Meet the Sea Muppets! Don't let the common name fool you. These are, in fact, a new genus of syngnathid fish that have independently evolved morphology strikingly similar to that of their famous Seahorse cousins.🐟🧪 journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

Australyichthys gen. nov. (Teleostei, Syngnathidae), a lost mesophotic lineage from southern Australia, with description of A. aegis sp. nov. and reclassification of Hippocampus minotaur and H. parado...

Australyichthys gen. nov. is described as a new genus of Syngnathidae (seahorses, pipefishes, seadragons, pipehorses and pygmy pipehorses) endemic to temperate mesophotic habitats of southern Australi...

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Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

I’d really love to connect with any Cleveland-region folks! I confess that I’ve only driven through Ohio before 😅 Finally, I’ll still be looking for postdoc positions for the ‘27-‘28 academic year. Job application cycles in our field are brutal.

Since I never got around to writing a thread when my first paper came out (I was in the field in Madagascar at the time…) I’ll take this opportunity to share it. Vangas are exceptionally weird and wonderful birds and I think we did some pretty cool work here. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Tempo and mode of evolution across multiple traits in an adaptive radiation of birds (Vangidae)

Abstract. An ongoing challenge in macroevolutionary research is identifying common drivers of diversification amid the complex interplay of many potentiall

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Any invertebrate zoologists: looking for resources to store and properly curate extant specimens. Anything from boxes to advice. Have a teaching collection that needs love, because this type of thing makes me sad. I want to teach this part of the animal kingdom as best I can!

New study reveals 2D morphometrics captures major patterns of fish body shape variation but can underestimate subtle 3D features. For broad comparative studies, 2D is often sufficient; for fine-scale morphology, 3D remains essential Torgersen et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦈 Basking sharks are known for grazing on small fish & zooplankton at the surface, but a recent WHOI study shows that they may be 1,000+ meters to find prey in the mid-ocean twilight zone! 📲Dive deeper with @wcai-npr.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/cai-sharks

Huge congrats to Lindsey DeHaan on receiving the Stoye Award for best student presentation in ichthyology at #JMIH26 in New Orleans! Lindsey presented work on macroevolutionary shifts in spiny eels, representing one of her dissertation chapters. 📸: @leicurtis.bsky.social

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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Just added a couple more job apps (thanks Rachel and Arun!) but if you've gotten a job in industry, academia (R1, PUI, whatever!) in the last 5 years or so, please consider submitting your job app materials to help other folks! github.com/RILAB/statem...

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Sam Noble Museum is hiring a Collection Manager for the Fish Collection! Come work with me in Oklahoma! Please share widely! #TeamFish #MuseumJobs jobs.ou.edu/jobs/curator...

Curator Archivist - Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Pay Range: Targeted salary $18.99 per hour, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (may include some weekends) Travel: May be required For Be...

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Impressive new systematic treatment of fossil and living clupeomoeph fishes by Marramà and Carnevale: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...

A phylogeny and revised classification of clupeomorph fishes (Teleostei, Otomorpha)

The study of the Clupeomorpha Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 (herrings and allies) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Since the publication of the monographic work by Lance Gr...

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Really excited to share that my first PhD chapter is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🕷️👀 We show that visually hunting spiders have repeatedly evolved forward-facing eyes, highlighting the remarkable evolutionary flexibility of their modular visual system. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Hunting ecology predicts eye arrangements in the modular visual system of spiders

Pande et al. show that visually hunting spiders have convergently evolved forward-facing eyes. The positions and orientations of the eyes show the greatest morphological disparity and fastest evolutio...

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GLP-1, the reason why Ozempic & Wegovy work, was discovered in fish (1987) & lizards (1990). Now, under this new rule, decades of basic FOUNDATIONAL research that led to these blockbuster drugs, that we have access to, would be considered as waste. Get my drift? 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

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👀 Our collections keep growing day by day! Dr. Bill Ludt, Assistant Curator of Ichthyology, shares some of the latest additions to the Museum's fish collection.

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...

Second, our big effort to (1) make a new fish tree (2) date it (3) define taxon names (4) build the largest fish CT scan dataset to-date (5) answer ecomorphological questions- whew! @sternarchella.bsky.social @arciladk.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You've got mail! Katherine Maslenikov, Ichthyology Collections Manager at the Burke Museum shares how she sends fish specimens on loan to researchers around the world. 🐟

How to Send Fish in The Mail

YouTube video by Burke Museum

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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...

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Macroevolutionary consequences of twin neck innovations in deep-sea dragonfishes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.21.733442v1

Happy to share our new paper in Nat. Comm. on the evolution of planktivory in surgeonfishes and relatives 🐠🧬 Combining fossils and genomics, we find multiple independent origins of planktivory, plus convergent positive selection in key genes linked to planktivory. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint on Eupercarian fishes is here! We present a new phylogeny and skull shape analysis of this massive clade! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ecological axes of skull diversification in a massive vertebrate radiation

Eupercarian spiny-rayed fishes are one of the largest vertebrate radiations, rivaling mammals and occupying nearly every aquatic habitat. We present a densely sampled, time-calibrated phylogenomic fra...

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Even giants start out small: new paper hot off the press documenting the early development of Giant Sea Bass led by Emily Ladin and Larry Allen. Link should provide free access: www.ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbf/awi20...

Developmental Osteology of Young-of-the-Year Giant Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas — Ichthyology & Herpetology

Developmental Osteology of Young-of-the-Year Giant Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas Emily S. Ladin, Michael P. Franklin, William B. Ludt, and Larry G. Allen

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New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

Inner Beauty 🌈🐠 Ichthyologists us a process called clearing and staining (also known as diaphonization) to expose the cartilage and skeleton of fishes. Explore our online exhibit: Inner Beauty 🩻 Skeletons Revealed from the Museum’s Fish Collection www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...

Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

One of the many great things about marine labs is that they often have aquaria featuring cool, local critters. #MarineLife 🌊🦑