Environmental activism! Throw rocks at endangered monk seals, get whooped.

🌊 Four new species of the flabby whalefish genus Gyrinomimus were identified across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans based on physical features such as gill filament length and fin ray counts. 🐟 Read more: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.171946

🪶 #DidYouKnow: Due to their delicate nature, bird bones rarely fossilize, making their discovery at Rancho La Brea extraordinary. More than 140 species have been uncovered from the Ice Age tar seeps, 23 of which have gone extinct. Discover more and see the full list: go.nhm.org/tar-pits-birds

Ohhh, those are nice!

If you are interested in working with me on a PhD on the effects of killer whale fear on baleen whale ecology, behavior, and evolution... and you would be eligible for the fellowship below... contact me! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining. Our review paper looking at the last 50 years of research on the subject out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

#Florida #USF #St.Petersburg The guardian is reporting that the fire which destroyed USF's Marine Science Laboratory over the weekend may have been started by a lightning strike www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Major fire guts #Florida marine science lab, building likely a total loss. www.tampabay.com/news/educati... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

There are more individuals of the deep-sea fish Cyclothone than any other vertebrate genus, maybe as many as one million billion. Distinctively ornamented ichthyoliths place the origin of Cyclothone in the greenhouse world of the early Eocene, ~55.6 Ma. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

But more seriously, PIs, what will you do when years your research data are wiped clean because you tolerate or encourage vibe science in your research group?

📣The Community Science team at @nhm.org is #hiring a Project Data Scientist to work w/us on our projects related human-wildlife interactions, environmental justice, biodiversity, & more! We also want this person to have experience working with communities. 🌱🐾👣Join us! 🧪🌎 tinyurl.com/CSProjectDat...

Happy City Nature Challenge weekend!! Join us in submitting your biodiversity observations on @inaturalist.bsky.social starting today!! 🎉🌿🐜🦝 🧪🌎 www.citynaturechallenge.org

I dunno man, a 62-foot-long octopus seems hard to imagine. Curious to see what the discourse around this one will be.

Applications for the ASIH Raney Fund are due in 10 days! Please spread the word if you know a student that could use funding for fishy research. I'm chairing the committee for the awards this year and am happy to answer any questions about it

La Brea Tar Pits to close on July 6 for renovation https://la.urbanize.city/post/la-brea-tar-pits-close-july-6-renovation

Pulled a real star of the @nhm.org fish collection out of his tank today.

The United States National Herbarium is seeking a Lead Collections Manager! For complete requirements and application procedures, please visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications and all supporting documentation must be received online by 1 May 2026.

‼️NEW ANGLERFISH PAPER! 🐟🎣 So excited to share the final part of my Master’s research! We explore the bizarre tacklebox of anglerfish lures and show how these fishes evolved different ways to attract prey and maybe even mates in the deep sea. 🧪🦑🌊🦇🦀 Open access paper link: doi.org/10.1643/i202...

We are continuing our WWF stream series! We are fundraising with @wwf-streamers.bsky.social to conserve species of the planet, while chatting with the scientific experts! Today, black footed ferret conservation! 2pm EDT #science #twitch #stem #sciants #scicomm twitch.tv/sciants_Stre...

Pleased to share a new phylogeny for the airbreathing or walking catfishes from the family Clariidae - part of my postdoctoral work at the AMNH in collaboration with Tobit Liyandja and Melanie Stiassny: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The third slide of this extremely professional science presentation I’m putting together is just cool wallpaper of StarCraft II.

A gentle reminder that there is less than a month to get in ASIH Raney Fund applications. Get up to $1,000 for your fishy research!

I am thrilled to share that I have accepted an offer for Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Sam Noble Museum/Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma! I will be starting this August and looking forward to more fishy research. 🐟🐠🐡 Thanks to all who've helped me get this far!

🦈🐟🎣SAVE THE DATE 🐡 🐠🚢 ⁉️ The Australian Society for Fish Biology and Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2026 (#ASFB2026 & #AFSS2026) 📍 Hobart, Tasmania 📆 29 November - 3 December 👀 Registration and abstract submission open soon. Follow our social media for updates.

