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It's a colonial ascidian (sea squirt, not a coral. Very cool though!

Fun opportunity for early career individuals at Friday Harbor Labs. Everyone I know who has taken or been involved in this course has a great time. Highly recommend.

Four incomplete fossil fish specimens on a black background. The specimens preserve scales, vertebrae, spines, and so on, and are dark gray on lighter gray to mustard-colored slabs.

Remarkable. Report of a Brazilian spiny-rayed fish dating to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, preceding the oldest known acanthomorphs by ~20 million years. Gondwanacanthus extends the roots of one of today's most prominent vertebrate radiations: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am booked in to get a tattoo of this beast to add to my Tempestichthys tattoo! Don't synonymise this species please! #marinebiology #fish #tattoos

Our paper describing a new species of Pascua goby from the Coral Sea has been selected as en Editors Choice Article in Fishes. Apart from being fabulous, these fish are cool because they show that the genus has two groups of species separated by >5000km of the Pacific! www.mdpi.com/3483974 #fishes

Explanation to what???? I'm intrigued!

Diego Vaz, Luke Tornabene and I caught up at the Natural History Museum to work on Eviota dwarf gobies last week. This was part of two Ocean Census species discovery awards. There are LOTS of gobies left to discover! @nhm-london.bsky.social @oceancensus.bsky.social #fishsky #fish #marinelife

As an editor on the other side of this I agree. But adding a point 3 to your list - when you decline, please suggest other potential reviewers. I have just had to ask 26 people to find two reviewers for a revised student paper and only 2 suggested other people I could ask. It is really helpful!

That's what we presume!

A brown crab missing its claws with large spines on each side of its shell

Here's the beast!
🚨Folks in #SouthamptonWater / #Solent 🚨
This spiny swimming #crab shouldn’t be here. An Indo-Pacific species, newly recorded in the Atlantic, turned up here.
Probably ballast water. Hopefully not a trend… 🦀🦑🧪 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My latest paper has just been released. We found an Indo-Pacific swimming crab in Southampton Water. Great fun to write, but hope we don't see any more of these! Thanks to @unisouthampton.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @robinsomes.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social for support on this!

New species alert! A Pascua goby from the Coral Sea. This genus now contains four species. Two from the Eastern Pacific and two from Australia, with more than 5,500km separating them. Lots of fun describing my second new species. #TeamFish #Fish
doi.org/10.3390/fish...

At the top: a photograph of a fossil fish: Paralates chapelcornerensis (NHMUK PV P 76993a) lying on its side horizontally on a fine grained yellow/brown rock matrix. Scale bar in lower right corner is 5 mm. Middle: an artist's reconstruction of the same fish, anatomically accurate based on fossil material with colouring based on extant genus Micropercops and preserved pigmentation visible in one of the fossil dorsal fins. At the bottom: a map of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England with the fossil locality near Ryde (on the northeastern coast of the island) marked with a yellow star.

New osteological characteristics identify the first stem sleeper goby (Gobioidei, Odontobutidae) from the upper Eocene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

There's something of a game theory problem here. I could take my holiday in, say, mid-October and mid-March, periods where few others do. And while I may come back to a larger inbox, think of all the work I could get done in August/December/January with everyone else gone!

Bleekeri!

Friday Harbor Labs has a new marine genomics center! NSF supported facility that is ADA accessible. Great new place to access genomes right where you get the critters.

fhl.uw.edu/facilities-r...

🌊 We're Hiring 🌊 Project Seahorse is looking for a Research Associate to help advance the conservation of seahorses and their relatives through research, expert collaboration, and community engagement. To apply visit buff.ly/Q299wEc

#Hiring #ProjectSeahorse

Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute “Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

Another #naturalhistory collection may be orphaned.

Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York ("top 5 such collections in the country")

@corriemoreau.bsky.social estimates PRI has produced more female paleontologists than most other institutions

www.science.org/content/arti...

We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need — Leading to Conservation Concerns Ugly animals need love too. Learn why we need to overcome our aversion to ugly animals to help with research and conservation.

We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need — Leading to Conservation Concerns www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

“Regardless of the threats to their survival, we love and often try to help animals we think are beautiful or cute. Others, not so much.” @discovermag.bsky.social
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🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗

fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…

Could you add me please!

Coral Reef in the Ras Mohanned Marine Park, Egypt. Credit: Alex Mustard / Ocean Image Bank

NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans?

2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team

Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

UKCEH scientist Eleonora Fitos measures a survey plot in a flowery meadow

📣 #HiringNow: Seeking 3 x experienced Field Botanists or Field Ecologists for a 6-month full-time role starting in April.

Your expertise will support the ERAMMP team delivering a national field survey across Wales.

Apply by 25 Jan: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CEH_Careers/...

#UKCEHJobs

Do you love #algae? We have two positions open to work with our algae culture collection team at Bigelow Lab in Maine! www.bigelow.org/about/career...

We also have a #SciComm position open at Bigelow Lab! www.bigelow.org/about/career...

Reposting this with about 1 month left to apply. Come work with us! 🤗

PhD OPPORTUNITY: An exciting project that will restore the habitat of the worlds rarest marine fish while simultaneously enhancing a commercial fishery.
We are seeking a scientific diver with interests in both marine conservation and fisheries sustainability.
www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...