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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Kicking off the start of another amazing semester in #TheBestBiologyDepartment with a get-together of undergrads, grads, post-docs, faculty & staff, with welcome speeches from departments chair Dr. Matt Smith & grad officer Dr @wilson-jm.bsky.social

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The gang of Iwamites from the #FishStress tribute session to #GeorgeIwama (fifth from the left) at the #ICBF2026 conference in Vancouver. I joined George's lab at #UBC as an undergrad and went on to do my MSc with him. Great times. Thank you George for the best of starts.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Excellent session on the Environmental Physiology of Life-History Transitions at #ICBF2026 in Vancouver to honour #SteveMcCormick (USGS) co-organized by Jason Breves, Jill Leonard, and Ciaran Shaughnessy.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Congratulations to #AidenSeguin on presenting his MSc work on HKA beta subunit crispants in #MexicanTetra at #ICBF2026 in Vancouver this month.

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Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The gut group after an amazing and stimulating Gut session at #ICBF2026 in Vancouver! @wilson-jm.bsky.social @dgerman.bsky.social

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our #Biology paper on the effects of #TSS (total suspended solids) on the gills and physiological performance of five resident fish species of the Bow River (Alberta) is now out. Congratulations to Xena Montoya on this work from her MSc thesis! #NSERC_Alliance #City_of_Calgary #Laurier #UCalgary

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our #Cell&TissueResearch paper on the #extremophile Lake Magadi tilapia gill #ionocytes is now out! Life in hot (45C), salty, alkaline pH10 water. link.springer.com/article/10.1.... This work is dedicated to our long-time friend, mentor & collaborator Pierre Laurent who lives on in his papers.

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Sasha | Kai Dao 🔬 @kaidaoscience.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

8 hours. That’s all fish need to heal wounds 🐟⏱️ Why are they so fast compared to humans? I break down the science of rapid regeneration in a microscopy story 🔬 Watch here: youtu.be/Mt9f61adaP0 #FluorescenceFriday #Microscopy

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Chase Brownstein @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Please join me next Tuesday at 3:15 PM (Room 21) at #Evol2026 to learn about the complex history of complex trait loss, extinction, and evolutionary radiation in extreme ecosystems in a clade of thousands of fishes!

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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Inner Beauty 🌈🐠 Ichthyologists us a process called clearing and staining (also known as diaphonization) to expose the cartilage and skeleton of fishes. Explore our online exhibit: Inner Beauty 🩻 Skeletons Revealed from the Museum’s Fish Collection www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...

light passes through a processed fish showing its skeletal structure and internal organs in vibrant blues and reds against a white background.

Glass jar containing a preserved fish specimen in a clear liquid.

Glass jar containing a preserved fish specimen that has been processed to show its skeleton in bright blue in a clear liquid.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Congratulations to Colin Brauner for the Fry Medal at #CSZ at #Carleton! www.csz2026.ca

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our latest stomach acid knockout paper is out! #stomach #omeprazole #fish Check it out at journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Laurier contingent to Ontario Biology Days #OBD at Laurentian University this year. Great couple of days of student presentations! #Laurier #Laurentian #Biology

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Charity Blackburn presented her undergraduate thesis work on Mexican tetra pseudobranch at Ontario biology days at Laurentian University today. #laurier #obd #laurentian

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A. mexicanus are a promising model to study nutritional control of development as cavefish larvae yolks are larger & appear more yellow compared to surface fish suggesting differences in nutritional content. Reciprocal crosses show how maternally-provided nutrients impact development. #TeleostTalk 🧪

Fig. 6. The Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, as a model to study nutritional control of development. This species of small fish (~4–6 cm as adults) consists of cave-dwelling morphotypes (cavefish, A, C) and ancestral river-dwelling morphotypes (surface fish, B, D). Cavefish evolved from surface fish in perpetually dark caves and adapted to a nutrient poor diet of bat guano and material brought in by seasonal floods. The fish are easy to maintain in the laboratory and are interfertile. Cavefish larvae (C, 4 days post fertilization (dpf)) have more yolk and the yolk appears more yellow compared to surface fish (C, 4dpf) suggesting a difference in nutritional content. The yolk of F1 surface cave/hybrids produced from cavefish females (E) is more yellow compared to those produced from surface fish females (F). Comparing these reciprocal crosses will be useful for understanding how maternally provided nutrients in the yolk impact development. Scale bars = 0.5mm. (A, B) Images provided by Nicholas Rohner, Stowers Institute for Medical Research. (C–D), Images reproduced with permission from (Riddle et al., 2020). Credit figure and text to Riddle and Hu (2021).

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Hugo Flávio @hugoflavio.com · 21/09/2025

At @patferreira.bsky.social's request, a box to incubate slides during immunostaining. Might be useful to other folks out there :)

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HulloThere @jethroreading32.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Our penultimate Lonely Fish for #25DaysOfFishmas is another quite cute one. This is Triodon macropterus, the threetooth puffer. The only member of the family Triodontidae, this species is found around the Indo-Pacific at depths between ~30 and 300m.

