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Chris Goatley

@chrisgoatley.bsky.social
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Marine biologist at the University of Southampton. Researching reef fish ecology and evolution and the awesomest fish in the sea - gobies. 🐠🪸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇭🇲🏳️‍🌈

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Deadline coming up on this position soon. Spread please!
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Lara K. Mahal @glycocode.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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.
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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/...
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.
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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!
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First record of the swimming crab Charybdis (Archias) hoplites (Wood-Mason, 1877) (Portunidae) in the Atlantic | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | Cambridge Core
First record of the swimming crab Charybdis (Archias) hoplites (Wood-Mason, 1877) (Portunidae) in the Atlantic - Volume 106
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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...
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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
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.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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!
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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...
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Project Seahorse @projectseahorse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🌊 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
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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...
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Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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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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.
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🦑🧪 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...
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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…
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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
Coral Reef in the Ras Mohanned Marine Park, Egypt. Credit: Alex Mustard / Ocean Image Bank
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📣 #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
UKCEH scientist Eleonora Fitos measures a survey plot in a flowery meadow
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Beth Orcutt @deepmicrobe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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Careers - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Bigelow Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit research institute that studies the foundation of global ocean health and uses its discoveries to improve the future for all life.
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Beth Orcutt @deepmicrobe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We also have a #SciComm position open at Bigelow Lab! www.bigelow.org/about/career...
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Careers - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Bigelow Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit research institute that studies the foundation of global ocean health and uses its discoveries to improve the future for all life.
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Reposting this with about 1 month left to apply. Come work with us! 🤗
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Dr John P Keane @jpk-iii.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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...
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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is hiring an Assistant Professor in Deep-Sea Benthic Biology! Cc: @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social 🧪 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175?fbc...
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Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist - Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone! Also, there's still time to apply for a PhD with me and folks at the @nhm-london.bsky.social looking at tiny #fishes from the UK and beyond. Apply for this PhD @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social through www.findaphd.com/phds/project... and join #teamfish
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Also, your grant will be rejected on 24/12 (or 12/24 for you weird date people!)
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Jobs, jobs, jobs. Come join us here in Bristol...
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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Two phenomenal postdoc opportunities for those wanting to work on tiny (but important!) fishes, and a great team of experts to work with!
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪
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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Fish in the News @fishinthenews.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new genus and highly unusual #NewSpecies of #freshwater #SleeperGoby is described from eastern #Taiwan. #Gobies #Eleotridae 🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/v...
 I-Shiung Chen, 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new genus and species of inland water sleeper (Teleostei: Eleotridae) from eastern Taiwan, Zootaxa, Vol. 5550 No. 1, 235-239: 10 Dec. 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1.23
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Fish in the News @fishinthenews.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 and 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, two #NewSpecies of miniature #coral #gobies are described from #PapuaNewGuinea. #CoralReef #Goby #Gobiidae #Biodiversity 🔓 (direct PDF) - lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...
Courtney A. Hildebrandt, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich, Ole B. Brodnicke, O. Selma Klanten, Peter R. Møller & Marian Y. L. Wong, Two new species of 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with notes on South Pacific and Indian Ocean populations of 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑥. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 72: 488–510, 17th December 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2024-0036
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Fish in the News @fishinthenews.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
#NewSpeciesAlert - A #NewGenus ( #𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 ) and four #NewSpecies of #seagrass-specialist #clingfishes (#Gobiesocidae) from southern #Australia. 🔒 mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Conway, K.W., Moore, G.I. & Summers, A.P.: A new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia, Zootaxa, 5552 (1): 1-66, December 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5552.1.1
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
That's actually the opening to the mantle cavity. Their mantle isn't their head but their torso. Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan. See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social
How to make a cephalopod. (With cartoony drawings)
1. Remove limbs. (Smiling human with dotted lines at shoulders and hips)
2. Attach to lips. (Human with flat mouth expression, just head and torso. Arms and legs are floating above with arrows pointing from them to lips)
3. See? It works. (Smiling human cephalopod with arms and legs around mouth. Drawing of an octopus shows anatomical similarity.)How to make a cephalopod, part II. Internal anatomy. (Cartoony drawings with instructions)
1. Remove urogenital and digestive exit holes. (A human cephalopod with simplified systems in its body drawn in different colors. X's are next to the anus, urethral and genital openings)
2. Redirect exit tubes to nose. (The systems are partially rearranged, with arrows pointing to the nostril)
3. Breathe out to excrete, reproduce, and swim! (The creature looks happy and is giving a double thumbs up with the limbs attached to its lips. Internal systems are fully rearranged and an arrow points outward from the nostril)
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Clive Trueman @clivetrue.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nice write up including our recent bluefin #tuna #otolith metabolic rate and climate work on the BBC (thanks Isabelle Gerretson) www.bbc.com/future/artic... LInk to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦑 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social
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Saving bluefin tuna: The sushi delicacy threatened by climate change
Once pushed to the brink of extinction by overfishing, bluefin tuna has experienced a spectacular rebound in recent years. But can it survive the onslaught of climate change?
