Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Two new 🐟 preprints! First with @cmartinez.bsky.social on diversification in a wonderfully wacky group of deep-sea fishes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper out of my lab by PhD candidate, Emily Poulin! We looked at performance implications of stingray spine diversity. @tidepoulin.bsky.social

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last mo.

Stingray spine diversity reflects performance trade-offs linked to puncture and breakability: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ProcB #biomechanics

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...

Postdoctoral Researcher

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I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...

Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological interactions and genomic innovation fueled the evolution of ray-finned fish endothermy

Cetacean interactions, body size, and genomic innovations shaped endothermy evolution in ray-finned fishes in the Eocene-Miocene.

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I am pleased to announce The Macroevolution Lab at Ohio State opens this August! We will be housed in the Museum of Biological Diversity 🐟🐠🐡

1/10 *** New paper out *** (on behalf of Nick Peoples who is not on Bluesky). I am beyond excited to present our new paper out now in @Nature! Here, we show that rapid gain and loss of tooth complexity accelerates diversification in fishes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolutionary lability of a key innovation spurs rapid diversification - Nature

A study shows that the rapid diversification of cichlids in African lakes is driven by their ability to evolve between having simple or complex teeth.

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Just your odd mix of Indian and Malagasy cichlids. Reminds me of the line in Pirates of the Caribbean “the world is still the same, there is just less in it” tilapia have nearly replaced all Malagasy cichlids in it’s native home

What is the function of the elongate tail in elasmobranch #rays? A 🧵 and a new hypothesis. A paper with @juliachaumel.bsky.social in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B (shorturl.at/PmfYD) shows that the tail of cownose rays (and a few other species studied so far) has an elaborate lateral line.

I just need to share these photos of our four-eyed fish #Anableps anableps I took yesterday in our fish room. 15/10 one of the best fishes 😍 🧪🐟 #MarineLife We are studying vision in these fish as a component of my Ichthyology undergraduate research ( #CURE ) course IB177LF.

Came across this glorious Pac-Man impersonator, Bathophilus brevis, while measuring fishes at the Scripps collection with @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social. It just decided that all it needed in life was a huge mouth and a tail 😂

This time with tags! #fish #teamfish #phd #ecology

Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Funded PhD opportunity based at the University of Southampton and Natural History Museum studying cryptobenthic fishes. International applicants must contact me before applying! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...

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Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

🚨Postdoc openings in the Martin Fish Speciation Lab 🚨@MVZ @UCBerkeley ! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/… Genomics or EvoDevo or Genetics🔀Phenotype🔀Performance🔀Fitness. Lots of possibilities ranging from CRISPR-Cas9 to scale-biting performance! NIH and NSF-funded. Please email me if interested! 🐟🐶

I'm a new Asst. Prof & Curator of Herpetology at San Diego State www.kinseybrock.com I'm recruiting 2 PhD students & 1 MS student to study effects of urbanization on genetic & phenotypic variation in herps. Study systems in the Greek islands, Italy, and southern CA. Great weather, great herps! ☀️🦎🌴

Auburn University is #hiring a #physiologist! The position is to conduct basic research and teach physiology related classes (1 class per semester) Applications from folks working on aquatic organisms are welcome. www.auemployment.com/postings/40833

My department (Kalamazoo College in MI) is looking for tenure-track invertebrate biologist! What you'll find here: a close-knit, supportive group of colleagues, dedicated and passionate students, research support, and more* 📣 Please spread the word 📣 biology.kzoo.edu/tenure-track...

Some late night bioluminescence at Huntington Beach

Phylogenetics faculty job! Colorado State 👍. Love to see it specified, bc resolving the tree of life is a scientific grand challenge for humanity. 🧪 #AcademicSky #SciJobs jobs.colostate.edu/postings/131...

Assistant Professor in Phylogenetics

The successful candidate will develop a research program, specifically developing a research program in the area of phylogenetics, that interfaces with an integrative and collaborative department of e...

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Our recent study of anglerfish jaw and tooth morphologies made the cover of Biology Letters. Read more here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution @jmhuie.bsky.social @chrisgoatley.bsky.social

Submitted my SICB abstract. See you all in Seattle this January!