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Donald Davesne @donalddavesne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Meet Dibango volans, a very weird fossil teleost 🐟 from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy! Full article now available open access in @thepalass.bsky.social Papers in Palaeontology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3

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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 21/01/2025

Published in @cybiumsfi.bsky.social (2024)vol.48(4) "An unexplored anatomic region for phylogenetics : Architecture of the epicranial portion of the dorsal fin of the Bothidae (Teleostei: Pleuronectiformes)" Chanet, B. @isyeb.mnhn.fr #Anatomy #Dorsal_fin #Phylogeny 🐟 doi.org/10.26028/CYB...

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Phylogenomics of marine angelfishes: diagnosing sources of systematic discordance for an iconic reef fish family (F: Pomacanthidae). Baraf et al. 2025 preprint in Systematic Biology An ultraconserved elements phylogeny of the marine angelfishes with a deep dive into discordance in the tree.

Figure 2. Species tree for 45 pomacanthid species generated by IQ-TREE v.2.2.2 from concatenated
UCE alignments (95% taxon completeness, corrected contigs). Node numbers represent ultrafast
bootstrap support values UFBoot < 95, gene (gCF)  50 and 75% and site (sCF)  50 concordance
factors. Node letters represent nodes highlighted in Table 2. Photographs by François Libert, Jake
Adams, Gregory McFall and Klaus Stifel (CC BY-NY 2.0

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Eli Amson @eliamson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out! tinyurl.com/msvntnd9

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Really looking forward to this book of poems - he presented an amazing poem at NAPC 2024. Dr. Brandon Kilbourne’s “debut poetry collection [Natural History] that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award” apnews.com/article/cave...

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Research biologist based in Berlin receives $10,000 prize given to unpublished Black poets

A biologist’s debut poetry collection that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award.

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Donald Davesne @donalddavesne.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Very cool paper and approach! A highly recommended read!

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Chris Martinez @cmartinez.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Came across this glorious Pac-Man impersonator, Bathophilus brevis, while measuring fishes at the Scripps collection with @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social. It just decided that all it needed in life was a huge mouth and a tail 😂

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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What would you most like to know about #lungfishes? ... Why they have such ginormous genomes? How they breathe air? How they embarrassed taxonomists? Check out my Quick Guide, published in Current Biology today: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Lungfishes

Alice Clement introduces the lungfishes, a group of sarcopterygian fishes that uses lungs to breathe and is the living sister group to tetrapod vertebrates.

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Donald Davesne @donalddavesne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Blennies are some of my faves. They are the perfect mix of goofy, kinda ugly and cute. (Parablennius pilicornis - Lanzarote, Canary Islands)

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Pierre Kerner @ssaft.com · 18/09/2016

Les bébés poissons lunes sont acérés mais mignons ssaft.com/Blog/dotclear/?post/2012/…

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It would be impossible to cover bioluminescence for #25DaysOfFishmas and not discuss lanternfish. They are, by biomass, the most important group of mesopelagic fish, and are highly diverse, so I've just picked my personal favourite - Lampadena speculigera, the mirror lanternfish.

A glossy, jet-black fish placed on a white measuring board with centimetre and millimetre markings - the fish is approximately 10cm in length. The tail fin is deeply forked, and just forwards of this there are two large white light organs that are highly reflective on the top and bottom of the caudal peduncle, the fleshy part of the tail. The dorsal fin is large and placed just forwards of the midpoint of the fish. The fish is fusiform in shape. It has a large eye which reflects back a dim, glassy green, the only pop of colour on the whole animal. The scales are an obsidian black. Credit: Own photo.

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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 03/12/2024

📺Podcast vidéo du séminaire @isyeb.bsky.social avec Isabelle Collet, Professeure à l'Université de Genève. Présentation intitulée Femmes et numérique. A voir sur YouTube #ISYEB @mnhn.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs.bsky.social #EPHE-PSL - #Université_des_Antilles ➡️ isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/agenda/is...

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Donald Davesne @donalddavesne.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For my first post here, I am very pleased to announce that this week I start a permanent position as assistant professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris!

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