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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🦄 A history of the fishes of the British Islands.. London, Groombridge and Sons, 1862-65.. [Source]

Seahorse illustration from historical archives

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OTD in 1836, HMS Beagle docked at Falmouth, after a 5 year voyage. Charles Darwin wrote in his diary, “To my surprise and shame, I confess the first sight of the shores of England inspired me with no warmer feelings, than if it had been a miserable Portuguese settlement.” 🌱🐋🧪#HistSTM #STS

Watercolor of HMS Beagle at anchor by Owen Stanley

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🐠 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Historical illustration showing five vibrantly colored fish with exaggerated features. The largest fish at top left has a bulky body with bold stripes in pink, yellow, and blue-green, sharp teeth, spiny dorsal fins, and rounded tail fins. Below it, a rounded angelfish with a prominent, bulbous head displays a pink body, green face, and yellow-striped fins with black dots on the chest fin. Other fish include a slender, striped fish with fin rays resembling spikes, a stout fish with vivid pink, green, and yellow markings, and the smallest, a yellow fish adorned with black diamond patterns and green fins. Each fish is labeled with number and French descriptions.

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We like to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Applications due Nov 1, so get in touch soom! #EndlessFishMostBeautiful www.fishevodevogeno.org Pls repost!

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Photograph of Morgan's Fly Room at Columbia University, around 1920. American Philosophical Society.

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Xtremo-Devo Lab @ WMU @xtremo-devo-lab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last day to register for #AQMHD2026! It's going to be a fun time in Woods Hole!

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As we keep saying: the impact of the teleost fish whole duplication has been profound! #EndlessFishMostTasteful

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Ashley D'Souza @ashleydsouza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my latest story for the Smithsonian, I was lucky enough to get to know the American paddlefish – a threatened fish that predates the dinosaurs and has incredible sensory capabilities thanks to its long snoot. s.si.edu/4y7NGS7

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Meet the Spatula-Nosed Fish Whose Anatomy Has Hardly Changed Since the Cretaceous

The National Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition “From These Lands” features an American paddlefish, the last surviving species of an ancient lineage of fishes that predates dinosaurs

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🦄 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Historical illustration from 1754 showing four stylized, vibrantly colored fish labeled 9 to 12. Fish 9 is elongated, pink with green fins and a notable open mouth with sharp teeth. Fish 10 is round and deep blue-gray with yellow and red striped patterns near its head and red eye. Fish 11 is small, pink with yellow and orange markings and a whimsical expression. Fish 12 is greenish with an aggressive face, large mouth with teeth, and yellow fins. The detailed, imaginative colors and shapes reflect an 18th-century artistic approach to marine life, blending real and fantastical elements linked to the concept of a "unicorn" in mythical symbolism.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lines

chromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.

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Quake & Quiver @quakeandquiver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Learning about bristlemouths this week for #SundayFishSketch

A pen and ink drawing of a bristlemouth fish, with black background and heavy black shadows, blue red and green crosshatching, and a wide open jaw reminiscent of a xenomorph

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MSU labs. If you haven't seen it, new warning from IPF about possible power surge sometime between midnight and 3 am. Unplug sensitive equipment if not on surge protector! I'll copy email below.

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Smith, Musilova & @astridboehne@bsky.social find new sex chromosomes in a group of cichlids from Lake Tanganyika and show that while these involve the same chromosome pairs, the sex chromosomes evolved independently. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution

GBE | Same Sex Chromosomes With Independent Origins in Haplochromine Cichlids

Known sex chromosomes, and sex-linked regions thereof, of African haplochromine cichlid fishes, relative to the genome of Astatotilapia calliptera (bottom-left illustration). While there is great diversity of sex chromosomes and regions of sex linkage across this clade, LG5 and LG7 frequently reappear as sex-linked, particularly within the Lake Tanganyika-specific tribe of haplochromines, the Tropheini. Sex-linked regions on LG5 and LG7 are shown, highlighted in blue for XY systems and orange for ZW systems. In species in which sex-linkage is not known, this is marked with ‘?’. Other known sex chromosomes are listed on the right. Species included in this study are marked in bold. Proposed origins of different sex determination systems or genes are shown with yellow arrows on tree branches, while losses are shown with black arrows.

