Milton Tan
@mtanichthys.bsky.social
Fish biodiversity, genomics. Illinois Natural History Survey Asst Research Scientist. Also aquarium fish hobbyist and plant parent. Profile pic: With a tamandua knifefish. He/him
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For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection:
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - FLMNH Collections Manager II / FLMNH Collections Manager III
explore.jobs.ufl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection:
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History.
🧪⚒️🦑
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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Michael Foote's Models of Morphological Diversification (1996) should be required reading for folks researching disparity.
"Assessing changes in the size of morphological transitions requires reliable evolutionary trees, preferably trees reflecting ancestor-descendant pairs, not merely sister taxa"
"Assessing changes in the size of morphological transitions requires reliable evolutionary trees, preferably trees reflecting ancestor-descendant pairs, not merely sister taxa"
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Michael Foote's Models of Morphological Diversification (1996) should be required reading for folks researching disparity.
"Assessing changes in the size of morphological transitions requires reliable evolutionary trees, preferably trees reflecting ancestor-descendant pairs, not merely sister taxa"
"Assessing changes in the size of morphological transitions requires reliable evolutionary trees, preferably trees reflecting ancestor-descendant pairs, not merely sister taxa"
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One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
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Interested in the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Interested in the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
special issue on phylogenomic discordance? tinyurl.com/v2eces3s 🧪
Three more summaries added below!
We'll return when more articles come live.
Again, all and any oversimplications are entirely my fault!
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Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher: A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available at the University of South Dakota in Dr. Jeff Wesner’s lab in the Department of Biology. The NSF-funded project will ex...
yourfuture.sdbor.edu
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968
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Took a long time but we are finally growing baby clownfish in the lab!
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Took a long time but we are finally growing baby clownfish in the lab!
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Reboosting for weekday crowd: AI is creating incentives that’ll change how scientific papers are written (basically doing SEO [search engine option optimization] but for inclusion in AI training corpus: “AIO”?)
How the use of AI by colleagues to generate citations or overviews, even if we avoid these “tools” ourselves, may put new pressures on scientific publishing: brianomeara.info/posts/ai_opt...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reboosting for weekday crowd: AI is creating incentives that’ll change how scientific papers are written (basically doing SEO [search engine option optimization] but for inclusion in AI training corpus: “AIO”?)
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Uploading publications to the NSF Public Access Repository (PAR) for an annual report --- what kind of sadist invented this system? Every single year I get to see entries vanish repeatedly, slow lag responses, and perfectly good pdfs rejected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Uploading publications to the NSF Public Access Repository (PAR) for an annual report --- what kind of sadist invented this system? Every single year I get to see entries vanish repeatedly, slow lag responses, and perfectly good pdfs rejected.
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The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
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Me watching The Meg as a fish scientist.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Me watching The Meg as a fish scientist.
Hoping my student gets that GRFP, would be amazing
a cartoon character says hopefully in front of a hulu logo
ALT: a cartoon character says hopefully in front of a hulu logo
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November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hoping my student gets that GRFP, would be amazing
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Phylogenomics and Evolutionary Genomics Workshop in Czechia - 5 days until registration closes!
evomics.org/apply-worksh...
evomics.org/apply-worksh...
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Phylogenomics and Evolutionary Genomics Workshop in Czechia - 5 days until registration closes!
evomics.org/apply-worksh...
evomics.org/apply-worksh...
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Scientists discover telephone-cord-like optic nerves in chameleons, which were overlooked by Aristotle, Newton, and everyone else, until now...
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Scientists discover telephone-cord-like optic nerves in chameleons, which were overlooked by Aristotle, Newton, and everyone else, until now...
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
Study:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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While the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous, the #GreatLakes are home to an estimated 6000 - 10,000 shipwrecks. Many wrecks occur in fall due to the "November Witch" winds caused by a clash of cold Canadian air from the north + warm Gulf air from the south www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-underw...
As an Underwater Graveyard, the Great Lakes Have Claimed Close to 10,000 Ships
Though called the Great Lakes, these massive bodies of water are actually inland seas, and can be just as unpredictable as the ocean.
www.discovermagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
While the Edmund Fitzgerald is the most famous, the #GreatLakes are home to an estimated 6000 - 10,000 shipwrecks. Many wrecks occur in fall due to the "November Witch" winds caused by a clash of cold Canadian air from the north + warm Gulf air from the south www.discovermagazine.com/as-an-underw...
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Evolutionary remodeling of the ventral retina enables aerial vision in the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686143v1
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Evolutionary remodeling of the ventral retina enables aerial vision in the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686143v1
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Amphibious Transitions Drive Lineage-Specific Diversification of Olfactory Receptors in Vertebrates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686341v1
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Amphibious Transitions Drive Lineage-Specific Diversification of Olfactory Receptors in Vertebrates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686341v1
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Song et al. have constructed the 464-way whole genome alignment of teleosts, a resource that constitutes the first of its kind for fishes and brings the scope of genomic study for this group on par with other vertebrate lineages.
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...
#FISH10k #teleosts #Genomics #phylogeny
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...
#FISH10k #teleosts #Genomics #phylogeny
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Song et al. have constructed the 464-way whole genome alignment of teleosts, a resource that constitutes the first of its kind for fishes and brings the scope of genomic study for this group on par with other vertebrate lineages.
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...
#FISH10k #teleosts #Genomics #phylogeny
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...
#FISH10k #teleosts #Genomics #phylogeny
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Do syngameons exist in tropical trees? Challenges to determine their existence and estimate their frequency royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #Syngameon #Phylogenomics
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Do syngameons exist in tropical trees? Challenges to determine their existence and estimate their frequency royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #Syngameon #Phylogenomics
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On the left, Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the imitation game, where he says that using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent is absurd.
On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.
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On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.
🧪🤖
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
On the left, Alan Turing’s 1950 paper introducing the imitation game, where he says that using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent is absurd.
On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.
🧪🤖
On the right, yesterday’s NYT opinion piece using public polling as a guide to whether machines are intelligent.
🧪🤖
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Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.
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The Society for the Study of Evolution announces applications for the 2026 T.H. Huxley Award, recognizing high-quality evolution education resources. Deadline: Feb 2, 2026. More info: http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM
Thomas Henry Huxley Award
Thomas Henry Huxley Award
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November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Society for the Study of Evolution announces applications for the 2026 T.H. Huxley Award, recognizing high-quality evolution education resources. Deadline: Feb 2, 2026. More info: http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM
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Nominate individuals for the Gould Prize recognizing contributions to public understanding of evolutionary science. Deadline: Jan 15, 2026. More info: https://shorturl.at/jornc
The Stephen Jay Gould Prize
The Stephen Jay Gould Prize
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November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Nominate individuals for the Gould Prize recognizing contributions to public understanding of evolutionary science. Deadline: Jan 15, 2026. More info: https://shorturl.at/jornc
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Fishmas day 8! You may have seen this species featured on River Monsters. This animal is MASSIVE! Some photos look fake, but often times, the fish really is just that big!
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Fishmas day 8! You may have seen this species featured on River Monsters. This animal is MASSIVE! Some photos look fake, but often times, the fish really is just that big!