“Noticed the anchovies schooling tighter today. Old ocean witches say they only do that when the current is about to turn sweet.”

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A universal hope for peace.

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Looking for decor for your home or workspace? Work on Fine Art America is currently on sale for the next 13 hours - 51%off on art prints! If you miss the sale, no worries - I just cut my prices!

Check me out here -> fineartamerica.com/profiles/7-m...

#science #sciart #biology #photography

Ohio State news piece on our deep-sea fish body shape study:
news.osu.edu/how-fishes-o...

Friday ICB Featured papers from the M.I.S.S. issue-
Overcoming Waves of Challenges: Experiences of #BIPOC #Shark #Scientists in the Global South
Ingrid Hyrycena et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
&
Zooming in on #Bonnetheads...
Hannah Epstein et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#morphology #science

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 🧪

Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)

But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏

Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes - Nature Communications Biofluorescence is widespread in fishes. Here, the authors compile data on biofluorescence presence across teleost fishes and demonstrate that it may have originally evolved in eels 112 million years ...

Apologies for missing the last few weeks for themes! In light of our new article www.nature.com/articles/s41..., the #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is biofluorescent fishes! #sciart 🦑

My latest preprint! Will be in Arthropod Struct & Dev't journal.

Fine dissections of CRISPR phenotypes for
Dll, Sp6-9, dac, Exd, & hth
in the crustacean Parhyale for ALL APPENDAGES:

labrum, antennae, mouthparts, thoracic, biramous, and telson.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hey everyone. Hoping to be active on social media again, I miss my science community. Wish you all a wonderful 2025! 🤍

I don't think that I can relay how excited (albeit nervous) I am for in person SICB this coming January. I really, really hope to reconnect with a bunch of you all in January. I sincerely miss the connection 🤍
#science #sicb2024 #sicb24

Spending some time this year supporting my partner at GenCon. It's absolutely wild! I had the unexpected privilege to run into the wonderfully talented @astrafauna.bsky.social!!!!

Hi Bluesky! My name is Michelle and I am an evolutionary biologist, sci-art enthusiast, LGBT+, and a cat mom! I look forward to sharing my science, sci-art, and plenty of cat content with you all.

Cheers!