MEENFishes Lab is back from our trip surveying the fish biodiversity of the Canje River in Guyana. More updates soon.

Don't miss this opportunity &throwback -
The Natural Historian's Guide to the CT Galaxy: Step-by-Step Instructions for Preparing & Analyzing Computed Tomographic (CT)Data Using Cross-Platform, Open Access Software
Buser, Matt Kolmann Brian Sidlauskas et al
doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…

...and if you are curious about that 'scalpel form and function' assertion, check out this video of the species merely moving its head left and right to rapidly slice and penetrate the skin of a much larger fish.

courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

The search has begun for my successor! Collections-focused ichthyologists with expertise in systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography, and conservation should apply by April 14. I can happily answer questions about the awesome department and collection.
jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/150117

Lloyd Albert Quarterman (1918-1982) was an American chemist known for the design and construction of a distillation system for purifying hydrogen fluoride for the Manhattan Project. He also assisted with the first nuclear reactor for atomic-powered submarines.
#BlackHistoryMonth

12 Postdoctoral Scholarships at The University of Twente in Netherlands scholaridea.com/2024/02/17/12-…

19 PhD and Postdoctoral Scholarships at Groningen University, Netherlands scholaridea.com/2024/02/17/19-…

Meaningless tenure is better than no tenure. Please remember this during your reappointment review.

We asked you to recruit faculty to be good undergraduate instructors. Please encourage them to increase external grant production.

Our new paper led by Amy Balanoff Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins using #PETscan on live pigeons to see which parts of the brain are activated during flight 🪽🧠 and how this informs the evolution of the avian brain from #dinosaurs 🦖.

Congrats Hesham Sallam!

Associate Deans And, due to some misunderstanding, our major in NASCAR driving is being terminated because someone named their course 'Critical Race Theory.'

As university counsel reads the new state legislation, sociology majors cannot be required to take sociology classes.

Something different today. There are few places on earth where evolution is as obvious as it is in the Galapagos, and one of the sights that stunned me the most was seeing Marine Iguanas feed underwater. A clear example of how the Galapagos inspired Darwin. #explore

Cyphocharax albiventris from Rio Xingu, Amazon basin - our paper describing the species includes both morphological and molecular data and was just published in Am Mus Novitates. Link: doi.org/10.1206/4007.1

Can’t endorse strongly enough! Apply!!!