Big congrats to Nick Peoples on his first paper, looking at a key innovation across ray-finned fishes, and its evolutionary dynamics! 🐟🐠

1/10🚨🚨 New paper out 🚨🚨 I am beyond excited to present our new paper out now in nature! Here, we show that rapid gain and loss of tooth complexity accelerates diversification in fishes! nature.com/articles/s4158…

3/10 Complex teeth (e.g. molars) are a key innovation for mammals and squamates. In fishes, they evolve many (>86) times but remain rare (~11% of species), evolving slowly across most of the tree. But in a few groups, the rate is significantly increased – evolutionary lability.

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Out today in PLOS Biology! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. Mike Mihalitsis and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Characterizing the trophic ecology of herbivorous coral reef fishes using stable isotope and fatty acid biomarkers journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

It's a collaboration amongst 24 international scientists, brought together in a SNAPP team:snappartnership.net/teams/governin… It introduces an overview of the diverse set of “novel marine-climate interventions”, in virtually every ocean basin 🌎🌍🌏 across 8 main intervention types:

Scoring examples of interventions across... “Climate Benefit”, “Intervention Risks”, “Governance Readiness”, & “Policy Profile” ... ...shows not all are created equal.

New global synthesis: 1,535 established #nonnative #fish across 193 countries. Aquarium trade, aquaculture & corridors dominate; competition & predation drive impacts. Calls for pathway-focused biosecurity. #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies

JOB OPPORTUNITIES with Guam Coral Reef Initiative (Five openings!) There are currently numerous job opportunities with the Guam Coral Reef Initiative. The Guam Coral Reef Initiative was established in 1997 by Executive Order 97-10 to address threats to local reefs. We were

Coral reef conservation is under pressure to act boldly in the face of climate-altered futures. But how do we choose sustainable, responsible options? Here, myself, Prof Tiffany Morrison & The Bellwood Lab introduce "MIMO". 👇 Cell Reports Sustainability cell.com/cell-reports-s…

PHD OPPORTUNITY: Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs (University of Southampton, UK) This project will compare communities of small ‘cryptobenthic’ fishes (camouflaged fishes, <5cm long) across latitudinal gradients, from temperate to tropical reef

This is important and convincing work well done by Dr. James G. Napoli and Lindsay Zanno. But one aspect we don't talk about is the DD being held in private hands for years. This specimen was not available for research for until very recently. Private collections hinder critical science

Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira) - Engelman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…