Are you a graduate student who is a member of ASIH and studying fishy things? Looking for research funds? Consider applying to the Raney Fund, which awards up to $1,000 for research, field or travel purposes. The deadline to apply is April 30th! More info here:
www.asih.org/awards/raney...
We just published a review 🗞️😁:
‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection
Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it.
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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Our Tributary Whitefish Restoration Team has been spending nights on the Jordan River evaluating the success of the latest Lake Whitefish egg stocking effort. Kudos to Little Traverse Bay Band for leading this, and all of the partner agencies for contributing. #GreatLakes #PureMichigan #fisheries
A condescending email from a senior scientist to the poster regarding a single word in the title of a paper, in which he uses informal address, insults the reviewers, journal editor, and production sub-editor, and incorrectly mansplains to the poster which word she and her co-authors meant to use.
An email reply to the offended senior scientist by the poster where she corrects him using formal address, an infinite amount of patience, and a small amount of humor and word play.
Chatting with a colleague about an old paper and was reminded it is the 7th anniversary of this gem of a comment I once received. Your friendly reminder not to send condescending emails to early career... but really -ANY-... researchers. To quote Ted Lasso, "Be curious, not judgmental."
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
woohoo, the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research is now on bluesky! @ciglrum.bsky.social #GreatLakes
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
🚨 PLEASE SHARE! 3 more days to apply! 🔈 #CIGLR is excited for our 2026 #GreatLakes Summer Fellow applications! There are (4) full-time, 12-week positions paying $10,000 each. Apps are due 09 Feb 2026 @ 11:59 pm (EST)! Eligibility & how to apply: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/2026-great-l...
This is today!
Enjoy some Bluesky positive vibes (sound on👍) from these juvenile Lake Sturgeon @garlab.bsky.social!
Congrats to @pfschwarz.bsky.social on publishing her undergraduate honors thesis work on darter hybridization! There is evidence of ecological specialization of two sister species. She also compares lcWGS and RAD-seq data for the same samples and finds tighter distribution of Fst estimates w/ lcWGS
It's not an o-fish-al #25DaysofFishmas til we get a coregonine! 🐟🎉
#ciscoinferno🔥
Nice paper on the other bloom in Lake Erie: diatoms. 👏
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
No knocking the pinky! It's the one we waggle at our friends across the lake in Wisconsin 😉🤙
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Before farms and suburbs, the Great Black Swamp thrived. Restoring it could help curb Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms today.
www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/11/the-...
Check out new research on Lake Michigan Cisco and their use of DRMs, here! Limited time link to free article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m8t31MRgT...
#ciscoinferno🔥
I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.
Two BLM employees tag fish in Alaska.
A new report reveals that fish and wildlife conservation generates substantial economic benefits. Federal, state, local, and nonprofit contributions combined contributed $115.8 billion in total economic activity and supported over 575,000 jobs nationwide. Read more: fisheries.org/2025/11/new-...
Ink and watercolor sketch of a rugby ball shaped fish. Coregonus artedi spawns in November and December. It is most available at fish markets now, so go look for it!
Think November, Think Cisco. #GreatLakes #SundayFishSketch
Several PhD positions open at University of Jyväskylä including one on #salmon!
If it will be funded, I look forward to collaborating with the project: Interactions between thermal performance and parasite resistance in genetically distinct salmon populations 🐟🪱🔎 🧪
Apply by 14 Dec 2025👇
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Great to see new work lead by @pjflood.bsky.social out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social this week. Another piece from our collaboration with @michigandnr.bsky.social examining recently digitized historical lake survey data.
news.umich.edu/fishes-young...
Screen cap from the beginning of a paywalled Detroit News article titled “Federal Layoffs would gut Great Lakes fisheries research center.” Posted in Oct 20, 2025 at 9:25pm and written by Melissa Nann Burke. It reads “Washington - the U. S. Geological Survey is planning to lay off 79% of the workforce of the Great Lakes Science Center that’s headquartered in Ann Arbor as part of a reduction in force across the U.S Department of the Interior, officials say.”
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
79% will leave behind no science staff.
"The Great Lakes Science Center in Michigan would lose 108 of 137 positions."
via @eenews.bsky.social
Court document reveals that the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area would be cut severely, and maybe entirely, along with critical natural resource management staff. This would be devastating for our public lands!
Congrats! 🎉
