Worldwide, annual spending on biodiversity conservation is about $6 billion USD. The United States alone spends about $30 billion USD in three professional sports leagues (football, baseball, and basketball) per year. We need to get our priorities straight. #BiodiversityDay

New paper just published in Journal of Biogeography! More than 10 years of study to understand the Amazon-Orionoco Barrier as a driver of reef-fish speciation in the Western Atlantic through time. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14… Gabriel Araujo Sergio R. Floeter Luiz Rocha, PhD Osmar Luiz

The Amazon-Orinoco Barrier as a driver of reef-fish speciation in the Western Atlantic through time doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

New paper - out today! 🌟 And yikes, it's a cool one! 🤓 Kleyton Cantalice, Jesus Alvarado-Ortega, The Bellwood Lab & Alexandre C Siqueira's work in American Institute of Biological Sciences connects: ✅#Mayan temples, ✅the dinosaur killing #asteroid 🦕🌠 ✅the origin of #reef #fishes🐠🐟 doi.org/10.1093/biosci… (1/4)

Redirecionar os já escassos investimentos em pesquisa e inovação para comprar caminhão e ônibus velho. Não é apenas mais um retrocesso, é um recado claro do uso eleitoral da máquina pública e das prioridades desse [des]governo que condena este País ao não desenvolvimento.

Incredible animation: A billion years of plate tectonics squeezed into 40 seconds. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Feeling Happy!!! My second Ph.D. chapter was published in PNAS. We explore one of the most splendid diversifications of carnivores. Great teamwork. I am fortunate to have such great coauthors and a great mentor. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

There is no reasonable limit to the amount of time you can spend looking at comb jellies.

In the twilight zone, at depths of 600 to 800 metres, remote operated vehicles took footage of a fish with a transparent head, Macropinna microstoma, the barreleye fish whose transparent head allows its eyes to collect incident light Source MBARI

My daughter named her new pet, Sir David Stickenborough, after her hero. She wrote to tell him this. Obviously he responded. Sir David is getting renamed, apparently, but my daughter’s fascination with nature has been reinforced. #NationalTreasure

>500 ichthyologists at the Encontro Brasileiro de Ictiologia in Gramado, southern Brazil. Next meeting will be in Palmas, Tocantins, near the Jalapão Park, in feb 2025. #EBI2022

First close encounters with Sepia latimanus!

Them: "You're a marine biologist?" Me: "Correct"! Them: "I always wanted to be a marine biologist! But then I learned they don't make any money." Me: ".....also correct" 😑 Marine biologists everywhere, how often is this how people greet you? 😂 I'd say a solid 30% at least

Its funny how the scary and fucked up deep-sea fish are really only found at depths of ~3000-5000 feet and then when you go deeper than that the fish look pretty normal and nonthreatening again

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑆𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎, a new species of #pufferfish, a #CrypticSpecies from Brazilian waters, formally known as 𝑆. 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑖. #Tetraodontidae #Colomesus 🔒 bit.ly/44dhoFz

I just found out (through a desk-reject) that Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution no longer considers most papers based on Sanger sequences (only genomic datasets). It is quite ironic that countries that hold most of the biodiversity will be unable to publish in this journal...

Academics will spend a full work day reading half an article then take 3 books onboard a 2 hour flight

Demonstração da protusão mandibular de um cação-víbora.

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