Ohio State news piece on our deep-sea fish body shape study:
news.osu.edu/how-fishes-o...

Friday ICB Featured papers from the M.I.S.S. issue-
Overcoming Waves of Challenges: Experiences of #BIPOC #Shark #Scientists in the Global South
Ingrid Hyrycena et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
&
Zooming in on #Bonnetheads...
Hannah Epstein et al

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

#morphology #science

A paper in Scientific Reports shows that chameleons have evolved a longer, coiled optic nerve that is likely to provide “slack” to reduce tension on the optic nerve during the extensive rotations characteristic of the chameleon eye. go.nature.com/3JTSgQ1 #evosky 🧪

Large-eyed animals like owls 🦉 have a trade-off between large eyes & short optic nerves, which lowers eye mobility (to compensate they evolved swivelly necks)

But chameleons 🦎 have long, coiled optic nerves with extra slack for eye mobility, allowing them to use their famous large swivelly eyes 👀🧪🌏

Apologies for missing the last few weeks for themes! In light of our new article www.nature.com/articles/s41..., the #Sundayfishsketch #Fishytheme is biofluorescent fishes! #sciart 🦑

My latest preprint! Will be in Arthropod Struct & Dev't journal.

Fine dissections of CRISPR phenotypes for
Dll, Sp6-9, dac, Exd, & hth
in the crustacean Parhyale for ALL APPENDAGES:

labrum, antennae, mouthparts, thoracic, biramous, and telson.

🧵

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

Hey everyone. Hoping to be active on social media again, I miss my science community. Wish you all a wonderful 2025! 🤍

I don't think that I can relay how excited (albeit nervous) I am for in person SICB this coming January. I really, really hope to reconnect with a bunch of you all in January. I sincerely miss the connection 🤍
#science #sicb2024 #sicb24

Spending some time this year supporting my partner at GenCon. It's absolutely wild! I had the unexpected privilege to run into the wonderfully talented @astrafauna.bsky.social!!!!

Hi Bluesky! My name is Michelle and I am an evolutionary biologist, sci-art enthusiast, LGBT+, and a cat mom! I look forward to sharing my science, sci-art, and plenty of cat content with you all.

Cheers!