Εξοδος from USA to Ελλάδα. Wandering the Plaka and slope of Acropolis, Athens, Greece waiting for check in time at the hotel.

A giant & inspiration. Met when I was a grad student and as a post doc we were in a NCEAS working group. I told him I was interviewing for a faculty position at Yale. After getting the job, dept. chair said I had an unsolicited recommendation. I suspect he was the culprit. Thank you, Bob!

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 2w ago

Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba

Packing up for a trip to Greece. Excited to exercise my humanities muscles!

Oops, I hadn’t even shared a link to our latest paper…. “Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in #Devonian #placoderms” from @theskullywaglab.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41... published in Scientific Reports 🐟 🦷 🩻 #FEA

Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Hard-object feeding adaptations infer relative predator-prey size relationships in Devonian placoderms

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Woot Woot! Prof. Coughlan crushing it! #YaleEEB!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Jenn Coughlan (Yale University), recipient of the 2026 BSA Emerging Leader Award! We're honored to recognize them as a rising star in our community. 👏 Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Leslie (Stanford University), the first-ever recipient of the BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award! His work spans paleobotany, phylogenetics, & structural botany. Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

I heard you like clingfishes! Check out our new preprint on the evolution and ecomorphology of their adhesive discs and skull! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to see these results mirroring my thoughts on the subject. 🐟🧪 cichlidae.com/article.php?...

Biogeography, evolution, and ecology of the ancestral cichlids

This article examines the early evolution and biogeography of cichlids, discussing fossil evidence and the hypotheses regarding their origins. It reviews the debate between Gondwanan vicariance and ma...

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Tom Near@tjnear.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/3 New preprint from #NearLab led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Here we show species-rich freshwater fish adaptive radiations (notably cichlids, but also killifishes, pupfishes, and livebearers) were enabled by a shared mechanism: retained saltwater (marine salinity) tolerance

1/3 New preprint from #NearLab led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Here we show species-rich freshwater fish adaptive radiations (notably cichlids, but also killifishes, pupfishes, and livebearers) were enabled by a shared mechanism: retained saltwater (marine salinity) tolerance

SO PROUD! @brynnjohnson13.bsky.social’s paper on temp dependent competition in secondary contact zones in darters is ofFISHally out in @journal-evo.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... As an extra hurrah related to this work, I had the opportunity to paint a corresponding journal cover!

IOB "While freshwater #sculpins (Cottidae, Perciformes) are usually #benthic, two genera in Lake Baikal, Comephorus and Cottocomephorus, have independently evolved into mid-water niches." from B A Gutierrez et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #pelagic #adaptations

Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A great story. Congratulations, Prof. Lundelius www.youtube.com/watch?v=93T7...

Ernie's Last Paper

YouTube video by The University of Texas at Austin

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Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is running for governor of Alaska. He was not a biology major, but he took my ichthyology course about 15 years ago. He was a standout student and an outstanding person. He has my endorsement! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...

One Democrat to Face Three Republicans for Alaska Governor (Gift Article)

The second-place finisher in a primary where the top four advance to the November ballot said he would drop out of the race so voters could coalesce behind a single Democratic candidate.

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Plant biologists take note!

Andrew Hipp@andrewlhipp.bsky.social · last mo.

new position at @morrisarboretum.bsky.social, endowed Molecular Ecologist. check it out: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵

1/7 🐟🧬 New preprint! "The largest radiations of freshwater fishes initiated at the K-Pg boundary" Phylogeny of Otocephala: Clupeiformes, Alepeocephaliformes, & Ostariophysi 144 species, UCEs + whole genomes, Bayesian dating. 11,700+ species covered. Here is what we found 🧵👇

Science is under direct political attack. But we cannot defend it with a naive fantasy of the science that we've inherited. In @bostonreview.bsky.social's “How to Save Science” forum, I argue that “trust us, we’re scientists” is not a proper social contract. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-to...

“Trust Us, We’re Scientists” and Other Clichés

C. Brandon Ogbunu responds to Zeynep Pamuk in our forum, “How to Save Science.”

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Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · last mo.

Our forum “How to Save Science” is now online. Led by Zeynep Pamuk, with responses from @alondra.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @madeleineebaker.bsky.social @jamesowenweatherall.com @cbo.bsky.social @nataliebaviles.bsky.social @heatherdouglas.bsky.social + more

New #lungfish just dropped! Welcome to the world, Jumisodus latus, a #Devonian lungfish from the Famennian of #Latvia! Named for the Latvian figure 'Jumis', god of fertility and harvest, whose symbol represents the tooth plate outline in this new taxon... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of Latvia

Dipnoans (lungfishes) reached their peak of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity during the Devonian Period, followed by a pronounced decline in both thereafter. The Late Devonian (Famen...

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My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

This is a posting by my academic department a few months ago. Just seeing it now...because I was getting ready to move into our new house. Pictured alongside my great colleague and dear friend. eeb.yale.edu/news/profess...

1/8: 🚨New Paper🚨 "Structural causal influence captures the forces of social inequality in models of infectious disease." Published in 'Biology Letters' (@royalsocietypublishing.org) Coverage here: www.santafe.edu/news-center/... Paper link here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

New paper on saber-toothed blennies! Wherever we went we got bit by these feisty little #fishes so we started wondering what their whole deal was. We have 2 endemic Hawaiian species and we wanted to know where they came from. Many years and many more bites we finally have a bit of an answer. 🐟️ 🦑 🧪

Origins and relationships of endemic Hawaiian sabre‐toothed blennies in the genus <fi>Plagiotremus</fi> (Blennioidei: Blenniidae)

A deep dive into several species of Indo-Pacific fangblenny

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Surgeonfishes are cool! Our Evolution paper now out in final form, the amazing patterns of change in fish shape and covariance (new method!) elegantly revealed by @linnealungstrom.bsky.social 🐟🐠🦑🌿 academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Phylogenetics, trait covariance analysis, and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes

Abstract. Insights into ecomorphology are enriched when investigating evolutionary correlations between ecologically and functionally important traits. How

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Wake up babe! A new online resource for fish nerds just dropped. 🐟🧪 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...

Fish Families of the World Gallery

This searchable gallery includes entries for fish families of the world, which may include photographs of preserved specimens, reconstructed CT and photogrammetry 3D models, xrays, characteristics for...

floridamuseum.ufl.edu

Now this...this is awesome

Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍@devoevomed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Like I’ve been saying 💯

#AOS26 Friday Plenary | Patty Rodriguez Brennan, PhD will deliver a plenary talk, "Science Lessons from the Sex Life of Birds" at 8:30am in the Campus Center Auditorium. https://meeting.americanornithology.org/program/plenary-speakers/ 14h

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.