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
We are recruiting to 3 positions (at Lecturer/Associate Prof level): Applied Geology or Environmental Geoscience jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Coastal Marine Science jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Marine Conservation and Management jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Email me for more info!
A picture of the RRS James Cook docked outside NOCS
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I remember the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s “Allowables” — being overcome by the extraordinary thing she taught me about my own fear, its murderousness. And she did this not by standing above me, but by turning quietly and saying: see what we did?
ALLOWABLES
I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me And I smashed her
I don't think I'm allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened
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LEC Reefs @lec-reefs.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH 🦑🧪🌍
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Adrian Stier @adrianstier.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Just published: 🦀 Quick Guide to Coral Crabs! w @OsenbergLab in @CurrentBiology Take a crabtastic voyage into the fascinating world of Trapezia. Learn about their unique biology, habitat, and vital role in coral ecosystems. #MarineBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Look, it might look like just an old bottle to you, but it's home to me, OK? Lubricogobius ornatus (I think), Lembeh #Fishmas #MarineLife 🐟🌊
A small yellow fish peering out from the opening of a bottle. The bottle's neck is encrusted with algae.
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Luiz Rocha @coralreeffish.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Meet Chromis abadhah, a new species from the Maldives our team just described in collaboration with MMRI! The name abadhah means ‘perpetual’ in Dhivehi, to recognize the Rolex Perpetual Planet initiative, which funded us, and hoping that the species remains perpetual. www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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Pearlescent Blue Damselfish Just Discovered In The Maldives
Researchers report they have recently described a pale, ghostly blue damselfish living in the deep-sea reefs of the Maldives.
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Lisa Goberdhan @lisagoberdhan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀 Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
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Dan Steadman @danjsteadman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great to see better forage fish protection in the Mediterranean through the adoption of two new harvest strategies (pre-agreed decision frameworks to prevent overfishing). This will help the fisheries & biodiversity of this historically overexploited sea basin: harveststrategies.org/blog/2024/11...
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GFCM Embraces Sustainable Fishing in the Adriatic with Two New Harvest Strategies - Harvest Strategies
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) made history last week by adopting harvest control rules for Adriatic sardines and anchovies, the first for this organization. Until now, ...
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Neil Gostling/EvoPalaeoLab @neilgostling.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Do you want a larger diversity of dinosaurs? Then enjoy this paper from lead author @christijanibarker.bsky.social with @tetzoo.bsky.social @simonwills.bsky.social, Lucy Handford, Christope Hendricks, Phil Hadland, Dave Brockhurst and me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... artwork A. Hutching
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
DAY 5 #12daysofanglerfishmas Celebrating Bertella, the angler with itty bitty teeth! Our paper led by Zach Heiple of @scrippsocean.bsky.social documented a continuum of small-to-large teeth in the ceratioids. Not all anglerfish are toothy!
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Drudging through my old X posts, I found this beauty. It's so wrong but so right; I want one for my office. #teamfish
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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social you should be in this starter pack!
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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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