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Our podcast, Aquarium of the Podcific, is back! Catch up on all things conservation with Johanna Hultberg, Conservation Manager of Fish & Invertebrates. 🎧 Visit pacific.to/podcific or find Aquarium of the Podcific anywhere you listen to podcasts!

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...

Undergraduate and graduate students can get $1500 ($2000 for international students) to visit and study in our museum collections. Contact a curator to discuss plans first to make sure we have what you need (that would be @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social for the Ichthyology Department). Come to LA!

𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. Kick off the Halloween season at our Member-exclusive Haunted Museum event at #NHMLA! Join us after-hours as the Museum transforms into a world of spine-tingling and thrilling experiences on Saturday, October 4: go.nhm.org/hauntedmuseu... 👻 Thanks to our event sponsor Zolli Candy!

Attention students: the deadline for our fall collections study award coming up soon! Use the funds to come out and use our LACM specimens for your research.

#JFB: Movements, growth rates and strong sexual segregation in critically endangered tope sharks 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘴 in the Northeast Atlantic doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70075#JFB#FishSci

Check our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social about the unique sex determination system in Nautilus ➡️ XX/XY chromosomes unlike other cephalopods (ZZ/Z0). with @reef-combo.bsky.social and @anariesgo.bsky.social et al., and led by Hector Torrado. Get it: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbs~_LsQS...

A deep-sea hydrothermal vent worm detoxifies arsenic and sulfur by intracellular biomineralization of orpiment (As2S3) #microbiology #DeepSea @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

🦇 Outlined in a new paper published online in the Journal of Mammalogy, our Ranges Digitization Network will bring even more detail to digitized mammal collections in western North America, including biodiversity hot spots like L.A.: go.nhm.org/digitized-ma...

The reason I am out of the office this week. 97 years of love and support for her family and friends from this one.

Ohio State is searching for an entomologist at the Associate/Full level! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

OSU insect systematics chair!! This sounds like a DEEPLY cool job with a fantastic collection attached: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

UC Berkeley's Martin Fish Speciation Lab seeks a part-time lab manager for pupfish research. Requires a biology degree and some lab experience. Flexible hours, multi-year position. Apply: [email protected]. More info at https://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/martin/ #job

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

October 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get some $$ 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... 🧪

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

I had an invertebrate zoology professor in undergrad who called chaetognaths “the great white shark of the plankton.”

Fish deformities are commonly observed in farmed or non-native species. Here, we report for the first time a pughead deformity in a wild specimen of Satanoperca jurupari from the Tocantins River, within the Amazon basin. 👉 www.alb.periodikos.com.br/article/doi/...

I watched Superman (2025) earlier today, and I’ve already forgotten what happened in Superman (2025). A movie where stuff happens on a screen, but none of it sticks in the brain.

I recently got a new camera for the microscope! Hopefully I will have it fully set up this week and can get back to streaming zooplankton sorting next weekend. Here's the unboxing/setup video for the new camera! youtu.be/WdGvWPpxgIg?...

Link to article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1liBj3QW8S... (will only work for the first 50 days, after that message me)

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15 www.cell.com/current-biol...

It's open access too in the California Fish and Wildlife Scientific Journal, so you can just... read it!

Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

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! 🐟🧪🦑

Acanthuriform fishes! Research goals on Moorea are focused on morphology and evolution of defensive spines and backbones of surgeonfishes, angelfishes, and butterflyfishes. We have a scientific permit to collect specimens, and here are 2 beauties, Acanthurus lineatus and Pygoplites diacanthus. 🐟🦑🧪

A great opportunity if you’re interested in fish macroevolution!

Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026. ssb2026.github.io

Nah. Give me this little guy, you keep the adult.

Has vertnet.org gone down for everyone? Their search function has been offline for a while. It could be our network at work, but VertNet is NSF funded, so...

Great opportunity to work with a fantastic community of museum evolutionary biologists at the LSUMNS!

Job Alert‼️ Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums: careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b... Aim: assess biotic interactions using mollusks from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely! @paleosoc.bsky.social @almnh.bsky.social

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Specific locally, general globally: a synthesis on the isotopic niche in hammerhead sharks 🦑🧪🐟🦈 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Manuscript accepted! Good way to start the week. Can’t wait to share the paper led by @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social with @frable.bsky.social, me, and Michelle Horeczko when it comes out.

A cheeky little marine Harpacticoida copepod. 🦑 #plankton

In order, we have: 1) #Louvar 2) #swordfish 3) #flyingfish 4) #cuskeel 5) #ipnops 6) #siphonophore (don’t lick 👅) 7) #polychaete worm 8) sargassum #filefish #deepseafish #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #scubadiving #ocean #gugunderwater #gug

@FMNH is hiring a new curator of Invertebrate Zoology!

Having seen this scan in the lab yesterday, I can say that this is incredible. I didn't know Leuciscidae could look this cool.

While scanning some fishes yesterday I came across this Bonytail Chub collected near Blythe, CA in 1933. You can't find this species in Blythe anymore, nor in the rest of California as it is critically endangered. Museum collections like @nhm.org showcasing yet again our changing planet 🐟🐠

2 weeks ago, I made the collage in photoshop of still photos that didn’t make the cut for actual use or posts, from my March 6, 2024 Aliens dive folder. Had a spare few minutes last night to finally get to the video clips shot from that same dive. There’s a few hundred folders still to go🤣

Check out our new paper! We find cavefish colonized caves 3x and global cooling events may have influenced these events. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A nice writeup by @caseagrant.bsky.social on the historical microplastic work we're doing @nhm.org along with @nhmlagems.bsky.social, @jessdflores.bsky.social and @jazminenoamie.bsky.social. Take a look if you're interested in what we've found so far! 🐟🧪 caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/fish-ti...

New paper out in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org‬ by our team and Brazilian collaborators! Mid-Atlantic islands act as natural evolutionary incubators and highlight how rare dispersal across soft barriers can spark speciation. DM me if you want the PDF! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Exciting news from NSF today! Our proposal to host an EPSCoR Graduate Training Program at ISU in the biological sciences has been funded. Students receiving an honorable mention in the GRFP competition are eligible. We have a diverse set of faculty participating across the breadth of biology.

#JFB: Mass stranding of common (weedy) seadragons (𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘵𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴) in Sydney: impacts and implications doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70019#JFB#FishSci

Of the several different species of larval-stage #dragonfish that I occasionally encounter on my Aliens Collection dives, this is my fav. More distinct finnage, and super cool color dots. #larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gugunderwater #chrisgug #gug