Mass extinctions☄️☠️ have shaped life on Earth🌍🌏🌎, but which species survive these events? In our new paper (Alex Schier @annika_nichols_ Walter Salzburger Lab), we find that being active during the night🌃🌕 might have conferred an advantage to vertebrates through mass extinctions

Do fish sleep? Yes! (they also yawn) - Our work on the genetics of widespread temporal niche partitioning in cichlids: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm hiring! Looking for a technician to segment/curate/deposit CT scan data for fossil and living cichlids. Part of U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project w/ @umich team of HernanLopezFernandez in University of MichiganEEB + me in UM Paleontology & @michiganearth. Please share widely! Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/251…

I think this paper is a Denial Of Peer Review Attack (DOPRA). It's kind of like a DoS (denial of service) attack. There is so much data, so many methods, so much code, so many figures, so many panels, so much supplement, so much text, that it is overwhelming. 18/

Super proud of undergrad David Carter for winning the poster prize at the U of T Data Sciences Institute (DSI) SUDS showcase for his work identifying the activity patterns of insects!!

Last week, after months of hard work and lots of conversations, Science Magazine launched a new series—spearheaded by News from Science's Elizabeth Culotta, Shraddha Chakradhar and me—about how researchers are #decolonizing science. science.org/toc/science/38…

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We have extended the early-bird registration date and abstract submission! Not too late to register and join us in what promises to be a very interesting meeting in Montreal on Oct 3-4! Stem cells, development, and cancer event.fourwaves.com/scdc2024/pages

Out now in Current Biology, our new paper identifies an olfactory receptor that mediates male attraction to females, but enforces avoidance of parental care. A thread that leads to an unexpected twist in regulation of social behavior! cell.com/current-biolog…

Amazing work - conversion of males to mouthbrooders!!

This is on Youtube, and is more fantastic than I could have imagined youtube.com/watch?v=CEJAF7…

The Dept. of Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto is looking for a plant single cell biologist! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

📢 The Layton Lab UTM Biology and University of Toronto EEB is recruiting new students for 2025! Please see the ad below and reach out to hear more about our work and research culture 🐚🧬🤿

Very honored and a great painting of happy cichlid fishes!

Check out how spinal cord #celltype diversity exponentially scales up with the #swimtolimb transformation during frog metamorphosis. And, for those of you #evodevoneuro lovers, we also find striking conservation in motor and inhibitory neuron types between amphibians 🐸 and

The ROM is hiring a Fishes collection technician (2 year contract)! royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/l903DbK5…

📢 New Opportunity Alert❗ CANSSI Ontario Postdoctoral Fellowship in Genome Data Science. This fellowship supports the work of an early-career investigator working in genomics and data science. Support: up to $50K/year for 2 years Apply by: Feb 3, 2025 bit.ly/4dLrsv4

PhD and MSc application portal University of Toronto EEB opens tomorrow Nov 1! Check our outstanding faculty and research for open positions! Toronto is a great place to be eeb.utoronto.ca/education/grad… eeb.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/ eeb.utoronto.ca/research/

Huh, that’s weird, google suppressing its AI bot from outing itself?