Applications for the ASIH Raney Fund are due in 10 days! Please spread the word if you know a student that could use funding for fishy research. I'm chairing the committee for the awards this year and am happy to answer any questions about it
Get your abstracts in for #JMIH26, due today! Present your work and join us in New Orleans this summer! jmih.net/abstract-sub...
April's #SICB zoom was a #book chat with SICBers - author
@biologycarly.bsky.social & interviewer @rchoover.bsky.social
on Carly's
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/carly...
& if there is such a thing as silly #science & more
Listen to the full #interview:
youtu.be/vgtqYHW3pUM?...
#nonfiction
A big shout out to those who came out like
@kassthefish.bsky.social lab:)
for
@rchoover.bsky.social & @biologycarly.bsky.social 's YouTube filming.
If you missed out, watch for the link Friday.
Find out if there really is any silly #science & when do #scientists really take their 1st test.
Almost 3 hours til April’s SICB zoom #book chat with @biologycarly.bsky.social
& @rchoover.bsky.social
email
sicbmedia@sicb.org
By 11:30 am
before it starts at 12 noon est to get the link to
to join us. 👍
#science #biologists
Diagram depicting phylogenetic relationships among several elongated catfishes.
Pleased to share a new phylogeny for the airbreathing or walking catfishes from the family Clariidae - part of my postdoctoral work at the AMNH in collaboration with Tobit Liyandja and Melanie Stiassny: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's me wearing a pigeon shirt standing next to a large OU
I am thrilled to share that I have accepted an offer for Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Sam Noble Museum/Assistant Professor at University of Oklahoma!
I will be starting this August and looking forward to more fishy research. 🐟🐠🐡
Thanks to all who've helped me get this far!
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
I have been tasked with creating an evolutionary biology course. I was wondering if anyone has done the same recently, and has advice. Thank you.
Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!
Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! 🦎🧪
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
Join us for April 6's #SICB lunch zoom 12 noon est
with #author
@biologycarly.bsky.social
carlyanneyork.wixsite.com/website
interviewed by @rchoover.bsky.social who reviewed Carly's latest work:
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/c...
email sicbmedia@sicb.org to join us
Reminder that fish do this.
Check out our new paper on clingfishes led by @fishtide.bsky.social!
Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs have launched many scientific careers. Including mine. I was more reluctant to leave at the end of the course than other students.
I promise you will have fun and learn more than you can imagine.
fhl.uw.edu/courses/cour...
🧪
#SICB2026 spotlight on the
Cannon Beach tide pool trip of the Convergence lab
( @rchoover.bsky.social , Emily Olson, Kassi Price, Brian Whelan)
@kassthefish.bsky.social
www.kassandraford.com/people
& read more about the tide pool
www.cannonbeach.org/things-to-do...
My first PhD dissertation chapter has been published! Let me know if you need a copy.
Complete species-level phylogeny of Madagascar’s tufted-tailed rats, Eliurus (Rodentia: Nesomyidae) reveals hidden diversity
doi.org/10.1093/zool...
And please enjoy this sonnet I wrote to summarize it:
Cartoon version of me pondering why fishes are so awesome. There are fossil tetraodontiformes and jars of fishes next to me.
A tiny pufferfish and a large chunky pufferfish on a scale.
Cartoon tetraodontiform fishes. There is a mola mola, pufferfishes, boxfishes, triggerfishes, a filefish, and a cowfish.
I got cartoonified!! Check out this awesome video summary of my past PNAS paper on body size evolution in response to paleoclimatic changes in tetraodontiform fishes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2s...
Read the study here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
RC Hoover Oral and pharyngeal Jaw shape across diets and ontogeny in prickleback fishes (Stichaeidae) RC Hoover- RC is a PhD candidate examining head, skull, and tooth shape in a group of elongate fishes from the Pacific Northwest. His work uses CT scans, geometric morphometrics, and diet to explore the evolution of morphology.@rc_hoover https://www.kassandraford.com/people
#SICB2026 spotlights-
meet
@rchoover.bsky.social
who presented on
Oral and pharyngeal Jaw shape across diets & ontogeny
in prickleback fishes (Stichaeidae)
RC's work uses #CT scans, geometric #morphometrics, and diet to explore the #evolution of #morphology
www.kassandraford.com/people
@biologycarly.bsky.social ‘s #books have arrived !!!🙌
At th #SICB2026 SICB journals booth
See why @rchoover.bsky.social gave this one a must read review
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/c...
@rchoover.bsky.social & Brian Whelan
are more than stoked to be at #SICB2026! Always great to have you two with us!
A Pacific spiny lumpsucker, swimming and snacking at the Seattle Aquarium
#MarineLife #Fish #Cyclopteridae #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PugetSound #PNW
I’m delighted to share my first ever book chapter is out now!
I goal with this piece is to provide a detailed but approachable review of ray-finned fish brain anatomy, anatomical diversity and evolutionary patterns.
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/chap...
ICB's
Carly Anne York: Bravely following her curiosity- a #book review
by R.C. Hoover #PhD Candidate
"Carly presents the serious discoveries of silly #science in a witty and easy to understand way..."
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/c...
#biology #nonfiction
Great video highlighting the value of natural history collections and the importance of preserving them for generations to come
Using fish teeth fossils from lake sediments, we found the haplochromine cichlids diversified quite rapidly and the entire food web evolved within just the first three millennia after the formation of modern Lake Victoria (which started refilling ~ 17k years ago). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ohio State news piece on our deep-sea fish body shape study:
news.osu.edu/how-fishes-o...
This is figure 1, which shows a three-dimensional rendering of Chamaeleo calyptratus Chamaeleonidae (UF: Herp: 191369).
A paper in Scientific Reports shows that chameleons have evolved a longer, coiled optic nerve that is likely to provide “slack” to reduce tension on the optic nerve during the extensive rotations characteristic of the chameleon eye. go.nature.com/3JTSgQ1 #evosky 🧪
Simple print of a black prickleback and seaweed
Simple rubber stamp of a black prickleback and seaweed
Printing stamps!
