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Thomas Near

@TJNear

25 days

The classification of ray-finned fishes monograph just dropped!

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

6 years

New in Nature @nature . A complete species sampled phylogeny of ray-finned fishes show speciation rates are faster near the poles and slowest in the tropics! @yale_eeb #fishphylogeny #NearLab

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4 years

It's official! Yale EEB @yale_eeb @yalepeabody is hiring an assistant professor in any area of ecology/evolutionary biology! Feel free to reach out to me or search committee, David Vasseur, Martha Muñoz, & Alvaro Sanchez. Come join our crew!

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Thomas Near

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3 years

Coming soon to a review paper near you... @AnnualReviews

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Thomas Near

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8 months

1/4 A preprint of Near, T. J. and C. E. Thacker. in press. Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65 is available here @thackfish

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Thomas Near

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4 years

I am the Yale EEB chair and I am retweeting this message!

Mike Blazanin (@mikeblazanin.bsky.social)

@mikeblazanin

4 years

No official posting yet, but the inside word is that @yale_eeb will be hiring this fall for a broad junior-level search across ecology, evolution, and behavior, with a special eye to continue our ongoing efforts to diversify the dept faculty. Please RT & get the word out!

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3 months

Prof. Fiasco @LupeFiasco dropping the knowledge at Saybrook College...that's at Yale y'all! #deepblue

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Thomas Near

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8 months

Coming soon from Near and Thacker @thackfish , "Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)"...a slight teaser of 4 of 21 tree figures. #NearLab

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Thomas Near

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3 years

I was asked for a short bio for a Yale student first gen low income group. Here it is in multiple parts. When I was born my parents were teenagers and neither had yet finished high school.

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Thomas Near

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1 year

Twitter mind hive...what do you all think are the largest surprises resulting from molecular phylogenetics? How has molecular data upended the architecture of the Tree of Life. I'll offer Woese et al. (1990) demonstration that prokaryotes are paraphyletic. Let's make a list!

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

2 years

1/10 New from the #NearLab @yalepeabody @yale_eeb , co-first authors @AvaGhezel & @FishHarrington Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. A phylogenomic analysis of more than 1,000 species of Acanthomorpha!

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3 years

Paper highlighting a new time-calibrated phylogeny of Centrarchidae (sunfishes, crappies, and black basses) accepted at MPE. Paper not up yet, but you can get the data and the phylogenies at Dryad,

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Thomas Near

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5 years

Just out! Functional genomics of Antarctic fishes! High rates of genomic evolution and the origin of a "key" trait predates the adaptive radiation of notothenioids! Collaboration among Yale, Harvard, Northeastern, and NCSM

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3 years

1/9 New in @AnnualReviews with Alex Dornburg and incredible artwork by @jehimes If you cannot access the PDF send me a DM with your email address.

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1 year

Great paper from last July 2022, Phylogeny resolves hagfish and lampreys (cyclostomes) as paraphyletic with lamprey-jawed vertebrate clade!

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1 year

1/6 New from #NearLab @ScienceMagazine Maya Stokes shows how rivers eroding through different rock types help explain high aquatic biodiversity in southeastern North America. W/ @DaeminKim3 @TVAnews @hybridActinop @BenavidBolivia @juliawood527 @MITgeomorph @yalepeabody @yale_eeb

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

2 years

A wonderful experience collaborating with a great group of ichthyologists to delimit a second species of Bowfin! #livingfossils @SolomonRDavid @ChaseBrownstein @DaeminKim3 @Randchovy @yalepeabody @naturalsciences @TVAnews @cylon_gecko @RGGSatAMNH

Chase Brownstein

@ChaseBrownstein

2 years

🧵1/9 The Bowfin Amia, the sole survivor of a 200-million year-old fish lineage, harbors HIDDEN SPECIES! Excited to announce the preprint of paper with @TJNear , @DaeminKim3 @SolomonRDavid and colleagues here: #Biology #Evolution #Bowfin #Fish

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Thomas Near

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2 months

Graduate student Julia Wood @juliawood527 made a great logo for the Near Lab!

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

3 years

Coming soon to a journal near you @systbiol , @chantal_elyse uses ddRAD and species delimitation to reduce the Antarctic notothenioid clade Pogonophryne from 29 to 6 species! #NearLab

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1 year

1/6 New from #NearLab @ChaseBrownstein with the third installment of the #livingfossil trifecta! Phylogenetics and the Cenozoic radiation of lampreys

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

4 years

Come on Georgia! Here is a new darter endemic to your state that Gerald Dinkins and I are describing. Will be published in April 2021. If you come through, I will describe several more species from your outstanding freshwater fish fauna!

