Last week the lab had a reason to celebrate as Julia Laterza successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Doctor Julia Laterza! Your dedication, perseverance, and hard work have led to this remarkable achievement, and we are excited to see what comes next!! 🐸
Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!
Julia Wood and I made it to the wonderful Fish of the Week podcast! Hear us talk about our new species descriptions from the Gilt Darter (Percina evides) complex.
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New preprint from the #NearLab w/@chasedbrownstein.bsky.social
The costs of paraphyletic classification in the world's most endangered fishes
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Ossoff: This is what small men like Trump, Vance and Miller will never understand. Our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions. That is what makes us exceptional.
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Treemble:
A graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images🧪
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Treemble is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows and is freely available, with documentation, at treemble.org.
New species alert! 🐟 Meet Typhlichthys styx the Phantom Cavefish, a new amblyopsid cavefish from TN, AL & GA! Ancient aquifer geology drove allopatric speciation ~8 Ma ago!
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A Yale-led study describing a new Southern cavefish species provides strong evidence that new species can arise in organisms adapted to live only underground.
