Hannah Cohen

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social

www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

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.

Colleagues in ocean science academia: 🧪🦑🌎

I am working on the section of my marine biology career advice book about applying to graduate school. I have lots to say here from both my own experience and years of teaching this stuff, but I’d welcome your input on any or all of this if you’re willing.

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

You’re not ready for gar slime:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

This common fish has an uncommon feature: forehead teeth, used for mating New findings call into question one of the core assumptions about teeth. Adult male spotted ratfish, a shark-like species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, have rows of teeth on top of their heads,...

New paper is officially out!
Ratfish have a second jaw on their foreheads - CT + histology show they’re real teeth, built from the same tissues and signals as oral teeth.

www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

A photo of a man in a cap holding the line on which is a very bright orange Nurse Shark ( a very flat, bottom feeding shark that is no threat to humans) in this photo you can clearly see the silver/white eye of the animal.

A photo of a man in a cap holding the line on which is a very bright orange Nurse Shark ( a very flat, bottom feeding shark that is no threat to humans) in this photo the angle is a lot higher, showing the entire body of the shark from above water.

Babe, wake up - Xanthochromic nurse shark just dropped..

Caught by some sport fishermen out near Costa Rica (and released after some photos were snapped)

Look at this beaut, how ORANGE!!

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

Michigan field guides? Online for free? Yes, please!

A Shortnose Gar headshot is pictured against the backdrop of the Minnesota River. Obviously on the lookout for potential GARduate students.

JOIN US!!!

@garlab.bsky.social is looking for a PhD and MS student to join our team studying ecology & conservation of gars, bowfin, and other non-game native fishes beginning Spring 2026!

Posting & more info coming soon. Please DM or email srdavid@umn.edu with CV if interested!

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

EEB Mentor Match Visit the post for more.

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open!
This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too!
eebmentormatch.com

Why is this so accurate 😂

Distinct ossification trade-offs illuminate the shoulder girdle reconfiguration at the water-to-land transition - Nature Communications Gli and Hedgehog genes compound knockout fish exhibited a combination of actinopterygian fish and stem-tetrapod pectoral girdle characteristics, suggesting the evolutionary origin of terrestrial girdl...

Out earlier this week from the lab I used to work for. Happy to see this published!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the importance and practical conservation of nongame fishes ABSTRACT. Fisheries management has historically focused conservation efforts on game or sport species. However, most species are nongame—those not traditio

On the importance and practical conservation of nongame fishes
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad... by Clancy et al 2025 in latest @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪

Map of the US with red dots representing people who've signed Sea Grant support letters. The dots are largely concentrated along the ocean and Great Lakes coasts, as that's where the Sea Grant programs are located.

The Sea Grant network has supporters all over the country! Thank you for standing up on behalf of Great Lakes and ocean outreach, research, and education: buff.ly/07P5U58

If you'd like to sign onto Michigan Sea Grant's support letter to Congress, click here: buff.ly/rkqJ3AQ

Trump budget document points to ending federal role in Great Lakes science by next year Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.

The administration's preliminary FY 2026 budget requests that federal involvement in many aspects of #GreatLakes science be eliminated entirely by next year, including completely ending funding for Sea Grant programs nationwide www.freep.com/story/news/l...

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

What this administration is teaching Universities is that even if you comply - punish students for protests, ban masks, remove DEI from websites and classes - they will still defund you and try to break you apart. Basically, there is no point in complying.

go.bsky.app/PuPDq63

Protest at Federal Building

#StandPForScience2025

YouTube video by NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory NOAA in the Great Lakes

"What has NOAA ever done for me in #GreatLakes?"

NOAA employees in the region help communities become better prepared for challenges like severe weather, coastal erosion, harmful algal blooms, and invasive species www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6y...

We've got a good one for you today! This is the skull of an Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin that we caught in Okinawa. This particular fish is special because it is both the largest fish that I've ever collected, and ever scanned. S/O to @jaimiagray.bsky.social for helping out with the scan!