Rodrigo Figueroa
@rodrigoichthys.bsky.social
🇧🇷🇨🇷 Incoming assistant professor of Anatomy at Stony Brook University. 🧠Neuroanatomy, 🐟fishes, 🐠🐡more fishes, ⚒️paleontology, 🔬evolution, phylogenetics (he/him)
Taxonomy is far from complete but it also is not "complete enough" to warrant the disinvestment seen in ithe field and natural history generally. Museums and herbaria need funds to store, curate, and describe species and taxonomists need to be paid to do it www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation
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Marc A. Milne@forthespiders.bsky.social · 2w agoIt may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.
First-ever footage of a Barreleye Fish captured deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
I’m happy to say the first chapter of my dissertation has just gotten published! Here, we compared the results of two prominent tools for measuring muscle architecture from contrast data, Xfiber and Goodfibes, with some recommendations for each. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Relative performance of automated fiber‐tracking approaches to <fc>3D</fc> muscle architecture and their utility for comparative biomechanics
Muscle architecture is a key determinant of muscle performance, informing the calculation of functional traits such as force production and excursion distance. Due to its importance in understanding ....
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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
For #MolluscMonday, a grim one. The new IUCN Red List assessed every mollusc known to live only at hydrothermal vents. Of 201 species, 125 are now threatened with extinction, and the driver is deep-sea mining that has not meaningfully started yet. #marinelife iucn.org/press-releas...
From desert frog to deep-sea molluscs, remarkable species at risk – IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...
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This spring, another of Lindsey's chapters earned the E. C. Case Award for best student paper in paleontology at U-M. Lindsey is wrapping up her PhD this year. She's got exciting ideas and an extensive skill set, and is on the lookout for postdocs.
NAPC 2028 website is now live! napc2028.sites.utk.edu
Welcome to NAPC 2028! - NAPC 2028
Join the international paleontology community for the 13th North American Paleontological Conference from May 22-26, 2028 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The North American Paleontological Conference is a m...
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CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Research Laboratory Tech Sr - Rabosky Lab | U-M Careers
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Very well-timed publication of my most recent work at @royalsociety.org Proc B showcasing the backbone of my future research at @stonybrooku.bsky.social! There is still much to learn about ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution and the diversity of ways brain and endocasts interact in this lineage!
The ray-finned fish blackbox: unprecedented morphological diversity and the interplay between brain and endocast
Abstract. Vertebrates are unique among animals as they bear a neurocranium, which almost completely encapsulates the brain. Thus, within vertebrates, the e
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Ray-finned fishes are famously diverse, but we know little about their brains or cranial endocasts. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social opens this black box with a dice-CT survey of 86 species across the actinopt tree of life. #OA in @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐟🧠 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!! My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species. DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!
In a world shaped by climate change and the biodiversity crisis, you're far more likely to actually purchase ocean front property in Arizona from George Strait than resurrect the dodo from extinction
Can scientists really resurrect the dodo? Inside the company that says they can
Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservation
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Osteichthyans--the bony fishes--are by far the most diverse group of living jawed vertebrates. Two papers out today in @nature.com feature remarkable new Chinese fossils that paint a picture of substantial morphological diversity among stem osteichthyans.
New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
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The oldest acanthomorph fossil from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana (Morro do Chaves Formation, Sergipe–Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology
Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Einstein would have developed the theory of relativity much faster if he had to count on the schedule timing of the Boston MBTA
I’m delighted to share my first ever book chapter is out now! I goal with this piece is to provide a detailed but approachable review of ray-finned fish brain anatomy, anatomical diversity and evolutionary patterns. www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/chap...
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It’s so much fun spending more than a decade working on my career, making sacrifices, achieving important milestones and contributing to science and society to then receive job rejections like this:
Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
where there’s a will there’s a government trying to destroy the way
Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
1yo - my mom chose plastic fossil fish to decorate my first birthday party; 4yo - hitting a quartzite wall with a hammer it falls over me (but I love it); 5yo - I watch Jurassic Park; 6yo - I find my first fossils; (continued)
Recurse Center@recurse.com · 9mo agoWhat’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
