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Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH
Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...
Book cover titled "Ecology and Evolution of Amazonian Fishes: Assembling the Most Diverse Continental Vertebrate Fauna" with editors James S. Albert and Roberto E. Reis. Images of various Neotropical fishes are on the cover.
Upcoming book on ecology and evolution of Amazonian fishes, edited by @gymnotus.bsky.social and Roberto Reis. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Way to go Jack! Congratulations
Gummy candy ‘sour elderflower fish’ packet light blue covered in abstract green and white elderflower blossoms and yellow sugar covered fish with no foral find and hetercercak tail
Yellow gummy candy fish covered in sugar - deep bodied with homocercal tail.
I thought I may have been given gummy gymnotiform fishes or perhaps gummy early vertebrate Haikouichthys based on the package illustrations. Sadly what was inside didn’t live up to the expectations - still tasty though!
Congrats @hippieherper.bsky.social!
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
📣 Welcome to DPCB!
We’re SICB’s Division of Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology — the home for tree-thinking, evolutionary relationships, and comparative approaches across organisms.
#DPCB #SICB2026 #Phylogenetics
Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026!
ssb2026.github.io/talks.html
For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly.
@systbiol.bsky.social
🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!
Thank you to ICB journals for highlighting @keifferwilliams.bsky.social’s 1st PhD paper - it’s especially apt as he is coming back to Clemson for his hooding ceremony on Wednesday!
My newest paper and 1st chapter from the PhD is also officially out!
I test how random encounter models work on reef fish 🐠Also great for anyone with a healthy dose of scepticism about reef fish survey methods
*Contains one of the most painful tables I've ever written.
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
NSF policy changes - some updates that PIs should be aware of.
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
Check out our review/perspective piece on phylogenetic diversification analysis, intended for the 75th anniversary of
@systbiol.bsky.social. I had the privilege of working with great coauthors, @fhenaodiaz.bsky.social, @tvasconcelos.bsky.social and @roszenil.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
Congratulations to UMMP Associate Research Scientist Miriam Zelditch on the release of the third edition of the indispensable "Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists" (a.k.a. the green book)! #FossilFriday
An illustration of a man standing in water that comes up to his neck surrounded by fish, with text: I dropped out of high school. Now, I’m living my dream as a fish scientist
"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg
Another nice Oreosomatidae on the way back to the surface. They're hoping for 2 more dives before the expedition ends. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Platypus
Blue whale
Andean condor
Yellow-eyed penguin
Archer fish
#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience
Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest.
I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone
@insidehighered.com
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social
subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...
IOB's author & poet interview :
Brandon Kilbourne, a Pushcart-nominated, Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. prize winning #poet & #biologist carved out a little time to talk about his latest #poetry #book
via
iobopen.com/2025/10/31/n...
& watch the interview via
youtu.be/NmHkZ0iHn_o?...
#science
New phylogeny and family-level classification of Stomiiformes (viperfishes, hatchetfishes, bristlemouths)
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
