Is the artist Asher B. Durand?

Two science fair winners? No. Two good friends inducted into the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society! @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

gsas.yale.edu/edward-alexa...

The next generation of ichthyologists is strong!

@anoplogaster.bsky.social

Information dump? Not in my course...

We should compare lecture notes!

Finally making it to teleosts in my rebooted ichthyology course!

There's no such thing as a shark, suggest scientists | BBC Science Focus Magazine Analysis of shark DNA has thrown a wrench into our understanding of these sharp-toothed predators and their evolutionary history

Paraphyletic sharks

www.sciencefocus.com/news/sharks-...

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Wow! Sawfish alert

I think I know who he was with!

Time to update my BIOL 1040 Principles of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology lecture notes!

No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree Sharks might not be a natural biological group, with most species potentially closer kin to rays than to an oddball group of sharks.

Chase Brownstein's shark paper covered in Nature News!

New slide for upcoming lecture in my ichthyology course...filer feeding in sharks and rays is amazing and has at least four origins.

Looking for something to add to the big white space in the upper right quadrant of the slide. Suggestions?

Alas, poor ostracoderms!

A teal, textured book cover, with the title at left - Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus - and a large beige statue of a woman at right.

FYI #AncientSky - the upcoming release of Caitlin C. Gillespie's "Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus" is happening soon. And, it can be on your bookshelf, if you do not resist your excitement and head to the @cornellupress.bsky.social site: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

This is fantastic! Congratulations!

Honored that #NearLab work on fish phylogenetics is recognized with this award, in particular our work on Black Basses (Micropterus) that includes the famous Largemouth Bass

New from the #NearLab, Chase Brownstein chasedbrownstein.bsky.social takes the lead on Phylogenomics and the origins of sharks.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Acanthomorph teleosts (spiny-rayed fishes) comprise nearly one third of all living species of vertebrates. This important study describes a new fossil taxa that pushes the group back 20 million years in the geologic record!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The non-cryptic, cryptic species! Love it!

Cryptic species are widespread across vertebrates Abstract. Many species delimited by morphological data contain two or more species that are distinct based on molecular data (i.e. cryptic species). Crypti

A very interesting and well-executed study.

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. A feature in Nature describes how some researchers are calling for a more harmonious approach. #evosky 🧪

From 1,750–2,000 m deep, we collected one of the rarest deepsea fishes out there: a one-jaw eel (family Monognathidae). Only ~100 specimens of this group are known worldwide and we hold the largest collection (~46), most just a few inches long… The one we collected though, 6 inches or 154 mm!

by Nobu Tamura

New paper story time. 👁️🐟🦴🩻
Here is your gormless jawless relative Jamoytius:
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Estimates of molecular convergence reveal multiple genes with adaptive variation across teleost fish Abstract. Molecular convergence, where specific nonsynonymous changes in protein-coding genes lead to identical amino acid substitutions across multiple li

Barua, @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy et al. searched for convergent substitutions in teleost fishes, detecting convergence in 89 protein-coding gene families across 143 genomes. Functional experiments support functional roles of convergent genes.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag015

#evobio #molbio

#science #inspiration #stem #childhood #passion #yalecollegevoices #podcast | Darice Corey, MBA An early fascination can shape a life's work. For Thomas Near, it started with a secondhand microscope and a mom who brought home lab slides. That early exposure, even amidst chaos, sparked a lifelon...

My first microscope!

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Outstanding...making it into my skull lecture in ichthyology!

New paper describing a replicated movement study aimed at understanding movement across culverts in Louisiana. Fish movement is hard.
doi.org/10.1002/rra.70017
#fish #ecology #movement #culvert

Starting off 2026 the right way, new from the #NearLab w/dartersdanjmac.weebly.com taking the lead on genomic and phenotypic species delimitation in North American endemic darters