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Thomas Near

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5 months

New on bioRxiv, Rittika Mallika and coauthors deploy a new high coverage genome of Polypterus bichir: Investigating the impact of whole genome duplication on transposable element evolution in ray-finned fishes. #NearLab

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2 months

Coming soon! #NearLab #FishPhylogeny

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

1 year

1/4 Second of two new papers out today #NearLab w/Matthew Thomas, Rebecca Blanton, & @AvaGhezel find paper where we delimit the two gorgeous species of arrow darters, Etheostoma sagitta and E. spilotum

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3 years

From Daemin Kim @DaeminKim3 and coming soon to a scientific journal near you... Six species currently recognized as Lepomis megalotis and L. peltastes!

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Thomas Near

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5 years

Hellbender! Toccoa River, Georgia.

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Thomas Near

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17 days

The printed copies are delivered!

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Thomas Near

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8 months

In our new classification of ray-finned fishes, we recognize a clade that includes Osteoglossomorpha and Elopomorpha that is the sister lineage of all other teleosts. No pre-molecular phylogeny resolved these two lineages as a clade Read more at @thackfish

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3 years

Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes, in Systematic Biology! @brunfmelo @AvaGhezel @DMacGuig @FishHarrington @mstiassny @chang_jon @brantfaircloth @tempoandmode C.Oliveira #UCE #fishphylogeny

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Thomas Near

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7 years

New in Nature! Early members of ‘living fossil’ lineage imply later origin of modern ray-finned fishes

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3 years

Prof. Mike Bell, "Morphology is too damn interesting to be wasted on phylogeny."

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11 months

New from the incomparable @thackfish , collaborative study on the evolutionary history of the sleeper gobies. The #NearLab is grateful to be collaborating with such inspiring colleagues!

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8 months

1/6 What drives allopatric speciation in geologically quiet river systems? What are mechanisms that result in vertebrate species w/geo disjunct microendemic distributions? The darters in Etheostoma chermocki E. bellator complex in the upper Black Warrior system provides clues.

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Thomas Near

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5 years

New paper on the evolution of tunas! Collaboration with @Friedman_Lab @brantfaircloth @KFeilich

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1 year

New from the Near Lab, "Lacustrine speciation associated with chromosomal inversion in a lineage of riverine fishes"

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3 years

New from the #NearLab Elyse Parker @chantal_elyse at @systbiol Phylogenomic species delimitation dramatically reduces species diversity in an Antarctic adaptive radiation. Important collections and incredible collaborators @Te_Papa

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1/4 Ray-fin Taxonomy Monday: in our ( @thackfish ) actinopterygian classification we have the privilege of a phylogeny of ray-fins that has emerged from the molecular analyses; however, it provides an opportunity to put attention on areas requiring more work

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Thomas Near

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2 years

A new open-access paper: phylogenomics and species delimitation in Black Bass, Micropterus from @DaeminKim3 , @TaylorFishLab1 , and me @yalepeabody

Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus)

Scientific Reports - Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus)

www.nature.com

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4 months

New from @DaeminKim3 & #NearLab Identification of non-native populations and reconstruction of invasion routes in the Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus

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4 months

My first ornithological collaboration! With Yale undergrad John Nash, @FishHarrington , and Rick Prum Species status and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus)

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Thomas Near

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3 years

First in-person lecture since March 2020. Let's do this!

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2 years

I found a PRINT OUT of an email from 1999 where Brad Shaffer shared the news I was awarded a Center for Population Biology postdoc! How can anyone say "no" to UCD CPB and this enthusiasm from Brad? ONE SHIELDS AVE, BABY!

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4 years

Genome-wide SNPs reveal three lineages of Smallmouth Bass! @TaylorFishLab1

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@TJNear

2 months

For the first time @ChaseBrownstein et al finds an intrinsic mechanism for low species diversity and relatively slow phenotypic evolution in a lineage of living fossils. Darwin highlighted gars when introducing this concept in On the Origin of Species (1859).

