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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...

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We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need — Leading to Conservation Concerns www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth... “Regardless 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 🐼🐸🐘🐊🦘🐠🐋🦈🦧🦂🦁🐍

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🦑🧪 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! 🤗 fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...

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Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…

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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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

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📣 #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

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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...

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

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Reposting this with about 1 month left to apply. Come work with us! 🤗

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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...

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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 🧪 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175?fbc...

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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

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

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

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#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... [🧵👇]

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

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🚨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 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

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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...

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Tha deich bliadhna ga chomharrachadh bho chaidh pòsadh aona-ghnèitheach a cheadachadh ann an Alba! (10 years since same-sex marriage was legalized in Scotland!) 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥳 #Gàidhlig fb.watch/wwWRGDUx6v/

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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... 🦑 @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social

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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!

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I remember the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s “Allowables” — 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?

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This is an astonishing statistic, which most people don’t appreciate. When we phase out fossil fuels, we can eliminate 40% of international shipping along with it.

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You can keep up with the whole LEC REEFS gang via our starter pack! 🐟🪸🎣🏝️ go.bsky.app/3m4FFzH 🦑🧪🌍

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Just published: 🦀 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...

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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 🐟🌊

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

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

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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...

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#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. [🧵👇]

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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

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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!

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

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

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New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We can now all go out and look for #coelacanth using #eDNA! How cool is that?! #IMCC7 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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