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We are looking to hire an outstanding individual to become the new Fish Collection Manager at UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan. Email me with questions. See details and apply careers.umich.edu under Job opening ID 252004. Please RT. ASIH American Fisheries Society

UMMZ seeks a collections manager for its remarkable fish division: more than 200,000 lots and 3.4 million specimens representing 98% of fish orders 🐟🐠🐡🦈 Details below⬇️

Tetraodontiform bag 😍

New paper alert (open access)! Thanks to a new tip-dated phylogeny of bonytongue fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) with a large sample of fossils, we find that today's freshwater arapaimas and arowanas were ancestrally marine! (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Bacchiaichthys zucchiae was a percomorph from the Late Cretaceous of Italy. Falling just outside of Batrachoidiformes, it and other fossils from Trebiciano indicate that by the Maastrichtian, spiny-rayed fishes were diversifying into their modern forms. #50daysoffossilfishes

Come check out my oral defense this Monday at 11 AM EST! Message me for a Zoom link.

🦣 Don't forget, Ethan Shirley's dissertation defense is tomorrow morning in NUB 2540. You won't want to miss it!

Congrats Dr. Andrews!

My, what big eyes you have! Especially considering you live in the deep w/no light, apart from bioluminescence some animals display. Curious Oreo fish, named not for the much-munched American cookies but for your family name Oreosomatidae ("mountain body" in Greek) #NazcaHighSeas

I'm recruiting a MSc student to work on an NSF project focusing on morphological disparity in crinoids from Anticosti Island. My lab at Paleobiology Research Group at OU uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic modeling to study macroevolution in extinct invertebrates. Feel free to reach out & please RT!

A beaver chewing on water lilies in the Huron River!

🚨🚨 1/8 New paper from Thomas Near, Alex Dornburg, and myself! We reconstruct the early evolution of acanthopterygian fishes, which include ~1/3 of living vertebrate species! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Love that you can see the ridge comprising the K–Pg boundary running from near Sandy Hook, passing Trenton, then running parallel to the Delaware River where it meets the Delaware Bay at approx. the point it begins to widen.

Saw some today Toledo Zoo!

IPFC (Indo-Pacific Fish Conference) will be held from June 9 to 13, 2025. I am hosting one of the special sessions on fish fossils. 2025asi-ipfc12.tw/site/mypage.as… It would be excellent to meet you all attending our session. Please also help us spread the word.

I am taking up to 2 applicants for the masters program in biology at MTSU this coming fall. Projects working on cichlid ecomorphology, cichlid fossils and missing data. Experience with fish, geomorph or R a plus. NSF funding for stipend and travel support.

Today, President Trump will issue a series of Executive Orders that deny the climate emergency facing our country in favor of a phony “energy emergency”. These performative acts show the pervasive influence that the fossil fuel industry will have in the United States over the