Chase Brownstein

@ChaseBrownstein

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1/13 🚨🚨 I am so excited to present our new paper, six years in the making. Here, we provide the first strong evidence that there is a molecular mechanism behind the origins of living fossil lineages! #biology #science #paleontology

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3 years

New paper: Phylogenomic resolution of the monotypic and enigmatic Amarsipus, the Bagless Glassfish (Teleostei, Amarsipidae) @FishHarrington @Friedman_Lab

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2 years

Yale EEB junior faculty in the news! @marmmunoz @big_data_kane @yale_eeb

Reptiles and viruses: New E&EB faculty lead research - Yale Daily News

Brandon Ogbunu Ph.D. ’10 and Martha Muñoz head some of the newest laboratories within the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department.

yaledailynews.com

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3 years

New from the Near Lab. Daemin Kim's @DaeminKim3 analysis of species diversity and introgression in Longear Sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) complex

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Thomas Near

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4 years

Excited that I am reappointed Head of Saybrook College for another 5-year term. Could not do it with my partner, Allison, or family, and the incredible SY staff @ferentzlafargue Micah Luce, Ann Marie Gilmore, Cissy Armstrong, and Adam Haliburton!

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Thomas Near

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3 years

Welcome to the third century (19th, 20th, and 21st) of the fishes of Illinois! I think there is no other area on Earth with such intensive and longterm study of fishes. Congratulations to my colleagues at @INHSillinois

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4 years

1/2 Could not find a time tree for Chondrichthyes species with sequenced whole genomes, so I made one

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2 years

Publication teaser with @DMacGuig No words until proofed and typeset document is posted by the journal

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6 years

New from #NearLab at MPE, the utility of RADseq data and phylogenomics of Antarctic notothenioid fishes! #notothen #YPM

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@TJNear

3 years

New species of darter, Percina freemanourum named for Mary and Bud Freeman @robustum endemic to upper Etowah River system @DMacGuig @hybridActinop @FishHarrington and others, supported by @yalepeabody Send PM with email address for PDF

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@TJNear

2 years

Yale undergraduate @ChaseBrownstein on coelacanths: Species delimitation and coexistence in an ancient, depauperate vertebrate clade @yale_eeb @yalepeabody

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1 year

A banner day for #NearLab while out for sometime, former undergrad @ChaseBrownstein 's study on deep time biogeography and phylogenomics of gars is the cover for Systematic Biology @systbiol @yalepeabody @yale_eeb

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1 year

1/7 All 6 slides from lightning talk @SEFishesCouncil #SEFishes2022 meeting. Paper in press #BiologyLetters first author undergrad @ChaseBrownstein and grad student @DaeminKim3

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Thomas Near

@TJNear

4 years

If you look at this fish and think Centrarchiformes-Centrarchidae AND you want to correctly identify this species of this fish, Yale Summer Session @YaleSummer might be for you!

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@TJNear

3 months

Galley proofs on ray-fin fish phylogeny and classification monograph w/Chris Thacker...all 284 pages w/o index. Time to build/write index!

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1 year

1/7 New paper open access Biology Letters two living species of the living fossil bowfins! #livingfossil #NearLab

Hidden species diversity in an iconic living fossil vertebrate | Biology Letters

Ancient, species-poor lineages persistently occur across the Tree of life. These lineages are likely to contain unrecognized species diversity masked by the low rates of morphological evolution that...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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1 year

New from #NearLab @ChaseBrownstein at the lead collab w/ @Friedman_Lab Phylogenomics of the Ancient and Species-Depauperate Gars Tracks 150 Million Years of Continental Fragmentation in the Northern Hemisphere @systbiol

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Thomas Near

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3 years

After 15 years and ~125 scientific publications, 4 NSF grants, and countless conversations with colleagues, students, and trainees I am cleared out of ESC 370A.

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2 years

An endorsement for rank-free classification?

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4 years

Junior faculty in Yale EEB @yale_eeb @asanchez_lab @marmmunoz @big_data_kane @stavercarla are emerging leaders in our field

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3 years

Just us this year for Thanksgiving...

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3 years

@yale_eeb is looking to recruit an ecosystems ecologist, open rank. If you would like to learn more about ecology at Yale, our university, and the lovely city of New Haven send me a DM and let's talk! Link to job ad with details to follow soon.

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@TJNear

2 years

Incredible news! Is Prof. Pääbo the first evolutionary biologist to win a Nobel?

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

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New from @jessroseglass @FishHarrington @pete_cowman @brantfaircloth #NearLab Widespread sympatry in a species-rich clade of marine fishes (Carangoidei)

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7 months

New from @ChaseBrownstein & #NearLab Evolutionary origins of the lampriform pelagic radiation @ZoolJLinnSoc @yale_eeb

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7 months

1/6 Ray-fin Taxonomy Monday w/ @thackfish : In our new taxonomy we redefine Salmoniformes to include the trouts and salmons AND Esocidae the pikes and mudminnows. Read at

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8 months

The new AFS names of North American fishes list just dropped. Big changes! Allohistium and Nothonotus listed as genera of Percidae. Micropterus salmoides is the recongnized scientific name for Florida Bass and Micropterus nigricans is the name for Largemouth Bass.

