First-ever footage of a Barreleye Fish captured deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

I’m happy to say the first chapter of my dissertation has just gotten published! Here, we compared the results of two prominent tools for measuring muscle architecture from contrast data, Xfiber and Goodfibes, with some recommendations for each. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please join us tomorrow morning at 10 AM eastern for @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social's dissertation defense seminar "Teleost fish evolution in the Cenozoic: New insights from Paleogene ichthyofaunas from the Eastern Desert of Egypt." Message or email me for Zoom passcode: umich.zoom.us/j/98521134857

For #MolluscMonday, a grim one. The new IUCN Red List assessed every mollusc known to live only at hydrothermal vents. Of 201 species, 125 are now threatened with extinction, and the driver is deep-sea mining that has not meaningfully started yet. #marinelife iucn.org/press-releas...

This spring, another of Lindsey's chapters earned the E. C. Case Award for best student paper in paleontology at U-M. Lindsey is wrapping up her PhD this year. She's got exciting ideas and an extensive skill set, and is on the lookout for postdocs.

NAPC 2028 website is now live! napc2028.sites.utk.edu

All my homies hate argentina

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

Very well-timed publication of my most recent work at @royalsociety.org Proc B showcasing the backbone of my future research at @stonybrooku.bsky.social! There is still much to learn about ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution and the diversity of ways brain and endocasts interact in this lineage!

Ray-finned fishes are famously diverse, but we know little about their brains or cranial endocasts. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social opens this black box with a dice-CT survey of 86 species across the actinopt tree of life. #OA in @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐟🧠 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!! My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species. DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!

I guess close access too… 😅

In a world shaped by climate change and the biodiversity crisis, you're far more likely to actually purchase ocean front property in Arizona from George Strait than resurrect the dodo from extinction

Osteichthyans--the bony fishes--are by far the most diverse group of living jawed vertebrates. Two papers out today in @nature.com feature remarkable new Chinese fossils that paint a picture of substantial morphological diversity among stem osteichthyans.

New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

When I finish a museum collection visit:

The oldest acanthomorph fossil from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (Morro do Chaves Formation, Sergipe–Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Einstein would have developed the theory of relativity much faster if he had to count on the schedule timing of the Boston MBTA

Jules knew what it is all about

I’m delighted to share my first ever book chapter is out now! I goal with this piece is to provide a detailed but approachable review of ray-finned fish brain anatomy, anatomical diversity and evolutionary patterns. www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/chap...

It’s so much fun spending more than a decade working on my career, making sacrifices, achieving important milestones and contributing to science and society to then receive job rejections like this:

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

where there’s a will there’s a government trying to destroy the way

Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

1yo - my mom chose plastic fossil fish to decorate my first birthday party; 4yo - hitting a quartzite wall with a hammer it falls over me (but I love it); 5yo - I watch Jurassic Park; 6yo - I find my first fossils; (continued)

BOLSONARO PRESO

The interplay of different structures of the vertebrate head is such a fascinating topic that I want to make my whole career be about it

I’m happy that sponges are back to their sacred place

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time. ~ #itswhatwedo

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

Hoje é um dia histórico. Demos um passo decisivo para um país mais justo, com um sistema tributário que torna a contribuição mais equilibrada e reconhece o esforço de todos que ajudam a construir o Brasil. (+)

@friedmanlab.bsky.social @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social @fishfetisher.bsky.social I’m finding your GARS at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History! Hope you’ll share some for #GarWeek next week!

I'm telling my student the horrors of Brazilian academic job searches on Halloween and that seam fitting

Nanotyrannichthys is my suggestion if anyone is describing a small lizard fish (fossil or extant)

anaJEANSis x cladoJEANSis

My first book chapter should be out soon and I’m really looking forward to sharing it with everyone!

New preprint led by the brilliant @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on cichlid brain diversification, fgf8a signalling and regulatory divergence with TEs on the mix! All part of a wonderful collaboration with @ebablab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @camzoology.bsky.social

Today I wrapped a fish in a cut piece of a pool noodle and two bottle caps to then blast it with Xrays and get a model of its brain. Doing science is the best!

With Halloween fast approaching, I'm reminded of a time a few years ago the lab surprised me with costumes based on my past profile pics. Complete with actual elements of my wardrobe, supplied by my partner who was in on the act. (I'd spent the past week wondering where my clothes went.)

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Great spotlight on our recent @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01167-4

My unsolicited #eel fact for today is that there are ten species of Gulper Eels (Saccopharynx) while there is only a single species of Pelican Eel (Eurypharynx ).🐟 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwD...

"...although analyses of extant phylogenies can estimate extinction rates and even suggest mass extinctions, they cannot imply trilobites ever existed or that sphenodonts (now represented only by the tuatara) were once as diverse as lepidosaurs (lizards and snakes)." #FossilFriday 🧪

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.

OK, head above water briefly and can say a few things about a paper that came out a few weeks ago in @royalsocietypublishing.org on Platysomus and kin.

A blood vessel in the brain for #FluorescenceFriday! Why am I looking at these in the microscope? (1/3)

Please help me get a job in a different country