UMMP/Michigan Earth past & present at CBEP 2026 at the National Museum of Natural History.
Zach
@reallyoldfish.bsky.social
2nd year PhD candidate in the Friedman Lab at the University of Michigan. Volunteer @ Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pitt alum Fan of fishes, particularly extinct ones
Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
It's the UMMP show for CBEP 2026 at the National Museum of Natural History.
Today is my first day in office as the new curator of vertebrate paleontology at @nhmdk.bsky.social & @ucph.bsky.social! 🇩🇰 🏛️ 🦴 🦕 😁 Starting off right with some proper Paleozoic Greenlandic friends (🐟/🐸, 🦈) and an extremely Danish office surprise! 🧱
Two tenured, mid-career positions available in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan: Climate-Driven Hazards and Earth Surface Dynamics. Applications due Aug. 15th: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-...
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We're still looking for a Fish Collection Manager at the Sam Noble Museum in Oklahoma! Apply by August 1st. #MuseumJobs #TeamFish 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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I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.
Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model
Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...
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Congrats to Brad Ibarra on the pub!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Syrinx anatomy and vocalizations in New World vultures (Aves: Cathartidae): Implications for avian vocal evolution
New World vultures are the only avian clade proposed to lack a syrinx and have been described as non-vocal. Using dissection, diceCT, and histology, we demonstrate that cathartid vultures have novel ...
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
New fossil fish dropped! Meet Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov. Despite fragile, swampy origins, exceptional preservation of its head sensory canals is shedding new light on Cypriniformes evolution! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Paleontology #Ichthyology #Fossil #NewSpecies #Evolution
Windy day in the Pioneer Mountains of Montana. Good views and workout (and plants, see the Lewisia pygmaea photo) before my last week of teaching ecosystem science out here. Bonus rip-up clasts in quartzite of the Mesoproterozoic Missoula Group.
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/...
For #FossilFriday, and in honor of Dr. Sanaa El-Sayed, a beautiful 62-million-year-old veliferid from Egypt alongside the living sailfin velifer (Velifer hypselopterus).
Instead, federal officials will decide on a case-by-case basis which protections, if any, each threatened species receives. The administration is also narrowing how “critical habitat” can be designated, a change
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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DOGE axed the CDC team that tracks cyclospora. Now 1000s are sick, restaurants & hospitals scrambling. What's next? “Cyclospora is just one piece. It's making the news right now, but there are other, more dangerous pathogens.” By @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Worse than I could have imagined with near total loss of our Campanian dinosaur beds. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @natgeosci.nature.com @paleosoc.bsky.social No one asked my opinion as Utah's State Paleontologist! @paleontologizing.bsky.social
A study in Nature Communications finds that volcanic rocks formed about 3.1 billion years ago came from magma with water levels like those in today’s volcanic island arcs, suggesting Earth’s early crust may have formed through plate-tectonic processes like today’s. go.nature.com/4yb1QCm ⚒️🧪
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been gutted under this administration, and now its grantees are receiving termination letters en masse. Please help us report by submitting your grant and spreading the word! 🧪
Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 3w ago‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Please join us tomorrow morning at 10 AM eastern for @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social's dissertation defense seminar "Teleost fish evolution in the Cenozoic: New insights from Paleogene ichthyofaunas from the Eastern Desert of Egypt." Message or email me for Zoom passcode: umich.zoom.us/j/98521134857
The 90% reduction of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante NM is a massive loss for science, indigenous communities, and the American public more broadly.
“It was the third death in about a week involving encounters with ICE agents, following shootings in Texas and Maine.” Three deaths in a week is not a coincidence. A few months from now, we’ll learn about some new horrific directive thar intensified ICE’s violence.
Man fleeing immigration officers in Florida is struck and killed by tractor trailer, police say
Authorities say a man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer.
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This Shark Awareness Day, meet the overlooked electric rays: numbfishes. These small rays are often poorly studied, rarely recorded, and incidentally caught in coastal fisheries.
On the road, but a quick spin through a trio of recent papers with implications for acanthomorph evolution. First off, Allison Murray and colleagues describe two new spiny-rayed fishes from the freshwater late Cretaceous "Pisces Point" site in Alberta: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
Early diversity of acanthomorph fishes in fresh waters of the Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes are well represented in freshwater vertebrate microfossil localities in the Western Interior of North America but are not well known from articulated specimens. Mic...
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