A pale mustard-yellow fish with a big head, small mouth, and inquisitive eyes hangs out above some sand. It has tall dorsal and anal fins, a thin tail and a broad tail fin. Credit: Churaumi Fish Encyclopedia

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

MERRY #FISHMAS! It was on this day in 1938 that Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer made a discovery which would change the world — the first (non-fossil) coelacanth ever brought to the attention of science

Photo collage of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the museum she was curator of, the trawler which brought in the fish, and the mounted coelacanth specimen itself. The text reads "THE COELACANTH December 1938"

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It's Explore Your Archives week! This #EYA we are starting with Jonathan Couch's manuscript 'A Natural History of the Fishes' (MS/407): one of many items to benefit from #Conservation as part of the Society's AdoptLinn scheme. #EYAConservation buff.ly/kKRJ9oY

A densely hatched illustration of a sailing vessel on old paper.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

SEB 2025 Young Scientist Award Session Finalist in Antwerp. LEFT-RIGHT President Gudrun De Boeck, Garfield Kwan, Patrícia Ferreira, Chandler Tsang and Animal Chair Felix Mark. Three excellent talks!

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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🌍 Can’t attend #SEBconference 2025 in Antwerp? We’ve got you covered! Join online for selected livestreamed sessions and networking opportunities. 👉 www.sebiology.org/resource/vir... #VirtualConference #Biology

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Virtual access to SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025: still time to join the science

Virtual registration deadline: Tuesday 8 July 2025 ⏰

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We can't alter our vision depending on the colour of light around us, but fish can, & now scientists from @NotreDame reveal that fish fine tune their vision throughout life as the colour of the light changes, also depending on their lifestyle and diet journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Two convict cichlids, one in front of the other, swimming above a bed of sand and gravel. Photo credit: Ad Konings.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Patrícia Ferreira @patferreira.bsky.social in the Journal of Experimental Biology (@biologists.bsky.social) Early Career Research Spotlight. Check it out. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our paper on "Branchial localization of acid (A‐type) and base (B‐type) excreting ionocytes in Amazonian stenohaline freshwater Potamotrygon ray" by Mark Rossi in Journal of Fish Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... is out!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our stomach commentary is now out as part of the "Integrative Biology of the Gut’ special issue guest edited by Carol Bucking, Matt Regan and John Terblanche! Congratulations @patferreira.bsky.social ! A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

As part of our #biologists100 celebrations, marking 100 years of JEB's publisher @biologists.bsky.social & inspired by the founder G. P. Bidder, we'd love to hear about about your experiences of the Company, from Travelling Fellowships to attending Workshops biologists.com/100-years/me...

Postcard saying: Message in a bottle. Shar your story on how how The Company of Biologists has supported you in your career by sending us a virtual message in a bottle

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Congratulations to Ranim Saleem from Graham Scott's lab ‪@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social‬ winner of this year's JEB sponsored Holeton Award for her poster, Powering life at the top: Mitochondrial adaptations in high-altitude deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo

Photo of Ranim Saleem (centre) holding her JEB sponsored Holeton Award certificate at the CSZ annual meeting in Waterloo, Canada. Matt Regan, CPB Section Chair, is on the left and JEB Deputy Editor-in-Chief Pat Wright is on the right.

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Winner of the best student oral presentation Hoar Award #PatríciaFerreira at CSZ! Congratulations!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

64th Canadian Society of Zoologist annual meeting #CSZ in #Waterloo in one week's time. May 12-15 at #WilfridLaurierUniversity co-hosted with the #UniversityofWaterloo. More information at sites.google.com/view/csz-scz... 🐢🦅🦈🐿️🐸🐝🐙

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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Graduate officer Dr.Jonathan Wilson welcomes everyone to today’s #LaurierBiology MSc research symposium! @wilson-jm.bsky.social

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Aftermath of the end of the year lab lunch at the China Bowl in Waterloo. Left to Right: Kyle, Noah, Bhavik (BabaG), Alex, me, Aiden, Najiba and Raunaq. Great end to the term despite the pending ice storm.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Early-career researchers going to the CSZ-SCZ meeting in Waterloo 12-15 May, make sure you register for this fantastic JEB sponsored SciComm Workshop, run by @this_is_brit & co, to learn how to communicate your research to a wider audience bit.ly/4gR2N94

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Najiba Soudi presented her undergraduate thesis work at #Ontario_Biology_Days hosted by #Carleton_University in #Ottawa this weekend. Great job Najiba!

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This is crazy (1 year 6 months). The wait time for #work-visa used to be 6 weeks for US workers coming to #Canada. Sadly bad news for #post-docs.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at @biologists.bsky.social Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America. The Workshop will be in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador from 12 – 15 October 2025 Application deadline: 14 February focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/11/a...

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Jonathan Wilson @wilson-jm.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Finishing up at the Rice Lake Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry 34th meeting.

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