Aw Jack--it's my honor to get to cheer you on!

An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii) The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...

Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am so proud to see Jack's work out: bringing paleoichthyology into the world of ontological phylogenetics. This work comprises some of the most thorough comparative anatomy I've seen, and is a testament to Jack's dedication to transparent, replicable, and translatable science. Way to go Dr Stack!!

Ray-finned fishes every million years or so @kacorn.bsky.social

LMAO but so true

A fake snail with a skull for a shell and bony body

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

Combining acoustic survey and citizen science data yields enhanced species distribution models for tropical rainforest birds A key goal in ecology is to develop effective ways to understand species’ distributions in order to facilitate both their study and conservation. Many species distribution modeling analyses have been ...

Hello all! For my first post on this platform, I’m excited to share the first chapter of my dissertation, about using eBird and bioacoustics survey data to make species distribution models for Neotropical birds, which was published in @plosone.org today.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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So hype for this lab to open up—Mason is so full of exciting ideas to advance evolutionary biology and create a great community in science!!

So excited to see Jack's new paper out! Rogue taxa are such a challenge...great to see us moving forward on how to resolve these problems.

NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency NOAA, the US government science and management agency in charge of sustainable fisheries, the national weather service, and ocean exploration, is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and P…

NOAA is in the Trump administration's crosshairs.

You know the important work they do, but may now know that It's the descendant of the Coast Survey, the nation's first scientific agency, founded in 1807 under Jefferson. I spoke with maritime historians to put NOAA's legacy in context. 🧪🦑🌎🐟

This is a reminder for myself as well as anyone else who needs it: amidst all this chaos and confusion, pick your lane. Find something to do that will provide agency, educate those in your community and push back against what is happening

A shrimp smokes a cigarette and drinks a martini and says the bastards don’t quit but neither do I

Re-upping these stickers because I think we all need the reminder

Get one (and hey, some valentines while you’re there) at
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Aw, thanks Jonathan! Expecting it to be you next 👀

Always so proud of that paper! One of my favorite examples of exapting everyday tools for biomimetics 🤩🦈

lmao these baby cheeks have gotten SLIGHTLY less puffy!!

On a personal note...in summer 2015 I was @fishguy.bsky.social 's NSF REU undergrad at Friday Harbor Labs. I presented that work at SICB & applied to PhDs...
In summer 2025 I'm an REU mentor w/ my own lab at @wsupullman.bsky.social.
What a trip this last 10 years has been. An NSF REU success story 🥳

Folks: pls share! Apps are open for WSU's 2025 NSF REU in Resilience & Robustness of Aquatic Biosystems!
DUE: Feb. 17
WHEN: May 25- Aug. 3
WHERE: Pullman, WA (gorgeous in summer)
WHO: 10 UGs
$: 7k each
Come hang w/ a great group in our beautiful new aquatics facility!
sbs.wsu.edu/aquaticslab/... #🧪

I've gone from "Wikipedia is not a real source, students" to "I will defend Wikipedia with my life" in a short span of time. I don't know what we should do, I'll be looking to others for guidance on that, but I do know we have to defend every remotely democratic or open source tool we have now.

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Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity.

If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.

But he doesn’t! He has repeatedly shown that he doesn’t!

Don’t wish for something different, remind listeners that he’s actually done this, and ask them to imagine him doing it to them.

Play fucking hardball. Christ, this isn’t hard.

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

I am part of “shark people” and this is my favorite post of the week 🦈

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

George Orwell, 1984

Phyllosoma (larval stage of a spiny or slipper lobster) riding a jellyfish in Kona, Hawaii. It is transparent with a broad flat head shield, and long long limbs (neither of which are so extreme in the adult). Photo by Steven Kovacs https://twitter.com/ngfl3333/status/1567251570454151170

Copepod Calanus finmarchicus, seen in lateral view. It's a bit blobby and transparent, with long antennulae posed under the body. The abdomen (urosome) is pointed upwards and looks red. https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2019/04/09/Norwegian-plankton-developer-braced-for-growth

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. In natural hovering position - the red organs produce the bioluminescence - the hepatopancreas is filled with green phytoplankton, the food of krill, the straight gut in the back is filled with the empty shells of phytoplankton - in the front you see the compound eyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_krill#/media/File:Antarctic_krill_(Euphausia_superba).jpg

Every night, some crustaceans migrate upwards, up to 1000m from the twilight zone, to feed. They poop on the way down, transferring nutrients to deeper waters.

Other species or larval stages maintain depth in the water column by riding gelatinous zooplankton!

#Crustmas 🧪🦑

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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Continuing the peer review discussion: @katherine-brown.bsky.social on principles for effective peer review:
1) Be respectful to authors
2) Request reasonable revisions
3) Focus on whether data support the conclusions
4) Be transparent about expertise limits

thenode.biologists.com/peer-review-...

My lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. Hence their common name dumbo octopuses. The print is 9.25” by 12.5” on delicate ivory Japanese washi paper with visible margin, number, title and signature. The background is black. The octopus is reddish on top, then dark blue, with brown legs are spiralled up and drawn in close to its body.

Day 15 #ArtAdventCalendar: The third #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt for deep sea month is abyssal - the lightless, extreme pressure and low oxygen zone 4 to 6 km below the surface. 🧪🐡 So I made a lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods 🧵