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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Sep 4

New species alert! A Pascua goby from the Coral Sea. This genus now contains four species. Two from the Eastern Pacific and two from Australia, with more than 5,500km separating them. Lots of fun describing my second new species. #TeamFish #Fish
doi.org/10.3390/fish...

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · Aug 27

New osteological characteristics identify the first stem sleeper goby (Gobioidei, Odontobutidae) from the upper Eocene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

At the top: a photograph of a fossil fish: Paralates chapelcornerensis (NHMUK PV P 76993a) lying on its side horizontally on a fine grained yellow/brown rock matrix. Scale bar in lower right corner is 5 mm.
Middle: an artist's reconstruction of the same fish, anatomically accurate based on fossil material with colouring based on extant genus Micropercops and preserved pigmentation visible in one of the fossil dorsal fins.
At the bottom: a map of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England with the fossil locality near Ryde (on the northeastern coast of the island) marked with a yellow star.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Aug 26

There's something of a game theory problem here. I could take my holiday in, say, mid-October and mid-March, periods where few others do. And while I may come back to a larger inbox, think of all the work I could get done in August/December/January with everyone else gone!

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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · May 16

Bleekeri!

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · Apr 21

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...

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Project Seahorse @projectseahorse.bsky.social · Mar 18

🌊 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

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · Mar 7

Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪

Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Mar 7

Physics and physiology of fish collective movement

Zhang & Lauder, 2025

www.cell.com/newton/fullt...

Fish schools are three-dimensional, with fish constantly rearranging their positions relative to each other. Fish can school in groups in a circular motion with little mean forward velocity or undertake active directional locomotion where the group moves forward along a common mean path as shown (photos via Getty Images).

Illustration of the hydrodynamic sheltering hypothesis for collective movement

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Feb 25

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...

Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute

“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned

www.science.org

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · Feb 25

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
🐼🐸🐘🐊🦘🐠🐋🦈🦧🦂🦁🐍

We Don't Give Uglier Animals The Love They Need — Leading to Conservation Concerns

Ugly animals need love too. Learn why we need to overcome our aversion to ugly animals to help with research and conservation.

www.discovermagazine.com

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · Feb 11

🦑🧪 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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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · Feb 4

Ah, to be an estivating lungfish in these times…

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · Feb 4

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Jan 23

Could you add me please!

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James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social · Jan 23

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 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

Coral Reef in the Ras Mohanned Marine Park, Egypt. Credit: Alex Mustard / Ocean Image Bank

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jan 16

📣 #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

UKCEH scientist Eleonora Fitos measures a survey plot in a flowery meadow

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Beth Orcutt @deepmicrobe.bsky.social · Jan 16

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...

Careers - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Bigelow Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit research institute that studies the foundation of global ocean health and uses its discoveries to improve the future for all life.

www.bigelow.org

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Beth Orcutt @deepmicrobe.bsky.social · Jan 16

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

Careers - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Bigelow Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit research institute that studies the foundation of global ocean health and uses its discoveries to improve the future for all life.

www.bigelow.org

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · Jan 10

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

Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · Dec 18

🚨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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Dr John P Keane @jpk-iii.bsky.social · Jan 11

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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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · Jan 8

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...

Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist - Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Dec 24

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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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Dec 23

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

Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · Dec 23

Saw a version of this earlier but couldn't help refining it...

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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Dec 23

A few different studies, but mainly, putting a load in individual containers with various food items and weighing them and prey over a few months - very little change. The outcome was that they seemed to be scavengers of damaged/unwell mussels which can't close well.

Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Dec 22

This was the subject of my Honours dissertation. Trying to find out what they eat revealed that they don't eat much!

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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · Dec 21

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

University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · Dec 17

We want you to work with us!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences:

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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Chris Goatley @chrisgoatley.bsky.social · Dec 20

True, but it highlights that many people are likely fine with the idea.

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