Lab/field tech 🚨JOB ALERT🚨-Summer '24! Come work with me at Illinois Natural History Survey along with other wonderful scientists Mark A. Davis Maria Costantini. Learn eDNA lab skills, travel around the midwest, & more! Apply ASAP blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/2434…

Come explore the frontier of PCM with us! Mariana P Braga and I host the symposium “What we can and cannot know through current and upcoming Phylogenetic Comparative Methods” at the joint Evolution Meetings in Montréal and want your views in that discussion! #evolution #phylo #PCM #Evol2024

📷Kyle Piller@LA_FishHead·1m Postdoctoral Position available (Fisheries Ecology) at Southeastern Louisiana University (Piller lab). Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. Project Link: southeastern.edu/acad_research/… Job Application Link: ulsselu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SLU/deta…

Phylogenomics, Lineage Diversification Rates, and the Evolution of Diadromy in Clupeiformes (Anchovies, Herrings, Sardines, and Relatives) academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…

If you're looking for a PhD lab to study fish evolution and are going to be at #JMIH24, let's talk.

Great talk by @CucalonV on minnow distribution and hybridization ASIH #JMIH24

Collecting minnows with Milton Tan and @CucalonV on our way home from #JMHI24 and caught my first Juvenile Gar from the Allegheny River.

I am excited to announce our U.S. National Science Foundation grant has been funded to study the evolution and diversification of N American minnows, including genomics/phylogenomics and comparative phylogenetic methods. This includes funds for a postdoc and PhD student! If interested, please reach out!

As a reminder I'm searching for a PhD student interesting in working on our NSF-funded project on minnow evolution and diversification. I made a post to EvolDir:

I'm hiring a post-doc to work on a new NSF-funded project. This is funded up to two-years and is in collaboration with Andrew Dickerson at UTK. Start date is very negotiable. Job description here: tinyurl.com/2whyry36. Contact me if you're interested. Please RT!!!

Pleased to share a new study led by my student @CucalonV on resolving the distributions of Forbesichthys cavefishes using genomics. Many collaborators to thank including Joel Corush @cavemander17 Dr. Pamela Hart Mark A. Davis and others not on X. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨Our paper testing the impacts of salinity on phenotypic rates in nearly all ray-finned fishes recently arrived!🚨 Salinity is generally a weak predictor, but predictive potential for freshwater-brackish, lake living, and larger species. Free PDF here: bit.ly/fishRates

Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey nature.com/articles/d4158… (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)

Eco/Evo friends: I will be teaching 2 upper-level undergrad/grad classes in 1) Evolution & 2) Vert-Zoology for the first time! If anyone has a syllabus, course outline, notes, book suggestions, or anything else you would be willing to share, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thankyou Masahito Tsuboi for leading this author team behind this paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology! I am very excited about this and a proud member of the team. We now hope that we have made colleagues aware of an important bridge between micro- and macroevolution: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

Thrilled to see this work published Science Magazine @peterkdearden Graham McCulloch @ludo_dutoit @TK_Dunedin Brodie Foster Gracie Kroos Dr Mei Peng Human-driven evolution of color in a stonefly mimic | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

That's Not a Hybrid: How to Distinguish Patterns of Admixture and Isolation By Distance | Molecular Ecology Resources onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… Very important paper! Indeed, I have also noticed that Structure/Admixture plots are often overinterpreted as introgression.

Finally switching over to bsky Follow me: jcorush.bsky.social Hope to see you there!

I'm pleased to see this publication out led by Joel Corush that I helped with on the role of geological and anthropogenic factors driving genetic structure of mottled sculpin in Illinois, where it is a state-threatened fish species. link.springer.com/article/10.100…