Hope the beautiful phylogeny pictured here goes up on the wall of every fish lab! Well done Ava Ghezelayagh and Thomas Near et al.

New paper out in Journal of Anatomy! This isn’t a high-impact headliner about T. rex, nor does it solve the mysteries of a major transformation — but it highlights the dangers of trying to go there before tackling the basics. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

From the files of elegantly simple experiments . . . A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/do…

Could not be more thrilled to share this paper in SCIENCE! So honored to have participated in this work! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Liao lab challenges classical fish swimming categories with Harvard colleagues in recent PNAS publication! @valedisanto, Elsa Goerig, georgelauder, Otar Akanyeti, Dylan Wainwright, Ted Castro-Santos

This #deepsea fish cover might be slightly psychedelic:-) It refers to our recent study on vision in deep-sea fish larvae (using cones) and adults (rods). It's also the first student paper since I started my FishEvo research group. Happy and congrats Nik! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38…

Sooo…it appears the Supreme Court believes their opinions have a fundamental right to privacy…

A new open-access paper: phylogenomics and species delimitation in Black Bass, Micropterus from Daemin Kim, Taylor Fish Lab, and me Yale Peabody Museum nature.com/articles/s4159…

Ok, fish folks, what’s wrong with this?

Can’t wait to get my hands on this! Congrats, Brian Sidlauskas, CalebHasler, Prosanta Chakrabarty, and all the authors!

We are happy and grateful to announce that U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded MorphoSource a sustainability grant (DBI-2149257). Over 5 years, it will allow us to continue serving our diverse user communities and to help support exciting new scholarship achieved through access to 3D data!

Any and all welcome!

Our first collaboration with Christopher Kenaley showing the kinematic swimming differences between normal and hypothyroid zebrafish! Congrats to Pranav who contributed this first-author work as an undergrad in our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What tweetable #rstats function have you written recently to reduce duplication in your data analysis code? I'm looking for some inspiration as I re-write the functions chapter in R4DS.

Why might #fish in a #school swim behind one another? A🧵.This question arises because being behind another fish involves #swimming in faster flow. A cyclist can draft because oncoming velocity is reduced. A thrust wake is like a cyclist facing a leader with a large fan.

🌳✨Prepare to be amazed! Now, we can accurately map tree heights at a sub-meter scale for entire countries using aerial images and AI 🤖. Take a look at our tree height map of California, home to the tallest and largest tree species on our planet ✈️🌲🌎 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

Peter Wainwright has just won the Joseph Nelson award for a lifetime of achievement in ichthyology. So very cool. One of my earliest mentors at ASIH. #jmih23

Basking sharks are what now?! New paper led by Dr Haley Dolton (she/her) where we document regional endothermy in our favourite giant filter feeding sharky 🔥. Interesting implications for evolution and ecological advantages of regional endothermy; we thought it was only seen in apex 🦈&🐟1/3

Just out, Michael Nachman and 120 of the rest of us emphasize the continued need to add new specimens of whole organisms to the world's network of natural history collections. #PLOSBiology: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…