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jcorush.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Illinois Natural History Survey @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ichthyology, macroevolution, hybridization, and conservation University of Tennessee - EEB & Drake University Alum https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Xh3zefgAAAAJ
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Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Some of you may be interested in this: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

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Pleased to see this publication led by @jcorush.bsky.social that I helped out with on the role of factors driving genetic structure of mottled sculpin in Illinois, where it is a state-threatened fish species. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New fish book alert! On this #FishFriday, "Fishes of the Chicago Region" was just released. Detailed info on species distributions & natural history observations for >150 species in SE Wisconsin, NE Illinois, northern Indiana, and SW Michigan. Check it out... www.amazon.com/Fishes-Chica...

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Some microphagous fishes have a unique pocket-like throat structure, epibranchial organ (EBO), that helps gather tiny food particles. New study of 13 species reveals diverse EBO anatomy, weak phylogenetic ties & possible link to diet Evans et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Polar bears and their lower-latitude cousins—brown bears—have a complicated past! Genomes from a >115,000 year old polar bear and 65 modern bears reveal that although polar bears and brown bears began diverging >1 mya, they hybridized up until ~200 kya. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200016119

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New study by @tribblelab.bsky.social @jimarcor.bsky.social @marcialescudero.bsky.social Michael May, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and myself just out: Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi

submitted 198 days ago • 54 comments

For scientists interested in large lakes of the world. Contact us if you'd like to be added. Space still available.

submitted 186 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 188 days ago • 48 comments

Pleased to share our new paper studying the adaptive diversification of body shape in catfishes of the superfamily Doradoidea and exploration of the evolution of modularity and integration. DOI: doi.org/10.1643/i202... 50-day free access link: www.ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbd/bxi20...

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Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans. 🐟🧪🦑🌎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

🧪🐟 Pleased to share a new study led by my grad student Roberto Cucalón on resolving the distributions of Forbesichthys cavefishes using genomics. Big team of collaborators to thank including @jcorush.bsky.social @markdavis79.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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