If you don't yet have a copy of my book, you can get it for 40% off with code HLFE24 before May 3!

Also lots of other Johns Hopkins University Press environmental books are on sale! Free shipping if you spend $100

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Had to add my little comment to the current narrative Semtex. Folks been sideways on socials and in the media at me all week like I won’t casually rap these boys and girls into the shadow realm…either spawn in and smoke it up or let me finish watching these cybertruck reviews…

We are deeply saddened by the passing of former Cubs pitcher Ken Holtzman.

Ken was a Cub from 1965-1971 and 1978-1979. He posted a 3.76 ERA in 237 games with the club, including two no-hitters, cementing himself as one of the best left-handed pitchers in Cubs history.

We send…

Star Blazers! On local Chicago TV circa 1979-80

youtube.com/watch?v=1xILUF…

#GrouchoMarx :
'Gentlemen, he may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot. But don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.' #DuckSoup 1933

A new tradition is started (GALL)bladder ball! SAYWHAT?!?

A great birthday present was the privilege to give a seminar yesterday on the taxonomy and classification of ray-finned fishes. The monograph that is the central piece of the talk comes out on April 18, 2024.
The presentation starts at the 2:00 mark.

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Seminar starts in about 25 minutes!

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Lupe!

I am giving the YIBS seminar on Friday, April 12 3 pm EST. Come join us if you are in New Haven...happy hour to follow.

You can join remotely via yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/…

Today at GenBank: sequences added from #newspecies Notacanthus arrontei from 670 m depth in the Gulf of Cadiz, described in a review of the genus by Bañón et al. published in J. Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…

Excited to present today at the Yale Undergraduate Research Conference! No, I am not an undergraduate student, but taking this opportunity to be inspired by the earliest career researchers on campus!

The Southern Cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus) has the largest range of any of the cavefishes in North America. It ranges from northwestern Georgia west to Missouri. The species generally exhibits very little or no pigment. The eye sockets are there but there are no eyes.

On “World Aquatic Animal Day” - The Alabama Cavefish (Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni) is one of the most endangered fishes in North America and is only known from a single cave system. It is also named after a friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Tom Poulson!

Hemoglobin gene evolution in teleosts and cichlids: fish genomes have many Hb genes (up to 43) diversified from ancestral 7-8 Hb copies. Our new preprint & 1st step towards #hemoglobin function in Barombi #cichlids for Dmytro Omelchenko. Thks to all coauthors!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

☀️ Check out this new #AJB Review! ☀️

#Botany & geogenomics: Constraining geological hypotheses in the #neotropics with large-scale genetic data derived from #plants

By Ana María Bedoya

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #geology Wiley Plant Science

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

We have extended the abstract deadline for #JMIH24 to June 1st! This is before the early registration deadline of June 10th. Please consider submitting an abstract and joining us for an exciting meeting in Pittsburgh!

Congratulations to Drs. Smith, Timoshevskaya and Timoshevskiy, and other collaborators on publication of the hagfish genome in Nature! uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-re…

New paper with my lab on Middle Eastern seahorses ‘New records of seahorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from Kuwait in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf’

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…