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3 years

Coming soon to a journal near you pt. 2, recent speciation explains species richness in a diverse tropical clade of freshwater fishes @brunfmelo @AvaGhezel @DMacGuig @FishHarrington @mstiassny @chang_jon @brantfaircloth @tempoandmode & jefe Claudio Oliveira #UCE #fishphylogeny

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7 months

I am collecting every issue

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10 months

So proud of #NearLab Elyse Parker @chantal_elyse who won the ASIH Stoye Award in General Ichthyology for her talk at #JMIH23 on population genomics of Antarctic notothenioids! @yale_eeb

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1 year

1/5 First of two new papers out today #NearLab @juliawood527 takes the lead with @FishHarrington @ZachAlley8 and other to introduce new darter species, the Clarks Darter, Etheostoma xanthovum!

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3 years

That’s what I’m talking about!

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4 years

Friday evening stroll down Chapel St., New Haven CT

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New from #NearLab Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary. Nature Ecol & Evol. Collaboration with @brantfaircloth @Friedman_Lab @FishHarrington & Mike Alfaro

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Coming soon to a journal near you the Greenthroat Darter complex, led by @DMacGuig ! #fishphylogeny #NearLab

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Back from DC to find this waiting for me! Excited to see it in print.

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Two incredible and successful Ph.D. defenses in the past five days from the Near Lab, Daemin Kim @DaeminKim3 and Elyse Parker @chantal_elyse , @yale_eeb @yalepeabody

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Family visited the new Yale Peabody Museum, our first time in the space since Dec '19. Great to see a fossil gar species that figures in our recent work on the group. #NearLab #livingfossil

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Near, T. J., and D. Kim. 2021. Phylogeny and time scale of diversification in the fossil-rich sunfishes and black basses (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 161:107156. PM me for a PDF if stuck behind paywall @DaeminKim3

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4 years

Luna Moth. Otis, MA

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1/6 New from the #NearLab @yalepeabody @yale_eebw / @FishHarrington and others Systematics of the Stripetail Darter, Etheostoma kennicotti (Putnam), and the distinctiveness of the upper Cumberland endemic Etheostoma cumberlandicum Jordan and Swain

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2 years

Hello, Fellow Bowfin Enthusiasts! We are looking to add specimens from the Susquehanna, Potomac, Delaware, and Hudson River systems in PA, MA, NJ, and NY for our research. If you are an angler and interested in helping contribute to this research, please send a PM!

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3 years

Fortunate and incredibly privileged to be working with such great trainees who presented at #Evol2021 #NearLab These talented scientists are doing outstanding work @AvaGhezel @DMacGuig @chantal_elyse @ChaseBrownstein

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6 months

Flattered, our ray-fin classification monograph was written up as a news item in Science We are not the first molecular phylogeny nor the first to suggest parrotfishes are nested in Labridae. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Such is life!

News at a glance: Fish family tree, AI safety research, and open access’ next steps

The latest in science and policy

www.science.org

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3 years

I cherish living the life of learning. I entered the academy in 1988 as a frosh at NIU and I have had an university ID in my wallet for the past 32 years!

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2 years

This is so Fall 2021...

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7 years

New paper from the Near Lab on the origin of Antarctic fish biodiversity

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2 years

About to drop on Monday...fasten your seatbelts... @DaeminKim3 @TaylorFishLab1 @yalepeabody

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5 years

Press release on our new paper on Antarctic notothenioid functional genomics

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New from Near Lab in Syst Biol: Phylogenomic Signatures of Ancient Introgression in a Rogue Lineage of Darters (Teleostei: Percidae) @DMacGuig

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3 years

One more lobster roll before the end of summer!

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New from the #NearLab by @DMacGuig and coauthors: Integrative ichthyological species delimitation in the Greenthroat Darter complex (Percidae: Etheostomatinae). Two additional species currently considered Greenthroat Darter!

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Ambloplites contellatus Ozark Bass @yalepeabody specimen YPM ICH 015709 endemic to the White River system in Missouri and Arkansas and in a small portion of the Missouri system. Described in 1977 by Robert C. Cashner and Royal D. Suttkus

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This happened. Congrats to my partner, who is now a partner at an outstanding law firm!

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@CWBChicago Scientific name of this algal species is Slipus bustyourassis

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Bowfin (Amia calva) from the Connecticut River. 1968 report states they are an introduced species to CT and MA @cylon_gecko @DaeminKim3 @yalepeabody @yale_eeb

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