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chrisgoatley.bsky.social
Marine biologist at the University of Southampton. Researching reef fish ecology and evolution and the awesomest fish in the sea - gobies. 🐠πŸͺΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡­πŸ‡²πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ
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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...

🌊 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

Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟πŸ§ͺ

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...

We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need β€” Leading to Conservation Concerns www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth... β€œRegardless 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 πŸΌπŸΈπŸ˜πŸŠπŸ¦˜πŸ πŸ‹πŸ¦ˆπŸ¦§πŸ¦‚πŸ¦πŸ

πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ 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! πŸ€— fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…

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 πŸ¦‘ πŸ§ͺ 🌊 🌍

πŸ“£ #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

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...

We also have a #SciComm position open at Bigelow Lab! www.bigelow.org/about/career...

Reposting this with about 1 month left to apply. Come work with us! πŸ€—

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...

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 πŸ§ͺ apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175?fbc...

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

Also, your grant will be rejected on 24/12 (or 12/24 for you weird date people!)

Jobs, jobs, jobs. Come join us here in Bristol...

#DeepSeaAdvent (20/25) + #Fishmas #FishFriday Jonah's icefish, Neopagetopsis ionah: creators of an astonishing "city" of ~60 million nests ~500 m deep in the Weddell Sea... ...covering ~240 km2 (4 x area of Manhattan Island). www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdSI... [πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡]

Two phenomenal postdoc opportunities for those wanting to work on tiny (but important!) fishes, and a great team of experts to work with!

🚨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 🀏🐠πŸ§ͺ. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ

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...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #πΉπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘šπ‘œπ‘ π‘Žπ‘›π‘’π‘™π‘’π‘œπ‘‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘  β„Žπ‘’π‘Žπ‘™π‘–π‘’π‘›π‘’π‘›π‘ π‘–π‘ , a new genus and highly unusual #NewSpecies of #freshwater #SleeperGoby is described from eastern #Taiwan. #Gobies #Eleotridae πŸ”“ mapress.com/zt/article/v...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #πΊπ‘œπ‘π‘–π‘œπ‘‘π‘œπ‘› π‘π‘œπ‘π‘’π‘›π‘—π‘Žπ‘šπ‘–π‘›π‘ π‘–π‘  and πΊπ‘œπ‘π‘–π‘œπ‘‘π‘œπ‘› π‘π‘–π‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘£π‘œπ‘™π‘–π‘›π‘’π‘Žπ‘‘π‘’π‘ , two #NewSpecies of miniature #coral #gobies are described from #PapuaNewGuinea. #CoralReef #Goby #Gobiidae #Biodiversity πŸ”“ (direct PDF) - lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...

#NewSpeciesAlert - A #NewGenus ( #π‘€π‘’π‘™π‘Žπ‘›π‘œπ‘β„Žπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘–π‘β„Žπ‘‘β„Žπ‘¦π‘  ) and four #NewSpecies of #seagrass-specialist #clingfishes (#Gobiesocidae) from southern #Australia. πŸ”’ mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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... πŸ¦‘ @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

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!

I remember the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s β€œAllowables” β€” 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?

You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟πŸͺΈπŸŽ£πŸοΈ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ🌍

Just published: πŸ¦€ 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...

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 🐟🌊

Meet Chromis abadhah, a new species from the Maldives our team just described in collaboration with MMRI! The name abadhah means β€˜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...

πŸ“’New Paper AlertπŸ“’ (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs πŸ¦€ Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

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...

#DeepSeaAdvent (5/25) Paroriza pallens: a sea-cucumber romance. Finding a mate is a challenge on sparsely populated abyssal plains. So if you encounter a potential partner, stick with them. Paroriza pallens record the story of their union in twin tracks inscribed on the mud of the seafloor. [πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡]

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

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!

Drudging through my old X posts, I found this beauty. It's so wrong but so right; I want one for my office. #teamfish

@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social you should be in this starter pack!