James Andrews

If universities anywhere are hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Paleontologist please let me know! I'm on the market for Tenure Track positions!!

You can find more about my research on fish evolution here: rtfigueroa.wixsite.com/my-site

18.06.2025 19:40 — 👍 31    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1

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.

12.09.2025 19:56 — 👍 68    🔁 57    💬 2    📌 3

Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15
www.cell.com/current-biol...

01.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 183    🔁 67    💬 8    📌 7

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 48992    🔁 12521    💬 1141    📌 439

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

03.02.2025 04:39 — 👍 17920    🔁 4861    💬 343    📌 319

Relief models of early fishes on rectangular blocks, arranged in two columns in a box.

Inner side of box lid containing fish models. Depicts a phylogeny (of sorts) of vertebrates with lots of dotted lines and branches that don't connect at the base.

Fantastic boxed set of Paleozoic fish models from Ward's, scared up by Matt Kolmann.

30.01.2025 21:14 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

If landmarking three-dimensional data, try Slicer. If landmarking two-dimensional data, you could landmark in ImageJ. You’d import either the 2D or 3D landmark constellations into R and analyze in a package like geomorph.

19.01.2025 22:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interested in Carboniferous vertebrates from the North American continent? Check out our new publication in the Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan series. dx.doi.org/10.7302/25119

14.01.2025 22:10 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 4

If you’re ever in the area, the Cabela’s in Hamburg, Pennsylvania has a superb trout stream + pond and aquarium. I recall it being even better than the Dundee location.

02.01.2025 01:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A wooden bridge crossing over a stream that runs through a coniferous forest, with a waterfall in the foreground.

A forced perspective shot to make a thin break in the rocks appear larger than they are. Cliffsides of Pictured Rocks visible on the horizon.

A forced perspective shot to make a small, sandy cliff appear larger. The sun is setting in the background.

Dusk over a calm, shallow inlet of Lake Superior. A crescent moon is visible on the left horizon.

Some of my favorite photos from a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan several summers ago.

06.12.2024 18:54 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio

go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

19.11.2024 02:59 — 👍 265    🔁 155    💬 41    📌 5

They’re sclerotic ossicles! They are embedded in the soft tissues of the eyes and can be found in a number of unrelated fishes. People debate their function, but they are potentially useful in keeping the eyeball shape when swimming at high speeds. Deformed shape means lens will not be in focus.

15.11.2024 04:47 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0