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Members of the public interested in supporting the research and discoveries of the Scripps oceanographic collections can do so here: bit.ly/3Cr8H2k

We're looking for a new Assistant Professor in Marine Natural Products/Marine Biotechnology Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Come join us - apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04101

1/📢 Exciting News! Using newly sequenced sea catfish genomes, we analyze signatures of selection across three major ecological axes within this clade. Our findings identify a heightened incidence of positive selection in marine-derived freshwater lineages. 🌊➡️🐟 #genomics

Why do seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets and flying gurnards evolve differently across oceans? 🌏🐟 A new study led by Scripps researchers reveals that colonization dynamics drive the decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity. Dive in: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

I'll be at my first #SICB2025 next month with some cool 3D printed fossil fish jaws to hype up my talk on Jan 7 at 1:30pm entitled "Patterns of jaw diversification in early bony fishes." Come say hello!!

PhD opportunity: I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA conducting routine sampling off the coast documented ash extending 100 miles offshore as the #Palisades and #EatonFires raged. They are now tracking the likely effects of toxics on the marine ecosystem. bit.ly/4aE8eXx

New entrance to the Marine Vertebrate Collection! An amazing mural by Dwight Hwang of California ichthyofauna. Offshore to nearshore, shallow to deep, oarfish and footballfish to sardines and finescale triggerfish. Brought to life by the amazing Birch Aquarium at Sc Exhibits team!

👀 🐠Some interesting fishy finds have been spotted around the world lately, like this rare humpback #anglerfish. Ben Ben Frable 🐟, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Oceanography, shares more about this cool creature for Salon. ⬇️ salon.com/2025/02/13/rar…

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution? We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing! fishevo.com/erc-funded-phd…

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for Society of Systematic Biologists The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11, 2026 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' Jeremy Brown is primary organizer ssb2026.github.io

Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Myer Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Evolution Lab ❤️

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies. 2 years, in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

We're hiring a postdoc!👀 Join us to explore the amazing world of (deep-sea) fish vision! We're looking for a curious mind to work with histology, FISH, and even crispr! Thks for sharing! Apply by 14 July 2025. #PostdocJobs #DeepSea #FishVision #Evolution fishevo.com/open-postdocto…

Former and current members of the Fish Evolution Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, at #Evol2025 ❤️🐡🐟

1/8 Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! We investigated the evolution of endothermy in ray-finned fishes by integrating phylogenomics, ecomorphology, fossil occurrence, and comparative genomics across 205 marine vertebrates. 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Even more coauthors for this great paper! Carole C. Baldwin, Guillermo Ortí, Lily C. Hughes, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Ricardo Betancur and Dahiana Arcila Congrats all!! 👏👏

The California Blind Goby (Typhologobius californiensis) lives with Tidepool Ghost Shrimp, (specifically Neotrypaea biffari) in their sandy burrows. The goby is endemic to the tidepools of Central and Southern CA as well as the Mexican Pacific shoreline.

The California Blind Goby (Typhologobius californiensis) goes through the normal stages of development; they even have eyes, and some pigment, as young fish. But as soon as the goby has found a burrow or submarine cave of its own, the eyes and the pigment degenerate.

New paper alert! Oceanic islands are great places to study how species evolve and disperse because their ecosystems are small and isolated. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean —St Paul’s Rocks, Ascension, and St Helena— are roughly halfway between South America and Africa