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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · Jun 23

This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · Jun 23

We're hiring a postdoc!👀
Join us to explore the amazing world of (deep-sea) fish vision! We're looking for a curious researcher to work with histology, FISH, and even crispr!
Apply by 14 July 2025.
Thks for sharing!
#PostdocJobs #DeepSea #FishVision #Evolution www.fishevo.com/open-postdoc...

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our latest on the use of colour in marine critters - this one is about fiddler crabs waving their enlarged claw as a predator distraction 🦀

Watch the movie for some good entertainment ;)

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jun 20

New from #BiologyLetters: Fiddler crab claws work as a deflection antipredator defence buff.ly/lDqadIG | #AnimalBehaviour #Ecology #Evolution

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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · Jun 7

We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

CrossFilt: A Cross-species Filtering Tool that Eliminates Alignment Bias in Comparative Genomics Studies

Comparative functional genomic studies are often affected by biased read mapping across species due to inter-species differences in genome structure, sequence composition, and annotation quality. We d...

doi.org

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · Jun 2

New review on deep-sea fish vision and the contribution of genomic and transcriptomic data. Part of the future special issue on vision in challenging environments in Functional Ecology:-). With @drfishvis.bsky.social in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Jun 2

💥 New perspective out in @functionalanalysis.bsky.social w. @fishevo.bsky.social

An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep‐sea fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme 🐟🧬👀 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep‐sea fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · May 21

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef

Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...

www.biorxiv.org

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · May 10

3/3 Once the larvae have hatched they enter a 10-14 day pelagic phase where they need to feed like crazy on various types of zooplankton (copepods, rotifers and brine shrimps in the lab) before they return to the reef, or in our case the pot, to settle and metamorphose into a mini #nemo

Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · May 10

2/n Once the eggs have been successfully fertilised, they will turn black after 2-3 days as the embryos begin to develop their black pigment in the skin.

After ~8-10 d the eyes start silvering up and the embryos will hatch shortly thereafter, this usually occurs at night. See next post for larvae

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · May 10

1/n Amphiprion percula aka #nemo ready to spawn. This is one of our most proficient breeding pairs in the University of Queensland breeding colony. The female will adhere her eggs to the pot for the male to fertilise —> see next post

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · May 9

A vertebrate #vision community effort to standardise the way we call image forming photoreceptors, with new marker genes to delineate the receptor types.
👀📸📞

PR0 = rod photoreceptor
PR1 = formerly lws receptor
PR2 …
PR3 …

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina

Vertebrate photoreceptors have been studied for well over a century, but a fixed nomenclature for referring to orthologous cell types across species has been lacking. In this Consensus View, the autho...

journals.plos.org

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Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social · May 3

1/11 New #OpenAccess #anglerfish paper in @plosone.org! We combine genomic, mitochondrial, and morphological data to produce the most complete evolutionary hypothesis for anglerfishes! Includes new body shape, habitat analyses, and a new frogfish subfamily) 🦑
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A total-evidence phylogenetic approach to understanding the evolution, depth transitions, and body-shape changes in the anglerfishes and allies (Acanthuriformes: Lophioidei)

The anglerfishes and allies (Lophioidei) are a diverse group of fishes with over 400 carnivorous species that are renowned for their remarkable hunting behavior employing a modified first dorsal-fin s...

doi.org

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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · Apr 29

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Adam T. Downie @adamdownunder.bsky.social · Apr 28

Our 🚨new paper🚨 in @globalchangebio.bsky.social reviews & roadmaps how physiology can improve our understanding of 🔥#climatechange🔥 induced #tropicalisation🔃 of marine fishes🐟 & help inform management!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Physiological Traits for Predicting Poleward Extensions in Tropical Fishes: From Lab to Management

We review the physiological mechanisms that permit poleward range expansions of tropical reef fishes into temperate waters. Filling in key knowledge gaps, we develop a framework to improve the implem...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Apr 28

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant & ECR Visiting Fellowships

Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb

The next application deadline is 6 June

Please repost to spread the word

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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · Apr 26

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Apr 13

Nice, I call I the grey sky puzzle 🧩 challenge in my classes.

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Apr 6

Blue-lined #octopus 🐙 That’s the post…

@wensungceph.bsky.social

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Apr 7

Monday blues 🐢 #turtle #heronisland

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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · Apr 7

#JobOpportunity at University of Tasmania… 👋🐟🌿

🚨Deadline: Wed 9 April 🚨
🎣 #Postdoc in Seagrass Restoration, to aid recovery of red #handfish
🗓️ Fixed, full time – to June 2026
💰 $121,737

👀 careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50094...

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Nature @nature.com · Mar 16

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners

https://go.nature.com/3R8vRym

Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates

Nature - The paralysing toxin deployed by the male blue-lined octopus might help to protect him from being eaten.

go.nature.com

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Apr 6

Blue-lined #octopus 🐙 That’s the post…

@wensungceph.bsky.social

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · Apr 5

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position @waikatouniversity.bsky.social. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats.

📍 Hamilton, NZ
Closes: 4th May 2025
🔗 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · Apr 5

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#ultraviolet #colour & #vision in colourful #damselfish #Nemo

Go check it out 🐠 👁️ 🌈 @vtettama.bsky.social

Valerio Tettamanti @vtettama.bsky.social · Feb 12

First paper of my PhD is finally out in Molecular Ecology!
A mix of UV photography, transcriptomics and phylogenetic reconstructions to investigate development of UV vision and patterns in damselfishes.

doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Danni Thompson @scottishseabird.bsky.social · Apr 3

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting.
#BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

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