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tjnear.bsky.social
Parent, husband, ichthyologist, professor, Head Saybrook College, @Yale_EEB chair, FirstGen, Chicagoan, New Havenite. www.nearlab.org/
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Led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social with big help from Big Alex D..., coming soon to a journal...ahem Evolution...near you! #NearLab

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The conservation species concept is alive and well... biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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This is the funniest thing I have ever read about the ancient Mediterranean!

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Have to visit this fine stream to sample fish this summer, N36.925150, W-83.067460 in Harlan Co., Kentucky.

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Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost

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1/4New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species... Open access at Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Coming soon! Big update from #NearLab and collaborators on the famous Snail Darter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_d...

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Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Looking for a postdoc to do molecular work on vertebrates? The @lsumns.bsky.social is looking for a lab manager/museum postdoc (LSU Museum of Natural Science) Come work with us! #GeauxTigers lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/B000...

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Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

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Yale President's Holiday Party, December 2024

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At JMIH 2024, I gave a talk on the taxonomy of ray-finned fishes presented in a recent monograph by Chris Thacker and I. I was mucking around with Zoom and made this video that is a slightly longer version of that talk. I hope you enjoy and can lead to discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66l...

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Completed the longest single day drive in my life...Little Rock, Arkansas to New Haven, CT...1,32 miles in 19.5 hours with @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Back from Southeastern Fishes Council Meeting and field work in the upper Tennessee! #NearLab

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Last night as we head to the upper Clinch River to sample Mirror Shiners and Banded Darters. Decamped at Claypool Hill, Virginia #NearLab

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New from the #NearLab, “Dispersal sweepstakes: Biotic interchange propelled air-breathing fishes across the globe” in J. Biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Behind a paywall DM if with email address is you would like a PDF

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4/4 Pollichthys mauli, Polymetme, Yarrella, Vinciguerria, and Ichthyococcus do not resolve with other lineages that are delimited in named Linnaean taxonomic families and there are no available family-group names to accommodate any of these genera. Time to get to work!

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3/4 The lack of a phylogenetic resolution within Stomiiformes is reflected by the deep paraphyly of Phosichthyidae, which prevents the establishment of a ranked Linnaean classification where the taxonomic families reflect monophyletic groups

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2/4 Classified in four taxonomic families and monophyletic, relationships within Stomiiformes are not consistent among molecular analyses and there is no morphological phylogenetic study that includes a robust sampling of the major lineages in the clade

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1/4 Ray-fin Taxonomy Monday: in our (@thackfish) actinopterygian classification zenodo.org/records/8352... we highlight the phylogenetic mess that is the deep-sea Stomiiformes (dragonfishes, lightfishes, loosejaws, marine hatchetfishes and viperfishes)

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