Starting day 2: Laymon Ball speaking about her work on #Herbaria! #BINHMS

Loved visiting the recreated wunderkammer or "cabinet of curiosities’ at the Houston Museum of Natural Science today. I always wondered what it was like to stroll through these early natural history collections so eclectically curated.

Also couldn’t resist a coelacanth selfie.

Yay! It’s today! Our Black In Natural History Museums conference starts today at my work! So excited! #BINHMs #BINHM

Up next, Hank Bart discussing diverse, museum science and fishes! #BINHMS

Petting a ray to save your day.

New in @science.org, meet Acronichthys maccagnoi, a new species from Late Creatacous Canada that changes what we know about the origins and evolution of one of the most successful fish groups on Earth.

Excellent! Can you post link to paper again - can’t seem to get it to work.

This acorn has a shark teeth hat. 🦈 🧢

Job alert #TeamFish. Curator of Fishes gig!

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

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I’ve had an MRI, CT, and PET scan this month.

MRI was loud. CT prep was gross. PET prep included radioactive ☢️ dye.

Now I know how the poor fishes @danielgeldof.bsky.social scan feel:good thing they are long dead. Dan will be defending his thesis on CT scanning Agonids next month! He is a wiz!

Awesome that you did this. Good on you.

Check out our new paper in Nature describing trends in US freshwater fish biodiversity! Great to be part of such an amazing team.

Another great anatomical innovation brought to you by your fishy ancestors …

There were perhaps too many parallels between me and the author of ‘The Last Lecture’ - 3 kids, 46 years old, cancer ♋️ … but maybe the most important is being thankful for living out your childhood dreams and for the people you have in your life.

“We evolved from fishes. We do what we do, including breathing through lungs, having nostrils that fill those lungs, having arms and legs, and big brains, all of which came from our aquatic ancestors. So did kidneys, lungs, and being able to pee!”— @prosanta.bsky.social

Today is “drag and tag,” tagging sharks with drag queens while raising money for LGBQT+ youth organizations in Florida!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/drag...

Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology.

Our department is amazing - come join us...

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...

On the teeth of the Spotted Ratfish

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

You got to write his NYT obit!

I knew you would like that Shaena - part of the story I didn’t say above is that Ward Wheeler said Mark would sign anything … so I went to the gift shop and picked this up specifically for that - I was going to get Novacek to sign the other side to complete the ‘Norellacek’ joke - but never got it.

Loved this book. Gives one a sense that human progress in understanding the living world is so embedded in culture. Perhaps we’re on the eve of a Buffonian Renaissance.

Just finished the excellent ‘Every Living Thing’ that focuses on the taxonomic battle and lives of Carl Linnaeus and the Comte de Buffon. The former gave us Systema Naturae and the binomial system we use for classification; the later gave us Histoire Naturelle which anticipated evolutionary theory.

Sad to hear about the passing of the great paleontologist Mark Norell - who I knew during my postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History. I once asked him to sign this mammoth 🦣 tooth because we both thought it would be funny. It is still funny but a little less so with his passing. RIP Mark.