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#EvoDevoMondays - ⭐️Meet our speaker⭐️ Angelly Vasquez Correa @angellyvasco.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow University of Toronto Angelly's talk: Developmental and Evolutionary Mechanisms Underlying the Reversals of Polyphenic Traits in Ants

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#EvoDevoMondays - ⭐️Meet our speaker⭐️ Amy L. Herbert Assistant Professor University of Chicago Amy's talk: Sea robins as a model for dramatic evolutionary innovations

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Mike Dorrity @mwdorr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🧫 We’re hiring a staff/research scientist to develop new experimental approaches that capture cell state dynamics. Join us in Heidelberg, details + application here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hei... Closes September 30th

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Laboratory Officer

The Dorrity group at EMBL Heidelberg is seeking a motivated and skilled molecular biologist to join as a Laboratory Officer. Our group uses cutting-edge single-cell genomic techniques to study how cel...

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Marco Podobnik @mpodobnik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Our @natrevgenet.nature.com article out now. This is a hymn to danionin fishes, with sections on phylogeny, reproduction, immunity, morphology, regeneration and behaviour. rdcu.be/CntbxvfZsUba

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When it comes to Beatles references, scientists can’t let it be. New study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers—more than any other musical group. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Scientists really love to reference The Beatles in their work

New study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers.

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An Evolutionary Treasure: a feature of our work in the Spartan Science Magazine @msunatsci.bsky.social spartanscience.natsci.msu.edu/an-evolution... #EndlessGarsMostBeautiful

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

First day of #sabbatical @embl.org - Looking forward to an inspirational research stay with the @mwdorr.bsky.social group!

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

😸 Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes London R.H. Porter 1890 [Source]

Illustration from 1890 showing a common fox (Canis vulpes) with reddish-brown fur, white underbelly, black legs, and a bushy tail tipped in white. The fox is depicted mid-step on grassy ground near a weathered wooden fence with green leaves and thorny branches behind it. The detailed, colored drawing highlights the fox’s alert expression and slender build.

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The biodiversity sparked by the teleost genome duplication is remarkable… #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay. Black dragonfish are built for life in the darkness of the deep ocean. Their ultra-black skin helps them stay camouflaged from prey like fishes and crustaceans. 🐉🖤⁠

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🦘 The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Du 1810-1817. [Source]

Illustration of a fish with blue-gray scales along its back and a lighter, almost white belly. It has a large, round orange eye with a black pupil and a small open mouth. The fish's fins, including the tail fin, are detailed with visible rays. The background is an aged handwritten manuscript page with cursive text faintly visible behind the fish drawing. The image appears to be a historic hand-painted naturalist illustration from the early 19th century. Despite the title mentioning kangaroo, the main subject shown is the fish, labeled "The Herrong" on the page.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 04/09/2026

A new cohort of juvenile lumpfish just joined the Into the Deep/En Lo Profundo exhibit! They hatched behind the scenes on January 2 and spent the past months being raised by our expert animal care staff! Learn more about the amazing lumpfish at: mbayaq.co/462IbIb #LumpfishBabies #MarineConservation

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🦄 M.E. Blochii ... Systema ichthyologiae iconibus CX illustratum v.2 Berolini: Sumtibus auctoris impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, 1801. [Source]

Historical black and white illustration of a fish labeled "Monoceros biaculeatus," resembling a unicorn fish. The fish has a deep, laterally compressed body with large, detailed dorsal and anal fins covered in fine lines. Its head features a prominent, pointed horn-like projection above its large round eye, evoking a unicorn's horn. The tail fin is forked, with two distinct circular markings near its base. The image is signed by J.F. Hennig and appears on aged paper, from an 1801 ichthyology volume by M.E. Bloch, emphasizing intricate linework and anatomical detail.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🦄 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Historical illustration showing four exotic fish species labeled with numbers and names: a striped, diamond-shaped fish with red and gray vertical bands and a red mouth; a slender, elongated orange fish with blue oval spots and a long, curved horn-like protrusion on its head, named "Gaya" and described as a "species of paradise fish"; a broad, brown fish with blue spots and a large rounded tail; and a colorful fish with blue, yellow, and pink stripes and a crescent-shaped tail. The detailed, vibrant colors and fantastical forms reflect 18th-century artistic style in depicting marine life with imaginative variations.

