New blog post! 🚨 Read about the new fish ‘lolly’ that provides a window to study predation underwater 🍭 🐟️ @gobyone.bsky.social @chemingson.bsky.social

Goby gummies: the fish ‘lolly’ that provides a window to study predation underwater

Post provided by Christopher Hemingson Close your eyes and picture a predation event. Personally, I default to the Planet Earth series’ “Mountains” episode, in which a snow leopard acrobatically ch…

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Just a reminder that I'm recruiting PhD students to my new lab! Come find me at #Evol2026 to chat! #TeamFish

Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Noam Ross@noamross.net · 2mo ago

NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪

🎉 New paper out! ⬇ We trained an neural network to obsess over tiny fish freckles the way we do. Turns out the stupid robot was pretty good at it. Luckily, AI can't do fieldwork (yet), so employment remains provisionally secure 😎 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

CryptoVision "Integrating deep learning, biological hierarchies, and high-resolution imagery to create a new identification tool for cryptic coral reef fishes" Reginato & Brandl 2026 @plos.org #ichthyology #OA journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Integrating deep learning, biological hierarchies, and high-resolution imagery to create a new identification tool for cryptic coral reef fishes

Life on Earth has evolved into a staggering diversity of species, most of which still remain undiscovered, unrecognized, or unmonitored. As our ocean’s richest biodiversity hotspot, coral reefs harbor...

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Goby gummies? Yes, goby gummies. New lab paper out by @chemingson.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power?? Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it? Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera Aragorn: Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean

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Janet Hill@saskajanet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I feel judged #birds

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𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬: Our Special Issue "New deep-sea Amphipoda from the Clarion Clipperton Zone" is out! 🌊 As we race to document life in the abyss, this collection debuts new species found in the central Pacific. See all the publications here: zookeys.pensoft.net/issue/4856/ @noc.ac.uk

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A new UMass study in @natecoevo.nature.com has found how many purple martins died in The Great Texas Freeze of 2021—and how long recovery may take. https://bit.ly/40JO1eK

1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds. rdcu.be/e7aUy

Meet a new species of dinosaur - Spinosaurus mirabilis! Its fossils have been found in the Sahara Desert, including a striking crest on its head that was probably used to show off to mates and scare off rivals. Find out more about this dinosaur 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

New sabre-crested Spinosaurus species named from desert dinosaur fossils | Natural History Museum

‘Astonishing’ fossils from Niger have been named as Spinosaurus mirabilis.

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Weak trophic position–body mass relationships undermine simple size-spectrum models for coral reefs 🦑🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

The sheer number of ecologists who had their LOI rejected this week is comical. I'm honored to be part of the club 😂

No no, you should keep it forever, as is traditional!

Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions at 30 yrs old, 1943: woodyguthrie.org/newyearsruli...

🚨 Research Highlight | New tools—Surprising findings: A new study shows human impacts cause relatively little changes in energy flow on coral reefs 📖 Read the research highlight ➡️ buff.ly/J52H2WN 📖 Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/W98t51d

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Community structure and microhabitat associations of cryptobenthic fishes in Veracruz, Mexico First PhD-paper by @r-higueras.bsky.social, exploring the tiny fish communities on reefs off the coast of her hometown 🥹 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Did someone say resting fish face? The #LonghornCowfish is easy to spot with its bright yellow color and the signature horns jutting from its head. But those horns aren’t just for style — scientists think they evolved to make this little cowfish a mouthful most predators can’t swallow.

It's that time again :>

New study from @wcs.org and partners document 85% decline in abundance of Nassau grouper at their spawning site at Glover's Reef over 20 years, moving the population to local extirpation. Read more from Coral Reefs: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Photo (c) Connor Holland/Ocean Image Bank

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

New manta ray new manta ray NEW MANTA RAY!

John P. Friel, Ph.D.@friel.bsky.social · last yr.

𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎, a new cryptic species of Manta Ray, is described from the Western Atlantic Ocean. The existence of an undescribed manta ray species has been suggested for over 15 years and is now formally described. 🐟🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Phenomenal first PhD paper by the marvelous @lljeannot.bsky.social – check it out folks, it has birds, coral reefs, and tiny fish!

Laura-Li Jeannot@lljeannot.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out in Proceedings B! 🔊 Seabirds' impacts on reefs extends even to some of its tiniest inhabitants - cryptobenthic reef fishes 🐠 Near colonies, these fishes assimilate seabird nutrients (💩), grow larger 📈 & more at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @royalsocietypublishing.org

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

New research challenges the long-held belief that coral reefs are “oases” in marine deserts. While among the world’s most productive ecosystems, their existence in nutrient-deprived oceans is the exception rather than the rule. @gobyone.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

Idea of Coral Reefs as Oases in Marine Deserts May Be Mistaken

New research from Simon Brandl at The University of Texas at Austin challenges a long-held belief about coral reefs.

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Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social. Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social @oclaripv.bsky.social and Vale Parravicini! Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...

Simon J. Brandl@gobyone.bsky.social · last yr.

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️