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Soh Kam Yung @sohkamyung.bsky.social · 3h

My first pseudoscorpion observation was pure luck. Happen to see this wasp and took a shot. It was only later did I see what was hanging on the antenna.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ]

A brown pseudoscopion hanging on to the antenna of a wasp. The wasp is yellow with black stripes and transparent wings.

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 19h

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 11h

Promoting the use of phylogenetic multinomial generalised mixed-effects model to understand the evolution of discrete traits https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41055411/

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 11h

Evaluating the relative importance of phylogeny and predictors in phylogenetic generalized linear models using the phylolm.hp R package https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41054615/

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 16h

Apparently yesterday was National Noodle Day! I am a day late and more than a dollar short, but anyways here's one of my chunky noodle gals.

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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 16h

The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 16h

Tip rate estimates can predict future diversification, but are unreliable and context dependent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680809v1

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 17h

Summarizing >6000 analyses but my script isn't yet polished and automated

The biggest bottleneck at this point is me checking back to make sure it ran correctly then run the next step

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 20h

Is this true? 🧪🐟

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 18h

Small models are underrated. Big models like the immensely impressive GPT-5 and Claude Opus/Sonnet will remain useful and major workhorses. But small, cheap, easy-to-fine-tune and deploy small models will have increased utility

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 17h

My little panda garra has been adopted by the cory squad.

A large corydoras catfish next to a smaller striped panda garra fish

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The Perfect Specimen @perfect-specimen.bsky.social · 1d

Who ❤️ data? Our 36 specimens (31 animal, 5 plant) so far represent 8/31 (25%) animal and 2/14 (14%) plant phyla/divisions. Chordata/mammals are winning (but many of these appeared in OVERRATED). @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social have done OK so far but there's more diversity to cover!

Barchart showing distribution of specimens across animal phyla. Chordata = 15, Arthropoda = 8, Mollusca = 3, Annelida, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Nemertea and Onychophora = 1. Chordata is coloured to show that we have most mammals (7) then fishes/reptiles (3), then birds/tunicates (1).

Bar chart showing that 4 plant specimens were angiosperms and 1 was a bryophyte

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 19h

New episode of the Teach Me About the Great Lakes podcast is out! I joined a couple other invasive species folks to talk about the new-ish aquatic invasive species in the #GreatLakes region we think people should know about www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/113

Teach Me About the Great Lakes | Spoiler Alert: This is Not Fine

What are the aquatic invasive species that Great Lakes experts wish you knew more about? Megan and Carolyn discuss with TMATGL all-stars El Lower, Katie O'Reilly, and Brian Roth.Links:Past episodes...

www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 21h

My unsolicited #eel fact for today is that there are ten species of Gulper Eels (Saccopharynx) while there is only a single species of Pelican Eel (Eurypharynx ).🐟

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwD...

Throwback to one of our earliest encounters with a deep-sea gulper eel

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

www.youtube.com

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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 22d

The so-called “Monster Shrimp” is the larval stage of the deep sea-dwelling Cerataspis monstrosa.

#cerataspismonstrosa #deepseacreatures #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater

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Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 1d

Rainforests create their own rain… eroding them destroys that alarmingly fast. They’re not just lungs of the planet, but a biotic pump of moisture, cooling, sustenance, life open.substack.com/pub/climatew...

Follow Alpha Lo of the Climate Water Project ericagies.bsky.social
@robdelaet.bsky.social

An intriguing behavior of global rain

an exercise

open.substack.com

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 1d

The now Critically Endangered Manjuarí (Cuban gar, /Atractosteus tristoechus/) as painted in La Habana by Antonio Parra around 1787
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social

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Hannah Owens @hannahoish.bsky.social · 1d

#FishADay Periophthalmus barbarus Atlantic Mudskipper. Coastal tropical Africa. Spend most of their time on land, subsequently developed some unique adaptations to do things terrestrial tetrapods take for granted, like blinking--pulls its eyes into its head.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twho...

Mudskipper Blinking

YouTube video by Penn State University

www.youtube.com

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Noah Bressman, PhD @noahwithfish.bsky.social · 1d

After playing with some options amongst the students in my lab, I have finally developed a lab logo! Prepare for our merch line featuring it on shirts, hats, sneakers, guitar picks, NFTs, bibles, steaks, wine, golf courses, and more!

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Nathan Lujan @potamophile.bsky.social · 1d

The @romtoronto.bsky.social Sharks exhibition is opening this weekend! The perfect family-friendly destination for the Thanksgiving long weekend!

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

New preprint led by grad student, Yu Mo! We introduce new software to calculate evolutionary rates of quantitative characters in the presence of discordance

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

Estimating the rate of quantitative trait evolution in the presence of gene tree discordance by calculating likelihoods across trees

Quantitative traits provide insights into how phenotypes evolve across species. However, standard comparative methods often assume a single species tree and overlook the discordant gene tree histories...

www.biorxiv.org

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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 1d

How did animals repeatedly conquer land? 🌊➡️⛰️ We analysed ~1,000 gene repertoires (24M genes!) from all animal phyla to uncover how this happened. Work led by @gemmaeling.bsky.social & Klara Eleftheriadi, both first coauthors of this titanic effort!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Independent genomic trajectories shape adaptation to life on land across animal lineages

How animals repeatedly adapted to life on land is a central question in evolutionary biology. While terrestrialisation occurred independently across animal phyla, it remains unclear whether shared gen...

www.biorxiv.org

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 23h

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · 1d

The phylo2vec library implements vector-based phylogenetic trees with a Rust core and offers thin wrappers for R and Python, reducing memory use enough for desktop analysis. Read more: https://getnews.me/phylo2vec-adds-rust-based-vector-tools-for-phylogenetic-trees/ #phylogenetics #rust

phylo2vec adds Rust‑based vector tools for phylogenetic trees

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