🕕 Time flies when you’re having fun. We’re halfway through our #FirstFridays 20th Anniversary season—will 𝙮𝙤𝙪 be joining us on April 3?  Enjoy #NHMLA after hours with live music, DJ sets, Curiosity Crawl, Pop-Up Experiences, Local Artists, Community Partners, and more: go.nhm.org/first-friday...

IOB "During swimming, #myliobatids often exhibit gliding behavior, a passive locomotion mode when active flapping ceases and the pectoral fins are maintained in a static position..." doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Cooper et al #biomechanics #biology #science

🔬 Final weeks! Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in studying the #NHMLAC Collections? If you’re currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting program, apply for our Student Collections Study Awards now through April 1—details: go.nhm.org/study-award

Are you a graduate student who is a member of ASIH and studying fishy things? Looking for research funds? Consider applying to the Raney Fund, which awards up to $1,000 for research, field or travel purposes. The deadline to apply is April 30th! More info here: www.asih.org/awards/raney...

Proposals are due May 18 for this year’s Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and up to $3500 for 3rd years and above. Learn more and apply now! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Aquarium of the Pacific News: Aquarium awards $150,000 to Southern California students to support their persistence in marine science-related fields https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/news/story/aquarium_of_the_pacific_announces_recipients_of_its_2026_celp_scholar_program/archive

Interested in joining my lab and the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute? Guillaume Rieucau (LUMCON) and I have incoming funding to support a masters student who will use imaging sonar and traditional sampling to study how fishes utilize artificial reefs in Lake Pontchartrain.

Was reading a paper this morning where, in the Declarations, the authors say that AI was used to write portions of the text and that they went through to clean it up afterwards. I know most of the authors and know that English is a 2nd or 3rd language for them. Don’t quite know how I feel.

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

10 days remaining to submit your Mini-ARTS award! These awards are for revisionary taxonomy and systematics. Up to $4,000 is available per award. For guidelines and to submit your application, see our website www.systbio.org/mini-arts-aw...

Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!

A larval Macrourid sighting at 917 m! ROV pilots filmed future-fish during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition, supported @schmidtsciences.bsky.social.#OBVI#LivingBioreactorscientists are studying midwater organisms and how they sequester carbon.

Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Oh my! What big eyes you have! Juvenile bluefin driftfish can be found near the surface, where large eyes help them navigate and spot small prey. As adults, bluefin driftfish venture to deeper waters to find food and avoid predation, where their large eyes improve their ability to detect prey.

April 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org Open to: - current undergraduate and grad students - *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome) More: nhm.org/student-coll...

The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Science meeting at Chapman University on April 18 has been EXTENDED! You now have until March 7 to submit an abstract.

🐴 Although formal #LunarNewYear festivities have come to an end, the Year of the Horse has just begun! We invite you to gallop into a horse-inspired virtual tour through nature and from our Collections, including specimens, ranching tools, and even the Horse Conch: go.nhm.org/lunar-new-ye...

The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Science meeting at Chapman University on April 18 has been EXTENDED! You now have until March 7 to submit an abstract.

Best news today! BHL is an incredible free open treasure trove of nature papers and books from the 1500s to 1900s, and completely invaluable to my research.

Sunday, March 22, our seasonal #ButterflyPavilion officially takes flight! Featuring nearly 30 species, walk among hundreds of beautiful butterflies and colorful native plants flourishing in natural light: nhm.org/butterflies 🦋 Members, enjoy special preview days on March 20 and 21!

The 2026 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists #JMIH26 website and abstract submission is online! This year it will be in New Orleans! Join us July 8-12! jmih.net

#JMIH26 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2026 Annual meeting of: Amer. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 🐟, Amer. Elasmobranch Soc. 🦈, Herpetologists' League 🐍 & Soc. for Study of Amphibians & Reptiles 🐸 The abstract submission and meeting website is now open jmih.net

Attn: Southern California Scientists! The deadline for abstract submission for the Southern California Academy of Sciences annual meeting is this Saturday, February 28! The meeting will be at Chapman University on April 18. Get those abstracts in now and lock in early bird registration pricing!

Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes #ichthyology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Whenever people tell me that identifying larval fishes is hard, I think about the folks who are experts in copepod taxonomy. I'm glad I had some good copepod taxonomists working with me back when I ran a zooplankton ecology lab.

A juvenile Mola mola could also serve as a hockey puck.