestrial fish shore do know how to make a splash, both in and outside the water!

Article link here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New species alert! A Pascua goby from the Coral Sea. This genus now contains four species. Two from the Eastern Pacific and two from Australia, with more than 5,500km separating them. Lots of fun describing my second new species. #TeamFish #Fish doi.org/10.3390/fish...

ปลาวันเกิด 16 ส.ค. "ปลา Mottled Blenny" 8月16日 “カエルウオ(Kaeruuo)" August16th "Mottled Blenny" #Rattowith366days

Check this: www.fishmedjournal.sibic.org/10.29094/FiS... Waterfall climbing by freshwater blenny in Spain @sibic.bsky.social

Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Ever wonder how the axial locomotor system is arranged into segmented myomeres of red and white muscle in a large pelagic surgeonfish? Well, now you know! 🐟🧪🦑

There are other countries, and other times, when this sort of political vetting of science has happened. And we need say no more than that, I think. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some clams in the deep sea essentially eat sulfide or methane for food (partnering with symbiotic bacteria). They are are model animals for astrobiologists investigating potential undersea life on other worlds (7)

Super proud to share the first first-author paper from @ashockney24.bsky.social and our first official Rummel lab publication! Check it out here: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If this story earns 100 reposts, our staff writer will get these same tattoos. (Just kidding. He already booked the session) www.popsci.com/science/ice-...

In @fishguy.bsky.social’s lab we have done many studies on the suction cups of dead clingfish. In this new paper, @fishyologist.bsky.social et al and I found that clingfish can control their suction and stick harder than dead ones! @sicbjournals.bsky.social 🐟 🧪 DM for PDF doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

National Weather Service Grand Forks explaining there’s no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota, a landlocked state

My brother moves in this weekend & I’m panicking. I still have all this Skype a scientist merch in his room & there’s a crab in the kitchen. Who let me own a home?! If you were ever thinking about buying one of these t shirts today is a GREAT time lmao 😅😅😅 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...

JOIN US!!! @garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026! Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email [email protected] with CV if interested!

👇 Of interest to PIs and Early Career Biologists 🧪 Check out this Stater Pack

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Curious about Devonian actinopterygian lower jaws? Look no further--our new paper provides comprehensive descriptions for 19 species in a tidy ~50 page summary! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

After seeing so much mola art in Hualien 花蓮，of course it had to be a sharptail mola 曼波魚 Masturus lanceolatus for my #TaiwanFishes #SundayFishSketch today! Hualien has somehow catapulted this species into a local mascot, although negative effects of increased harvests are TBD. #Taiwan #台灣魚類 🦑🐡🧪

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | LabOps: A flexible self-hosted workflow of open source tools for efficient collaboration within research laboratories | #OpenSource #Bioinformatics #Education #OpenScience | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The city of Bessemer, AL, is considering destroying habitat crucial to the Endangered Watercress Darter to allow a huge Data Center to be built. If need be it looks like the CBD will make a legal intervention. And yes, that's a Watercress Darter on the wall of the Good People brewpub. 🧪🌍🌿 #TeamFish

Hey #JMIH2025 attendees, there is an event at a brewery in MPLS that might be of interest. Fundraiser for an app that tracks turtle crossing 🐢 56brewing.com/event/turtlt...

In this video I discuss the challenges of converting the ray-finned fish phylogeny into a taxonomy. I am quite critical of recent Linnaean rank efforts that create confusion and instability www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66l... Let me know what you think

More of this.. www.startribune.com/science-muse...

Not attending #jmih2025 this year but long time, proud St. Paul resident. Do not hesitate to reach out about help around town or suggestions for food/fun/drinks, etc. ✌️ #blenny

In the most useful way possible “homo sapiens have outgrown their use”

New fish paper! We found that Clinocottus globicpes eats anemones (weird!) using a novel wrestling behavior + strong jaws that likely started as adaptations for tearing algae. It also has thick skin that protects it from stinging cells. @jzoology.bsky.social 🐟🧪 DM for PDF. doi.org/10.1111/jzo....

I'm defending my dissertation next week, Monday June 30th at 10 AM ET. DM for a zoom link if interested!

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

One Minnesota.

Old photo of cleared and stained Meiacanthus sp. (fang blenny) highlighting the lower canine w/ attached venom gland at base.🤩

Glad to have this review published! Worked on it on-and-off for roughly 10 years. Stevens (1989) is a widely-cited paper about the often-positive relationship between range size and latitude (larger geographic ranges toward poles). But also other things! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

🤿 It’s not all about the big stuff! The tiny critters are just as fascinating…. No not the shanny… but the eggs! Can you spot them at the top & rear of the rock? If you look closely you can even see the eyeballs of the developing embryos! 🌊 🦑 #snorkelling #underwaterphotograhy #marinelife

Hey look! Glowing fishes evolved over and over again. Lots of color of glow. @emilycarr.bsky.social led a team that included 5 FHL folks @jmhuie.bsky.social @lampichthys.bsky.social and @karlycohen.bsky.social. The oldest glowy fish is an eel at 100MYA. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A niche request but I bet my Bluesky peeps got me: Seeking great papers and sources on the topic of Appalachian fish biogeography. What are the factors that make this region so wildly diverse, and what are the geographic & geologic forces that led to the radiation of darters, shiners, etc.? Thanks!

First dissertation chapter has been published in Integrative & Comparative Biology, check it out here: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women

Life in emergent freshwater marshes. For my forthcoming book "PONDS: An Illustrated Guide," Yale University Press, 2026. 🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #iNat #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #marshes #freshwater #wetlands

We just arrived in Tuvalu, which I’m told is currently the world’s least-visited country, so here’s a photo of a rockskipper blenny from the ocean side of the island 🦑.

If you, like me, had you NSF granted terminated, here’s what I learned from a hopeful meeting with my VP of research: 1. We have 30 days to act! Meet with your admin asap 2. APPEAL: Everyone can appeal! It must go through your institution, there’s a template, sent registered mail. My VP told me ⬇️

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees: Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Ski-U-Whaaaaa?

Watch www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/m...

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?