I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026. Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes? Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research. #hybridization #minnows #mudskippers

New from #NearLab The role of ecology in allopatric speciation of darters in the Central Highlands, USA shorturl.at/YEmxH

NEWS from Ohio State Fish Division: You can now search our 6,000-tissue collection on our website! 🐟 mbd.osu.edu/collections/...

NEW METHODS ARTICLE: Phylogenetic GLMMs open doors to study evolution of discrete traits. We show how binary models extend to ordinal & nominal traits, using bird data, and provide tutorials to make these methods accessible to evolutionary biologists: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Mizuno et al.

@jcorush.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student

I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026. Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes? Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research. #hybridization #minnows #mudskippers

The Klamath River is flowing free again. RES and local Indian Tribes are restoring habitat, renewing cultural ties, and leading the largest dam removal in history. 🎥 Watch the film + explore the series: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow...

Roussel, Suh, @fjruizruano.bsky.social & @amdioncote.bsky.social characterized TE content in naturally occurring killifish hybrids, finding higher TE load and accumulation of Neptune subfamilies in hybrids. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf266 #evobio #molbio #TEsky

A new report reveals that fish and wildlife conservation generates substantial economic benefits. Federal, state, local, and nonprofit contributions combined contributed $115.8 billion in total economic activity and supported over 575,000 jobs nationwide. Read more: fisheries.org/2025/11/new-...

@snbogan.bsky.social @notothentoma.bsky.social @scotthotaling.bsky.social @paulbfrandsen.bsky.social et al. explore the evolution of type III antifreeze proteins in deep sea zoarcoid fishes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf219 #evobio #molbio

New paper on deep-sea fish diversity out now in @sse-evolution.bsky.social, with @cmartinez.bsky.social and @sarahtfried.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

There's more to fish than the fillet, and we need your ideas on how to use it! Submit your suggestions on how to use the whole fish to the 100% Wisconsin Fish contest for a chance to win a #GreatLakes prize pack. www.seagrant.wisc.edu/news/submit-...

Non-anthropogenic cosmopolitan species ranges are scarce Mugil cephalus, traditionally considered a (quasi)cosmopolitan diadromous fish species, is now shown to comprise some 15 different lineages deserving formal species description www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to @fishsciencedude.bsky.social and fellow co-authors for an important new article on advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility in aquatic sciences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @iaglr.bsky.social @waynestateresearch.bsky.social

Xing et al. study sex chromosome evolution in two species of halfbeak fish, identifying a large sex-linked ZW region in Hyporhamphus sajori and a small sex-linked region on a different chromosome, with male heterogamety, in H. intermedius. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf151 #evobio #molbio

Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Some of you may be interested in this: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

Pleased to see this publication led by @jcorush.bsky.social that I helped out with on the role of factors driving genetic structure of mottled sculpin in Illinois, where it is a state-threatened fish species. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New fish book alert! On this #FishFriday, "Fishes of the Chicago Region" was just released. Detailed info on species distributions & natural history observations for >150 species in SE Wisconsin, NE Illinois, northern Indiana, and SW Michigan. Check it out... www.amazon.com/Fishes-Chica...

Some microphagous fishes have a unique pocket-like throat structure, epibranchial organ (EBO), that helps gather tiny food particles. New study of 13 species reveals diverse EBO anatomy, weak phylogenetic ties & possible link to diet Evans et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Polar bears and their lower-latitude cousins—brown bears—have a complicated past! Genomes from a >115,000 year old polar bear and 65 modern bears reveal that although polar bears and brown bears began diverging >1 mya, they hybridized up until ~200 kya. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200016119

New study by @tribblelab.bsky.social @jimarcor.bsky.social @marcialescudero.bsky.social Michael May, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and myself just out: Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi

For scientists interested in large lakes of the world. Contact us if you'd like to be added. Space still available.

Genomics, Evolution, and More by @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...

Pleased to share our new paper studying the adaptive diversification of body shape in catfishes of the superfamily Doradoidea and exploration of the evolution of modularity and integration. DOI: doi.org/10.1643/i202... 50-day free access link: www.ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbd/bxi20...

Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans. 🐟🧪🦑🌎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🧪🐟 Pleased to share a new study led by my grad student Roberto Cucalón on resolving the distributions of Forbesichthys cavefishes using genomics. Big team of collaborators to thank including @jcorush.bsky.social @markdavis79.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...