@fishevodevogeno.bsky.social
Lobe-finned, gene hunting garfishionados & proud members of the tetrapod fishes. Read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. www.fishevodevogeno.org
A group of Grooved Razorfish swim vertically, using their thin bodies to blend into coral and avoid predators.
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The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.
#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Polypterus???
#Lungfish
🙏 to many more not pictured here!
On International Women's Day, we are very grateful to all the strong female researchers that made our lab a success story over the last decade! 🙏 🙏 🙏
#WomenInScience
Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.
Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽
#WomenInScience
www.nature.com/articles/ng....
#OTD 10 years ago we published the spotted #gar genome. 600+ citations later, we are proud of its impact on vertebrate genomics. @jpostlethwait.bsky.social
Check out the new assemblies generated with @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
#EndlessFishMostBeautiful
Oh no, then we’d actually have to do the work!
Back at the Beach -YAY!
#AquaticModels
My finger and I are still here.
Cambrian Carnival
Yes and this is the right way to do laundry:
Based on available data for living species, there are 37,520 species of non-tetrapod fishes vs. 33,281 tetrapod species. 🤓 #TheMoreYouKnow
Source for non-tetrapod fish species data: researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ich...
Source for tetrapod species data:
zenodo.org/records/1053...
Is recently was in a jewelers store in Breckenridge, CO that also sold fossil. I naively asked about the price for a paddlefish fossil. Just $19K. How silly of me to even ask…
@tonygamble.bsky.social ?
Thanks @patyschneider22.bsky.social for a wonderful visit to @michiganstateu.bsky.social and a great talk in our #EEB seminar series! Check out her lab’s recent preprint on the four-eyed fish retina: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#EndlessFishMostBeautiful
As we count down to #DarwinDay, we're re-visiting some great pieces on why we teach evolution! "Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself." https://ncse.ngo/why-teach-evolution-1
Midwest: the best!
Congrats @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social !!! He is doing some of the most important work bringing Dev Bio to the 21st century...
(the other winners are pretty good too I hear)
I just learned the history, and current significance, of red knitted hats to resistance movements: www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
Makes these gar stickers I received (years ago) from @drandrewthaler.bsky.social even more relevant today, especially here in Minnesota!
❤️
Why would Switzerland dissolve its Science Council? Saving no money and losing expertise which Swiss education, research and innovation need.
swr-web.vercel.app/en/blog/stel...
And of course, the gang had to check out the new @msumuseum.bsky.social exhibit on fish X-ray vision diversity. All three main lineages of “fishes” on one wall, what more can you ask for? Ray, coelacanth, and yours garly represent. 🐟🐠🐡
#EndlessFishMostBeautiful
#Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)