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 27/08/2026

定期的にTLを騒がせることに定評がある、内蔵に猛毒をもつソウシハギ

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🌟2027 PASEDB Meeting Poster Competition🌟 We are happy to announce the 2027 PASEDB Meeting Poster Competition in which we will recognize the artistic and creative side of our community Guidelines: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... Submit poster: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Join us 🌟 #EvoDevoMondays 🗓️September 21, 2026 Speakers 🐜 Angelly Vasquez Correa @angellyvasco.bsky.social 🐟 Amy L. Herbert Session chair Professor Robert D. Reed #PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo @the-node.bsky.social @latinxdb.bsky.social @lasdb.bsky.social

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Darrin T. Schultz @dts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Five-panel diagram explaining fusion-with-mixing in chromosome evolution. Red and blue represent two different ancestral chromosomes throughout.

A, Fusion-with-mixing: a red chromosome and a blue chromosome fuse into one half-red, half-blue bar. Down the page, successive rows show inversions, drawn as X-shaped crossings between rows, progressively interleaving the two colors until the bottom bar is finely striped. A widening gray wedge labeled Entropy runs alongside an arrow marked Time plus evolution, pointing down.

B, Independent regulation: two separate chromosomes, one red and one blue. In each, a regulatory element, drawn as an oval, acts by an arrow on a gene within its own chromosome only.

C, FWM and novel regulation: on a fused, mixed chromosome, a red gene and a blue gene now sit next to each other across an inversion breakpoint. Red and blue arrows show regulatory elements reaching across it to act on the other chromosome's gene.

D, Regulatory entanglement: an extensively mixed chromosome, finely striped. Below it, a row of alternating red and blue genes is linked by a dense web of crossing curved arrows, so many overlapping regulatory connections that unmixing the chromosome would break them.

E, Emergence of entangled loci: a five-species phylogeny. A red and a blue chromosome fuse at an ancestral node, and helical icons on later branches mark continued mixing. Colored boxes mark four new red-blue regulatory interactions arising after inversions. Species A keeps its two chromosomes separate. In species B through E, the two earliest interactions, cyan boxes 1 and 2, are present in every descendant lineage, while later ones, yellow 3 and magenta 4, appear in fewer.

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

NHGRI is recruiting genomics oriented researchers through the Stadtman mechanism. It is also open to any kind of research, the goal is to match your interests to an institute. The applications are now open until Oct. 1st. Details below:

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Maxwell Shafer @maxshafer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do you have trouble sleeping when away from home or your partner and family? In our latest, we find that shells 🐚🏠 (homes) and conspecifics 🐟❤️ (family) control (or mask) circadian rhythms in shell dwelling cichlid fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

Alt: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 12/08/2026

毒魚で有名なゴンズイ。海でこちらから近づいてもむこうは逃げていくので、刺されるのが難しいくらい。むしろ、釣れたり、網で採ったときに刺されやすいので注意した方が良い。

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EvoDevo PanAm @evodevopanam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

PASEDB community🌟 Submit a symposium proposal for PASEDB 2027 in Ithaca NY! Application should be submitted here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Glad to have participated in this excellent workshop @stowersinstitute.bsky.social - Great faculty candidates - research institutions of the world, get ‘em before somebody else does!

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tag yourself with your current location!

A map in the style of Tolkein titled 'The Map of Manuscript Earth'. This is something I'm calling 'artography' - and it lists lots of geographic locations on the way to submitting a (scientific) manuscript.

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Vertebrate Genomes Project @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We are excited to officially share the first fully phased telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome for a songbird! 🐦 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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The Complete Genome of a Songbird

a major milestone in bird genomics

This new genome closes nearly all previous gaps, including complex heterochromatic regions, microchromosomes, and sex chromosomes. Built using a combination of PacBio HiFi long reads, ONT ultra-long reads, Arima Genomics Hi-C reads for chromosome scaffolding, and Illumina parental short reads for haplotype phasing, this T2T assembly provides an unprecented view of the zebra finch genome and advances research of vocal learning and evolution.

featured in a special issue in Cell

Images:
- Article title and authors
- QR code for manuscript
- Cell T2T issue cover

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Rafael D. Acemel @rdacemel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Acemel lab is #hiring!! :) We are looking for a PhD student to join us at @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social to study developmental plasticity, epigenetics and evolution using medaka 🐟 and AI models 💻 . Deadline for applications 4th of September. See more details 👇

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